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    Victoria’s collaborative critical minerals push: land rehab lens for mine planners

    June 9, 2026|

    Reviewed by Joe Ashwell

    Victoria’s collaborative critical minerals push: land rehab lens for mine planners

    First reported on Australian Mining

    30 Second Briefing

    Victoria has created a Mineral Sands Agricultural Land Restoration Working Group to bring together mineral sands operators, farmers, researchers and government agencies to advise on critical minerals development in farming regions. The group will focus on rehabilitation and soil restoration standards for projects such as VHM’s Goschen mineral sands development in north-west Victoria, one of Australia’s largest rare earth and zircon deposits. Outcomes are expected to influence mine planning, topsoil handling, backfilling strategies and post-mining land capability assessments across the state’s agricultural basins.

    Technical Brief

    • Working group scope explicitly targets mineral sands operations in Victoria’s dryland and irrigated farming districts.
    • Advisory membership combines mineral sands operators, peak farming bodies, soil scientists and Victorian Government agencies.
    • Group remit includes advising on sequencing of mining blocks to minimise disruption to cropping rotations.
    • Soil restoration advice is expected to address subsoil compaction, drainage reinstatement and salinity risk in reprofiled paddocks.
    • Outcomes are intended to feed into statutory approval conditions and work plan requirements for new mineral sands mines.
    • Guidance is also expected to influence progressive rehabilitation scheduling and criteria for relinquishment of mining leases.
    • Similar multi‑stakeholder rehabilitation panels in other Australian states may benchmark against Victoria’s mineral sands framework.

    Our Take

    VHM’s Goschen Project in Victoria shows up elsewhere in our database as already having its mining work plan approved, so a ‘collaborative approach’ here likely refers to navigating the remaining financing, infrastructure and offtake steps rather than early-stage permitting risk.

    Victoria’s critical minerals positioning in our coverage is tied not just to mineral sands but also to gold and antimony targets out to 2035, which suggests Goschen-style projects may be evaluated by government against a broader, multi-commodity development pathway rather than in isolation.

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    Prepared by collating external sources, AI-assisted tools, and Geomechanics.io’s proprietary mining database, then reviewed for technical accuracy & edited by our geotechnical team.

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