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Hokkaido deposits, Yamabe district, Hokkaido

The asbestos deposits of the Yamabe district lay on Hokkaido, in Japan, and the sources agree that they were chrysotile.2,3,4 The U.S. Bureau of Mines' Minerals Yearbook for 1959 reported that "the Hokkaido deposits of the Yamabe district supplied almost all of the output of chrysotile asbestos" in Japan, and Asbestos, the industry's trade journal, wrote in 1960 that asbestos "is mined almost exclusively in Hokkaido, although it occurs in several other areas in Japan."3,4 The yearbook for 1964 said asbestos "was produced almost exclusively in Hokkaido by Nozawa Asbestos Cement Co. and Yamabe Asbestos Co.," without naming a mine or district.1 For 1965, citing Mineral Trade Notes, it reported that asbestos "was mined exclusively in Hokkaido," whose Yamabe deposits "are chrysotile."2

The documents report this mine producing asbestos fiber for sale.3

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Location

Yamabe district, Hokkaido, the district named in the documents. The dot marks the district, not the mine itself.

Year by year

Every statement about this mine in the documents, in each document's own words, by the year it is about.

1959

  • Output: “supplied almost all of the output of chrysotile asbestos”, p. 83
  • Fiber: “chrysotile asbestos”, p. 83
  • Fiber: “The Hokkaido deposits of the Yamabe District are chrysotile”, p. 444
  • Description: “Asbestos is mined almost exclusively in Hokkaido, although it occurs in several other areas in Japan”, p. 444

1964

  • Worked: “Asbestos was produced almost exclusively in Hokkaido by Nozawa Asbestos Cement Co. and Yamabe Asbestos Co.” (Nozawa Asbestos Cement Co.; Yamabe Asbestos Co.), p. 91

1965

  • Fiber: “The Hokkaido deposits in the Yamabe District are chrysotile”, as reported by Mineral Trade Notes, p. 82
  • Worked: “Asbestos was mined exclusively in Hokkaido”, as reported by Mineral Trade Notes, p. 82

Other names

Documents call this mine “Hokkaido deposits of the Yamabe district”, “Hokkaido deposits in the Yamabe District”.

References

  1. Minerals Yearbook: Asbestos Chapters, 1964 (January 1, 1965), p. 9.
  2. Minerals Yearbook: Asbestos Chapters, 1965 (January 1, 1966), p. 8.
  3. Minerals Yearbook: Asbestos Chapters, 1959 (January 1, 1960), p. 8.
  4. Asbestos Magazine, 1960, May 1960 (May 1, 1960), p. 44.

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“Hokkaido deposits, Yamabe district, Hokkaido.” AsbestosClaims.Law Library. https://asbestosclaims.law/library/mines/yamabe-hokkaido-jp.

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