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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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Initiatives Under Development 🔹

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:

  • Agricultural Waste-to-Products

  • Municipal Waste-to-Value (Biogas & Bioproducts)

  • Resource Recovery & Recycling

Australian Centre for Industrial Intelligence (ACII)

Digital & AI-Driven Solutions

This includes:

  • Advanced Data Analytics & Machine Learning

  • Digital Twins

  • Large Language Models (LLMs) & Generative AI

  • Earth Observation & Satellite Applications

  • Automation & Robotics

  • Digital Infrastructure Advocacy

Advanced Carbon Capture and Utilisation (CCU)

This pillar focuses on transforming carbon emissions from a liability into valuable resources. Technologies and initiatives include:

  • Methane-to-Value Projects

  • Green Ammonia & Low-Carbon Fertiliser Production

  • Industrial Carbon Capture & Carbon Feedstocks

  • Algae-Based Carbon Utilisation

  • Direct Air Capture (DAC) & Carbon Mineralisation

The Core
The Collaboration Engine of the Isaac Resource Excellence Precinct

This initiative establishes a premium shared environment designed to support collaboration, project coordination and industry engagement across the Bowen Basin. Positioned within the Isaac Resources Excellence Precinct, The Core provides the professional infrastructure needed for operators, project teams, METS companies, consultants and innovators to work together closer to operations.

This includes:

  • Flexible Workspace & Project Team Facilities

  • Collaboration, Meeting & Workshop Spaces

  • Conference, Training & Industry Event Hosting

  • Regional Industry Coordination & Engagement

  • Innovation, Technology & Knowledge Exchange

  • Professional Base for METS, Consultants & Visiting Teams

 

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