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Mining METS leaders add golden touch to clean tech and life-saving innovations

• Australia’s mining innovation is driving sustainability and safety breakthroughs well beyond resources – from waste-to-energy systems to life-saving detection tech
• Gaia EnviroTech shows how Aussie goldfields know-how is being adapted to cut emissions and create renewable energy in game-changing time
• Chrysos’s rapid, lead-free PhotonAssay tech is improving efficiencies and lives in labs, while MRead’s explosive-detecting device can make vulnerable communities safer

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The innovative spirit of Australia’s mining sector combined with decades of world-leading R&D has produced companies whose breakthroughs are significantly cutting costs and improving recoveries in operations at home and internationally.

But more than just improving margins, mining tech from across the country has given rise to game-changing advances in sustainability – and even life-saving solutions in conflict and post-conflict zones.

From gold to green BOOM

Adapting world-leading know-how developed in Australia’s goldfields, Gaia EnviroTech is transforming waste into a resource in game-changing time.

Founded in Ballarat by former jackaroo turned serial inventor Sandy Gray and his wife Elizabeth Lewis-Gray, Gaia was born from the same inventive spirit that drove their first venture, Gekko Systems – a global leader in gold processing technology.

By applying Gekko’s focus on efficiencies delivered in modular and scalable solutions, Gaia is revolutionising how communities and industries manage organic waste.

The company’s In-Vessel Rapid Composter can process food and green waste in as little as two weeks – much faster than the six weeks typically required for industrial composting.

Another plus is that the composter can be easily installed on an agribusiness or council site, providing a high-speed and low-cost alternative to trucking waste long distances to centralised facilities.

By converting organic waste into renewable biogas and nutrient-rich compost on site, Gaia’s technology reduces transport costs, methane emissions and opens new revenue streams through energy generation and carbon credits.

Its build-own-operate-maintain (BOOM) model is gaining strong momentum in Victoria especially as councils prepare for the State Government’s Food and Garden Organics (FOGO) mandate from July 2027.

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Source: Stockhead