AusIMM exists under a Royal Charter ‘to advance the sciences applying to the minerals industry for the benefit of the community’.

Our association has its foundation in science, industry and community. Since 1893 our members have been involved in the provision of mineral resources for our modern world.

Our members work around the world across a range of metals, minerals, materials, and commodities and a variety of industry sectors from resource exploration and extraction to research and education.

With a heightened awareness of the risks of climate change and the benefits that can be derived from more efficient use of resources, more sustainable supply chains, and circular economy approaches, society’s expectations continue to evolve and change.

Our members, bound by a Code of Ethics to uphold the highest professional and ethical standards, are committed to fostering social responsibility, applying their expertise to a range of global sustainability codes and frameworks including AusIMM’s own Social Responsibility Framework.

As an internationally-focused member-based professional institute, AusIMM supports all commodities and technologies recognising our members work across a range of metals, minerals and value chains.

The pace, pathways, targets and regulations relating to emissions reduction, energy transition and environmental management are for each nation to determine based on their resource endowment, stage of economic development and climate change ambition.

Our members will be critical to unlocking the supply of new resources, safely and efficiently deploying new technologies, managing risks, and seeking to reduce the environmental footprint - be it emissions, energy, water or land - of resource development, processing, manufacturing and recycling.

AusIMM’s leadership role in sustainability, climate change and energy transition is to provide our industry the professional expertise to manage and deliver such changes for the benefit of society, both now and into the future.

AusIMM will do this through promoting sustainable and ethical professional practice, facilitating the exchange of ideas and information, providing industry education and knowledge, informing the community about the resources industry, and setting and maintaining the high professional standard of its members.