Beryllium

This page contains news and, when available, background information, on Beryllium:. Links on this site lead to other sites on the web.


Beryllium: - An metal hazardous to human health when inhaled as an airborne pollutant. It is discharged by machine shops, ceramic and propellant plants, and foundries.
[Environmental Protection Agency]

News archive for Beryllium::

Last-Minute Mischief for Labor  -  04 Aug 2008
New York Times,...such earlier concerns as workplace risks from silica, beryllium and other dangerous substances, and the growing problem of construction crane accidents.

Tallevast water treatment leaks  -  04 Aug 2008
Bradenton Herald,Fire trucks were called to Tallavast on Sunday as a leak was reported at the beryllium plant near the children's center. Photos taken by Wanda Washington,

The EVENT Opal set to redefine nearfield monitoring  -  04 Aug 2008
ArabianBusiness.com (press release),The EBT1 tweeter is combines ultra-light and rigid beryllium with one of the most powerful neodymium motors of any system available to provide the Opal with

(AMM) Brush Engineered profits off 10% on ruthenium charge  -  04 Aug 2008
Metalbulletin.com (subscription),Net income at the supplier of specialty alloys, copper-beryllium and precious metal products slipped to $7.2 million in the quarter from $7.9 million in the

National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health and Brush ...  -  Jul 29, 2008
MarketWatchBeryllium workers throughout the industry are better off today due to the acquired knowledge and innovative training tools that have been disseminated as a

Safe Patient Lifting, Beryllium Collaborations Win NORA Awards  -  Jul 30, 2008
Occupational Health Safety,A partnership of scientists from NIOSH and Brush Wellman Inc. that studied a new model for working safely with beryllium and materials containing it.

Brush Wellman names Michael Anderson president  -  Jul 29, 2008
CNNMoney.comAnderson, 56, will retain his responsibility as president of Beryllium Products, a business unit of Brush Wellman. Anderson joined Cleveland-based Brush

UPDATE 1-Brush Q2 results beat Street, shares rise  -  Aug 1, 2008
ReutersThe supplier of alloy, beryllium and precious metal products reported quarterly net income of $7.2 million, or 35 cents a share, compared with $7.9 million,

It’s Time for Some Chatter – CDC Style  -  Aug 1, 2008
Age of Autism,The Subcommittee is currently investigating CDC’s Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) on several fronts including the recent Beryllium

Beryllium plant plans expansion  -  Jul 14, 2008
13abc.com,Brush Wellman executives broke ground today on a new $90 million beryllium plant in Elmore. The new manufacturing facility is going in right next to the

Instant insight: Beryllium: friend or foe?  -  Jul 16, 2008
Chemistry World,Beryllium pervades today's technologies, from cars and computers through to dental prosthetics. Its popularity is related to its unique properties: it is

Feds to investigate Livermore Lab's handling of toxic metal beryllium  -  Jul 6, 2008
Contra Costa Times,By Betsy Mason Five incidents involving Livermore Lab's handling of the toxic metal beryllium have prompted two investigations. A team of outside experts

Brush Engineered Materials Inc. Reports Second Quarter Results  -  Aug 1, 2008
MarketWatchBeryllium and Beryllium Composites' sales for the second quarter of 2008 were $14.7 million compared to second quarter 2007 sales of $16.5 million.

150 Years Ago: The First Transatlantic Telegraph  -  Jul 21, 2008
Scientific AmericanBy Daniel C. Schlenoff BERYLLIUM— “The story of berylliosis is one of the most fascinating, contradictory, infuriating and controversial episodes in medical

Nuclear chemistry  -  Jul 26, 2008
Nanowerk LLC,It all depends on the energy with which two smaller nuclei collide to create the beryllium nucleus. The results underscore the importance of clumps of

Levi Samora got a stack of rejection letters — one on the day he ...  -  Jul 23, 2008
Rocky Mountain News,Early in the compensation program, chronic beryllium disease was considered a rare, almost certain approval. Unlike invisible radiation, beryllium leaves

