Isaac Resources Excellence Precinct

📍Moranbah, Queensland

The IREP project is driving positive change across resources and renewables by focusing on six key goals:

Grow and diversify the industry through innovation that advances both resources and renewable energy.
Strengthen ESG leadership by protecting the environment and embedding sustainable practices at every stage.
Foster coexistence and sustainable communities, ensuring long-term prosperity for regional areas.
Build genuine First Nations partnerships, integrating Indigenous knowledge and creating meaningful opportunities.
Create a safe, resilient workforce through education, reskilling, and access to new technologies.
Improve regulatory efficiency, enabling faster growth, innovation, and sector-wide adaptation.

What the Precinct Will Deliver

The Isaac Resources Excellence Precinct will bring world-class facilities and opportunities to the region, including:

Research and development facilities focused on critical minerals, mine rehabilitation, and renewable energy technologies.
A dual-sector learning centre, offering university-level education and reskilling programs to build future-ready skills.
A mining heritage centre, celebrating the region’s proud industry history while shaping the next generation.
Multi-functional collaboration spaces, connecting industry, community, and research to drive innovation.

Together, this hub will create jobs, grow skills, and provide long-term opportunities for workers and families to thrive in the Isaac for generations to come.

Initiatives Under Development

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Transformative Post Mining Land Use & Rehabilitation

Building on the region's mining legacy, this initiative creates new economic opportunities from rehabilitated mine sites:

Water Re-use and Storage
Agriculture and Aquaculture
Carbon Sequestration through Land Management including algae produced in the region:
Renewable Energy Hubs
Eco-Industrial Tourism & Heritage

Expanded Flexi-Lab 2.0 Strategic Mineral Processing

Strategic Minerals Processing & Valorisation of Waste Streams

Leveraging the region's rich geological endowments and existing mining expertise, this initiative focuses on extracting and processing essential materials for the global energy transition:

Strategic Minerals Extraction
Tailings Reprocessing
Tungsten Carbide Circularity
Industrial Waste-to-Value

Industrial Tourism

The IREP will incorporate industrial tourism experiences that complement a potential underground mine simulator, Flexi-Lab 2.0 and viewing, VR pods.

Flexi-Lab Viewing Window
Critical Mineral Education Zone
Virtual Reality Pods

Bowen Basin Circularity Hub

Bio-manufacturing & Circular Economy Solutions

This initiative capitalises on the region's agricultural strengths and commitment to resource efficiency, expanding to include diverse organic waste streams: