The Noosa Mining Investor Conference opened up this morning (12 November), featuring a number of companies, investors, brokers, and fund managers, focused on the mining, energy, and exploration sectors.
Held twice a year at Peppers Noosa Resort, this week’s program follows on from the July conference, which hosted more than 2,500 delegates and presentations from 70 listed companies.
Organisers of the biannual “must-attend” event have already been seeing the positive momentum continue in the resources space as they again welcome junior explorers and investors to Queensland’s Sunshine Coast.
Speaking to Mining.com.au before day one got underway, Managing Director of Equity Events Phil Dickinson says events like Noosa play a huge role in building confidence and momentum in Australia’s mining sector.
Dickinson says the line-up for the conference, which runs from today to 14 November, reflects the current market of strong explorers, capable management, and plenty of news flow ahead.
The relaxed Noosa setting encourages genuine conversations that often spark fresh investment interest. Dickinson says by giving junior companies a platform to share their stories and provide investors the chance to see their potential up close, helps keep capital flowing and supports the next wave of mining success stories.
He highlights gold, silver, and copper as key commodities to feature this week but adds interest in the battery space remains.
Noosa effect
Gold has attracted a lot of investor attention over the past year, sitting at US$4,131 ($6,330) per ounce at the opening of the conference.
The precious metal has risen 57.23% for this year to date, flattening out in the first two months of Q3 2025 at around the US$3,200 to US$3,500 an ounce following indications of a return to the global economy, trade tensions de-escalating, and equity markets on the rebound.
Trading Economics reports the commodity to have hit a three-week high yesterday (11 November), ahead of a forecasted Federal Reserve rate cut leading to economic uncertainty in the US.
Copper and silver have seen similar heights over the year to date, with silver growing by 77.71% and copper by 27.04%, priced at $51.32 per ounce and $5.06 per pound respectively.
Newsflow has been heavy for attending resource companies, as each group reaches to maximise momentum for investors.
Companies in attendance this week include Pacgold (ASX:PGO), Sunshine Metals (ASX:SHN), and Basin Energy (ASX:BSN).
Basin Energy announced the start of drilling at its Sybella-Barkly Uranium and Rare Earth Project, for an initial 3,000m of drilling across 80 holes. The company acquired the landholding, spanning 5,958km2 in the Mount Isa district of Queensland last month.
Earlier this week, Pacgold revealed the kapok quartz vein outcrop at the Alice River Gold Project to host “strong gold mineralisation” within a 50m wide corridor, with assays returning 15m @ 0.38 grams per tonne gold from 0m, including 4m @ 0.70g/t from 4m.
Sunshine Metals on the other hand has returned intercepts including 7m @ 3.93 grams per tonne gold from 65m, including 3m @ 7.65g/t gold from 69m; 4.8m @ 1.48g/t gold from 59.2m; and 2.8m @ 15.15g/t gold from 37m, from the Sybil Project within the greater Ravenswood Consolidated Project in north Queensland.
Mineral explorer Terra Metals (ASX:TM1) will also be in attendance at the conference. The company just recently uncovered multiple new titanium-sulphide reefs at the Southwest prospect within the Dante Project in Western Australia.
Meanwhile, Iltani Resources (ASX:ILT) is celebrating a return of a maiden resource estimate for the Orient East silver-indium deposit within the broader Orient Project in Queensland.
Attendee Zeotech (ASX:ZEO) is currently focused on pushing its product that produces AusPozz to lower Australia’s carbon footprint, while improving strength and durability of decarbonisation efforts. The company has entered a partnership with cement supplier Cement Australia.
Ark Mines (ASX:AHK), Black Canyon (ASX:BCA), and WIN Metals (ASX:WIN) will also be in attendance at the three-day conference.
All presentations are streamed live, with replays available on Noosa Mining’s website soon after each session.
Mining.com.au is an official media partner of the November Noosa Mining Investor Conference, and again has sent a cohort to cover the event on the ground.
Write to Maddison Elliott at Mining.com.au
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