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Miklos Bolza

'Infected': minister criticised over uranium mine lease

The undeveloped Jabiluka uranium mine is near the defunct Ranger mine in the Northern Territory. (Tara Ravens/AAP PHOTOS)

A federal minister's promise to local Indigenous people allegedly "infected" advice she gave not to renew a Rio Tinto subsidiary's lease to a large undeveloped uranium mine.

The Jabiluka mine was under lease to Energy Resources of Australia (ERA) which also operates the adjacent defunct Ranger uranium mine next to Kakadu National Park, near Jabiru, 300km east of Darwin.

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