Content Roundup: Key Conversations Ahead of IMARC 2024

We are thrilled to announce that Richard Roberts has joined IMARC as our new Editorial Director. We are excited to share some recent content published in anticipation of our upcoming event in Sydney, from October 29-31 2024. To register for IMARC, visit https://imarcglobal.com/register

Here are some highlights of the latest articles and features to get you ready for the event:

Uranium prices fuel hopes of developers

It didn’t make it into the International Energy Agency’s 282-page 2024 Global Critical Minerals Outlook report but uranium is re-emerging as the most important energy transition mineral of all, according to its renascent supporters.

• Tae-Yoon Kim , Senior Energy Analyst, International Energy Agency (IEA)
• Murray Hill FAusIMM, Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer, Elevate Uranium (ASX: EL8)

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Australia a vital part of changing cobalt picture: Dinah McLeod

Discussion of a landmark study of cobalt markets and long-term demand for the metal will be a focus for Cobalt Institute director general Dinah McLeod when she makes her first visit to IMARC in October this year.

Heading a gilt-edged line-up of international critical minerals experts and leaders on the IMARC 2024 program, McLeod says a Cobalt 2050 study produced with support from the institute’s 57 members will be a feature of her Energy Transition and Decarbonisation stream keynote.

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Mining tech, AI, the rise of China and IMARC: A conversation with Mark O’Brien

CITIC Pacific Mining technology and innovation general manager, Mark O'Brien again heads a stellar line-up of experts addressing opportunities and pitfalls in mining’s digital transformation at IMARC 2024 in Sydney. He’s had plenty to say lately about AI, finding time to finish a PhD on AI and ethics, mobile autonomy and how timing can make good ideas great.

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Mining tech shift: Look out below

The flow of financing and acquisitions in the global mining and metals technology domain may have slowed, but strong underlying structural drivers remain evident in deals such as UK-based Spectris’ US$260 million buyout of SciAps.

• Erik Belz , President and Chief Operating Officer, Engine No. 1

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On the front line: Karina Lynch welcomes IMARC platform

Karina Lynch says this year’s powerful delegation of Indigenous and First Nations leaders will make vital contributions to IMARC 2024 discussions about the future of mining industry community and workforce engagement.

The delegation includes a large contingent from Indigenous Women in Mining and Resources Australia (IWIMRA), where Lynch is a director.

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Miners can shift battery recycling debate: ABRI’s Katharine Hole

Australian Association for the Battery Recycling Industry CEO Katharine Hole says the country’s mining and mining service industries have the opportunity to play a substantial role in accelerating development of in-country electric vehicle (EV) and energy storage battery supply chains and wants to grow collaboration.

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Trash to treasure: Julian Treger heralds key value step for new-age miner

External validation of the positive economics of an iron ore tailings reclamation project at Lac Jeannine in Quebec, Canada, is a key step for CoTec Holdings Corp towards becoming a “21st century mining company”, according to CEO Julian Treger .

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Close mining, space encounters to continue in Sydney

In an ideal world the terrestrial mining and commercial space sectors are working arm in arm on their mutual problems (or challenges). Michelle Keegan , Director Resources & Space, Deputy Chair (and founder) Resources Advisory Board, AROSE thinks that connection is getting closer.

She hopes a meeting of representatives of the two industries alongside Australia’s largest mining event, IMARC, in October can forge another key link in the chain.

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Tipping point for mine waste? A conversation with Anita Parbhakar-Fox

Smarter mining is going to help unlock billions of dollars of “mine waste” value and materially move the industry’s ESG dial, according to Anita Parbhakar-Fox .

One of the world’s leading voices on the hot topic of mine waste transformation through characterisation, the University of Queensland associate professor says the inaugural Mining, Metals and the Circular Economy conference in Sydney, Australia, in October this year is an important follow-up to a packed-out Australian Mine Waste Symposium in February.

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