Documents in our library name Raries mines at Kuruman area, Cape Province as an asbestos mine, run by Griqualand Exploration & Finance Company. They report it working in 1953.1 Fiber: crocidolite.
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.
1953
- Opened: “their new mines at Raries in the Kuruman area” (Griqualand Exploration & Finance Company), said by W. E. Sinclair, M.I.M.M. (Consulting Mining Engineer), as reported by Asbestos (magazine), p. 101
References
- Asbestos Magazine, 1953, November 1953 (November 1, 1953), p. 10.
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