00:02On this York Peninsula farmland, construction of an underground copper mine is underway.
00:09Owner Rex Minerals, a subsidiary of an Indonesian conglomerate, is rerouting the highway to
00:15accommodate the mine.
00:16Work native title holders say is being done without a cultural heritage management agreement.
00:23We believe that their machinery is just destroying daily our cultural heritage.
00:29A thousand Narunga artifacts were identified in an initial site survey.
00:34These photos of a documented Narunga site were taken by a former heritage monitor.
00:40He says Rex Minerals only alerted him to the damage after it was bulldozed.
00:46What I want is for it to be handled correctly and managed correctly for all of the York Peninsula.
00:53Rex Minerals did not respond to the ABC's questions about the incident.
00:57In a statement, the company says it complied with SA laws, including employing Narunga monitors
01:03to manage heritage on site.
01:05It said rigorous archaeological surveys had also been undertaken.
01:09Narunga Nation Aboriginal Corporation says negotiations have also stalled on a promised
01:15benefits sharing agreement.
01:17Ten years ago the mine was a long way off so the goodwill back then may not be as current
01:25today as it was then.
01:26Rex Minerals say they have presented multiple benefits sharing proposals to Narunga Nation,
01:31but they haven't been able to reach an agreement.
01:33The native title body has now called on the federal government to urgently intervene and stop work at the mine
01:39to make way for an independent assessment.
01:41The native town of South Africa has now answered the US and the US and the US and the USس
01:41and the US.
01:41With the city said there is no impairment.
01:42However, the limit is only on the left.
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