Miner with ?white hand? also known as Hand Vibration Syndrome, which is caused by working the drills and destroys circulation in the hands causing the hands to go numb, Kerr Mine, Virginiatown, Ontario. From the book Cage Call: Life and Death in the Hard Rock Mining Belt. An in-depth project spanning over 12-years examining communities in one of the richest mining regions in the world located in Northwestern Ontario and Northeastern Quebec in Canada.