Documents in our library name Blas Asbestos Corp. deposit and mill at Shasta, California as an asbestos mine, run by Blas Asbestos Corp., Johns-Manville Corp.1 Fiber: chrysotile. Where the documents differ, each is shown below with its source.
The documents report work here (mining, shafts or a mill) but no fiber sold or shipped; that is what our documents say, and the mine may still have sold some.2
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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.
1949
- Exploration: “continued development of its chrysotile asbestos deposit and mill in Shasta County but was not in commercial production” (Blas Asbestos Corp.), p. 22
1950
- Idle: “The Blas Asbestos Corp., La Moine, Calif., did not operate in 1950” (Blas Asbestos Corp.), p. 21
- Ownership: “in August 1950, Johns-Manville Corp. took an option on the property” (Johns-Manville Corp.), p. 21
See also
- Johns-Manville Corp.: the company's history, documents, people, products and plants
- Asbestos exposure sites in California
- All asbestos mines
References
- Minerals Yearbook: Asbestos Chapters, 1950 (January 1, 1951), p. 2.
- Minerals Yearbook: Asbestos Chapters, 1949 (January 1, 1950), p. 2.
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