Tag: crocidilite

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Asbestos, Kids, and Building Sand Castles on an ACM infested Beach. Is that Really Okay?

February 25, 2024

I am waist deep into my thesis research, with a current focus on the Asbestos Containing Material on the Illinois State Beach Park. Just to set the baseline, as of April 1980, even the Environmental Protection Agency in the United States recognized that kids and asbestos do not mix. As stated by the EPA: “It…
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Global Information on Asbestos as of 1959: A Materials Survey by the United States Government.

June 3, 2023

Global surveys seem to always include forgotten information. As an example, did anyone reading this blog know or remember that Crocidolite Asbestos was mined in Bolivia? I did not, and yet Circular 7880 titled Asbestos-A Minerals Survey by Oliver Bowles for the United States Bureau of Mines in 1959 states as follows: This publication is…
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