Kabwe meaning Broken Hill is a town in central Zambia, the capital of Central Province. The population is about 210 thousand people. The airport of the town is located north of the capital Lusaka at a height of 1182 m. After opening of zinc deposits in 1902 in the Broken Hill the construction of infrastructure for the production and the refining of nonferrous metals (lead, zinc and vanadium) increased. In 1903 was founded “Rh...
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After decades of mining and ore processing, Kabwe has turned into one place so toxic, that do not understand how people can live here. Rivers of water loaded with lead and cadmium are escaping from barren hills, poisoning everything. In the blood of children, lead levels 10 times higher than Western norms predict and contaminated soil is so bad, that people can not grow anything....