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• Quinine
  ...ca".<ref name="clifford">{{cite book |title=A People's History of Science: Miners, Midwives, and 'Low Mechanicks' |last=Conner |first=Clifford D. |authorlink
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• Gemstone
  ...gemstone color or clarity. The heating process has been well known to gem miners and cutters for centuries, and in many stone types heating is a common prac
  24 KB (3,690 words) - 10:08, 20 September 2010
• Polypropylene
  ....<ref>[http://contractormag.com/news/green-pipe-mine-2345 Green pipe helps miners remove the black] Contractor Magazine, 10 January 2010</ref><ref>[http://ww
  25 KB (3,657 words) - 10:10, 20 September 2010
• Depleted uranium
  |Uranium miners have more first born female children
  80 KB (11,721 words) - 10:13, 20 September 2010
• Metal mining in Wales
  ...Snowdonia National Park]], gives an idea of the conditions faced by copper miners and is a popular tourist attraction. In the 18th centuries the massive depo ..._mining_in_Wales|Welsh lead mining]] commenced, bringing a large number of miners from [[Derbyshire lead mining history|Derbyshire]] into Wales.
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• Vermiculite
  ...ll continued to operate there until 1990. Consequently, many of the former miners and residents of Libby have been affected and continue to suffer health pro | title=A town left to die: hundreds of miners and family members killed and sickened
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• Dust
  ...Pneumoconiosis]], including [[black lung]] disease, that occurs among coal miners. The danger of coal dust resulted in environmental legislation regulating w
  11 KB (1,644 words) - 10:15, 20 September 2010
• Ski wax
  Beginning around 1854, California gold rush miners held organized downhill ski races [[History of skiing#Ski racing]]. They al
  20 KB (3,247 words) - 10:17, 20 September 2010
• Kerosene
  In 1851 [[Samuel Martin Kier]] began selling kerosene to local miners, under the name ''"Carbon Oil"''. He distilled this by a process of his own
  26 KB (3,820 words) - 10:18, 20 September 2010
• Amitraz
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• Vibration white finger
  ...97 the Miners High Court awarded £127,000 in compensation to seven [[coal miners]] for vibration white finger. A UK government fund set up to cover subseque ...p://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/3387655.stm BBC News article on coal miners claims]
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• Workplace safety
  |[[Mining|Miners]] || 156 ||34.5
  5 KB (653 words) - 21:32, 20 September 2010
• Industrial disease
  ...e. For example, the [[Black Lung Disease]] is an ailment that affects coal miners after working for long periods of time around coal dust.
  1 KB (144 words) - 21:32, 20 September 2010
• Manganese
  ...ase]] called "[[manganism]]" has been linked to manganese exposure amongst miners and smelters since the early 19th century.<ref>{{cite journal|doi =10.1002/
  44 KB (6,128 words) - 21:32, 20 September 2010
• Miner
  ...onsidered one of the most dangerous trades in the world. In some countries miners often do not have social guarantees and in case of destruction or mutilatio {{commonscat|Miners}}
  2 KB (262 words) - 21:32, 20 September 2010
• Asbestos
  ...e Insurance Company report found 42 cases of asbestosis among 195 asbestos miners.<ref name="Castleman"/>
  77 KB (11,403 words) - 21:32, 20 September 2010
• Samuel Stockhausen
  ...Treatise on the Noxious Fumes of [[Litharge]], Diseases caused by them and Miners’ Asthma”) <ref name="miners-disease">{{Cite book
  4 KB (527 words) - 21:32, 20 September 2010
• Institute of Occupational Medicine
  ...orne dust and health outcomes in a large [[cohort (statistics)|cohort]] of miners over a prolonged period, and to use these [[Quantitative research|quantitat ...ng. Recent analysis of the [[Mortality rate|mortality]] of a subset of the miners originally studied has found an association between the risk of lung cancer
  24 KB (3,511 words) - 21:32, 20 September 2010
• National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
  ...chest X-rays to detect [[pneumoconiosis]] ([[black lung]] disease) in coal miners", "conduct on-site investigations in mines similar to those authorized for
  7 KB (963 words) - 21:34, 20 September 2010
• Mine Safety and Health Administration
  ...ty and health|health and safety]] standards, and provided compensation for miners who were totally and permanently disabled by the progressive respiratory di ...ngthened and expanded the rights of miners, and enhanced the protection of miners from retaliation for exercising such rights. Mining fatalities dropped shar
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