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
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