About Future Mining Magazine

Future Mining Magazine

Overview

Future Mining Magazine is an Australian digital magazine devoted to the future of the mining industry: the technologies, research and policy shifts that are changing how minerals are found, extracted and processed. Published online at futuremining.net.au, it is built largely on contributed expertise — articles written by university researchers, research institute scientists, senior industry specialists and company executives — rather than on conventional news reporting. Its subject matter is the industry's transition agenda: decarbonisation, digitalisation and automation, the circular economy, critical minerals for the energy transition, and the workforce that a more technological industry will need.

The magazine is not connected with the Future of Mining conference series run by Aspermont, despite the similarity of name; Future Mining Magazine is a publishing venture, not an events brand. Industry directory listings identify its publisher as Executive Media, an Australian niche publishing company. Within a crowded Australian mining media landscape dominated by daily news services and equipment-focused trade titles, Future Mining occupies a distinctive niche: long-form, forward-looking analysis of where mining is heading, written by the people doing the research and development work.

History

The magazine's digital edition archive begins with a first volume whose inaugural issue carried, among its contributions, an article from the University of Sydney's EarthByte research group on using plate tectonic reconstructions to find copper deposits — an early signal of the research-led character the title would keep. The digital editions are produced in a page-turning flipbook format, and the magazine has maintained an annual volume cycle, reaching its fifth volume in 2026. Over that period its website has developed into the title's main public face, republishing magazine features alongside company profiles and continuing to commission contributions from universities, cooperative research centres, professional bodies and industry.

By 2026 the magazine was publishing new material throughout the year, with features appearing in most months and its website recording articles from April through to September 2026 and beyond. Its contributor base widened to include the Minerals Research Institute of Western Australia, the University of Queensland's Sustainable Minerals Institute, the University of Melbourne, the World Gold Council and a range of technology and services companies, consolidating its position as a forum in which the research community and the mining industry address each other directly.

Content and Coverage

The magazine organises its content into streams including Innovation, Sustainability, Featured Profiles and Up Front, and its coverage ranges across battery materials, climate change, copper, diversity, gold, lithium, mine development and mineral sands. The editorial emphasis is on ideas rather than announcements. A feature on cleaner mining examined the Copper For Tomorrow cooperative research centre bid, keyhole mining, solar-powered tailings transformation research at the University of Queensland and battery materials refining. Another, on the circular economy, considered how mine waste in places such as Kalgoorlie might be turned back into value. Digital transformation coverage has included maturity assessment frameworks for mining organisations, the transformation of the minerals workforce by remote operating centres and electrification, and the role of artificial intelligence across the mining value chain.

Expert bylines are the magazine's signature. Contributors have included Dr Ali Soofastaei on digital transformation, Dr Geoffrey Batt of the Minerals Research Institute of Western Australia on mine waste, Terry Heymann of the World Gold Council on ESG in the gold sector, Katharine Hole of the Battery Recycling Industry Association on lithium battery recycling, and University of Melbourne researchers Tom Savige and Tim Werner on climate resilience as the next phase of mining innovation. Workforce change is another recurring theme: one feature traced how integrated remote operating centres, autonomous fleets of the kind Newmont introduced at its Boddington gold mine in Western Australia, and site electrification are reshaping the skills the industry needs, while other features have looked further ahead still, to space mining, the hidden potential of South Australia's Olympic Dam deposit, and the deeper frontiers of exploration. Alongside these analytical features, the Featured Profiles stream carries profiles of supplier and technology companies active in the sector — covering subjects from safety equipment and industrial scale models to piping solutions and equipment rental models — giving the magazine a commercial showcase element alongside its editorial content. Company news appears selectively, generally where an explorer or developer's work illustrates a broader theme, as in coverage of Aruma Resources' diversified gold and lithium portfolio in Western Australia or Saturn Metals' Apollo Hill project in the Eastern Goldfields.

Audience and Reach

Future Mining Magazine addresses a professional readership of mining executives, engineers, researchers, policy makers and technology providers with an interest in the industry's medium- and long-term direction. Its contributed model means its audience overlaps significantly with its contributor community: university and research institute staff, members of professional and industry associations, and the innovation and sustainability teams of mining and supply companies. No audited circulation or readership figures for the title are published, and the magazine does not promote audience numbers; its reach is exercised through its website, its digital editions and the republication and citation of its articles by the universities, institutes and companies whose experts write for it.

Digital Presence

The magazine is a digital-first publication. Its website, futuremining.net.au, publishes features, profiles and news on a rolling basis, with 2026 articles appearing across the year — including a September 2026 lead feature on climate resilience and innovation, August 2026 coverage of flexible equipment access, July 2026 features on gold and on workplace safety products such as the Safety Mits range and utility vehicle supplier 1800BUGGIES, and April 2026 profiles of companies supplying HDPE piping solutions and core sample conveyors to the industry. The site paginates its archive across multiple pages of features and profiles, so the body of published work extends well beyond the current front page. The formal magazine editions are delivered as digital flipbooks through the Partica platform, preserving the paginated magazine format for readers who prefer it, and website articles carry the magazine's section structure and topic tagging. The site promotes advertising opportunities to industry suppliers, reflecting the sponsored profile component of its content model, and its articles are indexed and shared by contributing institutions, which link back to the magazine from their own research news pages.

Ownership and Organisation

Industry directory listings identify the publisher of Future Mining Magazine as Executive Media, an Australian publishing company specialising in niche and custom publications, which describes itself as a leading niche print publisher with a network of business advertisers across its titles. The magazine operates with a small editorial structure built around commissioning and curating external expert contributions rather than maintaining a large staff reporting team; its content is supplied by academics, researchers, association executives and industry specialists, supplemented by commercial company profiles. It is independent of the large mining media groups — it is not part of Aspermont, Prime Creative Media or APRS Media — and it should not be confused with Aspermont's Future of Mining events, which are conferences rather than a magazine.

Contact and Availability

Future Mining Magazine is available free online at futuremining.net.au, where readers can browse current and past articles by section and topic, and read the magazine's digital editions in flipbook form. Advertising and contribution enquiries are handled through the website and its publisher, Executive Media. New features and profiles are published on the website throughout the year as each edition cycle progresses.