Documents in our library name Tasmanian Asbestos Pty. Ltd. at Zeehan, Tasmania as an asbestos mine, run by Tasmanian Asbestos, Pty., Ltd.1 They report it working in 1946.1 Fiber: chrysotile. Where the documents differ, each is shown below with its source.
The documents report small or short-lived production of asbestos fiber for sale.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.
1941
- Exploration: “Four of the most promising chrysotile deposits in the Zeehan district were developed between 1941 and 1945 ... 397 tons of fibre”, p. 122
1946
- Ownership: “Tasmanian Asbestos, Pty. Ltd. ... subsidiaries of the Colonial Sugar Refining Co., Ltd.” (Colonial Sugar Refining Co., Ltd.), p. 181
- Worked: “principal producers of chrysotile ... Tasmanian Asbestos, Pty., Ltd., at Zeehan” (Tasmanian Asbestos, Pty., Ltd.), p. 181
References
- Asbestos Magazine, 1946, April 1946 (April 1, 1946), p. 18.
- Asbestos Magazine, 1955, July 1955 (July 1, 1955), p. 12.
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