The Minister for Planning rejected the mine proposal. His assessment of the project was damning for Kalbar.
However Resources Victoria has ignored the Minister’s assessment and renewed the Fingerboards ‘Retention Licence’ in October 2024. Gippsland Critical Minerals (aka Kalbar/REZir) claim they are ‘rescoping’ the project and will be trying again for a mining licence.
Mine-Free Glenaladale and The Orange Army are taking up arms again. We will not stand by and let these cowboys destroy our community, our environment and our local economy.
To read more about the Assessment and Kalbar/Gippsland Critical Minerals/Appian latest moves check out the Updates on Victoria’s Most Ludicrous Mining Proposal , Kalbar’s delusional name change to Gippsland Critical Minerals , and how they’re trying to cash in on $Federal for rare earths.
We undertake a lot of research to provide valid and reliable information to keep people updated about the mine.
If that information is shown to be incorrect we will readily make the necessary corrections.
Thank you to everyone who has gotten us this far.
We had thought the journey was over and that we could get back to life.
Unfortunately some cosmetic changes to the company (Kalbar Operations has rebranded itself Gippsland Critical Minerals and Kalbar Ltd is now called REZir) and a massive amount of unbridled spin, means the fight is back on as the current Minister has ignored the IAC and Richard Wynne’s advice and renewed their retention licence.
We still need your help to stop this mine – the health of our environment and the future of our children are depending on us. Please help if you can by donating to our Keep Glenaladale Mine-Free fundraiser
GET THE FACTS – NOT THE HYPE We are holding our first community meeting since the devastating news that Resources Victoria had ignored Minister Wynne’s damning assessment of the Fingerboards mine and renewed GCM/Kalbar/REZir’s licence over the area in October 2024. Since then Gippsland Critical Minerals (GCM formerly Kalbar Operations
Kalbar’s desperate attempt to hide the threats to the vegetable industry were exposed during the EES process. Their ‘Horticulture Report’ was shown to be nothing more than an embarrassment – compounded by the fact that their ‘experts’ had not visited the area to talk to concerned growers and had no
Mine-Free Glenaladale acknowledges the Gunaikurnai people as the Traditional Owners of the country on which we live and work. We pay our respects to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people living in our region and to their elders past, present and future.
