Although zinc is also essential for normal cell function, too much will cause the body to dump copper.
"I remember dump trucks and roll-offs come up here all the time to dump copper, batteries and paint sludge," Mr. Mann said.
In the 1960's, long before protection of the environment became a fashionable cause, Mr. Danback, a janitor for the Anaconda Wire and Cable Company at its Hastings-on-Hudson plant, began complaining to his employers about their dumping of copper filings, waste oils and sulfuric acid into the river.
USM previously admitted dumping toxic metals, including copper, nickel and zinc, into the sewer system of New Bedford.
He is best known for dumping 75,000 litres of copper sulphate into a condemned council flat in Elephant & Castle, creating a glittering blue crystal grotto that would slowly lose its shine.
The earthen walls of a massive tailings pond collapsed at Imperial Metals's Mount Polley copper and gold mine, dumping 25 million cubic meters of sludge and wastewater containing arsenic, mercury, and selenium into salmon-bearing waterways.
We found that the majority of construction and maintenance expenses were dumped into the copper-based Local Service network expenses over the last decade, based on a massive financial accounting shell game created, with the help of the FCC -- which we dubbed the "Big Freeze".
Usually this is a slow process, but occasionally, for reasons that are still not understood, the liver suddenly shuts down, dumping a lifetime's worth of stored copper into the bloodstream.
Or rather, the Cuprumin Company – owner of the nearby Roşia Poieni copper mine – which seems to be dumping all of its waste into said lake.
Or rather, the Cuprumin Company, owner of the nearby Roşia Poieni copper mine, is to blame, as it seems to be dumping all of its waste into said lake.
