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Victorian wineries sell vineyards to gold miners amid global headwinds
There's profit to be found in the earth of Victoria's Great Western region. For more than a century a small community of vineyards has extracted that value from the shallow soils, drawing up nutrients to grow healthy grapes and produce award-winning wines. But, there are also those who have dug much deeper, in a bid to strike gold. It is in town of Great Western — on the edge of the Grampians in Victoria's central west — that the state's historic wine and gold industries are now colliding. The ABC can reveal gold exploration company Aureka last year purchased three vineyards in the region, in the hopes of tapping ... (full story)