Risk
As mining operations push more production data into remote operations centres, cloud platforms and analytics systems, the industry faces a deceptively simple problem: how do you get useful data out of an operational network without creating another pathway back in? Chris Rule, General Manager Defence, Security and Resilience at GME, says the answer starts with knowing exactly how your mine is connected, who has access and which connections genuinely need to work both ways.
Will Kendall has a line that lands with the quiet force of something everyone in the room already knew but hadn’t quite said out loud: "Base case is cost overruns of over 20 per cent," Will says, "That’s your base case.
Henkel has moved production of its high impact wearing compound to Victoria and cut lead times by two thirds.
Mine water safety conversations default to tailings dams, but Dr Cherie McCullough spent an hour explaining why the larger risk is day to day exposure to as little as 1.
Africa's critical mineral producers are shifting from hosting resources to setting terms, and a recent intelligence briefing shows the leverage is real, the value capture is not yet, and the read-through for Australian operations is sharper than the geopolitics suggests.
WA-listed companies added almost A$131 billion in market value during FY26, but the strongest performers did more than catch a commodity upswing.
Australia's share of China's lithium concentrate imports has almost halved since 2022, but the interesting question is not who took it – it is why they are being paid so much less for it.
The WA Mining Club wanted Aaron Morey’s last word on Four Corners – what it got was a more revealing argument about mining, technology and the dangerous appeal of simple answers.
Mining companies already hold a wealth of safety intelligence, but the challenge is turning it into knowledge workers can recognise and act on before a near miss becomes an injury.
Arafura Rare Earths Managing Director and CEO Darryl Cuzzubbo told the WA Mining Club that Nolans is moving from critical minerals rhetoric to construction reality, but the real test will be processing, ramp-up, suppliers and whether Australia can help build a serious rare earths supply chain outside China.
