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Pasminco pleads guilty to toxic spill

BASE metals producer Pasminco pleaded guilty Friday to breaching South Australia's Environmental Protection Act after a spill of highly-corrosive spent zinc electrolyte from its Port Pirie smelter in May 1999.

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The Environmental Protection Authority prosecuted the company after an estimated 10,000-30,000 litres of the acidic solution flowed from a holding tank at the site into a drainage system that emptied into...

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