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PICTURES: Shabanie And Mashaba Mines Pictorial

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PICTURES: Shabanie And Mashaba Mines Pictorial

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Left to Rot?

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The 1979 commissioned Shabanie Mine main asbestos milling plant, which at one time was the tallest building in the country. The 17 th floor milling plant witnessed a surge in production of silky asbestos fibre – Picture by Kudakwashe Hunda

Mr Lawrence Mhlanga,a banksman at the entrance of the skip at shaft number one at Shabanie mine – Pictures by Kudakwashe Hunda

the end process of brittle fibre exraction

Rusty and decaying spare parts

Underground mining lamps room

Screening plant for the silky asbestos fibre where conveyors transport ore from the crushers to the screening plant

The powerfull reciprocating piston compressors which use piston valves to compress respiratory air used underground

The crushing plant for brittle fibre

Centrifugal compressors, which do 60 000 runs per minute and fitted with impalers, used to generate compressed air underground

Abandoned wagons at the railway line which used to transport products to and from the main plant

drying room of asbestos ore reclaimed from the dumps

finished product of brittle fibre used for various purposes

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