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CMNEWS_Grazier Sid Plant and his daughter Tanya pictured here on their property near the New Hope mine in Acland Thursday July 9th, 2015. Pictures: Jack Tran / The Courier Mail

The town where mining is not welcome

THERE are some towns where the mining industry has been warmly welcomed. But tonight’s episode of Insight on SBS will reveal the towns where the opposition is fierce.

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NewsAust19-12-2004 Overgrown play area at the back of Social Club. Colin Baker sole teacher at Warrego Primary School. Colin llives with his wife (Admin) at Warrego. (50km west of Tennant Creek, N.T.). A ghost town closed down in 1998 after the copper prices bottomed out. At its peak 5000 people lived at Warrego Mine

The making of a ghost town

THE mining downturn is devastating Australian towns, with entire populations are disappearing and leaving virtual ghost towns behind.

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