Mineralogy of mine waste at the Vermont Asbestos Group mine, Belvidere Mountain, Vermont

American Mineralogist

Volumn 94, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1063-1066

  Levitan, Denise M ^a   Hammarstrom, Jane M ^a   Gunter, Mickey E ^b   Seal II, Robert R ^a   Chou, I Ming ^a   Piatak, Nadine M ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

Amphibole; Asbestos; Chrysotile; Mine waste; Raman spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON PROBE MICROANALYSIS; KAOLINITE; MAGNETITE; MICA; OPTICAL DATA STORAGE; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SERPENTINE; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

AMPHIBOLE; CHRYSOTILE; HUMAN HEALTH; MINE WASTES; NON-FIBROUS; POWDER X RAY DIFFRACTION; REMEDIATION PLAN; TRACE AMOUNTS;

ASBESTOS;

AMPHIBOLE; ASBESTOS; MINE WASTE; MINERALOGY; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

APPALACHIANS; BELVIDERE MOUNTAIN; GREEN MOUNTAINS; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; VERMONT;

EID: 68949086658     PISSN: 0003004X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2138/am.2009.3258     Document Type: Article

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