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Mineral sands are emerging as a major mineral resource for Victoria. Mineral sands are ancient beach sands that contain concentrations of. minerals including rutile, ilmenite, zircon and monazite as well as other rare earth elements. Geology. Rutile, ilmenite and zircon originally grew as crystals in. igneous rocks such as granite, pegmatite and basalt and. some metamorphic rocks.
Sand mining is a practice that is used to extract sand, mainly through an open pit. However, sand is also mined from beaches, inland dunes and dredged from ocean beds and river beds. It is often used in manufacturing as an abrasive, for example, and it is used to make concrete.nother reason for sand mining is the extraction of minerals such as rutile, ilmenite and zircon, which contain the industrially useful elements titanium and zirconium.