Spain: Concerns about toxic copper mining | Focus on Europe

By DW News

Mining companies are calling for a surge in production, ignoring an environmental disaster in 1998, when mine tailings containing toxic levels of heavy metals contaminated a whole river valley. Many worry it could happen again.

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