Artisanal lead mining in Nigeria is responsible for airborne lead exposures that are 10 times the U.S. Permissible Exposure Limit according to a study published today. This is the first study to ...

A surprising discovery in Spain could explain how metal made its way to Scandinavia 3,000 years ago during the Bronze Age.

The New South Wales (NSW) Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) deliberately suppressed for almost four years a study showing lead poisoning of children in Broken Hill as a result of nearby mining ...

HONG KONG, Dec 7 (Reuters) - Chinese lead smelters are holding back on their annual orders for concentrate imports next year due to worries that Beijing will raise a tax on metal exports, smelter ...