Mashaba Rhodesian Asbestos Co. property, Zimbabwe

Documents in our library name Mashaba Rhodesian Asbestos Co. property at Mashaba, Zimbabwe as an asbestos mine, run by Mashaba Rhodesian Asbestos Co., Ltd. They report it working in 1935.¹ Where the documents differ, each is shown below with its source.

The documents report this mine producing asbestos fiber for sale.¹

Location

Output the documents report

Figures as printed, in the units each document uses (short tons before about 1990, metric tons after, in most U.S. chapters). Some are a year's output, some a daily rate or a capacity, some a company's total rather than this mine's alone; the statement for that year below says which.

Year by year

Every statement about this mine in the documents, in each document's own words, by the year it is about.

1935

• Output: “By August 1935 over 100 tons of finished fibre a month, maintained each month since” (Mashaba Rhodesian Asbestos Co., Ltd.), said by Mashaba Rhodesian Asbestos Co., Ltd., as reported by South African Mining and Engineering Journal, p. 38¹
• Mill: “Capacity of the present mill about 300 tons” (Mashaba Rhodesian Asbestos Co., Ltd.), said by Mashaba Rhodesian Asbestos Co., Ltd., as reported by South African Mining and Engineering Journal, p. 38¹

1938

• Reserves: “The company owns 1,820 acres of asbestos blocks at Mashaba” (Mashaba Rhodesian Asbestos Co.), as reported by South African Engineering & Mining Journal, p. 39²

References

1. Asbestos Magazine, 1936, February 1936 (February 1, 1936), p. 38.
2. Asbestos Magazine, 1938, October 1938 (October 1, 1938), p. 39.