An Aboriginal man has developed the fatal asbestos cancer mesothelioma after playing in the tailings from James Hardie's white asbestos mine at Baryulgil, in northern NSW, when he was a child. Ffloyd Laurie, 55, who has never worked with asbestos, was exposed to the deadly dust as a schoolchild when tailings from the mine were widely used as landfill on the roads, around houses and even at the school in the tiny community.
