Mining magnate Clive Palmer plans to take his legal fight with the federal government all the way to Switzerland.

The outspoken tycoon owes the Commonwealth more than $13 million after an international tribunal put his "foreign investor" claim over a lucrative iron ore mine in the Pilbara region to bed.

The Hague-based Permanent Court of Arbitration said it had no jurisdiction over the dispute between a national government and one of its citizens.

But Palmer has vowed to push on.

"The Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland would be the next step in the journey to achieve justice in the matter, hopeful of the final arbiter taking an opposite view to that of the tribunal," he said in a statement on Sunday.

The long-running international dispute stems from a Singaporean investment company

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