Researchers To Study Mixed Metals Mining Contamination On Native American Populations.

reports that the newly-established Superfund Research Center at the University of New Mexico hopes to “measure the effects of mixed metals and uranium waste exposure on Native American populations living in close proximity to abandoned mines, and better understand how these toxins spread through the environment.” The piece notes that there are 4,000 abandoned uranium mines and 160,000 abandoned hard rock mines throughout the West with 600,000 Native Americans living within six miles of those sites. The research is funded by a five-year, $1.2 million per year grant from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. https://www.abqjournal.com/1129580/researchers-to-measure-mixed-metals-mining-contamination-on-native-americans.html