Mining Innovation & Technology Trends

Empire’s titanium unicorn breaks the mould with free-dig ore, no ilmenite, and a flow sheet that rewrites the TiO₂ playbook

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.

Tin gets its groove back as Sky Metals unleashes ore sorter magic on historic NSW mine

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.

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.

Saturn Metals ramps up Apollo Hill with big rigs, low costs and a heap leach game plan set to shake up the WA gold scene

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.

WA lake mud gets high-tech makeover powering alumina push with pilot plant and plans to light up LEDs batteries and semiconductors around the world

It might not sound like a futuristic mineral play: scrape up some wet lakebed mud, truck it to Fremantle, and fire up a shed full of pipes and valves.

Investigator resets the Paris playbook with fresh water, new MD Lachlan Wallace, and silver momentum building ahead of a big second-half DFS push

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.

Rox Resources secures $40M and shifts into high gear with Youanmi Gold Project racing toward development in WA’s Mid West

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: Dale Sims unearths the blind spots and biases that quietly sabotage resource models—and why the real risk lies between our ears

“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.

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.