Characterization of Lone Pine, California, tremolite asbestos and preparation of research material.

ABSTRACT: Well-characterized amphibole asbestos mineral samples are required for use as analytical standards and in future research projects. Currently, the National Institute for Standards and Technology Standard Reference Material samples of asbestos are listed as 'Discontinued'. The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) has a goal under the Asbestos Roadmap of locating and characterizing research materials for future use. Where an initial characterization analysis determines that a collected material is appropriate for use as a research material in terms of composition and asbestiform habit, sufficient amounts of the material will be collected to make it publicly available. An abandoned mine near Lone Pine, California, contains a vein of tremolite asbestos, which was the p

SUBMITTER: Harper M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4784439 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature