toxic mine!!, page-2

Traditional owners in the Gulf Country want to work with government and industry to clean up one of the Northern Territory's most toxic legacy mines.
The old Redbank copper mine, south of Borroloola and about 40 kilometres from the Queensland border, closed in 1996 but still leaks copper sulphide into a nearby creek.
The copper sulphide concentration is so high in some sections of the creek - almost at the level of battery acid - that no marine life can live in it.
Territory Mines Minister Willem Westra Van Holthe travelled to the site and promised traditional owners that fixing the leak will be a personal priority.