Karekarrme

In January 2021 all uranium mining and mineral processing at Rio Tinto’s Ranger mine in Kakadu, in the Northern Territory, ended. This date marked more than the end of operations for Australia’s longest running and most controversial uranium mine, it also marked the cessation of the uranium sector in Kakadu.

The fight against uranium mining in Kakadu has spanned decades, involved thousands of people, and been played out on the regional, national, and international stage.

The end of mining in Kakadu an important opportunity to celebrate the sustained efforts to protect the region’s country and culture. It also provides a real opportunity to highlight the significance of Australia’s reserved and protected areas and the power of positive environmental-Aboriginal collaboration to achieve profound and lasting conservation and justice outcomes.

This website is a place of safe-keeping, where we can gather, collect, share and celebrate the changing of the narrative from Kakadu as a mineral province to a region that has successfully—and against considerable institutional odds—charted a course to the transition to a post mining future.

Collection

This collection is a place for the safe-keeping of materials related to the history of uranium mining in Kakadu National Park. It contains documents, photographs, newspaper clippings, videos, sound, objects and artefacts related to the resistance to unwanted uranium mining developments, and celebration of the end of mining in this heritage listed site.