Poor oversight caused a vital human organ injury. Authorities recently found a toddler developed brain damage due to a lack of supervision. The Brisbane Supreme Court discovered Bethany Sanders, now...
Tag - lead
A new, innovative world-first technology will be used to revitalise and expand operations at Rosslyn Hill Mining’s Paroo Station Lead Mine near Wiluna. WA Premier Mark McGowan announced the...
Mineral explorers from around the globe have been invited to compete to explore Queensland’s North West Minerals Province. Minister for State Development and Minister for Natural Resources and Mines...
Workers may have been exposed to hazardous chemicals such as lead and mercury while extracting gold at the Manuka Silver Mine, south of Cobar, NSW. The NSW Mine Safety Investigation Unit reported...
Safe Work Australia has called for comment on lead in the workplace, after new scientific evidence has suggested current legislated blood lead levels, and workplace exposure standards for lead may...
In an effort to quantify the criticality of the 62 metals on the Period Table of Elements, a group of Yale researchers has published a new paper providing key insights into how extracting the metals...
A newborn infant will need a lifetime supply of: • 800 pounds of lead • 750 pounds of zinc • 1,500 pounds of copper • 3,593 pounds of aluminum • 32,700 pounds of iron • 26,550 pounds of clays •...
One in five children aged under five in Broken Hill have blood lead levels above the current national goal of ten micrograms per decilitre (g/dL), according to a new report released today by The Lead...
A pile of burning waste rock at Glencore’s McArthur River Mine is sending plumes of smoke into the air, angering nearby communities in the Gulf of Carpentaria area of the Northern Territory. The ABC...
Safe Work Australia is currently reviewing workplace blood lead removal levels, i.e. the levels at which a worker must be removed from lead risk work, and the associated workplace exposure standard...
