Mining magnate Travers Duncan loses bid to gag ICAC

Mining magnate Travers Duncan has lost a last-minute High Court bid to stop the release of findings by the New South Wales corruption watchdog.

Soon after the failed attempt, the Independent Commission Against Corruption announced it will start handing down its highly anticipated findings into its corruption inquiries involving former NSW Labor ministers next Wednesday.

Mr Duncan was a witness for one of those inquiries, Operation Jasper.

He is one of seven investors whose company Cascade Coal was granted a mining licence over land owned by former Labor minister Eddie Obeid in the Bylong Valley.

The ICAC has investigated if the tender process was rigged, with the help of then mining minister Ian Macdonald.