Abstract
Excess of lung cancers have been observed in many metallic mines: Lorraine iron mines (Pham, 1983), Swedish iron mines (Edling, 1982; Jorgensen, 1973; St Clair Renard, 1974; Radford et al., 1984), iron mines of Cumberland (Great Britain) (Boyd et al., 1970), the Schneeberg mines (GDR) where the historical “mountain sickness” was observed in the XVIth Century, gold mines of Gwanda (Zimbabwe) (Osburn, 1957, 1969) and of South Africa (Webster, 1973), gold mines of Ontario (Muller et al., 1984, 1986a, 1986b), and gold mine of Salsigne (France) (Perisse, 1977, Jammes, 1985).
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Costa, D., Guignard, J., Pezerat, H. (1989). Production of free radicals by non-fibrous materials in a cell-free buffer medium. In: Mossman, B.T., Bégin, R.O. (eds) Effects of Mineral Dusts on Cells. NATO ASI Series, vol 30. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-74203-3_25
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