More than 2,500 public submissions were received during the review period, and 17 appeals were lodged against the Environmental Protection Authority's (EPA) recommendations to approve the mine.
Rinehart's Hancock Prospecting company still retains a 19% stake in the second mine – known as Kevin's Corner – which is majority owned by GVK and was approved by the environment minister, Greg Hunt, this month.
The Shenhua mine has already gone through a series of approval processes, include two NSW PAC assessments as well a number of referrals under the federal water trigger process.
Lower down the market, Finland's Talvivaara Mining Company, hit hard by a water leak which has stopped production at a nickel mine in the east of the country, recovered 21.6p to 105p.
The EPA will impose on the company a pollution reduction program which could include upgrades to the mine's water treatment facilities and management of the mine water discharge, including tighter limits for nickel and zinc, for example.
The first mine is part of the Alpha coal project, approved in August 2012, and is owned by Indian energy conglomerate GVK, which bought the coal interests from Australia's richest person, Gina Rinehart (who doesn't accept the science of human-caused climate change), in September 2011 as part of a $1.2bn deal.
It's nobody else's fault but mine, and it's embarrassing".
In opposition O'Farrell said the Liberal/Nationals coalition would not approve the mine, but the application has been progressing with the planning assessment commission yet to make a decision on it.
A friend of mine runs a website in Amsterdam, which is called, in Dutch, We Are Here to Stay.
Nhulunbuy, in remote north-east Arnhem Land, is a town owned and operated by Rio Tinto since 2007, when the mining company bought the Gove bauxite mine and refinery, established in 1963.
