About The Australian Mining Review

The Australian Mining Review

Overview

The Australian Mining Review is a trade publication for the Australian mining industry, published from West Perth, Western Australia, as a free monthly print newspaper supported by a daily online news service. Its model is unusual in contemporary Australian media: there is no paywall and no cover price for its industry readers. Subscribers register through the publication's website — the form asks for job title and company, underlining the business-to-business audience — and receive unlimited access to every article online, breaking-news alerts and email newsletters, plus, if they want it, a physical copy of the monthly newspaper delivered to their door at no charge. The publication's stated mission, in its own words, is that it "exists to make Australian mining better understood and better connected," with independent journalism at the centre of that mission.

From its office at 134A Charles Street in West Perth — the precinct that houses much of Western Australia's mining corporate sector — the Review covers the full breadth of the resources industry: operating projects and new developments, exploration, commodity markets and prices, mining technology and innovation, workforce and people, politics and regulation, and the supplier companies that sell equipment and services to mine sites. A monthly print edition of well over a hundred pages in recent issues organises this material into news, features and special industry-focus sections, while the website publishes new stories every day. The publication describes itself as an experienced in-house team's work, and its commercial team has been expanding, with the business advertising for additional sales staff to work from the West Perth office. Despite the similarity of its name, The Australian Mining Review is a distinct title from the long-established magazine Australian Mining; the two should not be confused.

History

The founding year of The Australian Mining Review is not stated in the publication's own public materials, and this profile does not assert one; its documented history is nonetheless substantial. By March 2018 the Review was being published in Perth by Publications & Exhibitions Australia Pty Ltd, whose masthead that month listed Brad Francis as general manager and Reuben Adams as managing editor, with journalists Cameron Drummond and Elizabeth Fabri, and printing by Rural Press. The March 2018 edition shows a publication already in its mature form: a free monthly newspaper distributed to mine sites and mining companies across Australia — the masthead noted the issue's nominal value was $11 including postage and handling — carrying a commodities snapshot, sections on explorers and contractors, an international roundup, a commodity focus on cobalt, and features on Rio Tinto's iron ore operations, Dacian Gold and Ramelius Resources, alongside a special report on mining in north-west Queensland. Its cover banner that year also incorporated a companion energy title, The Australian Oil, Gas, Electricity and Renewables Review; a sister publication, The Australian Oil & Gas Review, shared editorial leadership with the mining title, with Travis Macrae serving as deputy editor and then editor of both before leaving to join a national public relations firm.

The publication's Perth base has shifted within the city's mining district over the years, from Beaufort Street in 2018 to its current Charles Street address in West Perth, with its postal address — PO Box 8023, Perth BC, WA 6849 — unchanged across that period. Its online archive reaches back at least to 2017, and the growth of the digital side has transformed the title from a monthly print product into a daily news service: the website now publishes fresh mining news every day of the week, maintains a digital edition of each month's paper through an online page-turning reader, and distributes breaking-news alerts to registered readers. A 2026 edition masthead shows the contemporary structure: director Leah Clemenger, group managing editor Chloe Coutinho, journalist Samantha Bawden, research and production manager Pamela Rogan, national sales manager Quentin Roberts, and printing by Colourpress Pty Ltd. The publication has continued to invest in its commercial operation, advertising in recent job listings for sales executives to join what it describes as a growing Perth-based commercial team.

Content and Coverage

The Australian Mining Review organises its journalism into the categories its readers work in. News coverage tracks company announcements, project milestones, contract awards and industry developments across Australian mining, with daily online stories filed under sections including Projects & Operations, Exploration, Technology & Innovation, People & Workforce and general News. The monthly editions add depth: recent issues have run to more than a hundred pages, with front sections of news, projects and operations reporting, international coverage, economics and commodity prices, people and workforce stories, politics and regulation, technology and innovation, and exploration and discovery, followed by feature packages on regions and companies — one recent edition's features ranged across the Central West of New South Wales, Africa's mining industry, Whitehaven Coal and Northern Star Resources.

