UTAS students finds potential way to tackle pollution from Tasmania's old mines

Sean Ford
Updated August 17 2022 - 3:57pm, first published 12:00pm
Former Greens MHA Paul O'Halloran with a handful of brown copper slime from the heavily polluted Queen River on the West Coast.
Former Greens MHA Paul O'Halloran with a handful of brown copper slime from the heavily polluted Queen River on the West Coast.

Industrial waste products including seashells could help tackle the ongoing environmental harm from abandoned mine sites, new Tasmanian research suggests.

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Sean Ford

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