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Minerals Yearbook: Asbestos Chapters

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Every year the federal government reported on the asbestos industry in its Minerals Yearbook: US production, imports, consumption and end uses, prices, and world output by country. The Bureau of Mines wrote the chapters through 1995; the US Geological Survey has written them since.

We have 80 chapters, from 1932–33 through 2019, each labeled with the year of the volume it appeared in. Two volumes were published as combined years (1932–33 and 1978–79). The 1992 and 1993 volumes had no asbestos chapter. Chapters not yet in this collection include those from the 1935, 1937 and 1967 volumes and the 2017 chapter. For 2020 through 2023 the Survey released statistical tables only, without a written chapter.

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US Bureau of Mines (through 1995), then US Geological Survey
Agency
Bureau of Mines; Geological Survey
Series
Minerals Yearbook
Date
1932–2019
Rights
US federal government work, in the public domain.

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Why it matters

Read in order, these chapters are the year-by-year record of the American asbestos industry: its growth through the war years, its peak, and its collapse as the health evidence and the lawsuits mounted. Much of the history on our mineral pages is drawn from them.

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“Minerals Yearbook: Asbestos Chapters.” 1932–2019. Minerals Yearbook. US Bureau of Mines (through 1995), then US Geological Survey. AsbestosClaims.Law Library. https://asbestosclaims.law/library/reports/minerals-yearbook-asbestos.

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