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FILE NAME: RT Vanderbilt (RTV) DATE: 1974 Oct 11 DOC#: RTV217 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: J-M Memo RE Optical and TEM Counting of Asbestos Minerals in Asbestine 3X & Other RTV Asbestos Products Copies: gee end of correspondence , m Subject.,YOUR 'MEMO OF O C TO B ER 9 1974;, ''.OPTICAL -AND TEM COUNTING OF ASBESTOS .MINERALS IN'.ASBESTINE 3X, ASBESTINE 3 2 5 N.YTAXi 20 0, 'AND NYTAL 400 -AS -'CURRENTLY"PRODUCED*BY R. T !VANDERBIET'CO. Thank you Vlad for your very fine report, covering your microscopic examination of these "'amples. ..Your date . .confirm analyses we have had made on ,these, .same '-sampies by J. B. McGourty using X-ray diffraction tochniques (Report Non 4r4~T~33) *and b K. Jaunafeaj's. using-'differen tial ,thermal analysis - primarily 'for ;the. detection-'of ' ''serpentine mineral, -1 igY ,.?The.se^..pr.e,sentt::S^m^lesare,-really no. different .from'preyious . a^ddAb'e;tan'o'fthat I'-have:.-examined 7;:;:^j|^qdic^i(i^?o^^ very,.sub- * -VO-ifl ***T*rtNV-*. 4^ . . il*** 4-*;Vv-0 * T** '4 .*-4/* . Ti vk ^3 m*P***S`'***> 9 V*ijr-K &*"S ""*) . f> V \ / V *4 . people, they have readily admitted toxft&ying .trM61ite; ("which-is not an asbestos miners., .and-is..-not fibrous'' but they have never admitted to the presence of either:- chrysotxle or arithophy 111 1e < Thr do admit that years-'agof: when they were deliberately &. certain -sections:-6f .'thea-; 'deposits for fiber, some of ti' products, did contain--.- chrysotile. ' This p r o d u c t "Mcv- 7 w c sold as -a direct replacement for asbestos in v ; -.piiacrtn-re'of vir^yl.'trie.. I have examined "Kouldene" in t. past -'and; it -was .in fact' .almost-entirely, chrysotile. ,sYc : .dene'1 is no longer being made,, but all of the International Talc Company and. R* T. Vanderbilt Company talc products alVays;.have and continue to contain;'-chrysotile' as- a-AsIgh;i-McanfcAsninera1=. : component (in addition fcoltrenioiite-and'ahthophyllite) . fc ! CRMC-ELS -004708 V, Ev. .Kolkodof October IX, 1974 It'- is'7.ap^areht ,thafc/the `-R. Vande.rbil.t- ..presentations to. -,are ,based-i:;biitbspmetbi-no .less. ' 7vi;7fj;-ndlit7difficult;:t:odo.e.lieve/that 'they ' - C ( ^ ^ ! j0 ^ ! s 6 .grossly misinformed -as to 'what their materials 'i>are. ` How this information is, ultimately, .used-vis: something that Wiilnhava to-be jd&Chide<i higher levels within J-i-U . However, it is my "belief that R. it Vanderbilt, with a. B o h a i d e e 6 f;;ithd;iiiipr:es'ehtmethod's>'dbe's--1nothi ng but' confuse the issue among the talc producers and with the yhri ./involved, Ariy -properly; informed are; wrong* cc: R. P. Carter E'. M Fenner ' P. Kotin Wo' B. Reitze F. a. So.Ion, Jr* G'.'L.' Swallow A. C. F. Finkbiner, J. A. McKinney Hv Ro Keefe t: P, A / M a r t i n s o n C. J. Sulewski W 'LIvhhberbee.k R.' G . -Riede-' ! - -4N . ' . ~. 4N . - 4.H- 4H ' 4'N ; III " S'W- . "-5W -;;2W: " +*** 2W- :2s - 2S F . L.'Fund sack :W. Co Streib-. J.' Pv .Lein'eweb'er ,S. Spe.il' 'A. J McArthur / Fide -414-C T. Vanderbilt CRMC-ELS-004709