METS

The adoption of new technologies in the mining, oil and gas sectors could bring $74 billion to the Australian economy by 2030 and over 80,000 jobs creation.

The Queensland Government has awarded Mackay-based Fergus Builders a contract to build the $7 million Resources Centre of Excellence in the region.

Austmine talks to several of its member companies about how fleet management services have evolved in the three decades since the founding of the industry body.

Austmine talks to its member groups to find out how maintenance in the METS sector has changed in the past three decades.

The Australian mining equipment, technology and services (METS) sector has shown its buoyancy once again with the success of Australia’s largest and longest-running mining exhibition, Asia-Pacific’s International Mining Exhibition (AIMEX), which has shown incredible resilience to post an increase in visitation.

Growth continues in mining as new or mothballed operations are given the green light, and existing mines expand, but how will the industry cope as labour demand exceeds supply?

Growth centre METS Ignited will provide $4 million in funding for collaborative projects that deliver innovation to the Australian mining and resources sector. 

Austmine reveals the five key themes that emerged for the mining and METS sector at its 2019 mining innovation conference in Brisbane.

Engineering company Metso has been welcomed as a participant of the Cooperative Research Centre for Optimising Resource Extraction (CRC ORE).

BHP has signed Melbourne-based technology company Southern Innovation to assist the mining giant in mineral exploration and extraction.

Austmine continues a focus on the evolution of the METS sector over the past 30 years with an in-depth look at exploration in Australia.

Seven engineering and technology companies have been granted significant financial awards totalling $4.1 million through METS Ignited’s project funding program.

Australia and Canada share a lot of similarities as two of the world’s leading mining nations. Peter Diekmeyer tells Australian Mining of the links between the two countries at at the PDAC convention in Toronto earlier this month.

METS Ignited is responding to mining’s many challenges through close collaboration with technology companies.

METS Ignited’s accelerator program is back with an expanded program for mining and energy resources scale-ups.

Recruitment agency Hays expects skills shortages in mining to be a major concern as the sector competes with other growth industries around Australia.

World’s top copper producer Chile has experienced a climb in non-copper exports in recent years. With its longstanding mining history, the country is looking at bridging METS collaboration with international markets.

Wolff Mining has received the Contract Miner of the Year Award for its innovative work at the Curragh mine in Queensland.

Two joint partners Unearthed and Newcrest Mining as well as Core Resources and Mineral Technologies have won the METS Ignited Collaboration Award for 2018 because judges were blown away by the calibre of their entries.

Rio Tinto is engaging the company’s team of global experts to develop a new chemical procedure to process a mineral known only to occur at Jadar in Serbia.