Nonbiodegradable pollutants, such as certain chlorinated hydrocarbon pesticides (e.g.DDT) and heavy metals, such as lead, copper, and zinc in some industrial effluents, accumulate in the environment.
There are a lot of tellurium minerals in them, such as petzite, calaverite, hessite, altaite, tellurbismuth, rucklidgeite and sylvan.The grade of some section of ore body is up to industrial grade.
As Patterson increasingly became a liability to his institution, the school trustees were repeatedly pressed by lead industry officials to shut him up or let him go.