The letter in last week's Braidwood Times was inaccurate.
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The proposed Dargues Modification was not on public exhibition when the letter was published.
Until late last year the company claimed that the proposed mine would be profitable with the ore processed at their Bendigo site. Why the sudden turn around? The Bendigo site and machinery are still there.
The company can begin work on the project whenever they like, under the existing conditions of approval. Why haven't they?
Should our children, farms, and businesses be put at risk by processing that would leave cyanide residues and heavy metals in a tailings dam at the top of a major waterway, next to a thriving village?
The project has already been prosecuted for pollution offences, and investigated for others.
Do not attempt to paint the many experts who have raised questions about this proposed modification as anti-mining. Stick to facts.
Jackie French
Araluen