Zambia Assures Public Water Is Safe After Mine-Pollution Spill

Miningweb: China-owned Zambian copper mine toxic spill 30 times worse than first reported

Partial collapse of Zambian copper mine dam released 1.5M tons of toxic sludge, threatening water, farmland, and wildlife.

Zambia Assures Public Water Is Safe After Mine-Pollution Spill

Zambia’s government sought to calm public pollution concerns stemming from a disaster at a copper mine six months ago, saying municipal drinking water is safe, even as laboratory tests showed excessive levels of heavy metals in some areas.

Zambian mine disaster 'catastrophically underestimated'

A TOXIC waste spill at a Chinese-owned copper mine in Zambia released 30 times more poisonous material than officially reported, said Bloomberg News citing independent assessments of the February disaster. Environmental consultants Drizit Zambia estimated that 1.5 million tons of toxic sludge escaped when a dam failed at Sino-Metals Leach Zambia’s facility near Kitwe—enough to fill over 400 Olympic swimming pools. Government and company figures …