The Leadership Insights delivers unique insights into priority mining issues through interviews with 15+ top mining company executives and an industrywide survey.

The Mining IQ Leadership Insights 2025:

The Mining IQ’s annual Leadership Insights report examines the sector’s top priority themes, delivering a unique depth of analysis through interviews with 17+ top mining company executives and a major survey.

The 2025 edition focuses on top strategies for unlocking production growth and features interviews with executives of mining companies with a combined market capitalisation of US$283 billion and a survey completed by more than 180 industry professionals.

The report reveals the importance the industry places on growth and the scale of its growth ambitions in the face of rising global demand for many minerals. Twenty-eight per cent of mining companies surveyed planned to more than double output by 2030.

The report unpicks the industry’s growth strategies, drilling down to the top-pick growth ‘hotspot’ regions and jurisdictions, the focus on build vs. buy and brownfield vs. greenfield growth, and industry perceptions of the potential role new technologies will play in unlocking growth over the next five years.

Methodology:

The Leadership Insights report delivers unique analysis of top mining sector priorities through interviews with 17+ senior executives of larger mining companies and an industrywide survey.

For the 2025 edition, producing mining companies with a market capitalisation of more than US$1.5 billion were approached for interviews on the theme of unlocking growth. Seventeen interviews were conducted, based on five questions focused on companies’ growth ambitions, challenges to delivering growth, a focus on building or buying assets, the shortfall of exploration spending and the role of the big three ‘safe havens’ of Australia, Canada and the US versus other jurisdictions.

The survey was promoted by email and received more than 180 responses. Respondents were mainly mining or exploration company employees or executives, or professionals from mining services providers and investors.