Zijin Mining Group Co, China's largest gold producer, has been fined 30 million yuan (US$4.5 million) by a court in Fujian Province for a major pollution accident last year. The July toxic spill...poisoned thousands of fish, causing losses of 22.2 million yuan, and also polluted drinking water for tens of thousands of people...Five managers and employees directly responsible for the incident were sentenced to imprisonment of up to four years and six months and were also ordered to pay fines...The company is also being sued by a city government in Guangdong Province for 19.5 million yuan over a fatal dam collapse at a tin mine there in September, which killed at least 22 people.