2010-07-27 09:47

BEIJING - Zijin Mining Group Co, China's leading gold producer and responsible for polluting a river in east China's Fujian province, applied to be suspended from trading in Hong Kong and Shanghai for another day on Tuesday.

The halt was first made on Monday pending some "sensitive information" that could cause fluctuations in its shares prices, said a statement on the Shanghai Exchange on Monday.

Zijin was involved in the industry's worst environmental accident in years.

Between 4 pm July 3 and 2:30 pm July 4, 9,100 cubic meters of waste water spewed from a blown-out sewage tank of a copper plant owned by Zijin into the Tingjiang River in Fujian province, killing thousands of fish.