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QLD:Houses, town water supply sold in mining mega‑deal

It is not every day a mining deal comes with houses, childcare centres and the town water supply thrown in.

But in central Queensland, a big slice of country town Middlemount has been included in a deal struck to sell off a multinational company's Australian steelmaking mines.

However Anglo American's mega deal has come under fire from a local mayor, warning it amounts to the sale of "entire communities".

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