Ouplaas mines, farm Ouplaas, Danielskuil District, Cape Province

Documents in our library name Ouplaas mines at farm Ouplaas, Danielskuil District, Cape Province as an asbestos mine, run by Danielskuil Cape Blue Asbestos (Pty.) Ltd. They report it working in 2 years between 1978 and 1979.^1,2 Fiber: crocidolite. Where the documents differ, each is shown below with its source.

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.

1978

• Output: “Danielskuil operates mines on the farm Ouplaas in the Danielskuil District. Annual production capacity is 15,000 tons” (Danielskuil Cape Blue Asbestos (Pty) Ltd.), p. 46¹

1979

• Output: “operates mines at the Ouplaas farm in the Danielskuil District (15,000 tons per year)” (Danielskuil Cape Blue Asbestos (Pty) Ltd.), p. 42²

References

1. Asbestos Magazine, 1978, December 1978 (December 1, 1978), p. 46.
2. Asbestos Magazine, 1979, December 1979 (December 1, 1979), p. 42.