Technology Adoption
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 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.
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.
Rox Resources isn’t just talking about going into development at its high-grade Youanmi Gold Project in WA’s Mid West — it’s doing it.
“You’re so vein, I’m so vein, we’re all so vein,” quipped Dale Sims as he opened his presentation at the AusIMM Mineral Resource Estimation Conference ‘MREC 2025’ in Perth.
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.
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.
As underground mining continues to push the limits of depth, temperature, and stress environments, traditional geotechnical design tools are being pushed just as hard.
In a keynote that seamlessly blended personal narrative with professional mastery, Mo Srivastava—resource estimation consultant and co-author of the widely used An Introduction to Applied Geostatistics—stood before the audience at the 2025 AusIMM Mineral Resource Estimation Conference in Perth and delivered what may be remembered as one of the most interdisciplinary and thought-provoking presentations of the event.
At the 2025 AusIMM Mineral Resource Estimation Conference in Perth, AngloGold Ashanti's Chief Technology Officer, Dr Marcelo Godoy, delivered a keynote that sparked serious introspection across the resource estimation profession.
