We’re preparing our Annual Report and have created an aerial map of the McArthur River Mine diversion. The river follows the Dreamtime pathway of the Rainbow Serpent, but a giant zinc deposit has attracted the attention of mining giant Xstrata, which plans to divert the river through a 5.5 kilometer channel so that they can dig an open pit mine and export the zinc to China. It’s all hard to visualize so we went up in an airplane to film the river and the mine, and if you click on the image to the left you’ll get a clearer view of what’s happening. Note that the small mountain at the top center of the image is a sacred site knows as Barramundi Dreaming.

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