WYNIT Pushes Recycling  -  Jul 31, 2008
Dealerscope,...“All consumers should avoid throwing old gadgets in the trash because their inner workings can contain toxic materials including lead, beryllium,

News briefs: Sarasota school's staffer seeks top Manatee job's  -  Jul 25, 2008
Sarasota Herald-Tribune,TALLEVAST -- Residents and Lockheed Martin officials clashed Friday night over Lockheed's plans to demolish two buildings at the former American Beryllium

Residents doubt Tallevast safety plan  -  Jul 25, 2008
Bradenton Herald,...three years earlier that dangerous chemicals spread from a nearby beryllium plant but never told them it may have leaked into their backyards.

George Barrie is dying. His wife's advocacy work may have become a ...  -  Jul 20, 2008
Rocky Mountain News,Barrie is an ex-bomb maker, a highly-skilled machinist who shaped toxic beryllium and plutonium metal to top-secret tolerances within a fraction of the

ANGLO AMERICAN CONTEMPLATING INVOLVEMENT IN RUSSIA  -  Jul 28, 2008
Tacy,...diamonds, high-purity natural quartz, yttric rare-earth metals, nickel, cobalt, tantalum, niobium, beryllium, lithium, and platinum group metals.

Janine Anderson  -  Jul 21, 2008
Rocky Mountain News,Her lungs are scarred with deadly beryllium, a key ingredient in atomic bombs. Her immune system is attacking her body, which harbors an array of heavy

Loiminchay Kandinsky handcrafted speaker system introduced  -  Jul 22, 2008
TechGadgets.in,The Kandinsky hybrid speaker supports frequencies from 1500Hz to 27 kHz and has a unique hand crafted 19-inch horn that is driven by a 2-inch beryllium

Metals Chips  -  Jul 16, 2008
Purchasing.com,International Beryllium has acquired the Boomer mine in Colorado. The Boomer mine historically was the second-largest beryllium-producing mine in the US

Two More Crane Deaths  -  Jul 25, 2008
AFL-CIO,...worker safety rules for limiting exposure to beryllium, silica and combustible dust remain works in progress after years of being under consideration.

Brush Wellman ground-breaking ceremony set for Monday  -  Jul 11, 2008
Port Clinton News Herald,HARRIS TOWNSHIP --On Monday, Brush Wellman will celebrate the groundbreaking of its new multi-million beryllium production plant at its Elmore manufacturing

Stockholders of Bentley Pharmaceuticals approves merger agreement  -  Jul 23, 2008
Trading Markets (press release),...by and among the company, Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd (NASDAQ: TEVA | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) and Beryllium Merger Corporation.

News & Update  -  Aug 3, 2008
RedOrbit,...replacement alloys for beryllium alloys, thermochemistry of high- temperature liquid metals, carburization kinetics, direct laser deposition,

The First-Principles Design of Ductile Refractory Alloys  -  Aug 3, 2008
RedOrbit,For example, beryllium has a Poisson ratio of 0.08 and its tensile elongation is only 1 %; chromium has a Poisson ratio of 0.21 and it is very brittle below

TV’s Go Digital, but Where Do Old TV’s Go?  -  Jul 19, 2008
CleanTechnica,If old sets aren’t properly disposed of, we face cadmium, lead, beryllium seeping into the soil and contaminating our water supply.

