Premier Attempts to Salvage Billion-Dollar Gold Mine Shuttered Due to Indigenous Heritage

Published on August 27, 2024

Just over a week after federal Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek put a stop to a $1 billion (US$674 million) gold mine, New South Wales (NSW) Premier Chris Minns has promised to expedite any alternative plans to bring it to fruition. Mining company Regis Resources was aiming to operate a gold mine at the McPhillamys Gold Project site near Blayney in NSW, but the plan came to a halt when Plibersek actioned section 10 of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Protection Act. The Act allows an Indigenous person, or someone acting on their behalf, to halt a development. In the case of the planned gold mine, Indigenous groups opposed the use of part of the Belubula River for a tailings dam, citing historic and cultural significance....

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