Sponsors

Thank you to all of our sponsors who took part in the 30th IAGS. Without their support we could not have put on the event that we did. 

Diamond



MAJOR PRESENTING PARTNER

We are among the world's largest and most diverse scientific research organisations, dedicated to addressing Australia's most pressing challenges.

CSIRO's Discovery Program pioneers’ new techniques for effective mineral exploration and is proud to be a major supporter of the IAGS. 

Our innovations include processing routines for remotely sensed data, Ultrafine+, LandScape+ and automated drill core analysis including MyLogger, which work to transform targetting and drilling. We use inter-disciplinary science at multiple scales with a focus on tools for sustainable mineral discovery.

 

We look forward to sharing ideas and collaborating at the IAGS.




Platinum

STREAM SPONSOR

Newmont is the world’s leading gold company and a producer of copper, silver, zinc and lead. Our world-class portfolio of assets, prospects and talent is anchored in favourable mining jurisdictions in Australia, North America, South America and Africa. 

As an industry leader in value creation, supported by robust safety standards, superior execution and technical proficiency, Newmont is widely recognised for its principled environmental, social and governance practices.

With operations around the world, Newmont’s workforce reflects the diversity of the communities where we operate. We understand that collaboration among different cultures, ideas and perspectives brings forth greater creativity, innovation, improved decision making and employee engagement.

To maintain our competitive advantage, we seek to attract, develop and retain the best and most talented people with diverse experiences and backgrounds.

The world needs more talented, creative and curious geochemists to support responsible mining and as role models so geochemistry becomes a profession of choice.

As a sponsor of 24th IAGS, Newmont welcomes delegates to Australia and is proud to support the timely and highly relevant conference theme of Applied Geochemistry for a Sustainable Future and its focus on advancing geochemistry to underpin mineral exploration and the associated fields of environment and analysis.

STREAM SPONSOR

The Geological Society of Australia was established as a non-profit organisation in 1952 to promote, advance and support Earth sciences in Australia.



GALA DINNER

IMDEX is a leading global mining technology company that enables drilling contractors and resource companies to safely find, define and mine orebodies with precision and at speed.We provide live data to allow for accurate, real-time decisions. By providing not only knowledge of the rocks but a greater understanding of the mine, our customers can mine with confidence and precision. 



Gold

COFFEE CART

We find better ways to provide the materials the world needs to grow and decarbonise. These metals and minerals are found everywhere in everyday life: aluminium for cars, copper for renewable energy technologies, iron ore for the steel in our cities and lithium for electric vehicles.





STUDENT NETWORKING RECEPTION

Teck is a leading Canadian resource company focused on responsibly providing metals essential to economic development and the energy transition. 

Teck has a portfolio of world-class copper and zinc operations across North and South America and an industry-leading copper growth pipeline. 

We are focused on creating value by advancing responsible growth and ensuring resilience built on a foundation of stakeholder trust.

LANYARD SPONSOR

We are SGS – the world's leading testing, inspection and certification company. We are recognized as the global benchmark for sustainability, quality and integrity. Our 99,600 employees operate a network of 2,600 offices and laboratories around the world. 

We provide the world’s most comprehensive geochemistry services across the mining value chain. Using the latest technology and digital tools, our global experts deliver fast, accurate analysis of a wide range of geological material, helping you reduce risk and make informed decisions. 

With experience across diverse commodities, we deliver tailored solutions for even the most challenging projects. 

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Datarock helps you transform mining data into actionable insights. Geologists, Geotechnical Engineers and Exploration Professionals leverage our online platform and consulting team to improve their ore body knowledge. 

We have created a cloud hosted infrastructure to build and deploy machine learning and computer vision models at scale that go from the general and repeatable to completely bespoke. Now available as a managed solution service to the entire mining and exploration industry so that they can optimise their data generation cost whilst generating the most relevant answers to unlock the value in their deposit or project.

DIGITAL CONNECTION

The Department for Energy and Mining (DEM) leads the global transformation economy, supporting a successful energy and mining sector that enables South Australia to grow and thrive.

We oversee the responsible mining and production of the minerals, metals, and fuels of the future, to safely and sustainably generate the energy, low carbon products, and renewables for the future.

Our leading regulation system and culture of innovation is advancing the decarbonisation of industry, new modern manufacturing opportunities, increased employment, and greater prosperity and security for the people of South Australia.


APP+ SPONSOR

For more than 40 years, ALS has provided comprehensive testing solutions to clients in a wide range of industries all over the world. 

Our adoption of state-of-the-art technology and innovative methodologies – coupled with the strength of our international teams – ensure that we deliver the highest quality services using local expertise and personalized solutions.

Intertek is a leading Total Quality Assurance provider to industries worldwide. Our network of more than 1,000 laboratories and offices in more than 100 countries, delivers innovative and bespoke Assurance, Testing, Inspection and Certification solutions for our customers' operations and supply chains. 

Intertek is a purpose-led company to Bring Quality, Safety and Sustainability to Life. We provide 24/7 mission-critical quality assurance solutions to our clients to ensure that they can operate with well-functioning supply chains in each of their operations. 

Our Customer Promise is: Intertek Total Quality Assurance expertise, delivered consistently, with precision, pace and passion, enabling our customers to power ahead safely.





Exhibitors

EXHIBITOR (Large)

Bruker’s Nano Analytics division produces high value analytical instrumentation with a focus on elemental and structural analysis by X-ray and Scanning Electron Microscope systems. BNA’s solution-focused technologies elevate rock characterization across scales providing modern mineral exploration and mining professionals with the keys to unlock new mineral potential.  

Visit our booth at IAGS or www.bruker.com/nano-analytics to learn how our handheld and portable XRF, micro-XRF, electron microscope analyzer, and automated mineralogy solutions can make a difference to your project, whatever stage of the mining life cycle.

EXHIBITOR (Large)

Lithodat specialises in geochemical data management solutions, providing advanced tools tailored for the mining and exploration industry. Our expertise encompasses transforming complex geochemical data into accessible, actionable insights through cutting-edge platforms that enhance visualisation and interpretive capabilities. 

Committed to driving digital transformation in geochemistry, Lithodat ensures clients can efficiently optimise resource exploration and decision-making processes. Our offerings include dynamic geochemical mapping, real-time analytics, and collaborative tools for data sharing and management, all designed to support the specific needs of geochemists and industry professionals. 

Explore how Lithodat can elevate your geochemical analysis and exploration strategies.

EXHIBITOR (Large)

For more than 36 years, OREAS has been at the forefront of developing and producing Certified Reference Materials that set the standard for excellence in our industry. We’re proud to have pioneered these materials and contribute to the advancement of science and the success of our customers worldwide. 

OREAS® CRMs offer unparalleled accuracy and reliability. Every reference material, whether from our OREAS range or Custom CRMs, is manufactured to the highest world-class standards. We guarantee their quality and homogeneity, regardless of the nature of the source materials.

Find your CRMs at oreas.com


EXHIBITOR (Large)

Established in 2009, Portable Analytical Solutions delivers comprehensive knowledge and support across an extensive range of instruments and applications.

EXHIBITOR (Large)

Portable PPB is creating fit for business, field geochemistry data collection methods to deliver better exploration, mining, ESG and investor outcomes. Our proven detectORE™ low level gold by pXRF technology enables anyone to obtain low parts per billion gold results anywhere. 

Our second product, pLARS™ is a fully automated, rugged and highly portable system for automated pXRF readings to enable field staff to perform field tasks and not tedious and time consuming field readings. 

We will be on site during IAGS to demonstrate and discuss both of these game changing products.

EXHIBITOR

The Actlabs Group of Companies provides contract analytical services covering all aspects of analysis from academic research applications to routine quality control functions. 

With over 35 years experience, our full-service analytical laboratories provide high-quality analysis locally to many industries around the world including the geochemical and geo-metallurgical market, material testing, agriculture, cannabis, forensics, environmental, and life sciences. Whether you require grass roots testing services or superior innovation and research capabilities, our experienced scientists can help you solve virtually any analytical problem. 

For more details on our services or locations, visit our website or contact customer service for more information.

EXHIBITOR 

Evident supplies advanced solutions that help make the world safer and healthier. Committed to developing new technologies and delivering world-class customer service, our responsibility goes beyond manufacturing products—we are pioneers.

EXHIBITOR

LabWest is dedicated to low detection limit analysis of samples for exploration geochemistry.

