Can you get black lung disease from working in gold mines?!
Question:
Can you get black lung disease from working in gold mines?
Is it possible to get black lung disease from working in gold mines? I know you can from coal mines, but is it basically the same thing?
Answers:
Black-lung disease is due to breathing unfiltered air.
Extreme temperatures, exhaustion and poor ventilation exact a high toll. Silicosis, or black-lung disease, caused by years of breathing unfiltered, dust-saturated air will take a man's life in ten years. The hospital in Potosi, for example, is filled with men who depend on bottled oxygen to live. They know their time is limited, their lives cut short by the mine.