In the first case where a company has failed to win a mining application on land granted under the Native Title Act, Reward Minerals Ltd subsidiary Holocene Pty Ltd was denied a lease over Lake Disappointment in Western Australia…NNTT [National Native Title Tribunal] deputy president Chris Sumner said…"the interests, proposals, opinions and wishes of the native title party in relation to the use of Lake Disappointment should be given a greater weight than the potential economic benefit or public interest in the project proceeding,"…“substantial interference with one of their important traditional sites is not acceptable in light of the limited benefits available to them” …