Murie mine, Mashaba, Zimbabwe

The Murie mine was a chrysotile mine at Mashaba, in what was then Southern Rhodesia.³ In 1928 Asbestos, the industry's trade journal, reported that the Murie Asbestos claims had "been sold at a high price to Johannesburg interests acting on behalf of overseas buyers."¹ In 1946 it reported that the Mashaba Rhodesian Asbestos Co. had "decided to concentrate operations on the Murie property" and had acquired "a new block of claims adjoining the Murie."² The company's 1949 report said "present operations are concentrated mostly in the Murie Mine."³ W. E. Sinclair, a consulting mining engineer, called "Muriel Mines" a well-known producer in 1953, and a 1956 table in the journal gave the Murie 20 short tons a month on average.^4,5 Sinclair wrote that Ross McIntyre & Co. produced "6,240 tons" in 1958 from the Murie and six other mines together.⁶

The documents report this mine producing asbestos fiber for sale.⁵

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.

1928

• Ownership: “sold at a high price to Johannesburg interests acting on behalf of overseas buyers”, p. 50¹

1946

• Worked: “It has been decided to concentrate operations on the Murie property” (Mashaba Rhodesian Asbestos Co., Ltd.), as reported by The South African Mining and Engineering Journal, p. 45²
• Ownership: “the company having acquired a new block of claims adjoining the Murie” (Mashaba Rhodesian Asbestos Co., Ltd.), as reported by The South African Mining and Engineering Journal, p. 45²

1949

• Ownership: “This firm owns mines in Southern Rhodesia producing Chrysotile Asbestos” (Mashaba Rhodesian Asbestos Co., Ltd.), said by Mashaba Rhodesian Asbestos Co., Ltd., as reported by Asbestos (magazine), p. 44³

1950

• Worked: “Present operations are concentrated mostly in the Murie Mine” (Mashaba Rhodesian Asbestos Co., Ltd.), said by Mashaba Rhodesian Asbestos Co., Ltd., as reported by Asbestos (magazine), p. 44³

1952

• Worked: “Muriel Mines (Mashaba Rhodesian Asbestos Ltd.)” (Mashaba Rhodesian Asbestos Ltd.), said by W. E. Sinclair, M.I.M.M. (Consulting Mining Engineer), as reported by Asbestos (magazine), p. 12⁴

1955

• Output: “Mashaba Rhod. Asbestos | Murie | 20” (Mashaba Rhod. Asbestos), p. 10⁵

1958

• Worked: “Ross McIntyre &Co., produced a total of 6,240 tons in the same period from the ... Murie” (Ross McIntyre & Co.), said by W. E. Sinclair, as reported by Asbestos (magazine), p. 10⁶

Other names

Documents call this mine “Murie property”, “Murie”, “Muriel Mines”, “Murie Asbestos claims”, “Murie claims”.

References

1. Asbestos Magazine, 1928, May 1928 (May 1, 1928), p. 50.
2. Asbestos Magazine, 1946, April 1946 (April 1, 1946), p. 45.
3. Asbestos Magazine, 1950, May 1950 (May 1, 1950), p. 44.
4. Asbestos Magazine, 1953, September 1953 (September 1, 1953), p. 12.
5. Asbestos Magazine, 1956, June 1956 (June 1, 1956), p. 10.
6. Asbestos Magazine, 1960, April 1960 (April 1, 1960), p. 10.