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Bloomberg
16 hours ago
- Politics
- Bloomberg
Zambia Assures Public Water Is Safe After Mine-Pollution Spill
The Zambian government sought to calm public concerns about pollution levels after a study found that the damage done by a disaster at Chinese state-owned copper mine in February was much larger than officially reported. 'The water is fit for consumption,' Mike Mposha, Zambia's minister of green economy and environment, told reporters in Lusaka, the capital, on Friday.
Bloomberg
2 days ago
- General
- Bloomberg
Toxic Spill at China-Owned Zambian Mine 30 Times Worse Than Estimated
The partial collapse of a waste dam at a Chinese state-owned copper mine in Zambia may have released 30 times more toxic sludge into the environment than previously reported, according to an independent evaluation of the disaster. At least 1.5 million tons of the poisonous substance escaped when a reservoir failed at the Sino-Metals Leach Zambia Ltd. mine near the northern city of Kitwe, findings from the company hired to assess the environmental damage showed. That would fill more than 400 Olympic-sized pools and rank the incident among the mining industry's worst catastrophes globally.
