Environmental Health

Tests show mercury levels OK near Newmont mine in Indonesia

Published in Mental Health Law Weekly, October 30th, 2004

Test results from the World Health Organization (WHO) and Japan's Minamata Institute show "normal" mercury levels in hair samples taken from residents living near a Newmont Mining Corp. mine in Indonesia, an Indonesian government official says.

The Indonesian government has detained five executives of the Denver-based mining company in a Jakarta because of a police investigation into allegations it dumped mercury and arsenic-laced mine waste into the sea off the island of Sulawesi.

The company has repeatedly denied the charges.

Umar Fahmi, Indonesia's minister of communicable disease, said the level of mercury in the hair of...

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