Documents in our library name Strelley mine at farm Strelley, Kuruman area, South Africa as an asbestos mine, run by Griqualand Exploration and Finance Co. Ltd. They report it working in 1965.1 Fiber: crocidolite. Where the documents differ, each is shown below with its source.
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.2
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Year by year
Every statement about this mine in the documents, in each document's own words, by the year it is about.
1965
- Opened: “it was decided to open a new blue asbestos mine on the farm of Strelley” (Griqualand Exploration and Finance Co. Ltd.), p. 191
1966
- Exploration: “Gefco will be able to defer expansion of the Strelley mine which was being opened to augment production” (Griqualand Exploration and Finance Co. Ltd. (Gefco)), p. 182
Other names
Documents call this mine “Strelley mine”, “farm of Strelley”.
References
- Asbestos Magazine, 1965, June 1965 (June 1, 1965), p. 19.
- Asbestos Magazine, 1966, January 1966 (January 1, 1966), p. 18.
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