Government promises rehabilitation at one of NT's most toxic abandoned mines | ABC News

The Northern Territory government is planning to start rehabilitating one of the Top End's most toxic abandoned mines, within months while trying to regain the trust of traditional owners worried about dozens of other polluting legacy sites.
The former Redbank copper mine has been leaking battery-strength acid into waterways from the Gulf of Carpentaria near Robinson River to the Queensland border 40 kilometres away since it ceased operations after two years of mining in 1996.
Traditional owners have been calling for the site to be rehabilitated ever since but their pleas have been ignored by successive governments.
By Jane Bardon for ABC News Northern Territory.
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