Ascension
Technology for recovering critical minerals from volcanoes
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Technology for recovering critical minerals from volcanoes
Deep Muon sensing for critical minerals
Developing hardware products for overlooked environmental problems
Rare Earth Element recovery via reusable 3D-printed nanoporous sorbent cartridges
Robotics for inspecting surface mobile fleets
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Delivering the first fundamentally new rock cutting technology since the invention of explosives
AI powered JORC compliance co pilot.
A next generation copper manufacturer, converting a range of copper feedstocks directly into finished copper products
Offline blast design application built for open pit mining operations
American robot actuators and drone motors
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Biological sensing with hyperspectral readout and analytics, so teams can increase sampling density.
Detecting fuel discrepancies and “ghost usage” in real time.
AI powered solution created to unlock
hidden mining fleet productivity
Convert port pollution into profit using autonomous sensor networks that identify emission sources.
Geoscience, AI/ML and oil and gas operational expertise to unlock emerging resource and extraction opportunities.
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Non-toxic gold processing solutions using thiosulfate technology.
Vibramin eliminates excessive vibrations by semi-automating the selection of machine control parameters.
Scaling breakthrough HPA technology from pilot plant to global supply.
Recovering & reusing metal-based water treatment chemicals.
Modular refining innovation empowers miners to produce rare earth metals.
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Advanced robotised sorting solutions that help recyclers process complex metal streams.
Leader in the aerial detection of leaks, threats, and geohazards.
Developing novel midstream processing infrastructure to recover minerals from both primary and secondary sources.
Nanotechnology for Lithium and Manganese extraction.
Vision Language Models that turn continuous video streams into structured operational understanding, not just detections or alerts.
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Reserves, resources, grades, ownership... all sourced directly from filings and ready to use.
Blyx controls access and AC within the room, reducing mine camp costs and logistical burden.
Computer Vision for underground drill rig alignment.
Ruggedised borehole LiDAR system designed to map cavities with millimetre precision.
Funghi for recovering Critical Minerals from Mine Waste.
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Enabling green steel at scale
Helping earthworks contractors to make their vibratory compactors self-driving
AI weather forecasting tools available to all, to help humanity adapt to increasingly extreme weather
Magnesium from just seawater and electricity
Workspace for freelance geoscientists and miners worldwide
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High-performance polymer composite electrodes from EPS (thermocol) waste.
Working with base metal refineries to extract gallium, germanium, and indium from existing domestic process streams.
Advanced battery manufacturing technology development.
AI-powered remote alert system for monitoring sparse landscapes for species and human/wildlife conflict.
Biomass-based hydrometallurgical technology for clean recycling of spent lithium batteries.