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Coal miner Peter Sharp urges people in industry to be screened for black lung disease

The mobile health unit has screened 500 current and former mine workers. (Supplied: RSHQ)

Former coal mine worker Peter Sharp travelled thousands of kilometres in search of answers after he developed a cough.

Having worked in the industry for more than 40 years, the possibility that the ailment was caused by the deadly pneumoconiosis — also known as black lung disease — was in the back of his mind.

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