There were elevated rates of asbestos-related diseases in the families of miners from the asbestos brought home on their clothing and working gear.
The time lag between exposure and asbestos-caused diseases for both the miners and the residents of the mining communities is of 10 to 40 years when it is already too late for any treatment option to work.
Relevant job titles
- bagger
- blender
- car loader
- crusher operator
- driller
- heavy equipment operator
- dryer operator
- packer
- pack hauler
- palletizer
- asbestos fibers weaver
- blaster
- dryman
- extraction worker
- grinding operator
- mine clerk
- mine engineer
- mine foreman
- mining technician
- rock splitter
- scoop operator
- tunnel laborer
- underground apprentice
Asbestos-related cancer eligible for filing a claim
If you developed one of the following cancers as a result of occupational exposure, you are eligible for compensation. If you are too ill, a family member can help you with the legal process. In the unfortunate event that you pass away before recovering compensation, your surviving family members will receive compensation on your behalf.
If, however, you struggle with non-cancerous pleural diseases such as asbestosis, pulmonary fibrosis, pleural plaques, pleural effusion, diffuse pleural thickening, COPD (emphysema & chronic bronchitis), pleurisy, lung nodules, lung spots, asthma, pneumonitis, tuberculosis, rounded atelectasis or lung scarring, please seek a second or even a third opinion as the rate of misdiagnosis is very high among the victims of asbestos exposure.
Companies that exposed asbestos miners to asbestos
Alta Lake, Okanogan County - Washington
- Asbestomine Company - Ivanhoe Mine
Avery & Caldwell Counties - North Carolina
- George Burleson - Burleson Mine, Avery County
- Frank Mine - Frank Olivine deposit, Avery County
- Johns River Mine, Caldwell County
Boulder County - Colorado
- Caribou Mines
- Snowy Range Mine, Lake Albion
Burlington, Skagit County - Washington
- Burlington Quarry
Chaffee County - Colorado
- Sedalia Mine
- Calumet Mine
Eureka, Humboldt County - California
- Central Eureka Mining Company; Sutter Gold Mining Inc. - Eureka Mines
Gila County - Arizona
- Arizona Rare Metals Co., R. D. Harper - Tarr & Harper Mine, Putnam Wash
- Phillips Asbestos Co. - Phillips Asbestos Mine, Salt River District
- Detroit Copper Mining Co. of Arizona, Phelps Dodge Corp. - Shannon Mine
- Jaquays Mining Co - Victory and Eldorado Mines, Salt River District
Hollofield, Baltimore County - Maryland
- Fredrick Bok - Bok Asbestos Mine
Joplin, Jasper County - Missouri
- American Zinc, Lead, and Smelting Company. - Joplin Creek Valley Mines
Lake County - California
- Johns-Manville Company; Arthur Copsey & Herbert Jones - Copsey and Jones Prospect
Libby, Lincoln County - Montana
- Zonolite Company & W. R. Grace and Company - Libby Mine & Asbestos Site
Litchfield County - Connecticut
- Unnamed Connecticut Asbestos Mine
Maggie Creek District, Idaho County - Idaho
- Panhandle Asbestos Co. - Kamiah Asbestos Mine
Natrona County - Wyoming
- U.S Asbestos Mining and Fiberizing Company - Casper Mountain Asbestos Deposits
Northeast Georgia - Georgia
- Sall Mountain Asbestos Co. - Sall Mountain Asbestos Mine And Mill
- Hicks Asbestos Mine, Pine Mountain
- Hicks Asbestos Mine, Pine Mountain
- McCoy Mine, Dillard
- Bell Creek Mine & Hog Creek Corundrum Mine, Hiawassee
- Laurel Creek Mine, Pine Mountain
Riverside County - California
- Charleboix Asbestos Mine/Percival Asbestos Mine
San Joaquin Valley - California
- Atlas Asbestos Co. - Asbestos Mine Superfund Site & Santa Cruz Mill, Coalinga
- Coalinga Asbestos Company - Coalinga Asbestos Mine
- New Idria Quicksilver Mining Company - New Idria Mercury Mine
- Calaveras Asbestos Ltd. - Copperopolis Mine
- KCAC Inc. - The Union Carbide Mine, King City (the world's largest asbestos mine)
Shannon County - Missouri
- Thorny Mountain Mine - Coleman Construction Co.
Silver Bay, Minnesota - Minnesota
- Reserve Mining Co. - Reserve's Taconite Mine
Silver Bow County & Gallatin County - Montana
- Anaconda Copper?Mining Company, ARCO - Anaconda Copper Mine
- Karst Asbestos Mine, Gallatin County
Silverton, San Juan County - Colorado
- Gold King Company - Gold King Mine
St. Francois & Jefferson Counties - Missouri
- St. Joe Lead Company - Valle Mines
- Iron Mountain Company - Iron Mountain Mine, Iron Township
The Appalachian Highlands of North Carolina - North Carolina
- Alders Asbestos Mine; C. V. Bryson Mine; Henderson Asbestos Mine; Holden Asbestos Mine - Jackson County
- Mc Crary Stone Service, Inc. - Addie Olivine Mine
- Peterman Mine & Higdon Mine, Macon County
- Oakland Asbestos Mine & Kilpatrick Asbestos Mine, Lake Toxaway, Transylvania County
- Oakland Asbestos Mine & Kilpatrick Asbestos Mine, Lake Toxaway, Transylvania County
- Blue Rock Mining Corp. Of Illinois - Blue Rock Asbestos Mine
The City and Borough of Juneau - Alaska
- Lemon Creek Quarry
Trevilians, Louisa County - Virginia
- Virginia Vermiculite, LLC - Virginia Vermiculite Mine
Asbestos products handled by asbestos miners
Former miners who interacted with asbestos, vermiculite or taconite are at high risk of developing a pulmonary disease. Because they would be in regular contact with raw asbestos or other asbestos-contaminated minerals, inhaling carcinogenic fibers was inevitable. Moreover, as asbestos has not been formally deemed a health hazard until the 1970s, safety measures were not followed and thus, miners would often carry asbestos particles on their clothes, endangering their families as well. Vermiculite deposits typically occur near asbestos in the earth and thereby, contamination is unavoidable.