The new non-ferrous mining law,signed by the governor in 2013, significantly weakened environmental protections, eliminated the need for public hearings, and allowed GTAC to pay taxes based on profit, not on the amount of ore removed.
Jiangxi Copper Co. Ltd. engages in smelting, protracting, and refining of non-ferrous metal mine, precious metal mine, non-metal mine, non ferrous metal and by-products.
But Hunan is also known for the non-ferrous metal mines that produce almost 50 million tons of waste a year.
The enlarged production scale of underground non-ferrous metal mines is affected by many uncertain factors difficult to describe mathematically with any level of accuracy.
The European non-ferrous metals mining industry has initiated and developed the BioMinE project as they identified the need to find new processes for metal extraction from resources of today and of tomorrow.
Yin Lihui, who heads up the Hunan Agricultural Resources and Environmental Protection Station, admits that pollution from non-ferrous metal mining is particularly grave in the watershed of the Xiang River, and the Economic Daily, a government-aligned national newspaper, has reported that the Xiang, Hunan 's 'mother river,' is the most polluted by heavy metals of all China's rivers.
Liyuan Chai is Dean of the School of Metallurgy and Environment, Central South University(CSU) in China, which has a strong tradition in non-ferrous metal mining, dressing and metallurgy.
The villages are located near three tailing deposits resulted from the ore processing activities from Baia Mare, North-West Romania, an area with a long-history of non-ferrous ore mining and processing [18, 26].
These data highlight the potential risks that non-ferrous metal mining, smelting and processing operations located in the Bor area may pose to aquatic ecosystems within the lower Danube Basin.
