Documents in our library name Red Hills asbestos property at Red Hills, West Otago, South Island, New Zealand as an asbestos deposit, run by Kennecott Exploration Ltd. Where the documents differ, each is shown below with its source.
The documents describe this as a deposit or prospect: they report exploration or describe the deposit, not mining for sale.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.
1972
- Exploration: “a "large" asbestos property has been discovered at Red Hills in West Otago” (Kennecott Exploration; Kennecott Copper Corporation), p. 302
- Exploration: “has reportedly discovered a large asbestos property at Red Hills in West Otago” (Kennecott Exploration Ltd.), p. 101
Other names
Documents call this mine “large asbestos property at Red Hills”, “Red Hills”.
References
- Minerals Yearbook: Asbestos Chapters, 1972 (January 1, 1973), p. 10.
- Asbestos Magazine, 1972, March 1972 (March 1, 1972), p. 30.
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