THE NATIONAL Pollutant Inventory (NPI) has released data indicating that Xstrata's Mt Isa Mines is one of Australia’s biggest polluters.
The group surveyed 4,116 facilities across the country which were found to produce varying levels of 87 toxic substances.
The NPI says Australia's largest mining and processing operation topped the list in six types of pollutants; arsenic, antimony, cadmium, lead, sulfur dioxide and zinc.
Xstrata is currently being sued by several families who claim their children have been poisoned by the mining operation.
Xstrata says community health and safety is its number one priority and it has introduced two significant cleaner production initiatives in the past two years.
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