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December 5, 2019

Paul House to become IMDEX Chief Executive Officer, effective 1 July 2020

Leading global Mining-Tech company, Imdex Limited, today announced that Mr Paul House will be appointed Chief Executive Officer (CEO), following Mr Bernie Ridgeway’s retirement on 1 July 2020. Mr Ridgeway, who commenced as Managing Director in 2000, announced his intention to retire on 19 August 2019. Since that time, IMDEX’s Board has undertaken an exhaustive search for the ideal CEO, considering internal and external candidates. Commenting on the appointment, IMDEX Chairman, Mr Anthony Wooles, said: “The selection process was extensive and rigorous. Our Board unanimously agree Paul House has the capabilities, attributes and energy, to continue to drive long-term sustainable earnings growth for our shareholders.” Mr House, […]

December 8, 2019

IMDEX buys Flexidrill for $40m

IMDEX’s recent acquisition of New Zealand-based Flexidrill featured in the Business News on 6th December 2019. Global mining-tech company IMDEX has exercised its option to acquire New Zealand-based Flexidrill, after gaining the option early last year, for a further payment of $NZ3 million cash. IMDEX had already paid $NZ10 million in both cash and IMDEX shares, and will pay a further $NZ27 million in share and royalty-related payments, based on milestones achieved and revenue generated from the acquired business. The company said the acquisition would strengthen its market position and expand its technology offering to its clients, which now included Flexidrill’s ‘Corevibe’ and ‘Maghammer’ drilling technologies. IMDEX […]

December 8, 2019

IMDEX brings home Mining Journal’s METS Company of the Year

Published: Mining Journal. 30 September 2019 https://www.mining-journal.com/mining-journal-awards/news/1372552/mining-journal-awards-2019-winners-announced ASX-listed IMDEX, said to have a presence on up to 70% of mineral drill sites globally and sales in 102 countries, has seen its share-price rise sevenfold since mid-2016 as global mineral exploration levels have recovered and its new technology offerings have gained market traction. While global mineral exploration is still nowhere near its last peak in 2012, IMDEX has won new investors in a period when the few genuine mining technology stocks offering exposure to the industry’s seemingly growing appetite for tech have been more closely scrutinised in the Australia, North American and London […]

December 8, 2019

DRILL HAX – What is True North?

True North, Magnetic North, Grid North… do you know the difference between them? Are you choosing the correct tool? Hear from IMDEX in-house experts Michelle Carey, Vince Sullivan and Nick Payne, explaining these critical calculations. Vic

January 24, 2020

Exploration innovators offer view of the future

Thank you all to those that attended the sold out IMDEX Limited and CoreSafe Core Solutions 2020 #xplorationtech Symposium. Over 160 attendees enjoyed the fantastic presentations and networking opportunities with industry leading experts. Henry Lazenby, from Mining Journal, Vancouver, provides an informative review of the Symposium, plus valuable insight on looking deeper into the future of exploration.

February 6, 2020

XplorationTech 2020 – Highlights Reel

The IMDEX Xploration Technology Symposium is the annual forum for sharing big ideas, new technologies and processes in exploration. This was a SELL-OUT EVENT in 2020 and 2019, attracting the top thought leaders in exploration from the US, Canada and around the world.

February 7, 2020

IMDEX wins Australia’s Mining Monthly’s Innovation Award for the IMDEX BLAST DOG™

Developed by IMDEX and as part of their IMDEX Mining Technology portfolio, the IMDEX BLAST DOG™ is a semi-autonomous system that helps optimise blasting based on high-resolution three-dimensional material models built from sensor data. It is helping miners get predictable fragmentation and determine ore and waste boundaries, and control vibration, dust, fumes and heave. “IMDEX Mining Technology’s BLAST DOG™ comprises a semi-autonomously deployed system for logging material properties and blast hole characteristics at high spatial density across the bench and mine. These properties are domained and supplied automatically to blasting systems able to create complex blast profiles to achieve specific […]

February 25, 2020

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February 26, 2020

What’s New in ioGAS™ 7.2 – Webinar

ioGAS™ 7.2 continues to push the boundaries in geoscience exploration and mining with its latest crop of new tools. In this webinar, Dave Lawie – Chief Geoscientist, demonstrates the new functionality in ioGAS™ 7.2.