Norma mine, Filabusi, near Bulawayo, Zimbabwe

Documents in our library name Norma mine at Filabusi, near Bulawayo, Zimbabwe as an asbestos mine, run by United Mng. & Gen. Tr. Ltd., Norma Asbestos Co.¹ They report it working in 2 years between 1929 and 1953.^1,2 Fiber: chrysotile. Where the documents differ, each is shown below with its source.

The documents report this mine producing asbestos fiber for sale.²

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.

1929

• Output: “61.80 tons (2000 lbs.) in September 1929” (United Mng. & Gen. Tr. Ltd.), p. 45²

1930

• Exploration: “New machinery on order; mine doing well and about to be developed on a large scale” (Norma Asbestos Co.), p. 54³

1953

• Worked: “the Norma Mines”, said by W. E. Sinclair, M.I.M.M. (Consulting Mining Engineer), as reported by Asbestos (magazine), p. 12¹

Other names

Documents call this mine “Norma”, “Norma Mines”, “Norma Asbestos Mines”.

References

1. Asbestos Magazine, 1953, September 1953 (September 1, 1953), p. 12.
2. Asbestos Magazine, 1930, January 1930 (January 1, 1930), p. 45.
3. Asbestos Magazine, 1930, May 1930 (May 1, 1930), p. 54.