Environmental pollution: A different kind of mine disaster
Monday, April 19, 2010 - 05:21
in Earth & Climate
The world's largest antimony mine has become the world's largest laboratory for studying the environmental consequences of escaped antimony -- an element whose environmental and biological properties are still largely a mystery. Scientists have found the waters around Xikuangshan mine in southwest China contain antimony at levels two to four orders of magnitude higher than normal (0.33-11.4 parts per million).