Anthophyllite workings, Hollywood, Georgia

An unsigned article in Asbestos, the industry's trade journal, in April 1924 called the Asbestos Mining & Manufacturing Company, "at Hollywood, Georgia, where there is a large deposit," "the latest entrant in the amphibole field."¹ The company, "owned by investors resident in Nashville, Tennessee, and Florence, Alabama," had "taken over this deposit" and spent "about $100,000 in its acquisition, development, remodeling of the plant and in experimental work."¹ The article said the owners, who "purchased the property about a year ago," had "put in new machinery and mills for fiberizing the rock and segregating the fibre from the grit," and that the ore reserve on one of the company's properties "is estimated at 150,000 tons."¹

A second unsigned article, in May 1926, said that Abb Landis, "who largely owns the Asbestos Mining and Manufacturing Company," had "installed a plant with capacity for considerable daily production and is successfully placing asbestos fibre on the market."² It reported that the company had "expended more than $150,000" in development since October 1923, that explorations "have exposed several hundred thousand tons of asbestos on the 22 acre tract," and that some grades "are being purchased by rubber, flooring and roofing companies, also for stucco."² In August 1927 the journal reported that the Hollywood Asbestos Mines were "making exhaustive tests and experiments to determine the best methods for separation of asbestos fibre from grit and other foreign matter."⁴

Looking back in 1948, Asbestos described the Hollywood Asbestos Mines as "highly developed, principally by an old gentleman by the name of Abb Landis," and said they "operated around 1926 to 1928."³ A 1941 report in the U.S. Bureau of Mines' Minerals Yearbook said that "limited quantities of anthophyllite were obtained some years ago near Helen, White County, and Hollywood, Habersham County, but recently these districts have been inactive."⁵

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.

1923

• Ownership: “The Asbestos Mining and Manufacturing Company ... has taken over this deposit” (Asbestos Mining and Manufacturing Company), p. 32¹
• Exploration: “since October 1923 has expended more than $150,000 in such development” (Asbestos Mining and Mfg. Company), p. 29²

1924

• Mill: “have put in new machinery and mills for fiberizing the rock” (Asbestos Mining and Manufacturing Company), p. 32¹
• Reserves: “estimated at 150,000 tons” (Asbestos Mining & Manufacturing Company), p. 32¹
• Fiber: “the amphibole field” (Asbestos Mining & Manufacturing Company), p. 32¹

1926

• Buyers: “being purchased by rubber, flooring and roofing companies” (Asbestos Mining and Mfg. Company), p. 29²
• Reserves: “several hundred thousand tons of asbestos on the 22 acre tract” (Asbestos Mining and Mfg. Company), p. 29²
• Ownership: “Mr. Abb Landis, who largely owns the Asbestos Mining and Manufacturing Company” (Abb Landis; Asbestos Mining and Manufacturing Company), p. 29²
• Worked: “the Hollywood Asbestos Mines at Hollywood, Ga. ... operated around 1926 to 1928” (Abb Landis), p. 28³

1927

• Mill: “making exhaustive tests and experiments to determine the best methods for separation”, p. 16⁴

1939

• Idle: “Limited quantities of anthophyllite were obtained some years ago near ... Hollywood, Habersham County, but recently these districts have been inactive”, p. 5⁵

Other names

Documents call this mine “Hollywood”, “Hollywood Asbestos Mines”, “Hollywood Asbestos”.

See also

• Asbestos exposure sites in Georgia
• All asbestos mines

References

1. Asbestos Magazine, 1924, April 1924 (April 1, 1924), p. 32.
2. Asbestos Magazine, 1926, May 1926 (May 1, 1926), p. 29.
3. Asbestos Magazine, 1948, October 1948 (October 1, 1948), p. 28.
4. Asbestos Magazine, 1927, August 1927 (August 1, 1927), p. 16.
5. Minerals Yearbook: Asbestos Chapters, 1940 (January 1, 1941), p. 5.