Geological exploration and resource modelling

Maronan drills down on silver, lead and copper riches as starter zone shapes up for a fast track to mine-ready in Queensland’s metals heartland

A polymetallic deposit in the heart of Queensland’s North West Minerals Province is shaping up as a future supplier of high-grade lead-silver and copper-gold concentrates, with resource confidence, metallurgy, and mine planning advancing in lockstep.

Gold goes sky high while emissions hit the floor proving you really can have your bullion and green it too

Amid mounting global uncertainty, shifting trade policy, and resource nationalism, a clear signal has emerged from the Q1 2025 State of the Market webinar hosted by S&P Global Commodity Insights: gold has not only reclaimed its throne as a safe-haven asset but is doing so with a cleaner footprint.

When gold doesn’t follow the rules, machine learning finds the clues and a folded dome reveals why your domains were lying to you all along

At the 2025 AusIMM Mineral Resource Estimation Conference in Perth, geologist Jordan McDivitt delivered a sharp, technically grounded presentation on how machine learning and structural geology can work hand in hand to model complexity in orogenic gold systems.