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FILE NAME Newspaper & Magazine Articles NMA DATE 1973 Aug 8 DOC NMA078 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION NYT - Iron Ore Company vs. the Changing Times U.S. Court Will Decide on Right to Pollute ro) BY JANE E. BRODY Special to The New York Times New York Times ( 1857 Currentfile Aug 8 1973 ProQuest Historical Newspapers The New York Times 1851 - 2002 Pg 74 Iron Ore Company vs. the Changing Times U.S. Court Will Decide on Right to Pollute @ By BRZOBD ROY DY Special to The Xew York Tim SILVER BAY Minn Aug 7 plant here visitor was shown the rock is first land disposal is economically Bay unfeasible and has proposed in here & visitor how stead that the tailings be crushed into pebbles and then 5 clumped with chemicals car mixed with water and ground ried some distance offshore and into loose mud containing flour- dumped into an underwater sized particles The mud then valley in the lake magnetic the rock's minerals as the industrial Reserve deliberatelydeliberately located its plant along a mile or located of Lake Superior shore so that it could use the lake not that industrial sewer but also as the source of the 453 mil lion gallons of water needed iron ( of magnetite from each day The New York Time 1 1s 972 railroad built especially Mining Company's long processing Lake Superiorat Bay The Reserve taconite Silver Minn pig Reserve's pig ironthe rock brings ironthe not show up as an obvioushaulobvioushaul the as the old iron much could particles he said cancer risk until 20 to 30 years Sliver heavier at exposure Taconite became of interest Waste Ratio 2 to 1 can properly identify after the first Re serve eft magne algae aid Mining Company Through has bbeeeenn Whatextracted left after the orable the Company thehas been inupiotns for tailings most yeadrusmping tite water extracted combination Mining of Company The finding of of after extracted of mineral particles made the sinal researchers explain firstbenevolent water and infinitely of various sizes For produced ton us taconite twotes fiber with latyerreadnsstmriuscstiuorne two tons of tailings must be been that few beam must show usually tallings study problem appears that here in Meanwhile pertise too the suburban Bay commu- rivers down Superior Reserve commu- asbestos as sends of 3,272 that almoalsmot st deposits which and solely fiber iron behind the residents are waiting sup orts leaving typical of title extracting from evidence on thtehe more come pasbrestoosvnietenctohendensesinto position the fiber that refreshed of livelihood question it be hours millions years discovers harmless likeeverything a who We feel will muddy by the Reserve plant are carried like of of taco few that took to At million Silver Company's plant on the shore of form a ticle count of the water and the Dr. Irving Selikoff's labora of the present case it is clear heavier contention that the tailings tory Mount Smal is one place that it will have little effect of identify asbes couraged the growth unfav that hastening the result accumulated i asbestos how- Mr. Nosek directs a foot ever Nosek case launch the Alma more complicated well as the more urgenturgent A major major accompany that phrase been that have a ex or the needed to identify an fiber microscope to otherotheprresumably tron beam innocuous mineral fibers Con through the on the allegiance of Silver Bay called Reserve Government Company has been a of a employer operating firsfirst t company town without the negative connotations that layered inde d it now amosite a scanning elec the Environmental Protection an elec Agency has been dubbed an by point enemy of the people here excites In Henrik Ibsen's play of that rays the chemistry of the atom it written nearly a century a physician that local town's source of contain contaminated contaminated water comce ome Findings So Far be iin n the supposedsupposedsupposed. ly healthful spa labsoourrcesaosurctesoarccyording ftohre people and his of Thus to in- As thanks his revelations formed the MounttMhouentthe physician is ostracizeads Sinal has found noan enemy amosite asbestos in the lake those to remain his at Grand Marais friend scorned who miles north of Silver Bay an yet unquantified amount is present the water supply at Beaver Bay four miles south of DulatuDutluh th 55 miles down Silver Bay and 20 to 200 times more fibers are present in the the shore than in most While residents of Silver Bay and other communities continue drdi rinkn Lakk e Superior secretary ing remarakbouteadassbtbeeshtsoestogsnhaaws- eememrgeedrcgoendcernaboutlolcoacall gallows humor A Two Harbors man died and when tissues are analyzing have also analyzing of Duluth who died to see if they ac- Duncan cumulated asbestos fibers through the years and Duncan Holaday from ples such is studying air sam- from places as the front of the St. fountainin Louis County Court House in downtown Duluth ThTehe judgethethe Miles Lord has agreed case to hear argu- ments charging that the stacks at Reserve's plant are | polluting the air with asbestos and the United Steelworkers the America represents taconite workers has requested inside tests requested larly of the operation crushing to see if workers may be breathing dangerous amounts of asbestos Regardless of the outcome current sand Mayor ern communities asbestos taining rock is used to roadways in winter with as dumpinprgos taconite possibly of pecpect t Reserve's reservoirs on the first place about Silver dumping the taconite villageintervenors Bay one of 11 pondonwouRledserve's behalf have tains ooff Silver Bay, as in the main- an land tailings be the placed de- the town NewYork are are stroying creantiengeded around the clock an an and creating an air pollupollu It also pre- stroypirngoblem would attempt to back sent consumption holding back bestos bury . dam learn whether sent of microscopic microscopic as constant constant is a indeed health ings would break town under an threat that tailavalanche and the Asbestos when is is inhaled crushed rock as a bomb effect does Reserve has argued that on- Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner Further reproduction prohibited without permission