I don't currently hold SHD....but have been watching with...

I don't currently hold SHD....but have been watching with interest...i have a holding in wdr(a near neighbour), maybe these two would be a good fit!!??..forget Territory!

Article below...yesterday on ABC...thought may be of some interest
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Fears mining will impact proposed national park
By Emma Masters

Updated Mon Nov 15, 2010 5:19pm AEDT


A rock site in the proposed Limmen National Park. (ABC TV)

Map: Darwin 0800 The Northern Territory Environment Centre is concerned iron ore mining in the south-east of the Gulf of Carpentaria will do irreversible damage to the environment.

Western Desert Resources and Sherwin Iron are stepping up their campaigns to set up iron ore mines in the Territory's Roper Bar area.

The targeted areas include the proposed Limmen national park, which has been registered as a proposed national park since 1991.

The centre's coordinator Stuart Blanch says mining will change the face of the proposed park and the Roper area forever.

"If you bring together the infrastructure - in terms of mines, roads, pipelines, railways, barging and deep-water ports - this is going to take a very intact, almost pristine area and turn it into a very cut-up, damaged, degraded area of the Territory," he said.

Dr Blanch says Chief Minister Paul Henderson needs to clarify the Government's position on the area.

"One one hand you have Kon Vatskalis, the Mines Minister, running around China trying to find money for major iron ore projects," he said.

"On the other hand we have Karl Hampton, the Environment Minister, moving toward declaring the Limmen national park which should prevent major mining on these sensitive sites."

Western Desert Resources says it is treating the area as if was already a national park.