Serpentine mine, Belingwe, Zimbabwe

Documents in our library name Serpentine mine at Belingwe, Zimbabwe as an asbestos mine.¹ They report it working in 3 years between 1955 and 1961.^1,2,3 Where the documents differ, each is shown below with its source.

The documents report this mine producing 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.

1955

• Output: “Vanguard Coy. | Serpentine 5 | 300” (Vanguard Coy.), p. 10²

1958

• Worked: “the Schmidheiny (Swiss Group), which produced 12,662 tons of fibre in 1958 from the ... Serpentine” (Schmidheiny (Swiss Group)), said by W. E. Sinclair, as reported by Asbestos (magazine), p. 10¹

1961

• Mill: “Plants to recover grade 7 fiber were under construction in 1961 at the Serpentine mine, Belingwe”, as reported by Mineral Trade Notes, p. 11³

References

1. Asbestos Magazine, 1960, April 1960 (April 1, 1960), p. 10.
2. Asbestos Magazine, 1956, June 1956 (June 1, 1956), p. 10.
3. Minerals Yearbook: Asbestos Chapters, 1961 (January 1, 1962), p. 11.