Rainforest Action Group launches its new report today on Jiangxi Copper, the Chinese mining company which invested $36 million US into SolGold in December...

Jiiangxi Copper is the largest integrated copper producer in the People's Republic of China. Its principal business includes: copper, gold and silver mining, dressing, smelting, processing, extraction and production of sulphuric acid...

It owns Dexing Copper Mine, s Asia's largest open-pit copper mine and second largest in the world...The Dexing mine has created a host of serious environmental issues...

Scientists in 2019 found that in the Poyang Lake main channel (120km downstream of Dexing) concentrations of copper, lead and zinc were above the threshold effects level and that the potential ecological risk index showed copper posed moderate ecological risks...Further research found that Dai village, located 20km downstream of Dexing Mine, is now listed as a cancer village...

It also owns the biggest copper smelting and refining complex in the world, at Guixi in China, which has discharged significant pollution into the local environment...Fifteen villages with a total population of 10,000 people have been affected by the smelter, with hair and urine samples showing high concentrations of heavy metals. Farmland surrounding the smelter has also been contaminated...