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a woman and two men sit around a wooden dining table looking at maps. wooden panels in the background with a fruitbowl in front

two men in navy shirts and shorts stand in front of a red tractor on a sunny day. farm shed in the back.

"The stress that it's caused has been fairly immense … the lack of information too, has been hard on us,"
she said.

woman holding black and tan kelpie standing in garden with purple and white flowers in pot. two stone figurines in foreground.

"We own this land and we've worked our guts out to keep what's here."

map of wimmera mallee with blue and purple lines depicting mining license types and sand deposits.

"There are only two or three really strong zones in Australia where you can grow lentils,"
he said.
harvested paddock with red harvester loading lentils into a white truck

man with grey hair, demin shirt and navy vest pour lentils into a silver container at a bench in a mini lab.

"You couldn't have picked a worse spot even if you tried,"
he said.

"Rehabilitation and all of these environmental and safety measures are fully integrated into a mine plan before the mine is approved,"
Mr Sorahan said.

man with beige shirt stands with hands one in front of the other against a yellow leaf tree. filtered sunlight.

"We deal with dirt everyday so we understand what can grow and what can't."
green paddock with a sandy mine pit about 25 meters deep with two yellow earthmoving trucks.

drone shot of a paddock with a dam, sheep, crop on the left slide and some depressions in the terrain.

man with blue and white checked shirt wearing black watch stands in paddock with arm draped on fence

"We've handed a closure and completion notice to the landholder so I'm comfortable they're very happy with the results,"
Mr McGrath said.

aerial shot of orange brown land and pits that has been dug and mined

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