""Recently the Queensland Government announced it had...

""Recently the Queensland Government announced it had ascertained that the tailings dump at Mary Kathleen contained billions of dollars in rare earths--either not recognised or missed but important now.""

Sorry Roh but rare earths were recognised at Mary K. A "rare earths" pilot plant operated at Mary K in the late 70's after the uranium plant was restarted. The project did not procede as it proved uneconomic at the time.

As a former MKU employee - and I was there at the close - I walked through the old pilot plant daily.