By ZBT Analyst Sino Metals, the Chinese-owned minerals processing company (2025 Kafue River polluter) in Zambia’s Copperbelt province, has officially resumed copper production, reporting its first output since the catastrophic mining pollution incident in February 2025. The disaster, caused by the failure of a tailings dam at the Sino-Metals Leach facility, released massive quantities of toxic sludge into the surrounding environment, resulting in one of the most severe ecological crises in recent Zambian history. The dam, designed to store mining byproducts such as waste rock and hazardous chemicals, failed on 28 February 2025, contaminating the Kafue River and its tributaries....
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