What is asbestos? Asbestos is a natural mineral that is resistant to heat and corrosion. It has six types: Chrysotile, crocidolite, tremolite, amosite, anthophyllite and actinolite.

Preliminary test results show that in four of 13 samples, amosite asbestos is present at concentrations greater than 1 percent. Two other samples tested positive at less than 1 percent.

The block was one of more than 1000 to be cleared and resold under the ACT government's Mr Fluffy mass demolition and buyback scheme. The brick that tested positive for amosite asbestos.

Also, the products tested contained crocidolite asbestos, whereas the On Marine Services hot tops contained amosite asbestos fibers. Relying on alleged “new evidence,” Lipson seeks ...

Amosite asbestos is brown and found more frequently in the US, and is also known for posing the biggest risk of cancer. Asbestos is commonly found as a sprayed coating on walls, beams, ceilings ...

It was not until the early 1980s that the use of amosite asbestos was banned in Australia and it would be a further eight years before the Commonwealth's survey was carried out in the ACT.

Even worse, amosite asbestos is particularly dangerous when wet. "That place leaked almost every other week," Jontschev remembers. "I would have to mop it up without a mask." ...

NICK GRIMM: Amosite asbestos isn't much to look at. It's a loose dusty material, and has a dirty greyish brown colour. But there is no safe level of exposure.