Process Innovation
While battery metals took centre stage at this year’s RIU Sydney Resources Round-up, Zeotech quietly dropped what might be one of the most technically disruptive materials plays in the room.
A new player in Western Australia’s industrial minerals space is making a serious tilt at Asia’s booming demand for high-purity quartz (HPQ), with a dual-mine revival strategy backed by testwork breakthroughs, smart ore sorting, and a boots-on-ground presence in China’s quartz processing heartland.
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.
In a corner of Western Australia traditionally known for iron ore, a quiet transformation is underway in gas.
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.
In WA’s southern Goldfields, a smart, equipment-light approach is reshaping how smaller miners get into production without blowing the capex budget.
In a sector where some juniors are still chasing intercepts and headlines, Green Technology Metals (GT1) is cutting a different path—quietly advancing an integrated, low-footprint lithium supply chain in Canada’s Ontario province with the sort of engineering discipline and metallurgical pragmatism that turns geology into cash flow.
In a pitch that blended geology with geopolitics, American West Metals managing director Dave O’Neill delivered a standout presentation at the RIU Sydney Resources Round-up 2025, offering investors a compelling vision of what could become the world’s lowest-cost copper mine.
They call it Orient—but there's nothing vague about the trajectory of this polymetallic system buried just inland from Atherton in North Queensland.
A new bulk-tonnage gold project in Western Australia is shaping up as a standout case study in low-cost development and practical innovation, as it advances toward full-scale heap leach production with big rigs, tight metallurgy, and a streamlined cost base.
