On Tue, 21 Dec 2010 05:55:28 -0500, lid wrote:

African Gold Rush Kills Children as Miners Discover Lead Dust

Villagers in Nigeria raced to pulverize gold-bearing rocks with grain
grinders, then washed the dust at communal wells, setting off the
world's worst modern lead-poisoning crisis

(Bloomberg) — Gold fever brought death to Umoru Musa's nine-family
compound in Sunke, a mud-brick village in northern Nigeria.

Five of the 25 children, including Musa's 1-year-old daughter Nafisa,
lost their lives in May after villagers ground ore from nearby hills
they didn't know were also loaded with lead. Rising prices for gold
promised a windfall. Instead, they helped unleash the deadliest
lead-poisoning crisis in modern medical history.

Bummer.

Now ask the EPA how many children died from lead poisoning from
remodelers paint dust.


whole article he

http://www.businessweek.com/investor...220_698752.htm
Is Africa just cursed or what?

No, gold and diamonds are the curses.

--
If the only prayer you ever say in your whole
life is "thank you," that would suffice.
-- Meister Eckhart