A signature element of the monthly paper is its Industry Focus sections, in which the editorial team assembles themed coverage of a technical field — recent examples include chemicals and mineral processing solutions, water in mining, tailings dam management, waste water management, chemical handling and storage, hazardous materials management, ESG and safety, dust control solutions and dangerous goods — pairing explanatory editorial with the supplier companies active in each field. Alongside this, the website carries Special Reports, such as analysis of local-currency transaction rules for onshore mining business in Africa, and a clearly labelled Commercial Content stream in which supplier companies publish sponsored features about their products and services — for example, technical pieces on bore pump failures, dust suppression equipment, tailings processing and mill operations. The separation of that sponsored stream from the news sections is explicit on the site, and the publication's job advertising stresses that independent journalism sits at the centre of its mission. Commodity coverage spans the Australian industry's mainstays — gold, iron ore, coal, copper and the battery and critical minerals such as cobalt that featured in its pages as early as 2018 — and its feature interviews and project profiles give junior and mid-tier miners and explorers a prominence they rarely receive in general business media, a gap the publication's editors have publicly identified as the title's purpose.

Audience and Reach

The Australian Mining Review is written for people who work in and around mining rather than for general readers. Its free subscription model is deliberately targeted: registration requires a job title and company, and the print newspaper is distributed free to mine sites and mining companies across Australia, reaching decision-makers on site as well as in head offices. In its 2025 media kit, the publication states that it reaches more than 40,000 subscribers from the resources sector and associated industries every month, and describes its coverage in terms of the hundreds of mine sites — 730, in the media kit's figure — whose activities it follows. Those numbers are the publisher's own media-kit claims rather than independently audited circulation figures, and they are presented here as such; no audited readership data for the title is published.

Geographically the readership follows the industry: although the publication is produced in Perth, its coverage and distribution are national, encompassing the iron ore and gold operations of Western Australia, Queensland's coalfields and north-west minerals province, New South Wales coal and metalliferous mining, and emerging critical-minerals projects in other states, as well as international coverage of Australian companies' projects abroad. The commercial structure visible in its mastheads — a national sales manager and a team of sales executives — reflects an advertising-funded model in which mining suppliers buy access to that concentrated professional audience.

Digital Presence

The website, australianminingreview.com.au, is the publication's daily face. It publishes new stories every day — its news pages carried multiple dated stories through September and October 2026 — organised by the same section structure as the print paper, and it hosts each month's edition as a digital paper through an online reader, with the current edition displayed on the homepage alongside the month's feature stories. Registration is free and handled through the site, with sign-in options via Facebook, Google or LinkedIn, and subscribers receive breaking-news alerts and email newsletters in addition to the print paper. The publication states in its media materials that it publishes across hardcopy, online and social media channels, and its digital operation is staffed accordingly, with roles such as digital marketing manager appearing in its edition mastheads. The site also carries a testimonials page and the publication's media kit, aimed at prospective advertisers, and an online archive of past issues and articles reaching back years.

Ownership and Organisation

The Australian Mining Review was published by Publications & Exhibitions Australia Pty Ltd, the company named in its March 2018 masthead with ABN 28 112 572 433, and its current editions continue to be produced from West Perth by the publication's own team under director Leah Clemenger. The group managing editor is Chloe Coutinho; the editorial team includes journalist Samantha Bawden, whose byline appears across the site's daily news, and research and production manager Pamela Rogan. The commercial side is led by national sales manager Quentin Roberts, and the publication has been recruiting additional sales executives for its West Perth office, describing itself in those advertisements as an independent Australian mining news publisher hiring as part of an expansion of its commercial team. Printing of the monthly newspaper is handled by Colourpress Pty Ltd, succeeding Rural Press, which printed the title in 2018. Editorial contact is through the published editorial email address, editorial@australianminingreview.com.au.

Contact and Availability

The Australian Mining Review is based at 134A Charles Street, West Perth, Western Australia 6005, with postal address PO Box 8023, Perth BC, WA 6849, and can be reached by phone on +61 8 6314 0301. The monthly print newspaper is free to subscribers in the mining industry: registration through australianminingreview.com.au provides unlimited access to all online articles, breaking-news alerts and newsletters, and subscribers can opt to have the physical paper delivered to their door each month at no cost. The digital edition of the current issue can be read free on the website, which also publishes the publication's daily news coverage without a paywall. Editorial enquiries go to editorial@australianminingreview.com.au, and advertising and media-kit information is available through the website.