Virginia Vermiculite Co. mine, Virginia

Documents in our library name Virginia Vermiculite Co. mine at Virginia as an asbestos mine, run by Virginia Vermiculite Co.

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Year by year

Every statement about this mine in the documents, in each document's own words, by the year it is about.

2000

• Dust and health: “There remains a controversy, however, over how the samples were analyzed” (Virginia Vermiculite Co.), as reported by Industrial Minerals; North American Minerals News, p. 1¹
• Dust and health: “the Mine Safety and Health Administration inspected Virginia Vermiculite Co.'s mine in Virginia to determine asbestos levels” (Virginia Vermiculite Co.), p. 1¹
• Dust and health: “asbestos was not detected using the required sampling and analysis protocol” (Virginia Vermiculite Co.), p. 1¹

In medical studies

Medical studies in our research library that name this mine, by how they concern it. A search found every one that names the mine and an AI reader sorted them; the quotation, checked word for word against the text, shows where. Those that name the mine only in passing or in a reference list are left out.

Studies of the mine’s fiber (1)

• Moatamed F 1986: Fiber contamination of vermiculites: a potential occupational and environmental health hazard: “Visible fragments of amphibole were present in both unexpanded and expanded Libby vermiculite, in unexpanded and expanded Virginia vermiculite”

See also

• Asbestos exposure sites in Virginia
• All asbestos mines

References

1. Minerals Yearbook: Asbestos Chapters, 2000 (January 1, 2001), p. 1.