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50 years after the Bunker Hill mine fire caused one of the largest lead-poisoning cases in US history, Idaho's Silver Valley is still at risk

  • Written by Martin Schiavenato, Assistant Professor of Nursing, Gonzaga University
50 years after the Bunker Hill mine fire caused one of the largest lead-poisoning cases in US history, Idaho's Silver Valley is still at riskWaterways and communities for miles around Idaho's Bunker Hill mine were contaminated with lead after the 1973 fire.gjohnstonphoto/iStock/Getty Images Plus

On Sept. 3, 1973, a fire swept through the baghouse of the Bunker Hill mine in Idaho’s Silver Valley. The building was designed to filter pollutants produced by smelting, the melting of...

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