Tolukuma mine tailings disposal contamination, condemnation, and conundrums

Here is one of those reports on mining that infuriates the reader because of incompetent brevity and hints of worse to come:  AAP reports re the Tolukuma Gold Mine in Papua New Guinea that the mine “dumps its mining residue into the river system…[but]..blood test data ….from village communities [downstream of the mine]…did not show evidence of anything other than normal ranges of chemical traces within human blood.”   The mine management disputes the findings of high toxic heavy metal blood levels by a fellow who says he worked for Australian hospitals, which deny that he worked for them.  If you are now as confused as I am, here is the full report: