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Element Africa: Lead poisoning, polluted rivers, and ‘calamitous’ mining regulation

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More than 100,000 Zambian women and children are filing a class action lawsuit against mining giant Anglo American for decades of lead poisoning. The company has long maintained that it held only an indirect share of the mine, and that responsibility for remediation of land lies with the Zambia Broken Hill Development Company Limited, which operated the mine from 1974 until it closed in 1994.

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Element Africa: Lead poisoning, polluted rivers, and ‘calamitous’ mining regulation

Zambians launch lead poisoning lawsuit against mining giant Anglo American A group of 140,000 women and children from Zambia’s Kabwe district is seeking to bring a class action lawsuit against mining giant Anglo American South Africa, demanding compensation for harm caused by 88 years of lead pollution from the Broken Hill mine. Broken Hill operated […]

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