Documents in our library name Pietersburg district at Pietersburg district, Transvaal as an asbestos mine.1,2 They report it working in 2 years between 1933 and 1942.1,2 Fiber: crocidolite. Where the documents differ, each is shown below with its source.
The documents report small or short-lived production of asbestos fiber for sale.2
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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.
1933
- Worked: “During the boom over 100,000 claims taken up and sixteen propositions working; today only one mine operating”, p. 341
1942
- Worked: “A small output is obtained in the Pietersburg district of Transvaal. The workings are shallow”, p. 102
- Description: “The workings are shallow, and the product is less desirable than the Cape blue”, p. 102
References
- Asbestos Magazine, 1933, April 1933 (April 1, 1933), p. 34.
- Minerals Yearbook: Asbestos Chapters, 1942 (January 1, 1943), p. 10.
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