As Canada announces a total ban on asbestos, Canadian Geographic looks back at its early coverage of the ‘magic’ mineral, from the days when its dangers were unknown or ignored Three miners pause to ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif.SACRAMENTO, Calif. — In 1965, California lawmakers named serpentine the state rock because it symbolized the Gold Rush years and contained a mineral being put to myriad industrial ...

A piece of serpentine rock. (Photo courtesy of Naomi Hisanaga of Aichi Gakusen University) SAITAMA -- A landscape gardener here has been awarded workers' compensation after it was recognized that he ...

When Dan Soliday was a kid in the 1960s, he and his friends sometimes played at the expansive quarry near his home in East Rockhill Township, Bucks County. Now, he’s scared for his 3-year-old ...

Linda Reinstein lost her husband, Alan, to mesothelioma in 2006. Now the Manhattan Beach resident is one step closer to getting the cause of his death repealed as the state rock of California.

MADISON, Wis.—Asbestos mineral fibers have been found in a rock sample from Gogebic Taconite’s proposed iron ore mine site in northern Wisconsin, according to the state Department of Natural Resources ...

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — In 1965, California lawmakers named serpentine the state rock because it symbolized the Gold Rush years and contained a mineral being put to myriad industrial uses. Nearly ...