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Black Mountain
noun
a mountain range in S Wales, in E Carmarthenshire and W Powys. Highest peak: Carmarthen Van, 802 m (2632 ft)
Example Sentences
Mwaba's latest work - on show at the Lusaka National Museum this month - tells the story of the young people who mine the black mountain in the town of Kitwe - and captures the rhythms of life among the residents of the Wusakile neighbourhood.
They live in the shadow of the black mountain - the site since the early 1930s of millions of tonnes of waste, full of toxic heavy metals - which wreaks havoc on people's health and the environment.
But his focus changed from just exploring the Chinese presence in Zambia to trying to tell the story of the black mountain people.
The black mountain - always a source of environmental and health problems - now became somewhere to earn money.
"The worst thing that happened is when the black mountain was super-profitable, most of these young people quit school."
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