Waanyi Native Title Aboriginal Corporation RNTBC

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Type of RNTBC
Agent
Contact name
Peter McQuoid
Contact number
0458 675 460
Postal address
PO Box 183, NUNDAH QLD 4012
Office address
HIRN Newey Building, 1143 Sandgate Road, NUNDAH QLD 4012
Email
PBC size
Medium
Region
QLD
Date of incorporation
Date of registration
ICN (Indigenous Corporation Number)
7448
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Magazine Hill, located on the site of the New Century mine, was traditionally used as a camp site for recently initiated men. The Waanyi Native Title Aboriginal Corporation agreed to excavation around the hill. A group of Waanyi elders is trying to stop the excavation for fears the hill will be damaged or destroyed.

A trailblazing model of mining in which traditional owners tap the contracting know-how of a mining services giant is under way in northwest Queensland.

The local Waanyi people have formed a joint venture with Downer to develop, expand and work Century zinc mine, 250km north of Mount Isa, for New Century Resources.

The deal will see Waanyi ­people, most living at nearby Doomadgee, Mornington Island or Mount Isa, benefiting from salaried jobs as fitters, mechanics and ­machinery operators offered by their own contracting joint venture, and from an equal share in profits as contract mining service partner for work performed for NCR.

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