Jenkins mine, Pylesville, Maryland

The Jenkins mine near Pylesville, Maryland, was worked by the Powhatan Mining Corporation of Woodlawn, Baltimore, according to the U.S. Bureau of Mines' Minerals Yearbook.^1,2 The yearbook for 1932 and 1933 reported that the company produced "a high-grade anthophyllite suitable for chemical filters" from the mine.¹ The 1934 yearbook said the company produced "long-fibered asbestos (anthophyllite)" there in 1933 and "fabricated it into chemical filters at its plant at Woodlawn, Baltimore."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.

1932

• Worked: “A high-grade anthophyllite suitable for chemical filters was produced ... by the Powhatan Mining Corporation ... from the Jenkins mine near Pylesville” (Powhatan Mining Corporation), p. 4¹
• Fiber: “A high-grade anthophyllite suitable for chemical filters” (Powhatan Mining Corporation), p. 4¹

1933

• Worked: “The Powhatan Mining Corporation produced long-fibered asbestos (anthophyllite) in 1933 at the Jenkins mine near Pylesville” (Powhatan Mining Corporation), p. 5²
• Fiber: “long-fibered asbestos (anthophyllite)” (Powhatan Mining Corporation), p. 5²

See also

• Jenkins Mine in the Lexicon
• Asbestos exposure sites in Maryland
• All asbestos mines

References

1. Minerals Yearbook: Asbestos Chapters, 1932–33 (January 1, 1934), p. 4.
2. Minerals Yearbook: Asbestos Chapters, 1934 (January 1, 1935), p. 5.