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Residents of Chios have expressed growing concern over plans supported by the Environment Ministry to resume antimony mining in the northern part of the island.

The proposal, which includes international bids for mining rights, aims to exploit the mineral, which is essential for military and technological applications.

Beypazarı, a well-known Turkish mineral water company, has been banned in Switzerland on the grounds that it is harmful to health due to the detection of high amounts of boron, while company officials have denied these allegations.

Türkiye has become one of the prominent countries of the world that have a say in strategic industries, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on March 19.

The prosecution in the town of Kruja has opened an investigation into a suspected mass poisoning which President Ilir Meta has described as a serious threat to people's lives.

The tap water in Lyubimets is now safe for drinking and cooking show the new tests made yesterday. The indicators are good and arsenic concentration, for which water use was limited, is already within normal.

Turkey's Energy and Natural Resources Minister Fatih Dönmez on Dec. 16 launched a new Turkish-made dishwasher liquid detergent product, which will be marketed under the brand name BORON.

This has been reported by the Belgrade daily Vecernje Novosti, which added that the gross value of the deposit is estimated to be in excess of two billion dollars.

According to a preliminary feasibility study, this mine could be in operation for 21 years.

 A Greek court has sentenced a university lecturer to two life terms for the fatal poisoning by arsenic of his wife and her grandmother several years ago.

The court ruled late Thursday that the 46-year-old geology lecturer at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki gradually poisoned his 34-year-old wife and her 85-year-old grandmother in August 2013.

Turkey is set export the commercially precious material boron in the near future thanks to the recent development of better technology, according to the members of a project team.

The project, developed by Yıldırım Beyazıt University in Ankara in cooperation with a defense industry firm, will be used particularly in fuel supplies for space rockets and long-range missiles.

A year after the bursting of the dam in the abandoned antimony mine Stolice in western Serbia, the damage has not been repaired adequately.

This is what Citizens Ombudsman Sasa Jankovic has said, warning that the situation poses "ecological danger for a large part of Serbia's territory."