Uranium Dust from Yorke Peninsula Hillside Mine Could Contaminate Crops, Some Adversarials Say

Uranium (Nuclear Minerals) / Related Environmental Issues

Date posted: 08/15/14

Malcolm Sutton reports that fears that dust from a planned mine on Yorke Peninsula could contaminate crops with low-level uranium and potentially travel as far as Adelaide have been raised by campaigners. The YP Landholders Group said an estimated 3 million kilograms of dust produced annually by Rex Minerals Hillside copper, gold and ore mine could include radioactive uranium and its decay products, called radon gas and radon daughters. Chairman Stephen Lodge cited a joint paper written by a US doctor Dale Dewar that found long-lived radioisotopes from uranium mines could spread on surrounding land via dust and the water used for dust suppression. Let the rest of us see the evidence, Dr. Dewar...