Health effects of mineral dusts

(Mickey Gunter, Geology, University of Idaho, last updated 5-Mar-97.)

This page contains information on health effects of mineral dusts. And like everything else on my Web page is under construction.

• Review paper on asbestos

• Abstract and Slides for talk on "Health effects of crystalline silica" by Michael Norton (my graduate student) (in pdf format)

• Slides for talk on "Health effects of inhaled mineral dusts" (in pdf format)

• EPA air measurement database

• International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC)

• World Health Organization (WHO)

• Information about Libby, Montana vermiculite mine & amphibole-asbestos

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