Gippsland Critical Minerals
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Oct 20, 2026
Michelle WoodSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
We'll keep working through everything that happened on site with the regulator and we can show them all the reports and they'll make their investigations but to date they have found no issue with anything that occurred on the 15th of September over a month ago and anything that has happened since.
Warwick LongHOST
That is Gippsland Critical Minerals CEO Michelle Wood speaking to Fiona Broome there.
Warwick LongHOST
Resources Victoria was also contacted for comment.
Warwick LongHOST
Now let's talk about big fish, shall we? Dave out there at Lake Tyres has sent numerous photos of big tuna.
Michael BuxtonGUEST
So there's very high risk, they said, to the Linden Road horticultural area.
Libby PriceHOST
Now, of course, the company behind the project, Gippsland Critical Minerals, rejects those claims and says its new bid for approval includes significant changes.
Libby PriceHOST
What do you think of the government therefore reconsidering this new bid?
Michael BuxtonGUEST
Well, I think it's a shocking misuse of the process.
Fiona BroomeCORRESPONDENT
In 2021, the Victorian government rejected the Fingerboards Mineral Sands Project proposed by Calbar Operations.
Fiona BroomeCORRESPONDENT
In 2023, Calbar, now called Gippsland Critical Minerals, or GCM, submitted a re-scoped proposal, which the government accepted for review.
Kane BushSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
We're amazed that it even got another shot.
Kane BushSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Nothing's really changed.
Michael BuxtonSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
It's hard to think of a project of the scale of this one where the situation is so serious because the scale of this is vast.
Fiona BroomeCORRESPONDENT
The Victorian government declined a request for interview saying it would be inappropriate to comment while the project is being assessed.
Fiona BroomeCORRESPONDENT
Gippsland Critical Minerals Chief Executive Michelle Wood rejects claims that the fingerboards proposal is the same one that was rejected back in 2021.
Fiona BroomeCORRESPONDENT
So
Gina Cass-GottliebSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
We have, uh, three groups of companies.
Gina Cass-GottliebSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Uh, one i-is a group, uh, that we have called the Core Group, and, uh, those companies, um, i-ha-are based headquartered in Queensland, and they own, uh, jointly own Sunny Queen, which is a company that they have been using as a marketing channel or marketing vehicle.
Gina Cass-GottliebSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And that marketing vehicle they have jointly used together with McLean Farms.
Gina Cass-GottliebSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And so the two have separate and independent farming production operations, but used a joint vehicle to, as a marketing channel, a-also, we allege, to coordinate the way in which they approached production volumes, who would be distributed to, expansion plans, and culling to manage perceived oversupply i-in a way that we think and allege likely substantially reduced competition.
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Fiona BroomeCORRESPONDENT
It's about twenty-five kilometers west of Bairnsdale.
Fiona BroomeCORRESPONDENT
Um, so some real mining giants have held stakes in that area over the years, uh, but ultimately, um, all of the, the projects or the plans for that area have been abandoned or sold on to other companies.
Fiona BroomeCORRESPONDENT
More recently, the Fingerboards Mineral Sands Project was proposed by a company called Kalbar, and it was assessed for a mining license by the Victorian Government.
Fiona BroomeCORRESPONDENT
That process, Warwick, took about ten years from, you know, the project being put forward to an extensive environmental assessment process known as an EES.