At the start of the year, the Ranger uranium mine operated by Energy Resources of Australia Ltd (ERA), one of the longest continually operating uranium producers in the world, ceased processing.
The Ranger mine is located eight kilometres east of Jabiru and 260 kilometres south-east of Darwin, in Australia's Northern Territory.
The mine project area is 79 square kilometres and is surrounded by, but separate from the World Heritage-listed Kakadu National Park, which spans approximately 20,000 square kilometres.
ERA has confirmed that all mining and processing activities at Ranger concluded on 8 January 2...
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