The result has been the deaths of at least two hundred Libby residents due to asbestos related diseases such as mesothelioma. Thousands more have been impacted by the dust generated in the mining process and may expect to develop potentially fatal asbestos diseases in the future. 
 
 Tremolite Not the Most Common Form of Asbestos 
 
 Tremolite is not the common form of asbestos found in most of the asbestos products that were so popular during the twentieth century. There are six forms of mineral deposits that are referred to as asbestos: chrysotile, amosite, crocidolite, tremolite, anthophyllite and actinolite. 
 
 Chrysolite is by far the most common, comprising perhaps ninety five percent of the asbestos products found in buildings in the United States today. Ironically, chrysolite is the only form of the mineral that has curly fibers. Tremolite and the other variations are all needle-like in form, perhaps even more likely to damage lung tissue. 
 
 Toxicity of Tremolite Asbestos 
 
 Tremolite is just as toxic as chrysolite, if not more so. When shipments of the vermiculite ore left Libby, they were sent to at least twenty six regional plants across the country that produced insulation from the ore and sold it under the brand name Zonolite to uncounted numbers of contractors, builders and do-it-yourself homeowners. Millions of tons of the ore were shipped just during the years when W.R. Grace owned the company. 
 
 The process for using vermiculite involves heating the ore at a very high temperature, which leaves residue in the form of slag rock. The slag was also contaminated with tremolite asbestos, and used in many yards as a form of gravel or soil covering in flower beds. The spread of tremolite asbestos from this one mine is probably enormous. At least one Alaskan homeowner has reported a lung condition related to Zonolite that was sold into the Alaskan market by a Canadian distributor. 
 
 Finding Products with Tremolite Asbestos 
 
 Cautious people should be on the lookout for asbestos products in any building they own or live in. In particular, however, if Zonolite insulation appears in a building wall, call for the asbestos removal specialists and stay away from it. The tremolite from Libby, Montana lives on in thousands of buildings constructed or remodeled during the years when W.R. Grace was selling its Zonolite insulation across the nation. ||||| These crawls are part of an effort to archive pages as they are created and archive the pages that they refer to. That way, as the pages that are referenced are changed or taken from the web, a link to the version that was live when the page was written will be preserved.Then the Internet Archive hopes that references to these archived pages will be put in place of a link that would be otherwise be broken, or a companion link to allow people to see what was originally intended by a page's authors.The goal is to fix all broken links on the web . Crawls of supported "No More 404" sites. ||||| Teen jewelry store Claire's is struggling to compete with stores like Forever 21 that offer jewelry plus clothing. (Photo: Getty Images) 
 
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 Claire's, which sells jewelry and accessories targeted to young women, has pulled some of its makeup products off the shelves, due to reports of cancer-producing asbestos. 
 
 Items include the bedazzled rainbow heart makeup set and metallic hot pink glitter makeup. 
 
 The company quietly announced the recall Saturday on its Twitter page, and put out a later statement. "We have taken the precautionary measure of pulling the items in question from sale ... Once we have more information and have the results of the investigation we will take the necessary action. If you have items you wish to return in the interim period we will issue a refund." 
 
 Earlier this year retailer Justice also recalled cosmetics after a Durham, N.C., TV station said the product had toxic substances, including asbestos. 
 
 Exposure to asbestos, once commonly used for building insulation, has been found to lead to certain types of cancers and tumors on internal organs. 
 
 In Providence, R.I., local TV station WPRI reached out to Claire’s after a local law clerk, whose firm specializes in asbestos litigation, has makeup tested from the retailer, and found asbestos. 
 
 “You assume that when you’re purchasing it, it is safe,” Kristiana Warner said. Claire's is based in Pembroke Pines, Fla. 
 
 Claire's hotline is open from 8 a.m. to 11 p.m. EDT, 800-804-7194. 
 
 The retailer, which was bought by private equity firm Apollo Global Management in 2007, faces a steep debt load, CNBC reported. 
 
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– "I physically sank." That was Kristi Warner's response to news that a makeup kit used by her 6-year-old daughter tested positive for asbestos, a finding that has prompted retailer Claire's to pull at least nine products from shelves. As a lawyer at a Rhode Island law firm specializing in asbestos litigation, Warner says she has previously come across "contaminated" cosmetics and decided to check out her own daughter's makeup, purchased from a Claire's store in Providence, per WJAR and USA Today. "You just assume that a children's product would be safe," says Warner. Instead, a North Carolina lab found the product tested positive for tremolite asbestos, as did all 17 makeup products Warner later purchased from Claire's stores in nine states, per WJAR. Exposure to asbestos is linked to certain cancers, including mesothelioma. Though chrysolite asbestos is more common, AsbestosNews.com notes that "tremolite is just as toxic as chrysolite, if not more so," per the Miami Herald. "The fact that the majority of the products came from the store shelves in the last two weeks means that there are other children being exposed," Warner says. An investigation is ongoing, but Claire's has announced it will recall nine products as a "precautionary measure." They include multiple makeup sets, an eye shadow and lip gloss palette, and a glitter cell phone makeup compact. Refunds will be offered on returned items, the retailer says. (Tween retailer Justice had a similar problem.)