Pollution is also a gift to overseas locals, from toxic spills on land and at sea. Not that Australians miss out on the dirty side of the mining boom, with lead-poisoned children in Broken Hill, and dead and dying victims of coal dust pollution in the Hunter region.
Australia is also a world leader in cyanide pollution from gold mining. Uranium mining also creates 2000 tonnes of radioactive waste for each tonne of uranium extracted and regularly leaks contaminated water.
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