Documents in our library name Westerberg mine at 45 miles from Prieska, Cape Province as an asbestos mine, run by Cape Blue Mines, Cape Blue Mines (Pty) Ltd.1,2 They report it working in 2 years between 1952 and 1958.1,2 Fiber: crocidolite. Where the documents differ, each is shown below with its source.
The documents report this mine producing asbestos fiber for sale.1
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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.
1952
- Worked: “the Cape Blue Mines operating the Westerberg and Koegas Mines” (Cape Blue Mines), said by W. E. Sinclair, M.I.M.M. (Consulting Mining Engineer), as reported by Asbestos (magazine), p. 101
1958
- Worked: “blue asbestos mines at ... Westerberg besides the Orange River in Cape Province” (Cape Blue Mines (Pty) Ltd.), said by The Cape Asbestos Company Ltd., as reported by Asbestos (magazine), p. 462
References
- Asbestos Magazine, 1953, November 1953 (November 1, 1953), p. 10.
- Asbestos Magazine, 1958, December 1958 (December 1, 1958), p. 46.
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