Australian court issues stay order on ERA’s uranium deposit lease renewal

Jabiluka development site. Credit: Wikipedia

Rio Tinto-owned Energy Resources of Australia said on Friday a local court issued an interim stay order to its decision on declining to renew the miner’s Jabiluka high-grade deposit lease.

Earlier this week, the company sued the resources minister for denying the lease renewal.

(Reporting by Roshan Thomas in Bengaluru; Editing by Anil D’Silva)

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