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0 500 250 Miles Kaplan and Neurath - 7/2007 Printing Date: July 25, 2007; File: Conti_Alaska_bck3.mxd Former Processing Plants are plants that once processed asbestos. Asbestos is no longer processed in the United States. Prospect indicates that the asbestos deposit was prospected (evaluated) for possible commercial use, typically by trenching and (or) drilling, but the deposit was not further developed. Occurrence indicates that asbestos was reported at this site. This category includes (1) sites where asbestos-bearing rock is described in a geologic map or report; and (2) asbestos noted as an accessory mineral or vein deposit within another type of mineral deposit. Past Producer is an asbestos mine that once operated in the U.S. but is currently closed; the equipment or structures may have been removed or abandoned. There are no current producers in the United States. Fibrous amphibole indicates sites where minerals of the amphibole mineral group have been described as fibrous in the geologic literation. The reports on these locations do not mention asbestos but these sites indicate geologic settings with the potential to host asbestos. Asbestos does not occur naturally in Hawaii. <project=01972><userid=bck2><geo=USA><keywords=asbestos, natural, population> 0 500 250 Kilometers Naturally Occurring Asbestos Locations in the Contiguous USA and Alaska and the 100 Fastest Growing U.S. Counties 1 U.S.Geological Survey. 2005 Ver. 2, Reported historic asbestos mines, historic asbestos prospects, and natural asbestos occurrences in the eastern United States. Reston, Virginia. [cited 2006 March]. Available at http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2005/1189/. 4 U.S. Geological Survey. 2005. Mineral resources data system. Reston, Virginia. [cited 2005 July 6]. Available at http://tin.er.usgs.gov/mrds/. 2 U.S.Geological Survey. 2006, Reported historic asbestos prospects, and natural asbestos occurrences in the central United States. Reston, Virginia. [cited 2006 August]. Available at http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2006/1211/. 5 U.S. Bureau of the Census, Population Division. 2004. Housing Unit Estimates for the 100 Fastest Growing U.S. Counties between July 1, 2004 and July 1, 2005: Percentage Change between July 1, 2004 to July 1, 2005 (HU-EST2005-06) Release Date: August 21, 2006 Washington, D.C: U.S. Department of Commerce. Available at: http://www.census.gov/popest/housing/tables/HU-EST2005-06.xls. 3 U.S.Geological Survey. 2007, Reported historic asbestos mines, historic asbestos prospects, and natural asbestos occurrences in the Rocky Mountain States of the United States (Colorado, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, and Wyoming. Reston, Virginia. June, 6, 2007. Available at http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2007/1182/ Projection: Lambert Conformal Conic, NAD 83 (preserves local directions) Top 100 fastest growing county 5 Fibrous Amphiboles 2,3 Occurrences of Asbestos 1,2,3,4 Former Processing Plant 4 Past producer 1,2,3,4 Prospect 1,2,3,4 0 250 500 125 Miles 0 500 250 Kilometers

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Page 1: Naturally Occurring Asbestos Locations in the Contiguous USA … · 2019-02-26 · Naturally Occurring Asbestos Locations in the Contiguous USA and Alaska and the 100 Fastest Growing

0 500250 Miles

Kaplan and Neurath - 7/2007Printing Date: July 25, 2007; File: Conti_Alaska_bck3.mxd

Former Processing Plants are plants that once processed asbestos. Asbestos is no longer processed in the United States.Prospect indicates that the asbestos deposit was prospected(evaluated) for possible commercial use, typically by trenching and (or) drilling, but the deposit was not further developed. Occurrence indicates that asbestos was reported at this site. This category includes (1) sites where asbestos-bearing rock is described in a geologic mapor report; and (2) asbestos noted as an accessory mineral or vein deposit within another type of mineral deposit.Past Producer is an asbestos mine that once operated in the U.S. but is currently closed; the equipment or structures may have been removed or abandoned. There are no current producers in the United States.Fibrous amphibole indicates sites where minerals of the amphibole mineral group have been described as fibrous in the geologic literation. The reports on these locations do not mention asbestos but these sites indicate geologic settings with the potential to host asbestos.

Asbestos does not occur naturally in Hawaii.

<project=01972><userid=bck2><geo=USA><keywords=asbestos, natural, population>

0 500250 Kilometers

Naturally Occurring Asbestos Locations in the Contiguous USA and Alaskaand the 100 Fastest Growing U.S. Counties

1U.S.Geological Survey. 2005 Ver. 2, Reported historic asbestos mines, historic asbestos prospects, and natural asbestos occurrences in the eastern United States. Reston, Virginia. [cited 2006 March]. Available at http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2005/1189/.

4U.S. Geological Survey. 2005. Mineral resources data system. Reston, Virginia. [cited 2005 July 6]. Available at http://tin.er.usgs.gov/mrds/.

2U.S.Geological Survey. 2006, Reported historic asbestos prospects, and natural asbestos occurrences in the central United States. Reston, Virginia. [cited 2006 August]. Available at http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2006/1211/.

5U.S. Bureau of the Census, Population Division. 2004. Housing Unit Estimates for the 100 Fastest Growing U.S. Counties between July 1, 2004 and July 1, 2005:Percentage Change between July 1, 2004 to July 1, 2005 (HU-EST2005-06) Release Date: August 21, 2006Washington, D.C: U.S. Department of Commerce. Available at: http://www.census.gov/popest/housing/tables/HU-EST2005-06.xls.

3U.S.Geological Survey. 2007, Reported historic asbestos mines, historic asbestos prospects, and natural asbestos occurrences in the Rocky Mountain States of the United States (Colorado, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, and Wyoming. Reston, Virginia. June, 6, 2007. Available at http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2007/1182/

Projection: Lambert Conformal Conic, NAD 83 (preserves local directions)

Top 100 fastest growing county5Fibrous Amphiboles2,3Occurrences of Asbestos1,2,3,4Former Processing Plant4Past producer1,2,3,4Prospect1,2,3,4

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