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Australian mining technology business NextOre Ltd (NextOre or the Company) is pleased to announce that it has entered into a Strategic Cooperation Agreement and a Share Subscription Agreement with Gebr. Pfeiffer (Pfeiffer), a leading German comminution technology company. Pfeiffer is a family-owned business with a 159-year history of innovation, specifically in mill technologies. Importantly, Pfeiffer […]

31 July 2023 Sydney-based mining technology business, NextOre Ltd (NextOre), founded by CSIRO and industry partners, has completed a Series B growth funding round of $5.2m. The Series B funding round was cornerstoned by existing shareholder RFC Ambrian Funds Management through its newly formed QCM Fund. RFC Ambrian Funds Management chief investment officer, Stefan Skorut […]

NextOre has completed assembly and factory testing of a world first MR truck analyser. The unit, measuring 7m in diameter and designed to be suspended 10 meters over 180-tonne trucks, has been sold to its first customer and will be dispatched to a large copper mine overseas in March. The analyser will be used to […]

1 December 2022 Mines and Money Gala Dinner (London, UK) NextOre has been awarded the 2022 Outstanding Achievement Award for Technology Company of the Year 2022. We are incredibly pleased to have been recognised for this award. It is a testament to the hard work by all team members through these last few years. We […]

First Quantum Minerals’ Kansanshi mineral processing plant finalised commissioning and undertook verification testing in May of 2022 of a bulk ore sorting system. The bulk sorting system has been retrofitted to the existing primary crushing circuit, with MR analyser located after the primary crusher and hydraulic diverter installed at a transfer chute ahead of the […]

NextOre has revealed its newest product during the RFC Ambrian Copper to 2030 webinar. It has been designed to suit small mines and those seeking to monetise historical dumps, or to provide a rapid test method for bulk sorting to support a potentially much larger bulk sorting plant. The new mobile system can be configured […]

CSIRO’s technology transfer success recognised in commercialisation industry awards  Commercialisation of Australian science for national benefit has today been recognised with Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO, sharing a win with partner NextOre in the best licencing deal category of the Knowledge Commercialisation Awards 2021.  CSIRO Director Commercial, Laurence Street, welcomed the recognition of CSIRO’s collaborative […]

Magnetite Mines Limited (MGT) has released positive pre-feasibility study (PFS) results for the Razorback High Grade Iron Ore Concentrate Project. Modelling supports a maiden resource declaration of 473Mt based on a 12.8Mtpa plant throughput. NextOre has worked with MGT over the past two years to develop a tailored bulk ore sorting strategy for the improvement […]

NextOre had been announced as the winner of the Australian Technology Competition 2020 Mining Technologies Award. The Australian Technologies Competition seeks to identify and accelerate Australian technology ‘scaleups’ with the greatest global potential. Supported by the Department of Industry, Science, Energy & Resources, the Industry Growth Centres and Industry partners, the Competition celebrated its tenth Anniversary […]

NextOre is pleased to announce that it has entered into an agreement with Magnetite Mines Limited (ASX: MGT) to supply a mobile magnetic resonance bulk ore sensor as a trial of the technology to the Razorback High Grade Iron Ore Project. The Razorback High Grade Iron Ore Concentrate Project is an iron ore project in […]

“In conventional mining, once it’s on a truck or in a bucket, the difference between one tonne of ore in terms of its grade and the next tonne is immaterial as, without a bulk sorting system, there is no way to practically make any benefit out of that.” Chris Beal is featured in March 2020 […]

NextOre, a company spun out of CSIRO that applies sophisticated sensing technology for mining, has raised $2.5M in a private funding round primarily to ramp up manufacturing and sales of its flagship bulk ore sorting sensor system. NextOre’s products apply Magnetic Resonance technology, used for decades in medical MRI machines, to deliver second-by-second information about […]

Nextore awarded $1.07 million grant to fit its breakthrough grade detection system to mobile mining machinery NextOre has been awarded a $1.07 million grant by the NSW Office of the Chief Scientist & Engineer through the Physical Sciences Fund. The funds will be used for the adaptation of NextOre’s existing on-conveyor magnetic resonance analyser (MRA) […]

Nextore CEO, Chris Beal, won first prize in IMARC 2018’s inaugural METS to Miners & Engineers’ Pitch Battle, beating an impressive field of contenders with exciting technologies for the mining industry. Chris was strongly commended for his presentation, demonstrating the impact that NextOre’s advanced MR (Magnetic Resonance) sensing technology could have for bulk sorting applications […]

ABC Business News presented a segment on Nextore with Chris Beal discussing this exciting new technology and its powerful advantages over its competitors and the positive economic & environmental benefits.

CSIRO announced today the formation of NextOre, a new company created by RFC Ambrian, Advisian Digital and CSIRO. The company has been formed to commercialise Magnetic Resonance ore sorting technology, a breakthrough technology capable of operating at up to 5,000 tonnes per hour.  With an initial focus on copper, contracts have already been secured with two tier one mines, […]

CSIRO share further insights into the Nextore technology that has been brought to market. Please follow this link to read the full blog post.

CSIRO’s resourceful magazine published an article on NextOre. To read the full article, please click here.