Asbestos-Talc Products property, Burlington, Washington

Asbestos-Talc Products of Washington, Inc., worked a property at Burlington, Washington: the U.S. Bureau of Mines' Minerals Yearbook reported that the company used "several tons of asbestos from the company's property at Burlington in the manufacture of insulating, building, and roofing products," and that in 1933 it produced amphibole there "for use in asbestos cement."^1,2 A later yearbook said that "the material produced near Burlington, formerly included in the Asbestos chapter, is a mixture of talc and asbestos."³

The documents report small or short-lived production of asbestos fiber for sale.²

Location

Year by year

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

1932

• Worked: “reported the use of several tons of asbestos from the company's property at Burlington” (Asbestos-Talc Products of Washington, Inc.), p. 5¹

1933

• Fiber: “Amphibole was produced” (Asbestos-Talc Products of Washington, Inc.), p. 5²
• Worked: “Amphibole was produced in Washington in 1933 by the Asbestos-Talc Products of Washington, Inc., at Burlington for use in asbestos cement” (Asbestos-Talc Products of Washington, Inc.), p. 5²

1935

• Description: “The material produced near Burlington, formerly included in the Asbestos chapter, is a mixture of talc and asbestos”, p. 3³

See also

• Asbestos exposure sites in Washington
• All asbestos mines

References

1. Minerals Yearbook: Asbestos Chapters, 1932–33 (January 1, 1934), p. 5.
2. Minerals Yearbook: Asbestos Chapters, 1934 (January 1, 1935), p. 5.
3. Minerals Yearbook: Asbestos Chapters, 1936 (January 1, 1937), p. 3.