Anti-mining group plan further action

"We have real concerns about mercury in the Puhipuhi Hills polluting the ground and water from this exploratory drilling and we feel the Government should come up to talk to us about this,' she said.
"These hills are riddled with mercury throughout them, and any disturbance of the mercury from exploration drilling would leak into the local waterways. Disturbance of the mercury in this area has previously caused illness in farm animals and killing off of grasslands and other vegetation."
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