American Ores and Asbestos property, Sierra Ancha Mountains, about fifty miles from Globe, Arizona

In June 1920 Asbestos, the industry's trade journal, drawing on an unnamed Arizona correspondent, described the property of American Ores and Asbestos, Inc., "located in the Sierra Ancha Mountains, about fifty miles from Globe."¹ The correspondent wrote that "development has proceeded about 400 feet from portal," and that asbestos was "being produced at this mine at the rate of about 5 tons per day, and is being shipped to Bridgeport, Conn."¹ By May 1921 the trade journal reported that A. B. Shutts, "formerly manager of the American Ores and Asbestos Company," was leaving Globe for the East, "as the works are definitely closed," with the remaining machinery and equipment under the supervision of H. E. Hacker, the manager of the Regal Mine.²

The documents report small or short-lived production of asbestos fiber for sale.¹

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.

1920

• Buyers: “is being shipped to Bridgeport, Conn.” (American Ores and Asbestos, Inc.), p. 27¹
• Output: “about 5 tons per day” (American Ores and Asbestos, Inc.), p. 27¹
• Exploration: “Development has proceeded about 400 feet from portal” (American Ores and Asbestos, Inc.), p. 27¹
• Description: “located in the Sierra Ancha Mountains, about fifty miles from Globe” (American Ores and Asbestos, Inc.), p. 27¹

1921

• Closed: “the works are definitely closed” (American Ores and Asbestos Company), p. 39²

See also

• Asbestos exposure sites in Arizona
• All asbestos mines

References

1. Asbestos Magazine, 1920, June 1920 (June 1, 1920), p. 27.
2. Asbestos Magazine, 1921, May 1921 (May 1, 1921), p. 39.