Miners hand back Kimberley land for national park, Australia's biggest A deal to mine bauxite and build an alumina refinery in a top WA wilderness area will be axed, and it will instead be ...

"The Mitchell Plateau and the Mitchell Falls are spectacular and unique landscapes in Australia and will be the jewels in the crown of the new Kimberley National Park," he said.

After extensive negotiations, a 45-year state agreement that gave Rio Tinto rights to mine bauxite and Alcoa the right to refine aluminium on the Mitchell Plateau has been cancelled.