Last week, MinEx CRC hosted the ‘MiNext’ Geological Survey Forum at Geoscience Australia, bringing together representatives from Geological Surveys across the country. 

This important meeting marked the first step in a national consultation process to help shape future collaborative research directions beyond MinEx. While discussions are ongoing, several key themes are already emerging: 

• The need for sustained national geoscience infrastructure
• The growing opportunity for AI ingeoscience
• Theimportance of collaboration at a national scale
• Time taken between discovery and mining

The forum provided valuable insights and a strong foundation for the next stages of consultation, with further engagement planned across industry and the research community in the coming months:

4 May, Perth

MiNext Industry Workshop (Register your interest here)

10 June, Perth

MiNext Researchers Workshop (Register your interest here)

We hope to continue to build momentum as we work towards defining the next phase of impactful, national-scale minerals research in Australia.