The sister title of GeoDrilling International, Mining Magazine, has announced the shortlist for its 2025 Awards. Five judges closely examined 172 entrants across 12 fields during an intensive judging process, with Mining Magazine's editor Beth McLoughlin presiding over the panel.

The five highest-scoring entrants made the shortlist (subject to a minimum vote threshold). Tied scores meant more than five entrants made the shortlist in some categories.

Mining Magazine would like to extend its heartfelt thanks to its four independent judges, Ismet Canbulat, Kate Thornton, Kim Morrison, and Paul Freeman, for their hard work and keen insight.

"This year's awards received entries of an exceptionally high quality. The shortlisted entrants displayed outstanding innovation in their fields. The future of mining is bright with the quality on display," McLoughlin said.

Entrants are listed alphabetically.

Category winners and Personality of the Year will be announced on November 3 and in the November edition of Mining Magazine.

Bulk

• Hägglunds, a Bosch Rexroth company, for its fusion drive system;

• Mineral Resources, for shipping its Onslow iron project;

• Real Time Instruments, for its bulk material intelligence.

Drill and Blast (in collaboration with GeoDrilling International)

• Dyno Nobel, for the world's first electric MPU;

• Epiroc, for its automatic bit changer;

• Epiroc, for the COPROD system to the Simba underground production drill rig;

• Hexagon, for its AI drill automation;

• Jehama Madencilik Mühendisliğin, for its consultancy.

Exploration

• American Pacific, for its portfolio of gold and copper-driven projects;

• Fleet Space Technologies, for imaging Saudi Arabia's $2.5 trillion mineral assets;

• GEM Mining Consulting, for its data-driven portfolio-optimisation framework;

• Orica, for AXIS Connect;

• Timberline Drilling, for drilling over 7.4 million ft in the past six years;

• VRIFY, for its AI-assisted mineral discovery platform, DORA.

Fleets

• Epiroc, for its common automation panel;

• Epiroc, for LinkOA;

• Outliers Mining Solutions, for its advanced dispatch and short interval control programmes;

• Philippi-Hagenbuch, for its lightweight mining-class bodies;

• Volvo, for its autonomous haulage solution.

Mineral Processing

• Binding Solutions, for its low-carbon pelletising method;

• Endolith Mining, for turning waste into copper with engineered microbes;

• Loop Hydrometallurgy, for its Halion Loop technology;

• Metso, for its Concorde Cell;

• Mineral Resources, for its automated sample preparation;

• ReThink Milling, for its Conjugate Anvil Hammer Mill (CAHM) platform.

Net Zero

• Binding Solutions, for producing and processing cold agglomerated iron ore pellets;

• FLSmidth, for mill liner recycling;

• Lloyds Metals and Energy Limited (LMEL), for a comprehensive decarbonisation initiative;

• Orica, for emission reductions across multiple continents;

• Philippi-Hagenbuch, for zero-emission steel;

• Seik Gmbh, for environmentally friendly ropeway transport.

Partnership of the Year

• Aris Mining, for formalising 3300 miners;

• Consortium EMJM-Promise, for its unique educational model;

• Hexagon, Gold Fields, for a trust-based, global collaboration;

• Metso, Grupo México's Buenavista del Zinc, for an extensive and specialised training programme;

• Volvo, Brønnøy Kalk, for a world-first fully driverless trucks in a complex quarry setting;

• Watson Farley & Williams, Republic of Guinea, for creating the legal foundation for Africa's largest mine-port-rail project.

Safety

• Epiroc, for its collision avoidance systems;

• Epiroc, for its surface autonomous fleet;

• Kenmare Resources, for its safety culture;

• Hexagon, for transforming operator safety underground;

• Sylvania Platinum, for establishing a holistic approach to safety;

• Vale and Stratalis, for a structured safety programme combining seismic and slope risk control.

Software

• Haver & Boecker Niagara, for NIAflow, an advanced mineral processing software;

• Lynx Global Intelligence, for making regulatory reporting easier with its AI tool, Ruby;

• MineMage, for its real-time integration platform;

• MyPass Global, for its workforce compliance system;

• Orica, for its practical software for blast control in deep mines;

• VRIFY, for its AI-powered mineral targeting.

Tailings

• Arca, for turning tailings into permanent carbon storage;

• Eramet Société Le Nickel, for its SLN ferronickel slag;

• GEM Mining Consulting, for its remote sensing method;

• Green Tech Mining and Services, for tailings reprocessing with green finance;

• Vale, for reimagining mining waste in its waste-to-value programme.

Tech and Innovation

• Anglo American, for its Aquila Mine;

• Australian Droid and Robot, for robot exploration;

• Central Asia Metals, for implementing a new mining method at Sasa mine;

• Dyno Nobel, for its electric MPU;

• Endolith Mining, for its field-deployable microbial system unlocking complex ores;

• Epiroc, for its automatic bit changer;

• Ferro-Alloy Resources, for commercialising a byproduct from its vanadium project in Kazakhstan;

• Fleet Space Technologies, for its fully vertically integrated exploration platform, ExoSphere;

• Hyperspectral Intelligence, for its handheld, backpack rock core scanner;

• Nuton, a Rio Tinto venture, a commercial bioleach platform extracting copper from sulphides.

Woman of the Year

• Ana Gabriela Juárez of CTA Environmental Consultants;

• Brooke Bibeault of Makor Resources;

• Flavia Tata Nardini of Fleet Space Technologies;

• Babra Mudzanapabwe of Kenmare Resources;

• Shqipe Neziri Vela of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative.