In the shadow of copper - The price of mining in Serbia | DW Documentary

The small Serbian town of Bor lives from copper mining. Many residents say that high levels of pollution from the mine, which has been majority-owned by a Chinese corporation since 2018, are making them sick. Resistance is growing in the town Bor in eastern Serbian. Lazar Milutinovic and Marko Andrejevic are members of the student movement that has been driving social change in Serbia for more than two years. Meanwhile, others point to the high levels of heavy metal contamination measured in the area, the high incidence of cancer and the low life expectancy. Environmental engineer Snezana Serbula has spent her entire professional career investigating the mine’s impact on Bor. One of Serbia’s most prominent critics of mining, she has published numerous scientific studies on the effects of h