UltraFine+ ™ is offered exclusively by LabWest, with separation of the soil 2 micron fraction, then thorough microwave digestion, finished by reading on the latest ICP-MS and OES. 

UltraFine elements include Au, Pt and Pd, and is now used by over 200 companies worldwide.

LabWest also does impurity analysis for high purity products such as HPQ, HPS, HPA, LiCO2, LiOH, etc.


EXHIBITOR

Now in its sixth year of research, MinEx CRC is the world’s largest mineral exploration collaboration. It brings together significant and junior mining and exploration companies, METS service and product delivery companies, government and research organisations and is funded by the Australian Commonwealth Government’s Co-operative Research Centre program.

MinEx CRC is focused on developing more productive, safer, and environmentally friendly drilling methods to discover and drill out deposits. This includes pioneering work on coiled tubing (CT) drilling technology and innovations in diamond and RC drilling techniques to improve drilling optimisation and automation.

In parallel, MinEx is developing new technologies for collecting data while drilling. This is being undertaken in four industry-led projects that use geophysical, seismic, downhole analytical, and 3-D modelling improvements.

A National Drilling Initiative (NDI) is also underway, with drilling programs completed in 2020-2023. The NDI is a world-first collaboration of Geological Surveys, researchers, and industry to undertake drilling in underexplored areas of potential mineral wealth and provide a test bed for new mineral exploration technologies.


EXHIBITOR

NewSpec is the exclusive distributor and service provider of Hitachi analytical in Australia and New Zealand including XRF, LIBS, OES and SEM/TEM technologies for Mining and Geochemistry application. 

NewSpec also supply bench-top Micro-XRF equipment for mineral mapping, and Automated mineral analysis software for SEM.


EXHIBITOR

Nu Instruments is a market leader in Inductively Coupled Plasma, Glow Discharge, Isotope Ratio, Thermal Ionisation and Noble Gas Mass Spectrometry. Our high-end mass spectrometers are used to characterise the isotopic or elemental composition of various samples, providing information such as the history, age, provenance or purity. Nu's mass spectrometers are installed worldwide in academia, governmental and industrial research labs, and serve a wide range of applications such as: providing age data for geological samples, creating elemental images of biomedical samples, determining the provenance of food samples, measuring nanoparticle size and determining the purity of a material.

EXHIBITOR

SciAps, Inc., is a Boston-based instrumentation company specializing in handheld portable analytical instruments to measure any element, any place on the planet. Their industry-leading X-ray fluorescence (XRF) and laser-based (LIBS) analysers are at work across every major industry. For Geochemistry, SciAps leads with the X-550 Geochem in XRF technology with integrated cooling fan and the innovative 3-Beam Geochem App. SciAps also offers unique high voltage 55kV X-555 hand held and new 80kV Powerhouse field portable benchtop XRF. The X-555 offers the only gold AND silver analysis option for Portable PPPB’s detectORE low level gold analysis system. The Z-903 takes the lead in LIBS technology, offering full elemental coverage from H to U, including low atomic number elements that X-ray cannot detect. A groundbreaking addition to SciAps' portfolio is the Z-9 Liquidator, the first portable LIBS-powered Lithium Brines analyser. Paired with the Z-903 handheld LIBS, it enables rapid on-field or in-lab brine analysis. Within seconds, concentrations of lithium and key elements are displayed on a nearby tablet or PC. SciAps continues demonstrating its commitment to cutting-edge technology, providing practical solutions for analytical challenges with their state-of-the-art technology.

EXHIBITOR

The Geological Survey of Queensland (GSQ) is the state's custodian of geoscience knowledge and data.

GSQ collects and provides geoscience data, information and advice about Queensland's mineral and energy resources and resource potential. GSQ does this through a range of geoscience projects and initiatives, including mandatory industry reporting.


EXHIBITOR

Orebody Technologies for Mining.

Veracio provides mineral exploration and mining companies with technology solutions designed to improve the speed, richness, and reliability of core sample and downhole data. We have combined market-leading products with deep experience to become the industry-leading orebody knowledge solution provider.

Veracio helps miners leverage their opportunities while mitigating the social and environmental impact of their decisions. At Veracio, we’re building and deploying technologies that will redefine the way the world mines, leveraging artificial intelligence and advanced analytics to generate powerful data about what lies beneath us.

Veracio, unlocking the value and utility of scarce resources.




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