exploration drilling
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.
In mining, every generation gets its own frontier.
A new study in Occupational Medicine has found that respirable crystalline silica (RCS) exposures in the Western Australian mining industry are now so low that the risk of silicosis is negligible - even in job categories traditionally considered high risk.
Waratah Minerals has struck a chord with the exploration community following its compelling update at the RIU Sydney Resources Round-up in early May, where managing director Peter Duerden unveiled a genuine gold-copper discovery story unfolding at the company’s Spur Project—just kilometres from one of Australia’s premier porphyry operations, Cadia Valley.
Australia’s offshore oil sector is stirring to life with a new wave of development momentum and exploration ambition, centred on two high-grade liquids discoveries that could materially shift the national fuel balance — and open the door for substantial equipment and service demand across the METS value chain.
Koba Resources (ASX:KOB) hit the RIU Sydney Resources Round-up in May with a sharp message: uranium might be out of the headlines, but in the Frome Embayment of South Australia, it’s very much alive—and Koba is drilling hard to prove it.
Forget ilmenite—sediment-hosted, hydrothermally-altered titanium system in Western Australia is flipping the script on how high-grade TiO₂ feedstocks are found—and how they’re processed.
An historic tin camp in New South Wales is getting a second life — and this time, it’s riding shotgun with a next-gen XRT sorter that’s doing the heavy lifting.
For underground mining professionals, the AusIMM Underground Operators Conference in Adelaide delivered no shortage of technical insights—but it was a keynote from one of the industry’s most accomplished leaders that left the deepest impression.
By all accounts, Tania Constable didn’t just drop the mic at the WA Mining Club — she fracked the stage, dug it up, and shipped it off to China.
