How do natural stones like soapstone stand up? Soapstone, also called steatite, is a metamorphic rock made from talc-schist, which means it contains talc, in this case around 50 percent.

The debut episode titled "Makeup" explored the use of talc as an ingredient in cosmetics products. This caused quite a stir ...

The emeralds, most of which are stones of a carat or less, occur in a talc schist layer intersected by pegmatite. The emeralds are recovered by independent miners via trenches, pits, and tunnels at ...

The total annual loan cost (TALC) estimates what you’d pay in several scenarios Greg Daugherty has worked 25+ years as an editor and writer for major publications and websites. He is also the ...

Johnson & Johnson is negotiating with plaintiffs’ lawyers who have opposed a proposed $6.48 billion settlement of lawsuits claiming the New Brunswick-based health conglomerate’s talc-based ...

The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has published a new assessment of talc’s potential to cause cancer, concluding that is it ‘probably carcinogenic’ to humans.

For an inexperienced eye it is exceedingly difficult to detect a small diamond among a mass of glittering quartz, talc, or micaceous schist. Tschudi, in spite of carefully searching, and although ...

J&J in Talks With Holdouts to $6.5 Billion Talc Settlement By Dietrich Knauth and Mike Spector NEW YORK (Reuters) -Johnson & Johnson said on Friday it is negotiating with plaintiffs' lawyers who ...

Johnson & Johnson has outlined a new settlement that it said would resolve nearly all of the lawsuits it faces over claims that its talc products, including baby powder, caused cancer. The ...

J&J plans to place a subsidiary into bankruptcy if it gets at least 75% of the talc claimants to vote for its settlement proposal. The bankruptcy settlement would end all talc lawsuits alleging ...