The Federal Court has dismissed a Queensland Indigenous group's attempt to stop the multi-billion-dollar Galilee basin coal mining project by challenging the mining leases.

Members of the Wangan and Jagalingou people claimed that the approval of two mining leases would extinguish native title over parts of their lands.  The group also claimed that the mining company Adani misled the tribunal about the economic benefits the mine would create.

But Federal Justice John Reeves ruled that these positions had no merit, and that the National Native Title Tribunal did not fail to observe the rules of natural justice or constructively fail to exercise its jurisdiction.

"While I respect the judgement of Justice Reeves, we will seek advice from our legal team on an appeal," said Adrian Burragubba, one of the traditional owners who brought the challenge against Adani.  "It is clear, however, that my submissions to the court and our concern to protect our life, culture and traditions and the social, cultural and economic structures of our group were dismissed and overridden."  He added, "We continue to be restricted in the full expression of our laws and customs, in service to the machinery of mining development and the destruction of our country and culture."

Adani said it would continue to work with the other traditional owners from the Wangan and Jagalingou groups.