A gold mining exploration license application for the township of Adelaide River, south of Darwin, has been withdrawn following community backlash.
abc.net.au/news/nt-adelaide-river-mining-bacchus-resources/102193426Gold mining company Bacchus Resources has withdrawn a mineral exploration license application for a top end township after community backlash.The application was withdrawn after pushback from Adelaide River community membersA community meeting was held on Sunday in which 50 residents from Adelaide River, 100 kilometres south of Darwin, gathered to discuss the prospect of mining exploration on their doorstep.
Bacchus' chief geologist and executive David Ward said in a statement that he had received correspondence from several landowners, which was both "positive and negative". "I have not been off my computer — writing emails, sending out forms, all that sort of stuff, just getting the public behind us," she said.
"I think it was really clear that this exploration license application was very unpopular with people whose blocks the notice was served on," he said."The fact that people are standing together, getting organised in order to oppose these licenses, is something I think that the company decided was going to make their life too difficult."Adelaide River is located about an hour south of Darwin City.
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