[GreenYes] REUTERS: Chinese primary metals smelter dumps toxins in city water

["Robin Ingenthron" <robin@no.address>]

http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=2005-12-22T092549Z_01_MOL218988_RTRUKOC_0_US-ENVIRONMENT-CHINA-SPILL.xml&archived=False

Another reminder that MINING SUCKS.  Most people have already forgotten 
about Europe's Danube River disaster 5 years ago, when the copper smelters 
killed all the fish.  The scale of toxins from primary metal mining dwarfs 
the dirtiest recycling operations on the planet.

This is a smelter for lead and zinc which means it purchases mining 
concentrates from Chinese and Indonesian mining operations;  the chemical 
leaks of cadmium and Benzoate are not necessary in recycling smelting 
operations.