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South Africans’ hair reveals heavy metal exposure from mining at Witwatersrand

Staff Writer | May 19, 2022 | 5:05 am News Africa Europe Gold Lead Uranium 

An international team of researchers is analyzing individual hair samples from people living and working around the Witwatersrand basin near Johannesburg to determine the degree of uranium contamination and identify which populations are most at risk. This South African region...

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