Documents in our library name Powhatan anthophyllite mine at near Statham, Georgia as an asbestos mine, run by Powhatan Mining Co.1 They report it working in 1948.1 Fiber: anthophyllite.
The documents report work here (mining, shafts or a mill) but no fiber sold or shipped; that is what our documents say, and the mine may still have sold some.1
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Location
Year by year
Every statement about this mine in the documents, in each document's own words, by the year it is about.
1948
- Worked: “Powhatan Mining Co. mined anthophyllite ... in Barrow County near Statham” (Powhatan Mining Co.), p. 21
See also
References
- Minerals Yearbook: Asbestos Chapters, 1948 (January 1, 1949), p. 2.
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