Six year old Stella Hare from Mt Isa has launched legal action through her mother against mining giant Xstrata.
Stella was found to have dangerous levels of lead, arsenic, cadmium and other toxic elements absorbed into her body, affecting her brain and nerve function development.
Law firm Slater & Gordon served a notice of claim on Xstrata, [...]

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Oxiana has delivered a record quarterly output of copper and flagged a continuing rise in the price of the red metal, while warning of a delay to first production from its Prominent Hill project.
Copper production from the company’s flagship Sepon mine in Laos rose 24 percent to a record 17,132 tonnes during the first quarter.
Oxiana, [...]

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Global mining giant Xstrata may face a number of lawsuits after a young girl from Mt Isa was found with a ‘cocktail of metals’ in her system.
6 year old Stella Hare, who has behavioural and learning difficulties and had a melanoma removed this year, had high levels of lead as well as high levels of [...]

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