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{{Short description|Former Australian mining and extraction company}}
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'''Nabalco''', (North Australian Bauxite and Alumina Company) was a mining and extraction company set up in 1964 to exploit [[bauxite]] reserves on the [[Gove Peninsula]], Australia. Nabalco was renamed '''''Alcan Gove Pty Ltd''''' in 2002.<ref>{{citation| url=http://www.eoas.info/biogs/A001269b.htm| title=Nabalco Pty Ltd - Corporate entry |publisher=Encyclopedia of Australian Science| work=www.eoas.info}}</ref>
Nabalco was formed from a consortium including the Swiss-based [[Alusuisse]] (70%) and the Australian company [[CSR Limited]].<ref>{{citation|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=HyHh-OrnRGoC| title =Aboriginal Placenames: Naming and Re-Naming the Australian Landscape| editor = Harold Koch| editor2= Luise Hercus| publisher = ANU E Press| year = 2009 | chapter-url =http://epress.anu.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/ch173.pdf| pages=404|author= Melanie Wilkinson| author2= R. Marika| author3 = Nancy M. Williams| chapter = 17. ‘This place already has a name’}}</ref><ref>{{citation| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=ILwOAAAAQAAJ| title = The industrial geography of Australia| author = David Charles Rich| publisher = Methuen LBC | isbn =0-454-01459-7| page =337}}</ref>
The development was opposed by the [[Indigenous Australians|indigenous inhabitants]], which gave rise to the legal action [[Milirrpum v Nabalco Pty Ltd]] (Gove land rights case). That resulted in a ruling against intrinsic native land rights in 1971.
==See also==
* ''[[Where the Green Ants Dream]]''
==References==
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==External links==
*{{citation| url =http://www.alcangove.com.au/home/| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20070928132700/http://www.alcangove.com.au/home/| archive-date  =28 September 2007| work = www.alcangove.com|title = Alcan Gove. Investing in the Northern Territory| publisher = [[Alcan]]}}, archive of Alcan Gove company webpage
[[Category:Mining companies of Australia]]
[[Category:Bauxite mining]]
[[Category:Companies based in the Northern Territory]]
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