Asbestos-containing vermiculite from the Grace mine was used as insulation in millions of houses across the U.S. In Libby, contaminated waste from the mine was unwittingly used by many residents as a ...

Amanda Follett Hosgood is The Tyee’s northern B.C. reporter. She lives on Wet’suwet’en territory. Find her on Bluesky @amandafollett.bsky.social. More than 50,000 people cycled through the remote ...

Montanans are well aware of the asbestos disaster caused by the vermiculite mine in Libby that turned the town into a Superfund site. Libby’s tremolite asbestos lurked in the shadows for decades until ...

Minaçu was shaped around the asbestos mine and it is hoped a new license to explore rare earth minerals could regenerate the area. Credit: José Cícero/The Guardian Minaçu, a small city in inland ...

The proposed Sheep Creek rare earth mine at the head of the West Fork Bitterroot River presents many environmental and economic problems. One in particular deserves early attention. The mineral ...

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(Fixes spelling of Jeffrey Mine, paragraph 12) By Julie Gordon TORONTO, June 30 (Reuters) - A group of medical associations on Wednesday called for a ban on asbestos mining in Canada, which tightly ...

Asbestos is a naturally occurring material that is present in soil and rocks. Exposure to asbestos may lead to lung diseases and other health conditions. In the past, many manufacturing companies used ...

(adds no comment from Quebec and Canada resource ministers in paragraph 9) * Medical associations call for asbestos ban * Large asbestos mine seeks C$58 million provincial loan By Julie Gordon TORONTO ...