Meanwhile, 216 mining claims were lodged on land already staked out by solar developers.

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When the repeals finally came, in the early nineteen-sixties, Hancock staked his claims and, after more rounds of badgering, persuaded mining executives from Britain and the United States to invest in the Pilbara.

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