METS

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.

As digitisation continues to disrupt the mineral processing space, Austmine members Ausenco and PETRA Data Science explore the future process plant in operation.

Carlton is better known for its boutique retail and dining than the production of niche mining equipment, but a locally owned and operated business is forging ahead in the earth resources sector, and it’s getting noticed.

The Queensland Government, together with METS Ignited, is funding a series of programs to help regional METS businesses showcase their products or services.

Gold miner Evolution Mining will play a key role in mining technology event Unearthed Sydney 2018.

Austmine talks to its collaborative partners and members about how the Australian mining industry is becoming a digital environment.

Three Australian mining equipment companies are to embark on a two-week immersive course in Chile as part of government-funded body METS Ignited’s METStech Passport program.