South African Consolidated Asbestos, a few miles from the Montana Mine, Transvaal

Documents in our library name South African Consolidated Asbestos at a few miles from the Montana Mine, Transvaal as an asbestos mine, run by South African Consolidated Asbestos Limited.¹ They report it working in 1 year between 1928 and 1929.² Fiber: amosite. 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

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.

1928

• Ownership: “In 1928 Mr. Haskel successfully floated the South African Consolidated Asbestos Limited” (South African Consolidated Asbestos Limited), p. 6¹
• Output: “75 tons of fibre have been shipped from this mine” (S. A. Consolidated Asbestos), as reported by South African Mining & Engineering Journal (as reported), p. 52²

References

1. Asbestos Magazine, 1929, October 1929 (October 1, 1929), p. 6.
2. Asbestos Magazine, 1929, July 1929 (July 1, 1929), p. 52.