Chrysotile Mining Worldwide Is Back Up To 1960 Levels
According to this rather expensive article published in The Lancet, despite a ban in 40 countries and dramatically reduced consumption levels in other industrialized countries like the U.S., 2.2 million metric tonnes of chrysotile is still being mined and used annually with much of it going into projects in China and India. For good or ill a laboratory for studying the effects of white asbestos exposure in humans has been established.
