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Read Replies (2) | Respond to Crayons were around when you were a kid ... how have they harmed you? But thank you for taking the bait. There's not enough asbestos in crayons to harm anyone. You think crayon mfrs puts asbestos in crayons for some reason? No, you can find asbestos pretty much anywhere if your testing threshold is low enough. It's the name applied to six different naturally occurring silicate minerals. I can guarantee you there is asbestos in your house. And probably elsewhere on your property. gloves containing talc when you worked the VA? Use talcum powder on your babies? Did you know talc often contains a small amount of asbestos silicates ? The baby powder they cut cocaine with ... yep cocaine therefore will contain a little asbestos too. 50 of 58 counties in CA have naturally occurring asbestos rocks . Asbestos from natural geologic deposits is known as "naturally occurring asbestos" (NOA). Health risks associated with exposure to NOA are not yet fully understood, and current US federal regulations do not address exposure from NOA. Many populated areas are in proximity to shallow, natural deposits which occur in 50 of 58 California counties prostate cancer , a malignancy not known to be related to asbestos. The study found a correlation between the incidence of mesotheliomas and the distance a patient lived from known deposits of rock likely to include asbestos; the correlation was not present when the incidence of prostate cancer was compared with the same distances. The risk of mesothelioma declined by 6% for every 10 km (6.2 mi) that an individual had lived away from a likely asbestos source. [105] Relative Likelihood for the Presence of Naturally Occurring Asbestos in Eastern Sacramento County, California Relative Likelihood for the Presence of Naturally Occurring Asbestos in Placer County, California A General Location Guide for Ultramafic Rocks in California — Areas More Likely to Contain Naturally Occurring Asbestos (DMG Open-File Report 2000-019); Areas More Likely to Contain Naturally Occurrences of Asbestos in Western El Dorado County, California (DMG OFR 2000-002) Department of Health Services Radon Database for California conservation.ca.gov rock quarry of asbestos in Mendocino county, CA Fibrous mineral ""Riebeckite occurs as bluish-black prismatic crystals as much as 1 cm long and 2 mm wide, and as aggregates of radiating greyish-blue fibers."" ""Grunerite occurs in brown fibrous and silky crystals."" (Chesterman, 1966, p. 506)
http://mrdata.usgs.gov/asbestos/show-asbestos.php?rec_id=1013 The fibrous forms of riebeckite are known as crocidolite and are one of the six recognised types of asbestos . Often referred to as blue asbestos, it is considered the most hazardous https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riebeckite
