Mexico's Sonora state reports new mine spill

A corrupt mining operation? Surely they jest!

BBC news -- Latin America
21 September 2014
Mexico's Sonora state reports new mine spill

The Mexican authorities have issued a new alert about a toxic spill into a river from a copper mine run by the mining giant Grupo Mexico.

Officials in the northern state of Sonora asked people not to use water from the Bacanuchi river after an orange stain appeared in it.

On 7 August gallons of sulphuric acid poured into the river.

At the time local officials accused the company of trying to conceal the accident and of lax supervision....

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