Rosey Cross Asbestos (Pvt.), Ltd., Mashaba, Zimbabwe

Rosey Cross was an asbestos property at Mashaba, in what the sources call Southern Rhodesia: in May 1929 Asbestos, the industry's trade journal, reported that The Rosey Cross Asbestos Mines of Rhodesia, Ltd. had been registered in London to acquire "certain mines and mining claims in Southern Rhodesia, known as Rosey Cross" and other blocks.¹ By July 1932 the journal was reporting "the compulsory liquidation of the Rosey Cross Asbestos Mines."² In 1938 it said the Mashaba Rhodesian Asbestos Co. owned "the Rosey Cross area of four blocks," and in 1946 that the property was "being merely maintained."^3,7 The company's report for 1949 listed Rosey Cross among its mines "producing Chrysotile Asbestos."⁴ W. E. Sinclair named it among the mines from which the Ross McIntyre & Co. group produced 6,240 tons in 1958.⁵ The U.S. Bureau of Mines' Minerals Yearbook named Rosey Cross Asbestos (Pvt.), Ltd., of Mashaba, among six Rhodesian companies that "produced spinning grades" in 1959, without naming its mine.⁶

The documents report this mine producing asbestos fiber for sale.⁵

Location

Year by year

Every statement about this mine in the documents, in each document's own words, by the year it is about.

1929

• Ownership: “The objects are to acquire certain mines and mining claims ... known as Rosey Cross” (The Rosey Cross Asbestos Mines of Rhodesia, Ltd.), p. 55¹

1932

• Ownership: “Rosey Cross Asbestos Mines of Rhodesia under compulsory liquidation” (Rosey Cross Asbestos Mines of Rhodesia), p. 42²

1938

• Ownership: “Mashaba Rhodesian Asbestos Co. owns the Rosey Cross area of four blocks” (Mashaba Rhodesian Asbestos Co.), as reported by South African Engineering & Mining Journal, p. 39³

1946

• Idle: “being merely maintained” (Mashaba Rhodesian Asbestos Co., Ltd.), as reported by The South African Mining and Engineering Journal, p. 45⁷

1949

• Ownership: “This firm owns mines in Southern Rhodesia producing Chrysotile Asbestos” (Mashaba Rhodesian Asbestos Co., Ltd.), said by Mashaba Rhodesian Asbestos Co., Ltd., as reported by Asbestos (magazine), p. 44⁴

1958

• Worked: “Ross McIntyre &Co., produced a total of 6,240 tons in the same period from the ... Rosey Cross” (Ross McIntyre & Co.), said by W. E. Sinclair, as reported by Asbestos (magazine), p. 10⁵

1959

• Output: “Rosey Cross Asbestos (Pvt.), Ltd., Mashaba ... produced spinning grades” (Rosey Cross Asbestos (Pvt.), Ltd.), as reported by Mineral Trade Notes, p. 9⁶

Other names

Documents call this mine “Rosey Cross Asbestos (Pvt.), Ltd.”, “Rosey Cross”.

References

1. Asbestos Magazine, 1929, May 1929 (May 1, 1929), p. 55.
2. Asbestos Magazine, 1932, July 1932 (July 1, 1932), p. 42.
3. Asbestos Magazine, 1938, October 1938 (October 1, 1938), p. 39.
4. Asbestos Magazine, 1950, May 1950 (May 1, 1950), p. 44.
5. Asbestos Magazine, 1960, April 1960 (April 1, 1960), p. 10.
6. Minerals Yearbook: Asbestos Chapters, 1960 (January 1, 1961), p. 9.
7. Asbestos Magazine, 1946, April 1946 (April 1, 1946), p. 45.