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    GRX26 Colab critical minerals finalists: discovery‑to‑recovery insights for engineers

    April 16, 2026|

    Reviewed by Tom Sullivan

    GRX26 Colab critical minerals finalists: discovery‑to‑recovery insights for engineers

    First reported on International Mining – News

    30 Second Briefing

    Austmine and AusIMM, with innovation hubs Expande (Chile), Peru Mining Innovation Hub and CEMI (Canada), have named six finalists for the GRX26 Global Open Innovation Colab challenge “Critical Disruptors: From Discovery to Recovery”. The competition, to be staged at the Global Resources Innovation Expo (GRX26), targets technologies that close gaps from critical mineral exploration through to extraction and recovery. Outcomes are expected to focus on deployable solutions for orebody characterisation, processing efficiency and recovery improvements that can be trialled across multiple jurisdictions.

    Technical Brief

    • GRX26 Colab is framed as a “discovery-to-recovery” workflow challenge rather than a single-stage problem.
    • Six shortlisted solutions must address critical minerals value chain gaps across exploration, mining and processing stages.
    • Austmine and AusIMM are convening the challenge with three international mining innovation hubs as co-organisers.
    • Finalists will pitch and be evaluated during the GRX26 Global Resources Innovation Expo event programme.
    • Cross-jurisdictional backing suggests successful tools could be validated under differing regulatory, geological and operational regimes.

    Our Take

    The Colab challenge sits alongside the GRX26 expo in Perth, which our coverage shows is being framed by Austmine and AusIMM as a hub for cross‑border METS collaboration, with delegations from Canada, Chile and Peru already locked in for 5–7 May 2026.

    In our database, Austmine appears repeatedly in 2026 items focused on international market access for METS suppliers, suggesting that critical minerals solutions emerging from this Colab are likely being shaped for exportability rather than just Australian deployment.

    The involvement of Expande (Chile), Peru Mining Innovation Hub and Canada’s CEMI in a single critical minerals innovation stream is unusual in our recent coverage and signals that pilots or early adopters for winning concepts could be spread across multiple Americas jurisdictions rather than concentrated in one region.

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    Prepared by collating external sources, AI-assisted tools, and Geomechanics.io’s proprietary mining database, then reviewed for technical accuracy & edited by our geotechnical team.

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