Nunyerry, Western Australia

Nunyerry was a chrysotile mine in Western Australia, which Asbestos, the industry's trade journal, placed "about 90 miles south-east of Roebourne" in 1955, when "good quality long fibre chrysotile" was being mined there.² A 1950 U.S. consular report, reprinted in Asbestos, said that "one mine at Nunnyerrie is producing for the English market."¹ The journal reported lower output from "the Nunyerri and Lionel deposits" in 1952, and production that "remained fairly constant" in 1957.^4,5 For the second quarter of 1958 it gave Nunyerry's production as "390 short tons."⁶

The documents report this mine producing asbestos fiber for sale.¹

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.

1950

• Worked: “one mine at Nunnyerrie is producing for the English market”, as reported by Asbestos (magazine), p. 50¹

1952

• Output: “output from the Nunyerri and Lionel deposits in Western Australia was lower”, p. 24⁵

1955

• Worked: “Good quality long fibre chrysotile is being mined at Nunyerry”, p. 10²
• Worked: “a small proportion of that from Nunyerry and Lionel, W. A.”, p. 24³

1957

• Worked: “Production of chrysotile at ... Nunyerry, Western Australia, has remained fairly constant”, p. 38⁴

1958

• Output: “at Nunyerry, Western Australia ... 390 short tons”, p. 52⁶

Other names

Documents call this mine “Nunyerry”, “Nunnyerrie”, “Nunyerri”.

References

1. Asbestos Magazine, 1950, June 1950 (June 1, 1950), p. 50.
2. Asbestos Magazine, 1955, July 1955 (July 1, 1955), p. 10.
3. Asbestos Magazine, 1957, February 1957 (February 1, 1957), p. 24.
4. Asbestos Magazine, 1958, March 1958 (March 1, 1958), p. 38.
5. Asbestos Magazine, 1954, January 1954 (January 1, 1954), p. 24.
6. Asbestos Magazine, 1959, March 1959 (March 1, 1959), p. 52.