Documents in our library name Sherlock deposit at 35 miles E.S.E. of Roebourne, Western Australia as an asbestos mine.1 They report it working in 1955.1 Fiber: chrysotile.
The documents report work here (mining, shafts or a mill) but no fiber sold or shipped; that is what our documents say, and the mine may still have sold some.1
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Every statement about this mine in the documents, in each document's own words, by the year it is about.
1955
- Worked: “long fibre chrysotile is being mined ... at Sherlock, 35 miles E.S.E. of Roebourne”, p. 101
References
- Asbestos Magazine, 1955, July 1955 (July 1, 1955), p. 10.
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