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Heavy Metal Bummer
U.S.-owned plant contaminating Peruvian communities with heavy metals |
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09 Dec 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Heavy Metal Bummer U.S.-owned plant contaminating Peruvian communities with heavy metals There's heavy metal in Peru, but not the mullet-and-fake-satanism kind. Children in a Peruvian Andes mining town have high levels of toxic heavy metals in their bodies -- and the likely source is an 83-year-old smelter owned by the St. Louis-based Doe Run Company. An independent study found that 97 percent of ... |
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| Topics: commercial and industry organizations, news, Peru, toxics (all these topics) |
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