What is mineral sands mining and why are farmers wary of its mining potential? | ABC Australia

Mining companies are proposing eight new mineral sand mines on farmland in the Murray Basin, but what are they and what does it mean for the environment?
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[@PiDsPagePrototypes]

It doesn't matter how rich you are off these minerals if there's no food grown anymore. Australia's prioroty needs to be ensuring our independent food production, and then export of excess. We need to be able to survive without requiring imports.

[@villiersman951]

what do we need to eat or to mine?

[@andronikoszinakus6644]

The spice must flow

[@JustinCentralOfficial]

Hello

[@alisonshanahan1237]

Gov wants to waste these minerals on obsolete technologies. We need food.

[@dmystify1381]

yes but your talking about the last 2 centuries,there was Not a lot of education/knowledge nor care for rehabilitation of land being mined & yet here we are in other parts of this country where illegal felling of trees/harvesting is occurring & is Fact.(Rinyirru National Park)...or un-named person in NSW clearing farmland property(s) illegally time & time again,your ending does Not present an argumentive case rather you base on history rather than the current practices in land mining rehabilitation.