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The side effects of lithium mining

Laura Grace Simpkins attempts to untangle some uncomfortable truths about the social and environmental costs of making her medication.

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Delusional recycling and the problem with plastic

Many of us are guilty of wishful thinking when it comes to our rubbish. Arianne Shahvisi exposes shaky recycling infrastructure and overseas dumping, arguing for an end to waste colonialism.

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Religion and mental health

At a time of extreme distress, Jamila Pereira found that the faith she had relied on was failing her. Here she describes how she found other ways to begin healing and finding happiness.

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Selling sex and sacrificing safety

Sex workers who report crimes against them can face a “what do you expect?” attitude. But one organisation is working to protect vulnerable people in the sex industry.

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  • A brief account of some travels in Hungaria, Servia, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Thessaly, Austria, Styria, Carinthia, Carniola, and Friuli, as also some observations on the gold, silver, copper, quick-silver mines, baths, and mineral waters in those parts. With the figures of some habits and remarkable places / By Edward Brown, M.D.
  • A coal mine: miners at work above and below ground. Coloured lithograph.
  • A silver mine in Potosí, Bolivia: cross-section and miners digging. Engraving, ca. 1750.
  • An iron mine and miners working. Etching by J. Heath, 1813, after C.M. Metz.
  • A mine: cross-sections of the galleries and miners are digging. Etching by Bénard after De La Rue.
  • Schemnitz, Hungary (Banská Štiavnica, Slovakia): a silver mine and miners descending. Engraving by T. Wallis, 1805, after W. Craig.
  • Kimberley, South Africa: miners and washing gear at the Bultfontein diamond mine. Woodburytype, 1888, after a photograph by Robert Harris.
  • Diagrams illustrating mining implements. Etching by A. Bell.
  • A mine: cross-section of a machine for extracting water from the pit and three optical diagrams. Etching by T. Jefferys.
  • Atlas geographique et physique du royaume de la Nouvelle-Espagne : fondé sur des observations astronomiques, des mesures trigonométriques et des nivellemens barométriques / par Al. de Humboldt.
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