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Aboriginal rock art at risk from mining – interactive map

• The Global Mail
• guardian.co.uk, Friday 8 March 2013 06.00 GMT

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/interactive/2013/mar/08/aboriginal-rock-art-mining-interactive-map

One of the world’s biggest uranium producers has found a significant deposit in a remote tropical Australian mountain range near sandstone galleries holding some of the oldest and most spectacular rock art on the planet

Drag the slider to switch between rock art sites and mines/mining plans on the guardian link

And Further reading might tell us who the mysterious mining company is?

“…Angularli prospect, Wellington Range exploration project

Australian uranium discovery threatens ancient indigenous cave art:

One of the world’s biggest uranium producers has found a significant deposit in a remote tropical Australian mountain range near sandstone galleries holding some of the oldest and most spectacular rock art on the planet. After years of drilling, Canadian-based mining company Cameco has reported the find in the Wellington Range, where the thousands of Aboriginal artworks adorning cliffs and caves include a painting of the extinct dog-like creature, the thylacine, made in a style that is at least 15,000 years old.

“The importance of this art site is that it’s like a library,” Ronald Lamilami, a traditional Aboriginal landowner in western Arnhem Land and a custodian for the art, told The Global Mail, which on Friday (Mar. 8) published a detailed feature and map of the rock-art sites at risk nationwide. Lamilami said he fears if mining goes ahead, the works of his ancestors will be damaged.
The archaeologist Prof Paul Taçon, who has worked with Lamilami to document and date the artwork, said that dust and visitors from mining exploration could potentially damage works at the Northern Territory’s Djulirri, Malarrak and Bald Rock galleries. (Guardian Mar. 8, 2013)
> See also: Rock Art Riches: The Devastating Cost of Australia’s Mining Boom , by Debra Jopson, The Global Mail, March 8, 2013

Cameco finds “significant” uranium deposit in Arnhem Land: Cameco Australia has announced it has discovered a significant uranium deposit near the Cobourg Peninsula in Arnhem Land. (ABC Mar. 28, 2012)
The announcement was made on March 27, 2012, by Mark King of Cameco Australia during his presentation titled “Exploration for unconformity-style uranium deposits geology and mineralisation of the Angularli Prospect Wellington Range Project, West Arnhem Land” at the 13th Annual Geoscience Exploration Seminar (AGES) in Alice Springs.

“Although the area has not been explored in the detail necessary for resource definition and modelling, intersections of 20.2 m at 5.2% U₃O₈ (including 0.5 m at 27.8% U₃O₈) not only confirms the exploration methodology, but ensures that the Angularli prospect, the Angularli trend, and parallel structures will remain a focus in Arnhem Land for Cameco through the foreseeable future.” (from the abstract of Mark King’s presentation)….”

http://www.wise-uranium.org/upaus.html

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March 10, 2013 - Posted by arclight2011 | Uncategorized