11 Okt 2025
Zambia: Tailing spill from Chinese-invested facilities already creating long-term contamination in local food chain, expert says
Zusammenfassung
Date Reported: 22 Sep 2025
Standort: Sambia
Unternehmen
China Nonferrous Metal Mining (CNMC) - Parent Company , Sino-Metals Leach Zambia - SubsidiaryProjekte
Sino Metals Leach Zambia Copper Mine(s) in Zambia (Mine Name Unknown) - OperationBetroffen
Total individuals affected: Number unknown
Gemeinschaft: ( Number unknown - Sambia , Bergbau , Geschlecht nicht angegeben ) , Ecosystem: ( Number unknown - Sambia , Bergbau , Geschlecht nicht angegeben )Themen
Wasserzugang , Water pollution , Clean, Healthy & Sustainable Environment , Personal Health , Recht auf NahrungArt der Quelle: News outlet
Zusammenfassung
Date Reported: 22 Sep 2025
Standort: Sambia
Unternehmen
Vedanta Resources Limited - Joint-Venture-Partner , Konkola Copper Mines (Joint venture between Vedanta Resources Limited ((79.4%) and ZCCM Investments Holdings (20.6%)) - Parent Company , ZCCM Investments - Joint-Venture-PartnerProjekte
Nchanga - OperationBetroffen
Total individuals affected: Number unknown
Gemeinschaft: ( Number unknown - Location unknown - Sector unknown , Geschlecht nicht angegeben ) , Ecosystem: ( Number unknown - Location unknown - Sector unknown , Geschlecht nicht angegeben )Themen
Wasserzugang , Water pollution , Clean, Healthy & Sustainable Environment , Air pollution , Air pollution , Personal HealthAntwort
Stellungnahme angefragt: Ja, von BHRC
Art der Quelle: News outlet
"The communities paying the price for Zambia’s toxic mining disaster", Dialogue Earth, 22 September 2025
[...] climate expert [...] says heavy-metal contamination is likely already affecting the food chain across the Copperbelt region and the Kafue basin.
“There will be heavy metal contamination in the entire ecosystem. Its functioning has been disturbed and badly compromised,” [...].
Levels of heavy metal in local food [...] now exceed World Health Organization limits.
[...] “The food chain is contaminated through the water; heavy metals stay in the environment for a very long time,” [...].