Star Asbestos Co., Eastern Transvaal, Transvaal

Documents in our library name Star Asbestos Co. at Eastern Transvaal, Transvaal as an asbestos mine, run by The Star Asbestos Co. They report it working in 1956.¹

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

Year by year

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

1956

• Mill: “Plans were underway to increase the capacity of the mill from 300 to 600 tons of fibers per month” (The Star Asbestos Co.), as reported by South African Mining and Engineering Journal, p. 8¹
• Mill: “another new process developed by The Star Asbestos Co. in Eastern Transvaal prepared fibers in exceptionally uniform grades” (The Star Asbestos Co.), as reported by South African Mining and Engineering Journal, p. 8¹

References

1. Minerals Yearbook: Asbestos Chapters, 1956 (January 1, 1957), p. 8.