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licence, would go a long way towards convincing such critics of our
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placed an embargo on the export of ore. The export embargo was lifted in
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had established wells, windmills and paddocks in the area and also pegged mining leases there as they were on the southern end of the station, but he allowed these leases to lapse because of this embargo.
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of San
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corporation known as the Pindan Group, called for an iron ore export licence to be issued to his organisation. Mitchell argued in a pamphlet issued in the early 1960s that:
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360:Cyclone Amy
209:Goldsworthy
134:Established
121: /
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96:Coordinates
79:Goldsworthy
36:Goldsworthy
1475:Categories
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1445:Wedgefield
1392:Paraburdoo
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1291:region of
1176:3 November
1146:3 November
985:0646178938
963:References
289:indigenous
219:, east of
106:20°20′31″S
1460:Wittenoom
1440:Tom Price
1420:Roebourne
1397:Parnngurr
1377:Nullagine
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1095:1 October
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253:Geologist
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