From the ABC
The Northern Territory government is investigating ways to clean up an old copper mine, described as “one of Australia’s most polluting sites” — a job which could cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars.
The remote Redbank mine, 1,200 kilometres south-east of Darwin, only operated for two years, in the mid-1990s.
But its legacy is still visible in a nearby creek, which has turned green from acid leaching out of the mine.
The mine’s owner, Redbank Copper, was allowed to start mining in 1994 without paying an environmental bond.
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