Emsco Asbestos Co., Globe, Arizona

The Emsco mine was a chrysotile mine near Globe, in Gila County, Arizona.² Asbestos, the industry's trade journal, wrote in February 1939 that the Emsco Asbestos Company of Downey, California, operated the Emsco Mine, "located 40 miles east of Globe, which was located by Robert Anderson in 1921, and sold to the E. M. Smith interests in 1928."¹ It called the Emsco "the only major mine now in active operation, employing 17 men at the present time," and said the company was "operating a primary mill, and then shipping the materials to the main plant in Downey for final cleaning and fiberizing of the shorter grades."¹ The U.S. Bureau of Mines' Minerals Yearbook, reporting on 1937, likewise described fiber "received from the primary mill at Globe, Ariz.," and prepared at a fiberizing mill in Downey.² The yearbooks named Emsco Asbestos Co. of Globe among the Arizona companies making sales in 1937, 1938 and 1939.^2,3,4 For 1941 the yearbook listed "Fibre & Metal Products, Inc. (formerly Emsco Asbestos Co.), Downey, Calif.," among the sellers, and for 1942 it listed Fiber & Metal Products Co. of Downey.^5,6 In December 1960 the trade journal reported that the Emsco Mine, "presently owned by Metate Asbestos Corporation and formerly owned by the Fibre Metal Products, Inc., will be a major producer of soft crudes and filter fibre from the Arizona district."⁷

The documents report this mine producing 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.

1921

• Opened: “Located by Robert Anderson in 1921” (Robert Anderson), p. 15¹

1928

• Ownership: “Sold to the E. M. Smith interests in 1928” (E. M. Smith interests), p. 15¹

1937

• Worked: “Sales of chrysotile were made by the ... Emsco Asbestos Co., Globe, Ariz.” (Emsco Asbestos Co.), p. 4²
• Mill: “fiber received from the primary mill at Globe, Ariz.” (Emsco Asbestos Co.), p. 4²

1938

• Worked: “Sales were made by the ... Emsco Asbestos Co. ... of Globe, Ariz.” (Emsco Asbestos Co.), p. 5³

1939

• Worked: “Emsco Asbestos Company operates the Emsco Mine, 40 miles east of Globe; the only major mine now in active operation” (Emsco Asbestos Company), p. 15¹
• Mill: “Primary mill at the mine; material shipped to the main plant in Downey for final cleaning and fiberizing” (Emsco Asbestos Company), p. 15¹
• Workforce: “Employing 17 men at the present time” (Emsco Asbestos Company), p. 15¹
• Worked: “reported by the following companies: ... Emsco Asbestos Co. ... of Globe, Ariz.” (Emsco Asbestos Co.), p. 5⁴

1941

• Ownership: “Fibre & Metal Products, Inc. (formerly Emsco Asbestos Co.)” (Fibre & Metal Products, Inc.), p. 3⁵
• Worked: “Sales ... were made by the following companies: ... Fibre & Metal Products, Inc. (formerly Emsco Asbestos Co.), Downey, Calif.” (Fibre & Metal Products, Inc.), p. 3⁵

1942

• Worked: “Sales ... were made by the following companies: ... Fiber & Metal Products Co., Downey, Calif.” (Fiber & Metal Products Co.), p. 3⁶

1960

• Ownership: “Emsco Mine, presently owned by Metate Asbestos Corporation and formerly owned by the Fibre Metal Products, Inc.” (Metate Asbestos Corporation), p. 8⁷

Other names

Documents call this mine “Emsco Asbestos Co.”, “Fibre & Metal Products, Inc.”, “Fiber & Metal Products Co.”, “Emsco Mine”.

See also

• Asbestos exposure sites in Arizona
• All asbestos mines

References

1. Asbestos Magazine, 1939, February 1939 (February 1, 1939), p. 15.
2. Minerals Yearbook: Asbestos Chapters, 1938 (January 1, 1939), p. 4.
3. Minerals Yearbook: Asbestos Chapters, 1939 (January 1, 1940), p. 5.
4. Minerals Yearbook: Asbestos Chapters, 1940 (January 1, 1941), p. 5.
5. Minerals Yearbook: Asbestos Chapters, 1941 (January 1, 1942), p. 3.
6. Minerals Yearbook: Asbestos Chapters, 1942 (January 1, 1943), p. 3.
7. Asbestos Magazine, 1960, December 1960 (December 1, 1960), p. 8.