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Silver Mines (ASX:SVL) will push ahead with its Bowdens Silver Mine after a Court of Appeal decision to uphold a local environment group’s administrative legal challenge. A local land management group opposed to the project originally took issue with the NSW government’s planning division in that it had failed to properly consider the environmental impact of a transmission line on-site. However, that same group has previously told ABC journalists that possible lead pollution is more of a concern. Lead and silver tend to coincide together. While those concerns do merit some level of legal scrut…

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