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    Tremolite is a member of the amphibole group of silicate minerals with composition Ca2(Mg5.0-4.5Fe2+0.0-0.5)Si8O22(OH)2. Tremolite forms by metamorphism...
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    Although tremolite is a metamorphic amphibole, it is most commonly derived from highly metamorphosed ultramafic rocks, and thus tremolite-talc schist...
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    origin include those developed in limestones by contact metamorphism (tremolite) and those formed by the alteration of other ferromagnesian minerals (such...
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    formerly used in many products until the early 1980s. [citation needed] Tremolite asbestos constituted a contaminant of many if not all naturally occurring...
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    mines - mainly coal but also tremolite, a highly carcinogenic element exploited for several decades since 1930 (tremolite asbestos), and other elements...
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    intermediate member in a solid-solution series between magnesium-rich tremolite, Ca2(Mg5.0-4.5Fe2+0.0-0.5)Si8O22(OH)2, and iron-rich ferro-actinolite...
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    tremolite. Hydrated metamorphic rock assemblages are dominated by the minerals chlorite, serpentine-antigorite and brucite. Traces of talc, tremolite...
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    are; Olivine + Tremolite + Talc → Olivine + Tremolite + Anthophyllite (low MgO, >550 °C, XCO2 <0.6) Talc + Tremolite + Magnesite → Tremolite + Anthophyllite...
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    Cummingtonite – Fe2Mg5Si8O22(OH)2 Grunerite – Fe7Si8O22(OH)2 Tremolite series Tremolite – Ca2Mg5Si8O22(OH)2 Actinolite – Ca2(Mg,Fe)5Si8O22(OH)2 Hornblende...
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    Hexagonite is the red to pink, lilac to purple manganoan variety of tremolite. A rare amphibole, it can be transparent, translucent, and rarely opaque...
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    class and those belonging to the amphibole class: amosite, crocidolite, tremolite, anthophyllite and actinolite. Short, fiber-like minerals include wollastonite...
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    with aegirine, nepheline, albite, arfvedsonite in igneous rocks; with tremolite, ferro-actinolite in metamorphic rocks; and with grunerite, magnetite...
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    Mineralogical Association as a mineral species name in 1978 (replaced by tremolite). The name "nephrite" is mineralogically correct for referring to the...
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  • is all asbestos with UN 2212 limited to asbestos, amphibole amosite, tremolite, actinolite, anthophyllite, or crocidolite. Another exception, NA 3334...
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    serendibite include diopside, spinel, phlogopite, scapolite, calcite, tremolite, apatite, grandidierite, sinhalite, hyalophane, uvite, pargasite, clinozoisite...
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  • mountain leather include: actinolite, palygorskite, saponite, sepiolite, tremolite, and zeolite. Chrysotile Committee on Asbestos: Selected Health Effects...
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    stage were a variety of calc-silicates, including diopside, forsterite, tremolite, together with talc and chlorite. Subsequent metasomatism, probably associated...
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    no asbestos. The former vermiculite mine in Libby, Montana, did have tremolite asbestos as well as winchite and richterite (both fibrous amphiboles)—in...
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    other illnesses, such as asbestosis; amphibole asbestos (anthophyllite, tremolite, actinolite, grunerite, and riebeckite) are considered more dangerous...
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    contact registered individuals with important health information. The Tremolite Asbestos Registry contains people who lived in or worked in Libby, Montana...
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  • polysilicates are ladder polymers. One example is provided by the mineral tremolite. In the area of coordination chemistry, the ladder structure is seen in...
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  • Nyerereite Varieties that are not valid species: Nephrite (variety of tremolite/actinolite) Niobite (synonym of columbite) Niobite-tantalite (synonym...
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    predominantly of talc, with varying amounts of chlorite and amphiboles (typically tremolite, anthophyllite, and cummingtonite, hence its obsolete name, magnesiocummingtonite)...
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  • Fluor-liddicoatite Indicolite Olenite Paraiba (var.) Rossmanite Rubellite (var.) Tremolite Hexagonite (var.) Triphylite Triplite Tugtupite Turquoise Ulexite Ussingite...
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    calcite, dolomite, quartz, tremolite, talc, and forsterite for the albite-epidote hornfels facies; calcite, dolomite, quartz, tremolite, diopside, and forsterite...
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    stacks within the cove and the valley are of tremolite serpentine which is fine-grained and banded. Tremolite is different from bastite serpentine because...
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    series between hornblende and the closely related amphibole minerals, tremolite–actinolite, at elevated temperature. A miscibility gap exists at lower...
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  • including actinolite, amosite, anthophyllite, chrysotile, crocidolite, tremolite) Azathioprine Benzene Benzidine, and dyes metabolized to Benzo[a]pyrene...
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    natural asbestos. Much of the asbestos is known to emanate from fibrous tremolite or actinolite. The threat was discovered in 1987, prompting the county...
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    occurs naturally as the mineral eskolaite, which is found in chromium-rich tremolite skarns, metaquartzites, and chlorite veins. Eskolaite is also a rare component...
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