Coalinga Asbestos Mine

Shown on the Santa Rita Peak 7.5" quadrangle at N36° 19.869; W120° 32.672 at 4173 feet. Also known as the John-Manville Mill. The Coalinga Asbestos Mine site covers 120 acres near Wright Mountain. The mill was operated by the Coalinga Asbestos Company as a joint venture between the John-Manville Sales Corporation, the Kern County Land Company, and private investors from 1962 to 1974, when the mill property reverted to the Southern Pacific Land Company (SPLC). SPLC leased the facility to the Marmac Resource Company for chromite mining in 1975. All operations ceased in 1977. The site consists of partially demolished mill buildings and a process waste mine tailings pile that occupies about 20 acres. Two large open-pit mines are located above the mill site and were used as the sources of ore for the Coalinga Asbestos Company milling operations.

This is private property owned by Philip Martin.