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Upcoming Clinic Will Focus on Mining Safety

A Steelworker hopes a clinic sheds light on whether northern miners got sick as the result of breathing aluminium dust before going underground.

Although it was stopped decades ago, the practice was widespread for more than 35 years.

The thinking was coating lungs with aluminium would protect them from diseases, like silicosis.

J-P Mrochek, a compensation officer with Local 6500 in Sudbury, says a clinic in Timmins in May should provide some answers.

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Interest in the issue is growing after an Elliot Lake woman raised questions about the practise.

Janice Martell believes her father developed Parkinson’s as the result of breathing aluminium dust daily before starting his underground shift at the Elliot Lake uranium mines.

But her dad’s claim was denied because there’s no proof the dust caused the disease.

This comes as Mining Matters is about to pay a visit to Kapusasking and as government organizations begin to take a closer look mining guidelines in northern Ontario.

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