Canadian mine, Gila, Arizona

Documents in our library name Canadian mine at Gila, Arizona as an asbestos mine, run by Globe Los Angeles Mining Co.^1,2 They report it working in 2 years between 1945 and 1952.^1,2 Fiber: chrysotile. Where the documents differ, each is shown below with its source.

Location

Year by year

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

1945

• Worked: “recovered short fiber from the waste dumps of the Canadian mine” (Globe Los Angeles Mining Co.), p. 3¹

1952

• Worked: “D. W. Jaquays, Regal & Canadian Mines” (D. W. Jaquays), p. 50²

1953

• Exploration: “D. W. Jaquays Mining Co. is making progress with drifting at the Canadian mine” (D. W. Jaquays Mining Co.), said by Arizona Asbestos Producers Association (Newsletter, April 1953), as reported by Asbestos (magazine), p. 46³

Other names

Documents call this mine “Canadian mine”, “Canadian Asbestos Mine”.

See also

• Asbestos exposure sites in Arizona
• All asbestos mines

References

1. Minerals Yearbook: Asbestos Chapters, 1945 (January 1, 1946), p. 3.
2. Asbestos Magazine, 1952, June 1952 (June 1, 1952), p. 50.
3. Asbestos Magazine, 1953, May 1953 (May 1, 1953), p. 46.