Documents in our library name Munnick-Myburgh mine at South Africa as an asbestos mine, run by African & European Investment Co., Ltd. They report it working in 1951.1 Fiber: chrysotile.
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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Year by year
Every statement about this mine in the documents, in each document's own words, by the year it is about.
1951
- Idle: “which has been inactive for some years”, p. 91
- Mill: “A new mill having a capacity of 8,000 tons of rock a month has been completed” (African & European Investment Co., Ltd.), p. 91
- Opened: “has been reopened by African & European Investment Co., Ltd.” (African & European Investment Co., Ltd.), p. 91
References
- Minerals Yearbook: Asbestos Chapters, 1951 (January 1, 1952), p. 9.
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