Floyd Brown, Globe, Arizona

Floyd Brown of Globe, Arizona, took up an asbestos property in Gila County in 1944: in September of that year Asbestos, the industry's trade journal, citing The Mining Journal, reported that Brown and associates were reported "to have taken over the Wright and Maxwell mine," which it described as "part of the old Triangle group in Gila County," and that Brown, it understood, had "a lease with an option to purchase for $35,000."¹ The U.S. Bureau of Mines' Minerals Yearbook listed "Floyd Brown" of Globe among the companies that "made sales in 1944."²

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.

1944

• Ownership: “a lease with an option to purchase for $35,000” (Floyd Brown), p. 39¹
• Ownership: “reported to have taken over the Wright and Maxwell mine” (Floyd Brown and associates), as reported by The Mining Journal (as reported), p. 39¹
• Worked: “The following companies made sales in 1944: ... Floyd Brown ... of Globe” (Floyd Brown), p. 3²
• Description: “part of the old Triangle group in Gila County”, p. 39¹

Other names

Documents call this mine “Floyd Brown”, “Wright and Maxwell mine”.

See also

• Asbestos exposure sites in Arizona
• All asbestos mines

References

1. Asbestos Magazine, 1944, September 1944 (September 1, 1944), p. 39.
2. Minerals Yearbook: Asbestos Chapters, 1944 (January 1, 1945), p. 3.