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The Daily Show clip that mocks Canada’s continued support of the mining, use and distribution overseas of chrysotile asbestos is both hilarious and heartbreaking!
Despite hundreds of thousands dying from horrible asbestos related cancers, such as mesothelioma and asbestosis, Canada is reopening chyrsotile mines, hanging on to keeping a town called Asbestos versus renaming, and sending [...]

In recent years, the annual consumption of asbestos in India has risen more than 30% making India one of the world’s top asbestos consumer. More tragically, there are reports of working conditions in Indian  asbestos mills and factories where the permissible exposure levels were being exceeded many times over, putting many at risk of developing [...]

Asbestos is a fibrous mineral that is naturally occurring. Asbestos can be broken down into two basic types: serpentine and amphibole. The type of asbestos that is derived from the serpentine type of asbestos is called “chrysotile.”
Over 90% of the asbestos used in the United States is chrysotile asbestos and it accounts for 95% of [...]

Calaveras Asbestos, Ltd.  (“Calaveras”) was formed in October, 1975 for the purpose of mining and milling chrysotile asbestos fiber from an asbestos mine located in Copperopolis, California.  Calaveras acquired the mine from H.K. Porter in October, 1975.
Calaveras mined and milled chrysotile asbestos fiber from the mine between approximately November, 1975 and December, 1987.  Sales of [...]