Newmont Mining Corporation agreed Thursday to pay $30 million to Indonesia in a settlement of a civil lawsuit in which the government argued that the company had polluted a bay with arsenic and mercury... The accord does not directly address the question of pollution and does not state whether the company's mine, which deposited mine waste through a pipe into equatorial waters, polluted the bay. The company denies the pollution charges... Indonesia's Ministry of Environment contends that the waste from the gold mine left high levels of arsenic and mercury in the sediment on the floor of the bay. The arsenic entered...food for fish, the ministry said in a study in late 2004. Newmont denies that the arsenic entered the food chain, saying it was a kind that would not dissolve in water... The arguments over pollution have focused on whether the system of waste disposal, known as submarine tailing disposal, worked as safely as the company says. The method is essentially banned in the United States.