“Around 2mn people now live and farm close to the mines, which means they are all at risk from the harmful effects of the radioactive emissions from the mining fields,” Plateau environment commissioner Nankim Bagudu said.
Health officials said laboratory analysis of 1,100 abandoned tin and columbite mining fields scattered in five districts around the state showed the presence of radioactive materials that are harmful to human health.
“The people living around these mining fields stand the risk of cancer of the skin, lungs and liver as well as eye impairments from prolonged exposure to radioactive mine tailings we discovered in the mines, an official from the Nigerian nuclear research agency said.
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