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Newcastle Herald
Newcastle Herald
National
Donna Page

Learn from Kurri smelter closure, expert tells mines

MASSIVE POTENTIAL: An aerial view of part of the Kurri smelter site looking south-west to the smelter with environmental wetlands to the right, and land to be developed for housing between Gillieston Heights in the foreground, and Cliftleigh, closer to the smelter.

NEXT month marks 10 years since Norsk Hydro announced that it was closing its aluminium smelter at Kurri Kurri leaving 600 employees and hundreds of contractors out of a job.

It's a heavy industry closure that Upper Hunter mining companies could learn from, according to an international expert on mine rehabilitation and closure planning.

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