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More than 640 workers locked down at remote gold mine

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More than 640 workers are confined to their single-room quarters and having meals delivered to their door as gold miner Newmont Corporation deals with the fallout from a COVID-19 outbreak at its remote Tanami operations in the Northern Territory.

There were about 700 workers at the Tanami mine, 540 kilometres north-west of Alice Springs, when it went into lockdown on Saturday.

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Brad Thompson was a reporter at The Australian Financial Review
Mark Ludlow writes on politics, energy and infrastructure based in Brisbane. Connect with Mark on Twitter. Email Mark at mludlow@afr.com
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