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1 August, 2005
Rio Tinto subsidiary Energy Resources in Australia enters a Northern Territory courtroom today to face landmark criminal charges under the NT’s Mining Management Act. The firm is charged with contaminating miners’ drinking and showering water with water used from uranium processing at Ranger Mine in Kakadu National Park. Some 30 workers took ill from the incident last March. The prosecution is the first under the 2001 statute.