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Centuries of Mining Turn the Mar Menor into a Reservoir of Toxic Metals
13 10 2025
According to a study by the Department of Physics and the ICTA-UAB, the Mar Menor saltwater lagoon in Murcia, Spain, the largest in Europe, contains sediments with levels of lead, arsenic, zinc, mercury, copper, and silver that exceed toxicity thresholds and values reported for similar coastal ecosystems worldwide.