Mine processing wastes, or tailings, can contain possibly three dozen dangerous chemicals including arsenic, lead, mercury, and cyanide. The report found out that the mining industry leaves mountains ones waste from Alaska and Canada to Norway and Southeast Asia.
Polluting the worlds waters with mine tailings is unconscionable, and damage it causes it’s essentially irreversible, said Payal Sampat, international program director for Washington, DC-based Earthworks. Mining companies must stop using our oceans, rivers, and lakes as dumping grounds for their toxic waste.
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