China-owned MMG is proposing to turn 140 hectares of the Tarkine rainforest, known as Australia’s “amazon” in Tasmania’s northwest, into a tailings dam where it will hold the company’s mining waste. MMG, or Minerals and Metal Group, which is majority owned by China Minmetals Nonferrous Metals Company Limited (CMN), bought the Rosebery mine in 2009.
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