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?
Mike_T says:
I know exactly how you feel, I was in a very similar situation. I remember that I was so nervous at that time and I took it out on everyone around me. I didnt know what could I do until, thanks god, I found Smoke Deter. Now I can look back and laugh on myself and in the same time I remember how helpless I was. I hope that I'll never be in the same situation again
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.
I do believe that the BLACK part of BLACK LUNG DISEASE…is caused by workers inhaling dust stirred up in a COAL MINE…..
But I don’t know if this refers also to GOLD MINES…
I’ll be serious but this sounds funny, ok black lung is from the coal mines, white lung is something you get from the sand mines so maybe you get gold lung? I mean it would be a similar disease process but the color itself would be different.