Mining firms claim some success in influencing their workers' nocturnal habits, though hard evidence of changed behaviour is scanty.

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They claim the Pombo bill is catering to timber interests, mining interests, power companies and big agribusiness.

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If that claim is on public land, absolutely nothing according to the General Mining Act of 1872.

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