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Şapdağ girl

Beauty lost in the silica mines

16 December 2023

9:00 AM

16 December 2023

9:00 AM

She was aware that in a few years time she would die a slow horrible death. All her childhood from dawn until dusk had been spent knapping ultra-pure silica. Silica dust produces bleeding, lithification of the lungs, loss of lung capacity, coughing and a slow painful death while drowning in blood.

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