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Article

6 May 2005

Author:
BBC News

Australia miner pleads guilty

Energy Resources Australia (ERA) [part of Rio Tinto] has pleaded guilty to three charges, and faces fines of A$300,000 (US$230,000). Twenty-eight workers fell sick last year after drinking and showering in water allegedly containing 400 times the allowable limit of uranium...ERA's lawyer Ross Ray...said the workers would not suffer any long-term health effects.