Zijin's copper mine sewage contaminates river

A sewage leakage from a copper mine has contaminated a local river in China's Fujian province, causing mass deaths of fish, environmental authorities confirmed on Monday.

An initial investigation has found the leakage was from a plant of the Zijinshan Copper Mine, a copper hydrometallurgical segment of the Hong Kong-listed Zijin Mining Group Co, China's largest gold producer headquartered in Shanghang county.

The provincial government has sent a work group to investigate the pollution. About 1.89 million kg of fish in a reservoir on the river were dead or poisoned after the contamination.