Documents in our library name Asbestos deposit at Yarumal, Antioquia as an asbestos deposit. Fiber: chrysotile. Where the documents differ, each is shown below with its source.
The documents describe this as a deposit or prospect: they report exploration or describe the deposit, not mining for sale.1
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Location
Year by year
Every statement about this mine in the documents, in each document's own words, by the year it is about.
1943
- Exploration: “a promising deposit of asbestos has been located near Yarumal, State of Antioquia, Colombia”, as reported by news reports, p. 112
1949
- Exploration: “Exploration of two deposits, near the towns of Yarumal and Antioquia, in Antioquia, was reported”, as reported by Engineering and Mining Journal, p. 101
1951
- Exploration: “Active measures are being taken to develop chrysotile asbestos deposits at or near Yarumal”, p. 103
Other names
Documents call this mine “Yarumal”, “two deposits, near the towns of Yarumal and Antioquia”.
References
- Minerals Yearbook: Asbestos Chapters, 1949 (January 1, 1950), p. 10.
- Minerals Yearbook: Asbestos Chapters, 1943 (January 1, 1944), p. 11.
- Minerals Yearbook: Asbestos Chapters, 1951 (January 1, 1952), p. 10.
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