The second paper in the amazing research journey by Dr Surya Singh from his PhD turning Lunar Soils (i.e. regolith) to Lunar Steel. The first paper covers the extraction of Fe-Si alloys from lunar regolith, and the second paper takes the next step by refining these alloys towards steel production.

Congrats to Surya for this amazing work, and also Prof Geoff Brooks for his leadership through this entire program at Swinburne University of Technology’s insitu-resource utilisation program at the Space Technology and Industry Institute.

Truly incredible to have Forbes(!) feature a follow up on the leadership power of future casting (aka Strategic Foresight) and the opportunity that it affords industry in this era of continual, indeed compounding, changes that we term a polycrisis.

Thrilled to be joining Bohdee Media as a science advisor! Adam Boland and his colleagues are astonishingly creative and accomplished storytellers *and* social/traditional media creators. And never have those communication skills been more needed… the challenges facing our world will require more science and technology not less, and that tech positive view needs to be heard more widely than ever.

Australia has invested significantly in developing world-class technologies for the resources sector. The challenge now is ensuring those innovations move beyond individual projects and become part of how the industry operates at scale.

It was a pleasure to speak at RMIT University's Global Critical Minerals Forum, sharing some of the emerging technologies transforming how we explore for, understand and process critical minerals. My talk "From Underground to Orbit" explored technologies ranging from muon imaging and quantum gravity sensing to satellite-enabled exploration, AI-driven data fusion and even technologies being developed for extracting resources on the Moon. All done by Australian companies with global impact, today.

The second paper in the amazing research journey by Dr Surya Singh from his PhD turning Lunar Soils (i.e. regolith) to Lunar Steel. The first paper covers the extraction of Fe-Si alloys from lunar regolith, and the second paper takes the next step by refining these alloys towards steel production.

Congrats to Surya for this amazing work, and also Prof Geoff Brooks for his leadership through this entire program at Swinburne University of Technology’s insitu-resource utilisation program at the Space Technology and Industry Institute.

LUNAR STEEL! This is an amazing study undertaken by Dr Surya Singh as part of his PhD at Swinburne led by Prof Geoff Brooks, exploring the conditions under which the soil (aka regolith) of the Moon can be processed to access the iron it contains for potential use on the Lunar surface.