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Sixty-two percent of patients with a lung disease caused by dust inhalation come from the coal mining industry, and its death toll far outnumbers those in mining accidents, highlighting a significant danger to miners’ health, a report released on Friday said……….

THE Port of Townsville is on the verge of releasing the results of an independent review of a study which found potentially toxic dust in four inner Townsville playgrounds.   Read more……..

What is Limestone?

“Limestone” means any rock formed mostly of calcium carbonate (CaCO₃), but to geologists, limestone is only one of several types of “carbonate rocks.” These rocks are composed of more than 50% carbonate minerals, generally the minerals calcite (pure CaCO₃) ordolomite (calcium-magnesium carbonate, CaMg[CO₃]₂) or both.  (More……..)