Senekal mine, Barberton district, Transvaal

Documents in our library name Senekal mine at Barberton district, Transvaal as an asbestos mine, run by General Mining Union Corp.¹ They report it working in 1982.¹ Fiber: chrysotile.¹

The documents report this mine producing asbestos fiber for sale.¹

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.

1982

• Description: “Mining method: Sublevel stope”, p. 20¹
• Ownership: “Owner: ...do [General Mining Union Corp.]” (General Mining Union Corp.), p. 15¹
• Reserves: “Demonstrated recoverable fiber 87.4 thousand t; recoverable fiber B (2.0%-3.9%)”, p. 15¹
• Ownership: “owned by the Griqualand Exploration and Finance Co. Ltd. (Gefco)” (Griqualand Exploration and Finance Co. Ltd. (Gefco)), p. 18¹
• Fiber: “chrysotile, fiber grades 5,6,7”, p. 15¹
• Output: “Average production 5.0 thousand t/yr (evaluated, averaged over the remaining life)”, p. 20¹
• Idle: “had produced in the past but were inoperative at the time of this evaluation”, p. 14¹
• Idle: “Status PP (past producer); type U (underground)” (General Mining Union Corp.), p. 15¹

References

1. Asbestos Availability: Market Economy Countries (January 1, 1985), pp. 14–15, 18, 20.