Reforme Group is focused on sustainable and affordable mining, energy, and environmental rehabilitation. They aim to provide the minerals of the future by cleaning up the legacy of the past through the development of innovative technologies and solutions.

The Reforme Group: Leading the Charge in Sustainable Mining and Energy Provisioning

The global shift towards clean energy and decarbonization is creating a demand for critical minerals and metals necessary for the production of solar panels, wind turbines, and electric vehicles. This demand presents an opportunity for the mining industry, but it also comes with a greater responsibility to the environment and local communities. The Reforme Group, an Australian-based mining and energy company, is taking on this responsibility by providing sustainable, affordable, and safe provisioning of mining, energy, and environmental rehabilitation for current and future generations.

The company's approach is based on the idea of cleaning up the legacy of the past while supplying the minerals of the future. There are many smaller legacy sites across Australia that have impacted local communities, which have received limited attention. Many of these sites contain endowments of critical minerals that were overlooked historically, creating a rich opportunity to assess and reprocess mine waste. The Reforme Group aims to increase critical minerals supply by engaging in strategic partnerships with local communities, as well as leading industry and research groups at carefully targeted operations. These partnerships result in rehabilitated legacy mine sites, treated mine waste systems, greater critical mineral supply within Australia, and enhanced downstream processing capacity.

Reforme Group's business model leverages the skills, networks, and experience of its leadership team and strategic partners to ensure that its projects are fully engaged from end-to-end with local communities and businesses. The company is 50% indigenous-owned, bringing invaluable traditional knowledge into the decision-making process. The company considers the whole lifecycle of the operation, including remediation and repurposing, to minimize the energy, water, and waste footprint.

The company's innovative approach also includes tighter integration with product end-users than is traditional of the mining sector. Partnerships are established to look at direct iron reduction for steel manufacturing, recovery of critical semiconductor and battery metals from polymetallic waste systems, manufacturing of batteries from partnered mining operations, and integrated recycling of batteries and other waste streams.

Reforme Group has developed an integrated collaborative model with the traditional owners involving proactive involvement in all decisions impacting the land and active hiring and onsite training program with traditional owners shadowing experienced personnel at all levels. The company is currently developing a full suite of micro-courses in conjunction with CDU and the Batchelor Institute to provide certificate level training in all aspects of exploration, mining, beneficiation, and rehabilitation.

The company invests in strategic research and development initiatives for mining re-valuation, rehabilitation, biodiversity, green energy, and strategic (critical) minerals. It has developed a range of projects through to production and has established the world's first high-tech iron ore mining operation at Frances Creek in the Northern Territory.

In FY22, the company invested more than AUD $60 million into research and development projects. In particular, it continuously develops new extraction techniques for different mineral processing requirements. Harnessing its collaborative working agreements with leading research institutions, global industry, and scientific experts in sustainability and environmental science, the company has access to vast resources, insights, and expertise for transformational R&D to provide critical minerals in sustainable ways.

The Reforme Group's commitment to sustainable mining and energy provisioning is driven by the urgent need for action before changes to the climate are irreversible. The Paris Accord and the UN Sustainable Development Goals require changes in economic growth to yield sustainable pathways and keep global temperature rises this century below 2 deg C. The International Energy Association anticipates that the energy sector will become the primary consumer of metals as clean energy technologies are deployed. Today's supply and investment plans for many critical minerals fall well short of what is needed to support an accelerated deployment of clean energy technologies. The Reforme Group is contributing to the solution by providing sustainable mining and energy provisioning that benefits society, the environment, and local communities.