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Guardian: You can’t see the old Chingola copper mine, with its smelter and refinery, from the village of Shimulala. It’s miles away, beyond 300ft-high hills of waste tailings, the leach plant, the main pollution control dam and the 1,600ft-deep open pit that is one of Africa’s largest holes. But you can smell and taste the pollution from the biggest copper mine in Africa. If you pump a glass of water from the borehole outside the little church in Shimulala, you will see it is bright yellow, smells of sulphur......
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Zambia: ‘I drank the water and ate the fish. We all did. The acid has damaged me permanently’
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on August 1st, 2015
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