Oliver Bowles, The Asbestos Industry in 1945, U.S. Bureau of Mines Mineral Market Report (1946)

A five-page Mineral Industry Surveys report of the U.S. Bureau of Mines, Mineral Market Report MMS No. 1405, released June 7, 1946, and prepared by Oliver Bowles. It gives U.S. asbestos production, sales, imports and consumption for 1944 and 1945, production by state, market conditions and the outlook. U.S. mines, mostly chrysotile in Vermont, produced 13,605 short tons in 1945, only 3 percent of U.S. consumption, and amosite, "used extensively in making 85-percent magnesia and other high-temperature molded insulation," came only from South Africa.