11 أكتوبر 2025
Zambia: Tailing spill from Chinese-invested facilities already creating long-term contamination in local food chain, expert says
الملخص
Date Reported: 22 سبتمبر 2025
الموقع: زامبيا
الشركات
China Nonferrous Metal Mining (CNMC) - Parent Company , Sino-Metals Leach Zambia - Subsidiaryالمشاريع
Sino Metals Leach Zambia Copper Mine(s) in Zambia (Mine Name Unknown) - Operationالفئة المتأثرة
Total individuals affected: Number unknown
مجتمع: ( Number unknown - زامبيا , المناجم , لم يتم الإبلاغ عن النوع الإجتماعي ) , Ecosystem: ( Number unknown - زامبيا , المناجم , لم يتم الإبلاغ عن النوع الإجتماعي )القضايا
الحصول على المياه , Water pollution , Clean, Healthy & Sustainable Environment , Personal Health , الحق في الغذاءنوع المصدر: News outlet
الملخص
Date Reported: 22 سبتمبر 2025
الموقع: زامبيا
الشركات
Vedanta Resources Limited - شريك في مشروع مشترك , Konkola Copper Mines (Joint venture between Vedanta Resources Limited ((79.4%) and ZCCM Investments Holdings (20.6%)) - Parent Company , ZCCM Investments - شريك في مشروع مشتركالمشاريع
Nchanga - Operationالفئة المتأثرة
Total individuals affected: Number unknown
مجتمع: ( Number unknown - Location unknown - Sector unknown , لم يتم الإبلاغ عن النوع الإجتماعي ) , Ecosystem: ( Number unknown - Location unknown - Sector unknown , لم يتم الإبلاغ عن النوع الإجتماعي )القضايا
الحصول على المياه , Water pollution , Clean, Healthy & Sustainable Environment , Air pollution , Air pollution , Personal Healthالرد
الرد الوارد: BHRC
نوع المصدر: 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,” [...].