Fish Die in River After Zijin Tin Mine Dam Collapses, China Daily Reports

SHANGHAI, Sep. 27 -- More than 100 metric tons of fish were found dead at fish farms in China’s Huanghua river basin downstream from a collapsed tailings dam at a tin mine owned by Zijin Mining Group Co., the China Daily said.

The tailings dam at Zijin’s Xinyi Yinyan tin mine collapsed on Sept. 21 after a landslide triggered by heavy rains caised by Typhoon Fanapi, the newspaper said on its website.

The incident comes less than three months after one of Zijin’s copper mines leaked toxic waste into a river, poisoning almost 2,000 metric tons of fish in the Ting River. Zijin was forced to shut its copper plant at the Zijinshan mine in Fujian after the spill.