Chrysotile mine, Gila County, Arizona

The Chrysotile mine in Gila County, Arizona, was worked for chrysotile by Jaquays Mining Corporation, and it first appears in the sources in 1964, when Asbestos, the industry's trade journal, summing up the U.S. Bureau of Mines' report on Arizona, called Jaquays "the leading producer" and the "operator of the Regal and Chrysotile mines."¹ The same report said the "selectively mined chrysotile asbestos ore was hand-sorted at the mine and shipped to the company's asbestos mill at Globe," and the journal's summary for 1965 says the same of "the Regal and Chrysotile mines."^1,3 The Bureau of Mines' Minerals Yearbook for 1965 wrote that Jaquays shipped chrysotile "from the Regal and Chrysotile Mines," a phrase that may name a second mine or may describe the Regal workings.²

For 1967 the journal named "Jaquays Mining Corporation's Chrysotile Mine" as one of the three producers in Arizona, in a year when "output in Arizona was 14% below 1966."⁴ From 1968 through 1975 the yearbook's tables of United States producers list Jaquays Mining Corp. in Gila County with a mine named "Chrysotile."^{5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12}

In those years the yearbook's text speaks of "Jaquays Mining Corp.'s mine in Gila County" without naming it: it says that with only that mine operating in 1971, "Arizona production decreased 11 percent"; that with it "operating again in 1972, Arizona production increased 2%"; and that with only it operating in 1973, "Arizona production decreased 27%."^8,9,10 For both 1974 and 1975 the yearbook called it "the only active asbestos mine in the State."^11,12

The documents report this mine producing asbestos fiber for sale.⁴

Location

Year by year

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

1964

• Worked: “operator of the Regal and Chrysotile mines” (Jaquays Mining Corporation), as reported by Asbestos (magazine), p. 25¹

1965

• Worked: “Jaquays Mining Corp. from the Regal and Chrysotile Mines” (Jaquays Mining Corp.), p. 2²
• Worked: “at the Regal and Chrysotile mines” (Jaquays Mining Corporation), as reported by Asbestos (magazine), p. 20³

1967

• Worked: “Jaquays Mining Corporation's Chrysotile Mine” (Jaquays Mining Corporation), as reported by Asbestos (magazine), p. 48⁴

1968

• Worked: “Jaquays Mining Corp. | do. | Chrysotile | Do.” (Jaquays Mining Corp.), p. 2⁵

1969

• Worked: “Jaquays Mining Corp. | do. | Chrysotile | Do.” (Jaquays Mining Corp.), p. 3⁶

1970

• Worked: “Jaquays Mining Corp. | do. | Chrysotile | Do.” (Jaquays Mining Corp.), p. 2⁷

1971

• Worked: “only Jaquays Mining Corp.'s mine in Gila County operating in 1971” (Jaquays Mining Corp.), p. 2⁸
• Worked: “Arizona: Jaquays Mining Corp. | Gila | Chrysotile | Chrysotile” (Jaquays Mining Corp.), p. 2⁸

1972

• Worked: “Arizona: Jaquays Mining Corp. | Gila | Chrysotile | Chrysotile.” (Jaquays Mining Corp.), p. 2⁹
• Worked: “With only the Jaquays Mining Corp. mine in Gila County operating again in 1972” (Jaquays Mining Corp.), p. 2⁹

1973

• Worked: “Arizona: Jaquays Mining Corp. | Gila | Chrysotile | Chrysotile.” (Jaquays Mining Corp.), p. 3¹⁰
• Worked: “With only Jaquays Mining Corp.'s mine in Gila County operating in 1973” (Jaquays Mining Corp.), p. 3¹⁰

1974

• Worked: “Arizona: Jaquays Mining Corp | Gila | Chrysotile | Chrysotile.” (Jaquays Mining Corp.), p. 2¹¹
• Worked: “The Jaquays Mining Corp. mine in Gila County was the only active asbestos mine in the State” (Jaquays Mining Corp.), p. 2¹¹

1975

• Worked: “Arizona: Jaquays Mining Corp | Gila | Chrysotile | Chrysotile.” (Jaquays Mining Corp.), p. 3¹²
• Worked: “The Jaquays Mining Corp. mine in Gila County was the only active asbestos mine in the State” (Jaquays Mining Corp.), p. 2¹²

Other names

Documents call this mine “Chrysotile Mines”, “Chrysotile”, “Chrysotile mine”.

See also

• Jaquays Mining Corp.: the company's documents, people, products and plants
• Asbestos exposure sites in Arizona
• All asbestos mines

References

1. Asbestos Magazine, 1966, October 1966 (October 1, 1966), p. 25.
2. Minerals Yearbook: Asbestos Chapters, 1965 (January 1, 1966), p. 2.
3. Asbestos Magazine, 1967, August 1967 (August 1, 1967), p. 20.
4. Asbestos Magazine, 1968, July 1968 (July 1, 1968), p. 48.
5. Minerals Yearbook: Asbestos Chapters, 1968 (January 1, 1969), p. 2.
6. Minerals Yearbook: Asbestos Chapters, 1969 (January 1, 1970), p. 3.
7. Minerals Yearbook: Asbestos Chapters, 1970 (January 1, 1971), p. 2.
8. Minerals Yearbook: Asbestos Chapters, 1971 (January 1, 1972), p. 2.
9. Minerals Yearbook: Asbestos Chapters, 1972 (January 1, 1973), p. 2.
10. Minerals Yearbook: Asbestos Chapters, 1973 (January 1, 1974), p. 3.
11. Minerals Yearbook: Asbestos Chapters, 1974 (January 1, 1975), p. 2.
12. Minerals Yearbook: Asbestos Chapters, 1975 (January 1, 1976), pp. 2–3.