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Australian uranium mining greed puts profits above World Heritage ecology

Australian Mining Company in $400m uranium project in Tanzania, BUSINESS WEEK, 17 JULY 2011 , MARY JOHN, DARES SALAAM, TANZANIA – An Australian uranium mining company, Mantra Resources, plans to build a $400-million uranium mine in the Selous Game Reserve in Tanzania within the next three years……. 

“We hope that UNESCO Heritage Committee will not halt the mining in the Game Reserve as it did recently in Serengeti National Park road project, considering the effect of the uranium activities to the environment,” said the analysts. 

The Selous is home to huge number of elephants, black rhinoceros, cheetah, giraffes, hippopotamus and crocodiles, amongst many other species and bird life.
The reserve also has an exceptionally high variety of habitats including Miombo woodlands, open grasslands, riverine forests and swamps, making it a valuable laboratory for on-going ecological and biological processes.
Mantra has direct and joint venture interests in a portfolio of uranium exploration tenements in Tanzania.
The prospecting licenses and applications are largely within the highly uranium prospective Karoo-age sediments of southern Tanzania (Mkuju River Project, Mbamba Bay Project and Southern Tanzania JV’s and paleochannel associated calcrete and sandstone hosted uranium targets within the Bahi catchment of central Tanzania (Bahi North Project and Handa Project). ..

July 19, 2011 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | AUSTRALIA - NATIONAL, politics international, uranium