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Villagers blame high cancer rate on gold mining
By Wang Xiang |
September 1, 2010, Wednesday
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MANY villagers living in the vicinity of China's biggest gold mine Zijin Mountain, which shocked the nation with a pollution scandal involving massive leakage of toxic water this July, are found to be dying from cancer.
Residents in Fujian's Bitian Village told today's Southern Morning Post that they used to have idyllic homes sitting among green mountains and, from time to time, ran into a little gold sand from local Tingjiang River to have a windfall of extra income.
But that changed 10 years ago when Zijin mining group began to expand. Forty people in the village of a population of 1,300 have got cancer in the past 10 years, 35 of them died. Most of the victims were in their 30s.
Another nearby Yueyangpian village was also haunted by all kinds of cancers. There were now more than 60 cancer patients in the village. Almost all the people died in recent years were killed by cancer, the report said.
Villagers accused the mine of having discharged heavy metal into their drinking water, but their voice was largely ignored until July 3 when a toxic spill from the mine polluted Tingjiang River, killing tons of fishes and alerting the nationwide attention.
Residents in Fujian's Bitian Village told today's Southern Morning Post that they used to have idyllic homes sitting among green mountains and, from time to time, ran into a little gold sand from local Tingjiang River to have a windfall of extra income.
But that changed 10 years ago when Zijin mining group began to expand. Forty people in the village of a population of 1,300 have got cancer in the past 10 years, 35 of them died. Most of the victims were in their 30s.
Another nearby Yueyangpian village was also haunted by all kinds of cancers. There were now more than 60 cancer patients in the village. Almost all the people died in recent years were killed by cancer, the report said.
Villagers accused the mine of having discharged heavy metal into their drinking water, but their voice was largely ignored until July 3 when a toxic spill from the mine polluted Tingjiang River, killing tons of fishes and alerting the nationwide attention.
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