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Miklos Bolza

Traditional owners join legal spat over Jabiluka mine

Traditional owner Yvonne Margarula has been allowed to join a legal battle over the Jabiluka mine. (HANDOUT/Gundjeihmi Aboriginal Corporation)

A Rio Tinto subsidiary's legal challenge to the cessation of a lease over the Jabiluka uranium mine will have one more opponent after a judge allowed the area's traditional owners to participate.

The mine is 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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