Documents in our library name Noordhoek mine at some 90 miles northwest of Kimberley, Cape Province as an asbestos mine, run by Noordhoek Cape Blue Asbestos (Pty.) Limited. They report it working in 2 years between 1965 and 1966.1,2 Fiber: crocidolite.2 Where the documents differ, each is shown below with its source.
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
Year by year
Every statement about this mine in the documents, in each document's own words, by the year it is about.
1965
- Fiber: “Cape Blue Asbestos producer” (Noordhoek Cape Blue Asbestos (Pty.) Limited), p. 192
- Mill: “Noordhoek Mine is erecting a modern milling plant in Cape Province”, p. 41
1966
- Opened: “a new Cape Blue Asbestos producer will commence operations ... first production is expected before March 1966” (Noordhoek Cape Blue Asbestos (Pty.) Limited), p. 192
Other names
Documents call this mine “Noordhoek Mine”, “Noordhoek Cape Blue Asbestos (Pty.) Limited”.
References
- Asbestos Magazine, 1965, December 1965 (December 1, 1965), p. 4.
- Asbestos Magazine, 1965, November 1965 (November 1, 1965), p. 19.
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