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1. The Applicant, Hong Kong Clays and Kaolin Co. Ltd. ("the Company"), mines kaolin and feldspar on a site in Cha Kwo Ling. It was originally granted a mining lease to extract minerals there in 1961, though it claims to have been conducting mining operations at the site since 1939. It has also been granted a lease of the site itself. Both leases are dependent on each other, because the lease for the site provides that the lease would automatically cease if the mining lease was determined. The tw