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Montana Asbestos Mine, Malipsdrift Area, Transvaal

The Montana Asbestos Mine was an amosite mine in the Malipsdrift area of the Pietersburg District, Transvaal, South Africa: in October 1929 Asbestos, the industry's trade journal, reported that it "was purchased by Turner & Newall of London," and said its fibre was reckoned "among the best, if not the best amosite yet discovered in the Pietersburg District."1 The journal linked the sale to Michael Haskel, whose 1942 obituary in Asbestos said that "he was connected with the Montana Asbestos Mine (amosite) in the Malipsdrift area," without saying how or when.1,2

The documents report work here (mining, shafts or a mill) but no fiber sold or shipped; that is what our documents say, and the mine may still have sold some.1

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Location

Malipsdrift Area, Transvaal, the town named in the documents. The dot marks the town, not the mine itself.

Year by year

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

1929

  • Ownership: “this mine was purchased by Turner & Newall of London” (Turner & Newall), p. 61
  • Fiber: “among the best, if not the best amosite yet discovered in the Pietersburg District”, p. 61

1942

  • Ownership: “Michael Haskel was connected with the Montana Asbestos Mine” (Michael Haskel), p. 382
  • Fiber: “Montana Asbestos Mine (amosite) in the Malipsdrift area”, p. 382

Other names

Documents call this mine “Montana Asbestos Mine”, “Montana Mine”.

See also

References

  1. Asbestos Magazine, 1929, October 1929 (October 1, 1929), p. 6.
  2. Asbestos Magazine, 1942, April 1942 (April 1, 1942), p. 38.

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“Montana Asbestos Mine, Malipsdrift Area, Transvaal.” AsbestosClaims.Law Library. https://asbestosclaims.law/library/mines/montana-malipsdrift-za.

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