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This is an account of the effects of silicosis on one Chinese village, where hundreds of men are disabled and dying of silicosis contracted in the course of their work in gold mines.
 
With many of their parents dying, children are left without prospects for education.
 
Promised government compensation has not materialized.

Xiushui's Children: Silent Victims -

National Geographic - 3/20/2006 5:50 PM

The damage that China's runaway economic growth is wreaking on its environment is easier to grasp than the human suffering. Families are torn apart in the scramble to get rich, and some 200 million workers are in regular contact with toxic materials.
 
Hoping to join the boom, the Jiangxi men we met had enthusiastically gone off to work in a gold mine opened by the local authorities. But before they had a chance to make any money, they fell ill from inhaling the mining dust. Soon they discovered they were dying from silicosis, a disease they had never even heard of, and their wives were faced with fending for themselves and educating their
 
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