(AMM) DNSC sells two metals via BOAs  -  Jul 7, 2008
Metalbulletin.com (subscription),The only other sales under the BOA last month were of 0.43 ton of hot-pressed powder beryllium and 2.6 tons of vacuum-cast beryllium ingot for about $64700

Paradigm Signature W5 On-Wall Speakers Announced  -  Jul 15, 2008
eCoustics.com (press release)The speakers boast cutting-edge P-Be™ Pure-Beryllium dome tweeters and Co-PAL™ cobalt-infused pure-aluminum bass and midrange cones, along with the full

Paradigm Adds New On-Walls  -  Jul 16, 2008
Electronic House,They also boast the company’s P-Be Pure-Beryllium dome tweeters and Co-PAL cobalt-infused pure-aluminum bass and midrange cones, as well as Paradigm’s

Tallevast death sets off autopsy struggle  -  Aug 1, 2008
Bradenton Herald,Pitts was the son of Zasu Pitts and lived with his mother in a house that sits right next to the old beryllium plant that is the source of a 200-acre toxic

Ucore Uranium Reports 2.57 Metres Grading 0.50% U3o8 From Bokan ...  -  Jul 30, 2008
MarketWatchVariable concentrations of light and heavy rare earth elements (REE), zirconium, beryllium, tantalum, and niobium are associated with the uranium

Nukes and Holocausts: Gordon Prather  -  Aug 1, 2008
Antiwar.com,...which produced plutonium, lithium deuteride and beryllium, we learned that Israel already had a stockpile of very sophisticated nuclear weapons at the

Search This Blog using Google  -  Aug 1, 2008
ScienceBlogs...know what we are talking about), silicosis standards and beryllium standards -- "priorities" that have been "works in progress" for well over a year.

The Non-Metallic Threat  -  Aug 1, 2008
Info4Security,The tiny springs are made from Beryllium Copper to eliminate any magnetic signature. Its handle is made from fibre resin and the razor sharp,

Whistle-Blower: Agency Tasked with Protecting American Workers ...  -  Jul 27, 2008
AlterNet,...worried about hazards to some of OSHA's own inspectors, who faced the possibility of serious lung disease from exposure to the toxic metal beryllium.

Loiminchay Audio's Kandinsky Hybrid Speaker System  -  Jul 21, 2008
eCoustics.com (press release)This elegant, exotic hybrid speaker handles frequencies from 1500Hz to 27kHz with a beautifully-crafted 19-inch horn driven by a custom 2-inch beryllium

Sick nuclear workers' cases being delayed  -  Jul 20, 2008
Knoxville News Sentinel,Her lungs are scarred with deadly beryllium, a key ingredient in atomic bombs. Her immune system is attacking her body, which harbors an array of heavy

Residents, Council Concerned By Plan to Dismantle Bevatron  -  Jul 31, 2008
Daily Californian,...containing asbestos, lead, mercury, and PCBs, as well as Beryllium, Chromium, Crystalline Silica, Cobalt-60, Cesium-137, Europium-154 and Uranium-238.

Deadly denial: Navajo miners stand ground in a different kind of ...  -  Jul 23, 2008
Rocky Mountain News,If you were a uranium worker compensated in an earlier program, or a beryllium worker or uranium worker with lung damage, your claim was supposed to slide

Documents Reveals Labor Effort to Add More Hoops to Regulating ...  -  Jul 24, 2008
Washington Post,...worker safety rules for limiting exposure to beryllium, silica and combustible dust remain works in progress after years of being under consideration.

Rapper Paul Wall Introduces Tattoo Detox, The First Detox Product ...  -  Jul 18, 2008
Eworldwire (press release),Unregulated by the FDA, tattoo inks have been found to contain lead, arsenic, beryllium, cobalt and other heavy metals. HOUSTON/EWORLDWIRE/July 18,

NUMEC workers may be entitled to more funds  -  Jul 29, 2008
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review,They are entitled to the medical benefits if they have contracted one of 22 types of cancer or the former worker was diagnosed with beryllium disease.

Battleground For Sound Science  -  Jul 29, 2008
New York Sun,For instance, the Labor Department is in the process of regulating two substances, beryllium and silica. If the new rule were in place, workers would have

Quaterra Acquires Cave Peak Molybdenum Prospect in Texas  -  Jul 22, 2008
MarketWatchSampling shows that the area also contains significant amounts of copper, tungsten, silver, beryllium and niobium, one or more of which might represent a

Bentley Pharmaceuticals Notifies NYSE of Intention to Delist ...  -  Jul 9, 2008
Centre Daily Times,...which will be entirely acquired by Teva through a merger of its wholly owned subsidiary, Beryllium Merger Corporation, with and into Bentley.

