Major Initiatives

Earth Resources Community Engagement Strategy
The Earth Resources Division's Community Engagement Strategy has been developed to ensure that we remain responsive to community expectations. The four year strategy aims to embed community engagement into the core responsibilities of the Division and to encourage the earth resources industry to work better with their communities.

Gold Undercover
The AUD$9 million ‘Developing Gold Undercover’ program, which will last for three years, will continue the work of the VIMP program by investing in new, pre-competitive geoscience data and on-line delivery mechanisms to supply information to potential investors quickly and efficiently.

Moving Forward - Victorian Earth Resources Innovation Roadmap
As part of the Victorian Government’s Provincial Statement, entitled ‘Moving Forward’, the Innovation Roadmap project has established a vision and development pathway for technology in the resources sector, a key and growing sector for provincial Victoria.

Rediscover Victoria
The Rediscover Victoria initiative will invest AUD$5.0 million over four years in a new geoscience program to encourage minerals and petroleum exploration in parts of the State where little exploration has occurred to date.

Victorian Geological Carbon Storage
The Victorian Geological Carbon Storage (VicGCS) Initiative is researching the regional carbon dioxide (CO2) storage capacity of the Gippsland Basin. This four-year, AUD$5.2 million project is being delivered by GeoScience Victoria, a branch of the Earth Resources Division of the Department of Primary Industries.

Developing the Latrobe Valley Resources Future
Developing the Latrobe Valley Resources Future is a AUD$1.5 million initiative over 3 years, commenced in July 2006, to support and encourage new brown coal- based investment in the Latrobe Valley including generating opportunities from products derived from coal.

Victorian Initiative for Minerals and Petroleum
The AUD$32 million VIMP program has helped rejuvenate the Victorian minerals and energy industry by providing explorers with high quality geological information which has resulted in the discovery of valuable new orebodies and petroleum reserves.