Speaking to the ABC, co-author of the study, Dr Mark Taylor from Macquarie University believes not enough is being down to address the issue.
"There are about 400 children born every year in Mount Isa ... and about every nine days a child will be unnecessarily exposed to lead - a situation that could be prevented," he told the ABC.
Dr Taylor co-authored the report published in the Medical Journal of Australia.
The report states that the health risk remains as a result of 'the reluctance of stakeholders to acknowledge and respond effectively to the fact that the main environmental lead source is mining and smelting activity.'
Mining company Xstrata is currently involved in legal action over the high levels of lead found in children after blood testing in Mount Isa.
Speaking to the ABC a spokesperson for Xstrata stated that the company has never exceeded the limits for lead in the community.
"We have invested in excess of $2.7 million removing historical mine sediment from the Leichhardt River due to historical mining practices," the spokesman told the ABC.
He told the ABC the Lead Pathways study in late 2007 found that the historical mine sediment was of low impact to human health.
