Documents in our library name Nova Lima deposits at near Nova Lima, Minas Gerais as an asbestos mine.1 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
- Worked: “Deposits of chrysotile asbestos are worked in a small way ... near Nova Lima, State of Minas Gerais”, p. 101
References
- Minerals Yearbook: Asbestos Chapters, 1951 (January 1, 1952), p. 10.
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