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Atlas cleared for development

ATLAS Iron has secured environmental approval from the Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment to develop the Miralga Creek direct shipping ore project in Western Australia’s Pilbara, on the condition it minimises impacts to threatened ghost bat and northern quoll populations.

 The northern quoll

The northern quoll

Conditional approval was granted under sections 130(1) and 133(1) of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act (1999), with the approval to stay effective until November 30 2050. ...

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