Vic: Green group to tell mining firm the "Honeymoon" is over

AAP General News (Australia)
02-14-2001
Vic: Green group to tell mining firm the "Honeymoon" is over

MELBOURNE, Feb 14 AAP - Two environmentalists, dressed as a bride and groom, will deliver
a Valentine's Day snub to a Melbourne-based mining company over operations at its Honeymoon
uranium mine in South Australia.

The Friends of the Earth members plan to "occupy" the headquarters of Sedimentary Holdings
which, they say, uses an environmentally dangerous acid leach mining technique at Honeymoon.

The environment group maintains the technique is not used in any other developed nation.

"Acid mining is a cheap and nasty technology which has been linked with serious groundwater
contamination overseas," said Friends of the Earth campaigner Loretta O'Brien, who will
be wearing the bridal outfit at today's demonstration.

Her "groom", Jimmy Martin, said in a written statement last night: "Valentines Day
is about love, respect and the hope of a bright future, and the Honeymoon mine is the
opposite of these".

Sedimentary Holdings operates the mining lease at the Honeymoon project, north-west
of Broken Hill, about 30km inside South Australia.

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KEYWORD: HONEYMOON

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