mine after the “Commonwealth Aluminium Corporation Pty. Limited Agreement Act 1957” removed Indigenous ownership of the area surrounding the deposits. Since then, Rio Tinto has joined three agreements with local Indigenous groups to benefit Indigenous communities surrounding the Weipa mine. These agreements are the ELY Bauxite Mining Project Agreement (EBMPA) made in 1997, the Western Cape Communities Co-Existence Agreement (WCCCA) made in 2001, and the Western Cape Regional Partnership Heads of Agreement made in 2008. Weipa mine is currently made up of three separate bauxite mines at the East Weipa, Andoom and Amrun deposits. The East Weipa mine is where bauxite mining in Weipa began and has been operating continuously since 1963. Deposits at the East Weipa mine are beginning to run out which has led to the development of the Amrun mine in 2018. Rio Tinto has two refineries, the Alumina Limited refinery and the Yarwun alumina refinery, where bauxite mined at Weipa is refined. Otherwise, the raw bauxite ore is exported. Gove Mine Gove mine is located on the Gove Peninsula in the Northern Territory and is currently owned by Rio Tinto. In 2018, the mine produced 12.5 million tonnes of bauxite with an alumina percentage of approximately 49.2% Al2O3. Bauxite was discovered on Arnhem Land reserves in the Gove Peninsula by the Northern Territory Coastal Patrol Service in 1952. The discovery in Gove was mainly driven by the demand for domestic bauxite sources by the government in response to World War II. This was because, up till then aluminium supply in Australia had largely depended on foreign bauxite mining and smelting. Unlike in Queensland and Western Australia, the Commonwealth government determined policy surrounding bauxite mining and so had power over the Gove bauxite deposit. However, the deposits were unaccessible for mining as they were on Aboriginal reserves. In 1953, the government persuaded the Northern territory Legislative Council to allow mining on Aboriginal reserves by amending the "Aboriginals Ordinance and Mining Ordinance". These amendments eventually led to the Yirrkala bark petitions in 1963, which fought for the recognition of the Yolngu people as the rightful owners of Arnhem land. Despite this, the Commonwealth government continued trying to lease the Gove bauxite deposits. Commonwealth policy for Gove was centred on two objectives: the industrial development of bauxite refineries in the remote areas of northern Australia, and significant Australian equity in the enterprise. With these objectives in mind, the Commonwealth