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Arsenic-contaminated mine gets $2.6m clean up

16 Dec 2016

The remains of a demolished red brick building at Prohibition Mine in Waiuta, surrounded by grass and shrubs. The former mine on the West Coast is rated as the most toxic site in New Zealand

The former gold mine lay open for 60 years, with arsenic concentrations at 5000 times the safe human limit.

Arsenic-contaminated mine gets $2.6m clean up

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