Mercury detected in mill waste

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Levels are well below amounts considered hazardous but environmentalists still concerned about open dump Comments October 25, 2009 BY GITTE LAASBY, 648-2183 Mercury is contained in the 700,000 tons of blast furnace waste that ArcelorMittal Burns Harbor has stored directly on the ground less than 500 feet from Lake Michigan for the past two decades.

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