
Vermiculite is a porous mineral used as insulation, and to ...
limits in Jefferson Parish operated as a vermiculite exfoliation facility from 1965 to 1990. According to EPA documents, this facility received 148,000 tons of contaminated vermiculite from the Libby mine. A residential area lies several hundred feet to the northeast of the 2acre site (Figure 3). 2 Of the three nonexfoliation facilities, only one, Best Wall Gypsum in Orleans .