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Environment Minister Tony Burke today granted EPBC Act approval to BHP Billiton's Olympic Dam expansion, on the same day that the South Australian Government gave it the go-ahead, with the Greens warning the project would create a 'carcinogenic mountain'.

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Mining company UraniumSA has lodged a referral under the Federal Environment Protection and Biodiversity Protection Act for a small scale uranium recovery field trial at Mullaquana, near Whyalla, South Australia.