Ash Creek mine, Ash Creek, 40 miles northeast of Globe, Arizona

The Ash Creek mine was a chrysotile mine in Gila County, Arizona.² Asbestos, the industry's trade journal, drawing on an Arizona correspondent in June 1920, placed the property "at Chrysotile, Ariz., about forty-five miles from the railway and about sixty-five miles from Globe," while the U.S. Bureau of Mines' Minerals Yearbook later put it "40 miles northeast of Globe."^1,4 The 1920 report said the Arizona Asbestos Association had "been operating for three or four years, developing and producing," that development "has proceeded 800 feet from the portal of the openings," and that "this property is also known as the Ash Creek Mine."¹ It put production at "four to five tons per day" and said "about 60 carloads of Asbestos have been mined and shipped to New York City market."¹ In January 1923 an article in the same journal signed by Mrs Nelson said asbestos had been "mined two thousand feet into the mountain," and that "the four levels have been developed by two extraction tunnels ninety feet below the ore belt."⁵ The yearbook reporting on 1933 said that "the Ash Creek mine of the Johns-Manville Products Corporation 40 miles northeast of Globe was idle the entire year; sales were made from stocks on hand."⁴ For 1964 the yearbook reported shipments of chrysotile by Asbestos Manufacturing Co. "from the Asbestos Peak and Ash Creek mines," which Asbestos repeated in 1966.^2,3

The documents report this mine producing asbestos fiber for sale.¹

Location

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.

1916

• Worked: “operating for three or four years, developing and producing” (Arizona Asbestos Association), p. 27¹

1920

• Exploration: “Development has proceeded 800 feet from the portal” (Arizona Asbestos Association), p. 27¹
• Output: “four to five tons per day” (Arizona Asbestos Association), p. 27¹
• Output: “About 60 carloads of Asbestos have been mined and shipped” (Arizona Asbestos Association), p. 27¹
• Description: “located at Chrysotile, Ariz., about forty-five miles from the railway” (Arizona Asbestos Association), p. 27¹

1923

• Exploration: “The four levels have been developed by two extraction tunnels”, said by Mrs. Nelson, as reported by Asbestos (magazine), p. 18⁵
• Description: “mined two thousand feet into the mountain”, said by Mrs. Nelson, as reported by Asbestos (magazine), p. 18⁵

1933

• Idle: “The Ash Creek mine of the Johns-Manville Products Corporation 40 miles northeast of Globe was idle the entire year; sales were made from stocks on hand” (Johns-Manville Products Corporation), p. 4⁴

1964

• Worked: “Asbestos Manufacturing Co. from the Ash Creek ... mine” (Asbestos Manufacturing Co.), p. 2²
• Fiber: “chrysotile” (Asbestos Manufacturing Co.), p. 2²
• Worked: “by Asbestos Manufacturing Company from the Asbestos Peak and Ash Creek mines” (Asbestos Manufacturing Company), as reported by Asbestos (magazine), p. 25³

Other names

Documents call this mine “Ash Creek mine”, “Ash Creek Mine”.

See also

• Johns-Manville Products Corporation: the company's documents, people, products and plants
• Asbestos Manufacturing Co.: the company's documents, people, products and plants
• Asbestos exposure sites in Arizona
• All asbestos mines

References

1. Asbestos Magazine, 1920, June 1920 (June 1, 1920), p. 27.
2. Minerals Yearbook: Asbestos Chapters, 1964 (January 1, 1965), p. 2.
3. Asbestos Magazine, 1966, October 1966 (October 1, 1966), p. 25.
4. Minerals Yearbook: Asbestos Chapters, 1934 (January 1, 1935), p. 4.
5. Asbestos Magazine, 1923, January 1923 (January 1, 1923), p. 18.