Thousands of tonnes of dangerous mining waste dumped in wrong place

Northern Territory government insists no report about resulting combustion and emissions exists, despite investigating McArthur river mineAn Australian mine owned by the global trading firm Glencore mistakenly dumped 63 truckloads of dangerous waste material in the wrong place, where it combusted and sent sulphur dioxide into the atmosphere.The scale of the incident, which occurred at the remote McArthur river zinc-lead mine in Australia’s north, was kept out of the public eye. The Norther