Tungsten
If you think the most exciting innovations in critical-minerals exploration are happening in labs or boardrooms, you might want to take another look at the drill pad.
When global power plays, policy whiplash and economic shocks collide, opportunity hides in the chaos — and for Australia’s critical minerals sector, survival now depends on strategy as much as supply.
After a shaky start to 2025, the Australian exploration sector appears to be tentatively turning a corner.
When most miners think about tailings, they think about storage, risk management, and rehabilitation, but at the Life of Mine | Mine Waste and Tailings Conference 2025 in Brisbane, Clem Cahill, technical director - tailings at GHD, showed how the Kara Mine flipped that thinking on its head - turning its own waste stream into a high-performance construction material.
Western Australian gold explorer Hamelin Gold is taking a data-driven approach to cracking some of the state's most prospective but underexplored terrains, blending geoscience and tech in the hunt for multi-million-ounce deposits.
With a bold reframe of its flagship project and a new managing director en route, Investigator Resources is drawing a sharper line under its development credentials.
