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. The Rosebery mine lies on the boundary of the Tarkine rainforest and processes zinc, lead, and copper.
Bob Brown, former Greens leader and founder of the Bob Brown Foundation—an environmentalist conservation activist group—said while he’s not against mining, he and his foundation are against the building of the tailings dam in the Tarkine rainforest….