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Occurrence, Mineralogical Characteristics, and Management Strategies for Naturally Occurring Asbestos in the Midwestern Korean Peninsula

Applied Sciences
This study implemented an integrated mineralogical and microscopic workflow to identify naturally occurring asbestos (NOA) in former mining areas of H County in the central-western Korean Peninsula and to derive practical implications for long-term site ...
Jung-Min Kim, Taehwan Lee, Hongmok Jo, Si-Kyung Cho   +3 more
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Asbestos: current issues related to cancer and to uses in developing countries Asbesto: seu emprego nos países em desenvolvimento e questões relacionadas ao câncer

Cadernos de Saúde Pública, 1998
Asbestos is one of the main occupational carcinogens recognized and studied in the literature. Its uses have undergone major changes in recent decades, with severe restrictions on commercial amphiboles according to different patterns: in developed ...
Eduardo Algranti
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Explaining the Flood of Asbestos Litigation: Consolidation, Bifurcation, and Bouquet Trials [PDF]

The number of asbestos personal injury claims filed each year is in the hundreds of thousands and has been increasing rather than decreasing over time, even though asbestos stopped being used in the early 1970's.
Michelle J. White
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Characterisation of chemically related asbestos amphiboles of actinolite: proposal for a specific differentiation in the diagram (Si apfu versus Mg/Mg+Fe2+)

International Journal of Metrology and Quality Engineering, 2018
Aggregates and rocks from quarries located in metropolitan France and New Caledonia, all likely to contain asbestiform amphiboles, were analysed by a routine laboratory (AD-LAB). Morphological observations were made using transmission electron microscopy
Misseri Maxime, Lahondere Didier
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Amphibole asbestos in Africa and Australia: geology, health hazard and mining legacy

, 2000
Although asbestiform amphiboles only contributed less than 6% of industrial asbestos worldwide, they have proved more toxic as mineral pathogens than the more commonly mined asbestiform serpentine (chrysotile or white asbestos).
WES GIBBONS
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Mechanisms of oxidative stress and alterations in gene expression by Libby six-mix in human mesothelial cells

Particle and Fibre Toxicology, 2010
Background Exposures to an amphibole fiber in Libby, Montana cause increases in malignant mesothelioma (MM), a tumor of the pleural and peritoneal cavities with a poor prognosis. Affymetrix microarray/GeneSifter analysis was used to determine alterations
Hillegass Jedd M, Shukla Arti, MacPherson Maximilian B, Lathrop Sherrill A, Alexeeva Vlada, Perkins Timothy N, van der Vliet Albert, Vacek Pamela M, Gunter Mickey E, Mossman Brooke T   +9 more
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Pleural Plaque Related to Asbestos Mining in Taiwan

, 2012
A 78-year-old woman complained of twisting-like pain in her left lower chest. During physical examination, friction rubbing was noted in both lungs. Chest radiography showed extensive bilateral pleural calcification.
楊孝友;王榮德;陳保中;李仁智, YANG, HSIAO-YU;WANG, JUNG-DER;CHEN, PAU-CHUNG;LEE, JEN-JYH   +1 more
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Talcose entre artesãos em pedra-sabão em uma localidade rural do Município de Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais, Brasil Talc pneumoconiosis among soapstone handicraft workers in a rural area of Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Cadernos de Saúde Pública, 2003
A talcose é uma pneumoconiose ainda pouco estudada em nosso meio. Sua ocorrência foi investigada no Distrito de Mata dos Palmitos, Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais, Brasil, entre artesãos em pedra-sabão, que trabalham em produção de base familiar, de caráter ...
Olívia Maria de Paula Alves Bezerra, Elizabeth Costa Dias, Márcio Antônio Moreira Galvão, Ana Paula Scalia Carneiro   +3 more
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Identification method of asbestiform mineral particles and cleavage fragments in the lung: Regulated and unregulated amphiboles

Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety
Asbestos fibers are well-established causes of lung and pleural diseases. However, the role of other non-asbestiform elongate mineral particles (EMPs) in these conditions remains unclear.
Maxime Misseri, Sara De Salvo, Karine Beugnon, Tomas Danek, Catherine Verdun-Esquer, Camille Carles, Patrick Bontemps, judicaël Prieur, Jean-Claude Pairon, Laurent Martinon   +9 more
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Asbestos: current issues related to cancer and to uses in developing countries

Cadernos de Saúde Pública, 1998
Asbestos is one of the main occupational carcinogens recognized and studied in the literature. Its uses have undergone major changes in recent decades, with severe restrictions on commercial amphiboles according to different patterns: in developed ...
Algranti Eduardo
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