Underground Treasures: How and Where to Find Them / A Key for the Ready Determination of All the Useful Minerals Within the United States

by James Orton

6.—Asbestus.

Occurs finely fibrous, flax-like; flexible, not elastic; silky lustre, sometimes greenish; gravity 3.

Value.—Used for lining safes and steam-packing, and for making incombustible cloth, lamp-wicks, etc.

Localities.—Found in granite-regions east of the Alleghanies; often with Serpentine. Brighton, Dedham, Newbury, Pelham and Sheffield, Mass.; Milford, West Farms, Winchester and Wilton, Conn.; Chester, Mt. Holly and Cavendish, Vt.; Patterson, Phillipstown, Monroe and Staten Island, N. Y.; Brunswick, N. J.; East Nottingham, Goshen and Aston, Penn.; Bare Hills and Cooptown, Md.; Barnet’s Mills, Va.