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Thank you to AMEC (Association of Mining and Exploration Companies) for the opportunity to participate in your panel discussion on "tricky conversations" and career cross-roads with a fantastic panel of women - Kate Dickson, Debbie Morrow (GAICD) and Reneke van Soest. It was lovely to connect with a range of other mining professionals and to share our carer journeys and lessons learned - including: 💡 These journeys don't always involve employees leaving organisations - they might involve internal moves within a company to a new role or opportunity, a temporary leave of absence or a short departure (with employees returning after gaining different and useful skill sets at other companies). 💡Money is rarely the driving force in an individual "leaving" - rather, the focus is often on whether someone's values align with their organisations, experiences with managers and whether there's opportunity to grow and progress. 💡The importance of maintaining relationships - you never know when a former employee may return to an organisation, whether someone's personal circumstances are fuelling their decision making or whether a former employee may be a future client! Thank you also to my employer Sedgman Pty Limited for allowing me the time to take part in this initiative.

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Exciting news from AxiNorth Industries. We’ve announced a new private placement to support the acquisition of NVIDIA B300 Blackwell servers and accelerate our AI and edge computing data centre strategy. As demand for AI infrastructure continues to surge, this financing helps position AxiNorth to expand our capabilities and create long-term value for investors. Full details of the offering are available in the news release below. #AxiNorth #AIInfrastructure #DataCenters #EdgeComputing #ArtificialIntelligence #TechInvestment #PrivatePlacement #VancouverTech #AICompute #CapitalMarkets

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https://lnkd.in/gBd3v2a2 I found this a really interesting insight into the challenges of supply chains for critical minerals. Lithium supply is abundant according to all the analyses I have seen however environmental issues can be significant depending on the mining and processing approaches used. I see it as important that we take an approach to carbon dioxide emissions reduction that focusses on all the Sustainable Development Goals including Clean water and sanitation (SDG 6), and Affordable and clean energy (SDG 7) as well as Climate Change (SDG13).

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Graphinex’s Japan supply chain strategy covered in the AFR today. As reported by Mark Wembridge, Graphinex has signed an agreement with Idemitsu, Marubeni and NSC to establish a graphite to anode supply chain linking Queensland production with downstream processing in Japan. The article also highlights Graphinex’s earlier selection by the United States Export Import Bank as part of the October Australia US critical minerals framework, reflecting growing allied government support for non Chinese battery material supply chains. With up to 50,000 tonnes per annum from the Esmeralda Project targeted for processing in Japan from 2028, this structure materially de risks the pathway to commercial anode production while accelerating the development of secure supply into advanced battery markets. Critical minerals are no longer a future theme. They are a present day strategic priority. Thanks to the AFR for the coverage. #Graphinex #CriticalMinerals #Graphite #BatteryMaterials #EnergySecurity #EVSupplyChain

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The net tightens. With very few new graphite mines likely to make it through to production anytime soon, and China potentially restricting battery-ready anode products downstream there is a significant gap emerging that could be very lucrative. Good time for Orom-Cross DFS to complete and drive towards first production by end-2026.

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Two types of board directors. Wildly different outcomes. Are you a governance shaper or a traditionalist? Honest question worth asking yourself. Geopolitical shocks, tech advances, regulatory upheaval reshape industries and business models. Yet most governance frameworks were built for stability. Quarterly meetings. Annual reviews. Scheduled committees. Careful consensus through established channels. Brilliant when change arrived at a slower pace. Today it's different. Traditionalists believe the answer is more rigour. Strengthen what's always worked. Shapers ask: is our governance model fit for this era? Are we focused on the future? Are my peers thinking about strategic disruption? Shapers are building real-time monitoring into board routines. Shapers test the scenario planning muscles of the management team. Shapers create continuous learning loops. Take AI for example. Traditionalists debate implementation timelines. Shapers ask how AI changes the business model, the competitive landscape and the governance approach. Shapers want faster risk and opportunity evaluations and different decision cadences. Shapers listen to a wider range of stakeholder voices. Neither is wrong. But they lead to very different outcomes when disruption accelerates. The question for every director: which one are you? And more importantly, which one does your company need for the future?

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Big win for the team at Aurora Labs. We’ve secured a $544K Defence grant to scale up production of our micro gas turbines—right here in WA. The funding’s being used exactly where it counts: cutting-edge multi-axis CNCs and advanced thermal control systems. The new machines are a serious step up, and the team in the workshop are genuinely excited. This pushes us closer to fully sovereign, vertically integrated propulsion manufacturing—designed, built, and finished in Australia. Huge thanks to Rebekah Letheby and the Board for backing the vision—and to the crew that keeps raising the bar every day. #AuroraLabs #A3D #Defence #SovereignCapability #GasTurbines #AdditiveManufacturing #BuiltInWA #AdvancedManufacturing #CTO #RealWorkNotHype

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Australia is promising to back industry efforts to decarbonise China's huge steel sector. Over the last 4 years I have been in meetings with our Aussie major miners and companies wishing to make green hydrogen from renewable power. DRI and hydrogen reduction of iron ore can save 1.7-1.9 MT of CO2e per MT of steel produce, and there is a pathway to full H2 by using DRI and nat gas to start with - CSIRO quote full value chain reductions of over 77% with H2. In all these meetings that intent was there but the blocker? not technology but economics - is this the tipping point where we value green steel correctly? Your thoughts below please...! https://lnkd.in/gyetNrVj

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