The drywall construction trade has in the past been associated with exposure to airborne asbestos fibres. This paper reports a drywall construction worker with 32 years of dust exposure who developed dyspnoea and diminished diffusing capacity, and showed diffuse irregular opacities on chest radiography. He did not respond to treatment with corticosteroids. Open lung biopsy examination showed de...

Mesothelioma is considered a signal tumor for asbestos exposure and typically occurs decades after first exposure to asbestos. Tissue analysis often indicates past exposure to mixed types of asbestos. This report describes the case of a 58-year-old man who developed mesothelioma after reported exposure to crocidolite from asbestos-containing gaskets beginning at age 16 during three summers duri...

Abstract Carbonate minerals are ubiquitous in most sediment-hosted mineral deposits. These deposits can contain a variety of carbonate types with complex paragenetic relationships. When normalized to chondritic values (CN), rare-earth elements and yttrium (REE+Y CN ) be used constrain fluid chemistry fluid-rock interaction processes both low- high-temperature settings. Unlike other phases (e.g....

Purpose . Barsova Gora is a unique archaeological and landscape site located in the Tyumen Region (West Siberia) of Russian Federation. The technical technological analysis Kalinkino ceramics from Barsov gorodok III/2 settlement (25 vessels) was performed accordance with method developed by A. Bobrinsky. Results For manufacture vessels at settlement, ferruginous clays were selected. Five subspe...