About Australian Resources and Investment

Australian Resources and Investment

Overview

Australian Resources & Investment (ARI) is an Australian mining and resources investment journal published by Prime Creative Media, the Melbourne-based business-to-business publisher. The title describes itself, in its LinkedIn company profile, as "Australia's premier mining journal dedicated to providing readers with cutting-edge insights into resource developments in Australia, and from Australian companies operating around the world." That positioning defines its territory: it is not a technical mining magazine about how ore is dug and processed, but an investment-facing publication about the companies, projects, commodities and capital flows that make up the Australian resources sector.

From its Melbourne base, ARI publishes a continuously updated news website covering ASX-listed explorers, developers and producers, alongside longer-form analysis under its Weekend Read and ARI Analysis banners. Its reporting is organised around commodities and market themes — gold, copper, iron ore, critical minerals, exploration and development, investments and government announcements — and is written for readers who allocate capital to, advise on, or run resources companies. The title sits inside Prime Creative Media's resources and infrastructure portfolio, alongside mastheads such as Australian Mining, and within the same group that organises mining events including the Queensland Mining & Engineering Exhibition, the WA Mining Conference & Exhibition and AIMEX, the Asia-Pacific International Mining Exhibition.

History

ARI has been published for well over a decade. A 2014 research newsletter produced by the EarthByte group at the University of Sydney cited an ARI article as appearing in "Vol. 8, 4" of the journal, indicating that by 2014 the title was already in its eighth volume year. Opinion and analysis from the journal in that era engaged with the policy debates of the late mining boom: an opinion piece by Roy Hill and ANDEV interests, republished from the journal's pages, argued against the carbon tax and the mining resource rent tax and warned about the cost of doing business in Australia — a marker of the investment-advocacy stance the title has long taken.

The journal's name is a registered trademark of Prime Creative Media, as recorded in the copyright line carried on its website in 2021, and the title has continued within the group as Prime Creative Media has expanded. That expansion included the December 2015 acquisition of Cirrus Media's industrial, mining, manufacturing and agricultural titles, and, a decade later, the October 2025 acquisition of seven wealth management titles from Momentum Media — Money Management, InvestorDaily, IFA, SMSF Adviser, Fintech Business, Adviser Innovation and Super Review — reported by Mumbrella. The wealth acquisition formalised a connection ARI's investment readership had long implied: Prime Creative Media now presents its resources and wealth portfolios as complementary, connecting mining companies seeking capital with the investors and advisers who supply it.

Print editions of ARI are documented into the 2020s — a February 2021 issue, for example, carried a feature on vanadium and Australian Vanadium's plans — but the title's centre of gravity today is digital: a daily news service with weekend long-form reading, distributed through its website and an active LinkedIn page.

Content and Coverage

ARI's news coverage follows the money in Australian resources. On a typical day in October 2026 its homepage carried drilling results from Tungsten Mining's Mt Mulgine project in Western Australia, Strata Minerals' maiden JORC resource at its Zelica gold project, Ballard's $45 million raising to build a mining village at the Mt Ida gold project, and Hancock Prospecting's move to take a 13.5 per cent strategic stake in White Cliff Minerals. Commodity desks organise the flow: gold, copper and iron ore have their own channels, as do critical minerals, exploration and development, investments and government announcements.

Beyond daily news, two feature formats carry the title's analysis. The Weekend Read publishes long-form examinations of single companies or themes — in October 2026 these included an assessment of where Rio Tinto's released capital might go after chief executive Simon Trott unlocked more than $US2 billion as part of a $US5–10 billion capital release program, a look at Glencore's arrival on the ASX and what its copper growth, coal cash flows and trading earnings offer Australian investors, and a profile of Aureka's Irvine gold project in Victoria. ARI Analysis applies the same treatment to policy and market questions, as in its October 2026 examination of the Federal Court's decision to overturn the Commonwealth's heritage declaration affecting Regis Resources' McPhillamys gold project — a ruling the journal assessed for what it meant for regulatory certainty across the sector, citing the Fraser Institute's 2025 Annual Survey of Mining Companies.

The journal also connects its coverage to the group's events calendar. In September 2026 it reported the launch of the Asia-Pacific Mining Investment Summit (APMI), an investor-focused conference and Investment Pavilion to be delivered by Prime Creative Media at AIMEX 2027 in Adelaide on 29–30 September 2027, in partnership with the Stockbrokers and Investment Advisers Association and Mines in the Vines. ARI is also associated with Mines in the Vines' 2026 Investor Access Day, at which listed resources companies present to high-net-worth investors, family offices, brokers and advisers.

Audience and Reach

ARI is written for the investment side of the resources industry: institutional and sophisticated investors, fund managers, stockbrokers, analysts and financial advisers who follow ASX resources stocks, together with the executives and investor-relations teams of the mining companies themselves. Its content mix — capital raisings, strategic stakes, resource estimates, project approvals and portfolio strategy at the majors — is calibrated to readers making or advising investment decisions rather than operating mines.

The publisher does not release an audited circulation or traffic figure for the title in the material available for this profile, and no such figure is asserted here. Its measurable public footprint includes its LinkedIn page, which had more than 14,300 followers in October 2026 and is updated daily, and its integration into Prime Creative Media's resources events, where the journal's brand is put in front of conference and exhibition audiences at AIMEX and associated investor events.

Digital Presence

The title's website, australianresourcesandinvestment.com.au, is a daily news platform carrying company news, commodity coverage and the Weekend Read and ARI Analysis features, with articles dated within days of this profile's preparation in October 2026 confirming current, continuous publication. Stories are promoted through the title's LinkedIn showcase page, where posts appear daily and link back to the site, and ARI content is syndicated and cited across the Prime Creative Media network, including sister wealth titles such as InvestorDaily and Super Review, which carried the group's APMI Summit announcement in 2026.

Ownership and Organisation

Australian Resources & Investment is published by Prime Creative Media, which holds the title's trademark. Prime Creative Media describes itself as Australia's largest business-to-business publisher, specialising in integrated marketing communications in high-growth industries; the company began in 2003 with a single printed title and has grown by acquisition into a portfolio spanning resources, transport, manufacturing, infrastructure, agriculture, education and, since 2025, wealth management. John Murphy, the company's long-serving managing director, is its chairman, and Christine Clancy was identified as chief executive in the group's October 2025 Momentum Media acquisition announcement. LinkedIn lists ARI's own team at two to ten employees, based in Melbourne, drawing on the wider Prime Creative Media editorial, events and commercial organisation.

Contact and Availability

Australian Resources & Investment is available online at australianresourcesandinvestment.com.au, with news, Weekend Read features and ARI Analysis published continuously, and through its LinkedIn page. The publisher, Prime Creative Media, is headquartered at 379 Docklands Drive, Docklands, Victoria 3008, Australia, phone +61 3 9690 8766, with a Sydney office at Suite 11.01, Level 11, 201 Miller Street, North Sydney, New South Wales. Subscription and advertising enquiries are handled through the title's website and the publisher.