BellingenNSW<p>Remember the Urunga wetlands waste tailings rich in antimony, arsenic, lead and cyanide?</p><p>"For five years in the 1960s and 1970s, antimony and other heavy metals leached from an ore processing plant into the melaleuca wetlands. The wetlands used to open up into a moonscape of light grey sand with not a single bit of vegetation."<br>>><br><a href="https://www.crownland.nsw.gov.au/sites/default/files/2022-07/Urunga-Wetlands-fact-sheet.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">crownland.nsw.gov.au/sites/def</span><span class="invisible">ault/files/2022-07/Urunga-Wetlands-fact-sheet.pdf</span></a><br><a href="https://majorprojects.planningportal.nsw.gov.au/prweb/PRRestService/mp/01/getContent?AttachRef=SSD-5357%2120190227T035916.488%20GMT" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">majorprojects.planningportal.n</span><span class="invisible">sw.gov.au/prweb/PRRestService/mp/01/getContent?AttachRef=SSD-5357%2120190227T035916.488%20GMT</span></a></p><p>Now they want to go for Wild Cattle Creek 'high-grade and high-tonnage' antimony-gold mining >><br><a href="https://www.listcorp.com/asx/tmg/trigg-minerals-limited/news/acquisition-of-globally-significant-antimony-project-3091939.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">listcorp.com/asx/tmg/trigg-min</span><span class="invisible">erals-limited/news/acquisition-of-globally-significant-antimony-project-3091939.html</span></a></p><p>A Clarence Catchment Alliance community meeting</p><p>is being hosted by the Bellingen Environment Centre, <br>with Blicks River Guardians and Lock the Gate Nambucca, <br>from 2pm on Friday May 31 at 16 Cudgery St, Dorrigo. <br>>><br><a href="https://clarencevalleynews.com.au/clarence-catchment-alliance-community-meeting/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">clarencevalleynews.com.au/clar</span><span 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