Avalon Ventures – for a greener planet  -  Jul 29, 2008
Proactive Investors USA & CanadaNorth T zone has an indicated resource of 1136000 tonnes comprising Y2O3& TREO (yttrium oxide and Total Rare Earth Oxides), BeO (beryllium oxide) and Nb2O5




archives | news | XML / RSS feed | featured


XML / RSS / Syndication options

mongabay.com features more than 350 RSS feeds to meet your specific area of interest


MONGABAY.COM
Mongabay.com seeks to raise interest in and appreciation of wild lands and wildlife, while examining the impact of emerging trends in climate, technology, economics, and finance on conservation and development (more)

CONTENTS
Rainforests
Tropical Fish
Madagascar
Pictures
Kids' Site
Languages
About
Contact
Archives
Submissions
Newsletter
Contribute


SUPPORT
You can help support mongabay.com by becoming a contributor to keep this site up and running. Thank you for your continued interest in the site.

Help support mongabay.com! Use the link below to buy from Amazon.com!

In Association with Amazon.com





POPULAR PAGES
Rainforests
Amazon deforestation
Deforestation
Deforestation stats
Why rainforests matter
Saving rainforests

Fish
Biotopes
Chemistry
Ecosystem index
Fish conservation

News
Most popular articles
Worth saving?
Forest conservation
Earth Day
Poverty alleviation
Cell phones in Africa
Seniors helping Africa
Saving orangutans in Borneo
Palm oil
Visiting the rainforest

Other Sections
Links
Interview
Mongabay's mission
Recommended Books
Advertising



T-SHIRTS

Madagascar Wildlife
Save Madagascar



Sucking on this frog
may make you insane



In Madagascar there are
lemurs that dance



Don't fall asleep
the sloths will
eat you
<


Canvas shopping bags



Some Blogs:
How to Save the World
Bottleworld
Earth-Info.Net
NewScientist Blog
Gristmill
Journal Watch
Celsias
Cleantech Blog
EcoGeek
EcoSherpa
Earth Blog
GreenOptions
Lime
Plenty Magazine
How the World Works
ScienceBlogs
Sierra Club Compass
The Oil Drum
Treehugger
Triple Pundit
WorldChanging



TOPICS

Africa
Agriculture
Alternative Energy
Amazon
Amphibian Crisis
Amphibians
Animal Behavior
Antarctica
Asia
Australia
Automobiles
Biodiversity
Bioenergy
Biofuels
Biomimicry
Birds
Borneo
Brazil
Bushmeat
California
Carbon Dioxide
Carbon Finance
Carbon Sequestration
Cellulosic Ethanol
China
Climate Change
Congo
Conservation
Coral Reefs
Deforestation
Ecological Services
Endangered Species
Energy
Environment
Environmental Law
Environmental Politics
Ethanol
Extinction
Fires
Fishing
Forests
Fossil Fuels
Green Business
Green Design
Green Energy
Greenland-Arctic
Happy-Upbeat Environmental
Hurricanes
Illegal Logging
India
Indigenous People
Indonesia
Interviews
Invasive Species
Lemurs
Logging
Madagascar
Mammals
Monkeys
New Guinea
Ocean Acidification
Oceans
Oil
Olpc
Orangutans
Palm Oil
Plants
Politics
Pollution
Population
Poverty Alleviation
Primates
Remote Sensing
Renewable Energy
Reptiles
Saving Rainforests
Sea Ice
Sea Levels
Sea Turtles
Sharks
Solar Power
Species Discovery
Strange
Technology
United States
Water
Whales
Wildlife

more



About | Privacy
Copyright Rhett Butler 2009