Mother Lode (Pacific Asbestos)

Documents in our library describe Mother Lode (Pacific Asbestos) as “rapid filtration, good tensile and high flexural strengths, optimum deflection and low moisture absorption”.¹ The asbestos named is chrysotile. Where the documents differ, each is listed below with its source.

What each document says

Every statement about Mother Lode (Pacific Asbestos) in the documents, in each document's own words.

Kind of product

We list Mother Lode (Pacific Asbestos) with raw fiber and filler, from how the documents describe it. That page explains how such products exposed workers.

Raw fiber and filler by other makers (42)

Plastibest (Johns-Manville) · Fibra-Flo (Johns-Manville) · Asbaltic (Johns-Manville) · Asbestos Fibers (Johns-Manville) · Caposite (North American Asbestos) · Fiberspray Asbestos (Acoustic) · Fibra Flow (Johns-Manville) · Gold Bond Asbestos Fibers (National Gypsum) · Havestos (Haveg) · Mimco (Mining & Milling Corp. of America) · Montasite (Mining & General Technicians) · Mother Lode (Asbestos Textile Co.) · Pavebestos (Carey Canadian Mines) · Pluto (North American Asbestos) · Portugese Asbestos (Powhattan Mining) · Powminco (Powhattan Mining) · Red Clover (Vermont Asbestos) · Tropag (Oscar H. Reiter (importer)) · Usm Asbestos Fibers (United States Mineral Wool) · Visbestos (Montello) · and 22 more: all raw fiber and filler

See also

• Pacific Asbestos: the company's history, documents, people, products and plants

References

1. Asbestos Magazine, 1972, December 1972 (December 1, 1972), p. 33.
2. Asbestos Magazine, 1969, December 1969 (December 1, 1969), p. 46.
3. Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two (1986), p. 94. Not yet published in our library.