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Romania: Trees achieve 'staggering' level of phytoremediation

Black locust trees may hold the solution for toxic copper and lead waste at abandoned mine sites

Old black locust tree with sunny spring leaves in Bourgoyen nature reserve, Ghent, Flanders, Belgium. Photo: kristof lauwers / Shutterstock

Old black locust tree with sunny spring leaves in Bourgoyen nature reserve, Ghent, Flanders, Belgium. Photo: kristof lauwers / Shutterstock

Sterile waste left at an inactive gold mine in Romania has been slowly leaching heavy metals like lead and copper into the surrounding soil and water.  The Rades mine, located in Alba County, was operational...

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