Fingerboards mineral sands mine

re-branded as Gippsland Critical Minerals

 

October 2024: Resources Victoria renewed two retention licences and one exploration licence for the controversial Fingerboards Mineral Sands project near Glenaladale, 25km west of Bairnsdale​​​

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Kalbar re-branded as Gippsland Critical Minerals

Fingerboards mineral sands mine proposal rejected by the Minister

 

2021: After months of public hearings and years of on-the-ground campaigning, the Victorian Minister for Planning assessed the environmental effects of the Fingerboards mineral sands mine as unacceptable.

​Read Environmental Justice Australia's summary here​​​

MINE-FIELD. The mining invasion of Victoria's rural communities

 

2023: A documentary about the sheer ruthlessness of mining companies and the failure of Victoria’s mining regulations. Exposes the devastating impact of mining on four Victorian rural communities and shows how a farming community in East Gippsland fought a mining company - and won.​​​

Gippsland Environment Group

 

29 July, 2019: Stockman Project: Work Plan – Mining Regulator Ignores Risks to Tambo River and Gippsland Lakes.​

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Stockman mine at Benambra

New licence to expand old tailings dam threatens Tambo River 

 

GEG condemns the Victorian Government’s decision to grant a mining infrastructure licence to WHSP Stockman Pty Ltd to reopen and expand the old Benambra mine tailings storage facility located on the headwaters of the Tambo River

01 August 2018

Short-term gain for long-term pain​

 

Concerns growing over the approval for an expanded mine tailings dam on the headwaters of East Gippsland’s Tambo River.

 

Victorian National Parks Association

27 July 2018

Mining licence application on Tambo River must be rejected

 

GEG organised a site visit to the Benambra mine tailings dam on the headwaters of the Tambo River to discuss mining company CopperChem’s proposal to re-open and massively expand the dam. The visit raised considerable alarm among all who attended.

​16 March 2018

Tambo River Toxic Threat 

 

East Gippsland’s beautiful Tambo River, and the Gippsland Lakes, are threatened by highly toxic waste from an unstable tailings dam.

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21 February 2018 GEG Media Release​

Murky deal threatens water

 

East Gippslanders have accused the Victorian Government of cutting a murky deal on reopening a Benambra tailings dam to take mine waste, which they say puts the Tambo Valley’s water supplies at risk

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12 January 2018 Weekly Times

The State Government's murky deal on Benambra mine tailings dam threatens Tambo River

GEG has condemned the Victorian Government’s decision to lift the mining licence exemption over the Stockman mine’s toxic tailings dam constructed on the headwaters of the Tambo River near Benambra.​

December 2017 Gippsland Environment Group Media​

Goldrush era rules to stop mining pollution

 

Tailings dams and other environmental protection measures are a recent set of developments. In Australia they have their origins in the long history of the gold rush.  

​14 August 2019 The Conversation 

Tambo tailings dam raises environmental fears
 

A tailings dam near the head of the Tambo River in Victoria’s east would be dramatically expanded under plans for a new copper and zinc mine, prompting fears from environmentalists about potential long-term impacts on waterways.

03 August 2014 The AGE

Mining's million dollar black hole
 

As the boom ends, poor oversight and lax bonds leave governments stuck with an enormous bill for mining’s clean-up.

24 May 2014 Saturday Paper