Western Chemical Co., Globe district, Arizona

The U.S. Bureau of Mines' Minerals Yearbook for 1953 listed the Western Chemical Co., "625 So. 5th St., Phoenix," among the Arizona firms and individuals it called active, most of them at Globe; the list names no mine for the company.¹ In its yearbooks for 1954, 1955, 1956 and 1957, the Bureau named Western Chemical Co. among those that "produced chrysotile in the Globe district of Arizona."^2,3,4,5

The documents report this mine producing asbestos fiber for sale.³

Location

Year by year

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

1953

• Worked: “Western Chemical Co., 625 So. 5th St., Phoenix (active)” (Western Chemical Co.), p. 2¹

1954

• Worked: “Western Chemical Co. (produced chrysotile in the Globe district)” (Western Chemical Co.), p. 2²

1955

• Worked: “Western Chemical Co. produced chrysotile in the Globe district” (Western Chemical Co.), p. 2³
• Fiber: “chrysotile” (Western Chemical Co.), p. 2³

1956

• Fiber: “chrysotile” (Western Chemical Co.), p. 2⁴
• Worked: “Western Chemical Co. produced chrysotile in the Globe district” (Western Chemical Co.), p. 2⁴

1957

• Fiber: “chrysotile” (Western Chemical Co.), p. 2⁵
• Worked: “Western Chemical Co. produced chrysotile in the Globe district” (Western Chemical Co.), p. 2⁵

See also

• Western Chemical Co.: the company's documents, people, products and plants
• Asbestos exposure sites in Arizona
• All asbestos mines

References

1. Minerals Yearbook: Asbestos Chapters, 1953 (January 1, 1954), p. 2.
2. Minerals Yearbook: Asbestos Chapters, 1954 (January 1, 1955), p. 2.
3. Minerals Yearbook: Asbestos Chapters, 1955 (January 1, 1956), p. 2.
4. Minerals Yearbook: Asbestos Chapters, 1956 (January 1, 1957), p. 2.
5. Minerals Yearbook: Asbestos Chapters, 1957 (January 1, 1958), p. 2.