Chrysotile, crocidolite, amosite, and anthophllite; fancy names for fat wallets, and also another .
name for asbestos, the leading cause of cancer among schools and most businesses throughout the world. .
Though we can't blame canada, can we? After all they didn't know that it was so dangerouse, nobody did. .
Asbestos is cheaply manufactured and is a great way of insolating building, boats, hazard suits, and many .
other things. Canada had a great idea with that little number. Though asbestos is great, it's not the only .
resource besides comedians that Canada has. Canada also has coal, iron ore, nickel, and potash. The .
abundant amounts of these resources in Canada are what helped it economically develope into the nation .
that it is today.
The reason Canada can afford to distribute such great numbers of its resources is because it has a .
rather low population for the amount of space it occupies. Over ninety percent of the asbestos .
manufactured is distrubuted through out seventy countries. Asbestos is mined from deposites .
concentrated in a one hundred Km long belt of rock in the eastern townships of quebec, extending from the .
town of asbestos in the west to broughton in the east. This is the location of the world's largest asbestos .
deposit. In years past asbestos was the highest in demand for third world countries, now its dropped ranks .
behind water, sewage, and housing. Asbestos is mined for its high value, but its need is weakining, luckily .
Canada also has coal. (hhtp://www.nrcan.gc.ca/mms/scho-ecol/main_e.htm).
Coal is one of Canada's top resources, because of its abundance, most power stations in Canada .
are run off of coal. The one thousand Km stretch of coal in Canada has brought in huge amounts of money, .
since its the most needed resource for energy; second only to oil. Canada produces more coal than it could .
ever use, so almost half of the production is exported. Canada's largest coal exports are to Japan and Korea, .
