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Have your say on proposed planning controls for future quarries

Feedback is being sought on proposed planning controls aimed at protecting important quarry resources near Lang Lang and Trafalgar in the state’s south-east, and an existing stone quarry near Oaklands Junction in Melbourne’s north.

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Mine from the past shows critical minerals potential

A new study by Resources Victoria’s geoscientists has found elevated levels of critical minerals vanadium and rhenium, along with low levels of rare earth elements, in rocks from historic phosphate mines in the state’s north and east.

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Could you get lucky and strike gold these school holidays?

The school holidays are a great time to get out in nature and search for gold on the back of some recent amateur discoveries across western Victoria.

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Latrobe Valley Regional Rehabilitation Strategy

Mine rehabilitation planning and activities to achieve safe and sustainable landforms that support the next land use.

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Strategic Extractive Resource Areas

The Strategic Extractive Resource Areas pilot project aims to safeguard the sand, stone and gravel Victoria needs to build infrastructure.

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Regulatory reform

Victoria’s approach to regulating mines and quarries is changing.

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