Edition 8 of the Fingerboards Project newsletter is out now, with a look at how far the Mining and Rehabilitation Demonstration Pit has come since work began in April and what happens next.

Inside this edition:

• More than 200 people have been down to the demo pit across 27 guided tours
• How in-pit tailings work, and why the pit doesn’t reach the regional groundwater system
• The demo pit by the numbers, including $1.4 million awarded through local procurement and 20 East Gippsland businesses and suppliers
• A long-term home for the Gippsland Sheep Breeders Association wether trial, and the results of its final shearing
• Upcoming drop-in sessions and pop-up stalls, and the specialists who took part in the first Ask the Expert sessions

Every edition is on our News and Resources page.