Wandrag mine, Kuruman District, Cape Province

Asbestos, the industry's trade journal, reported in December 1975 that the Wandrag company operated "two Crocidolite mines and a mill in the Kuruman District" and was opening a new mine near Danielskuil, and that its fiber was blended with that of its sales agents, Gefco.¹ A year later the journal wrote that Wandrag Asbestos (Pty) Ltd. ran "two Crocidolite mines and a mill at Kuruman and a third mine near Danielskuil."² In December 1979, citing the Mining Annual Review, it called Wandrag "the nearby Wandrag mine of Duiker Exploration, part of the Lonrho Group," and said that "in line with Gefco's lower sales, Wandrag cut back production to 10,351 metric tonnes of fiber in 1978."³ In January 1981 the journal reported that Wandrag sold 9654 tonnes of fiber to Gefco in the year to September 30, 1979, "compared with 11,651 tonnes in 1978."⁴

The documents report this mine producing asbestos fiber for sale.⁴

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.

1975

• Worked: “operates two Crocidolite mines and a mill in the Kuruman District” (Wandrag Asbestos (Pty.) Ltd.), p. 40¹

1976

• Worked: “runs two Crocidolite mines and a mill at Kuruman” (Wandrag Asbestos (Pty) Ltd.), p. 38²

1978

• Output: “Wandrag cut back production to 10,351 metric tonnes of fiber in 1978” (Duiker Exploration (Lonrho Group)), as reported by Mining Annual Review, p. 40³
• Buyers: “Wandrag sold 9654 tonnes of fiber to Gefco during the year to September 30, 1979, compared with 11,651 tonnes in 1978” (Duiker Exploration (Lonrho Group)), p. 32⁴

1979

• Ownership: “the nearby Wandrag mine of Duiker Exploration, part of the Lonrho Group” (Duiker Exploration (Lonrho Group)), as reported by Mining Annual Review, p. 40³

Other names

Documents call this mine “Wandrag mine”, “Wandrag Mine”, “Wandrag”.

See also

• Wandrag mine in the Lexicon
• All asbestos mines

References

1. Asbestos Magazine, 1975, December 1975 (December 1, 1975), p. 40.
2. Asbestos Magazine, 1976, December 1976 (December 1, 1976), p. 38.
3. Asbestos Magazine, 1979, December 1979 (December 1, 1979), p. 40.
4. Asbestos Magazine, 1981, January 1981 (January 1, 1981), p. 32.