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Asbestos as contaminant in the mining of non-asbestos minerals: Case of a “marble” waste slurry dump-yard from Rajasthan, India

2024-10-22

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Asbestos is fibrous minerals, some of which can naturally occur in certain types of marble, including asbestiform tremolite, actinolite, anthophyllite, and chrysotile, with tremolite the most common among those associated asbestos types. This is of concern as miners and stone workers may not be aware of this and may never be considered by physicians treating them for lung related ailments. Wet marble dust in slurr...

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Literature Corpus work: a7bfe648-2c8b-59eb-a960-41ef5be6acfe
DOI: 10.1101/2024.10.21.24315894

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