Whitebank mine, Kuruman District, Cape Province

Documents in our library name Whitebank mine at Kuruman District, Cape Province as an asbestos mine, run by General Mining Union Corp.¹ They report it working in 1982.¹ Fiber: crocidolite.¹

The documents report this mine producing asbestos fiber for sale.

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.

1982

• Output: “Average production 15.5 thousand t/yr (evaluated, averaged over the remaining life)”, p. 20¹
• Reserves: “Demonstrated recoverable fiber 123.8 thousand t; recoverable fiber E (8.0%-9.9%)”, p. 15¹
• Fiber: “crocidolite, fiber grades 3,4”, p. 15¹
• Ownership: “owned by the Griqualand Exploration and Finance Co. Ltd. (Gefco)” (Griqualand Exploration and Finance Co. Ltd. (Gefco)), p. 18¹
• Description: “Mining method: Room and pillar”, p. 20¹
• Ownership: “Owner: General Mining Union Corp.” (General Mining Union Corp.), p. 15¹
• Worked: “Status P (producer); type U (underground)” (General Mining Union Corp.), p. 15¹

1985

• Description: “extraction from a number of small or medium-sized deposits”, p. 18¹
• Description: “Kuruman area of the northern Cape crocidolite field”, p. 18¹

References

1. Asbestos Availability: Market Economy Countries (January 1, 1985), pp. 15, 18, 20.