Launch of AusIMM Awards 2025: Nominate now to recognise outstanding leadership and professional excellence
AusIMM is delighted to announce its 2025 Awards program is now open for nominations.
AusIMM Awards showcase outstanding leadership as well as highlighting professional excellence in disciplines aligned to our expert technical societies. Nominations are sought from across our global community to highlight the reach and impact of AusIMM all over the world.
In 2025, the three main Awards categories are Highest Honours, Professional Excellence and Leadership Awards.
Read below for more information and guidelines for nominating on each Award. The nomination form is available here.
Highest Honours
These awards celebrate outstanding, sustained leadership and exceptional contributions to AusIMM or the resources sector. This category includes four prestigious awards:
Institute Medal
The Institute Medal is the most prestigious award and highest honour conferred by AusIMM. It may be awarded to anyone in recognition of eminent leadership of AusIMM or the resources sector.
Honorary Fellowship
Honorary Fellowship may be conferred on any senior and influential professional who has performed notable, active and sustained service to AusIMM or made a major contribution to the resources sector.
Beryl Jacka Award
This award is named in honour of Beryl Jacka, a stalwart of AusIMM over a period of 40+ years including as Secretary. This award may only be presented to an AusIMM member who has demonstrated extraordinary and sustained service to AusIMM.
President's Award
The President’s Award may be presented to any senior and influential professional who has made a notable contribution to, or achievement within, AusIMM or the resources sector in a specific sphere of activity. This Award is bestowed by the AusIMM President.
Professional Excellence Awards
These Awards recognise professional excellence for significant contributions to the development or application of professional knowledge, practice or leadership within a specific discipline aligned to AusIMM Societies. These Awards may be presented to professionals at any career stage, of any discipline, who have made a measurable impact to their own or any other discipline. Such impact may include:
- Successful implantation of innovative techniques, technologies or ideas
- Providing thought leadership to address specific discipline challenges
- Significant contributions to growing the capability, impact or reputation of the discipline
- A demonstrated ability to inspire and motivate teams or new professionals to achieve outstanding success.
There are six awards in this category:
- AusIMM Mining Society Award
- AusIMM Geoscience Society Award
- AusIMM Metallurgical Society Award
- AusIMM Social and Environment Society Award
- AusIMM Health and Safety Society Award
- AusIMM Consultants Society Award
Leadership Awards
These awards recognise consistent and significant contribution to the ongoing success of AusIMM and/or the resources sector. There are three Awards in this category: Outstanding Leadership Award (x2) and Emerging Leader of the Year.
Outstanding Leadership Award (x2)
Leadership Awards may be presented to any member or group of members. They recognise consistent and significant contribution to the ongoing success of AusIMM and/or the resources sector. This may be through building better understanding and respect either among resources sector professionals, or between those professionals and the broader community.
The contributions these awards recognise might include (but are not limited to) the operations of a Community of Interest (Branch, Society, Student Chapter, New Professionals Network; Women in Mining Network; Committee) an AusIMM event, or publication.
Emerging Leader of the Year (1)
This Award recognises the contribution by a young professional within the sector through operational, academic, service or other notable achievement.
This award may be presented to any new resources sector professional (generally aged under 30).
Call for Nominations
Nominations for the AusIMM Awards opened on 1 April 2025 and close on 1 June 2025. Nomination guidelines and the nomination form are available through the AusIMM website.
Members are encouraged to consider who in their network would be a worthy candidate for these various categories and to nominate as many people as they want. Nominees may be members or non-members for all Awards except the Beryl Jacka Award, for which the recipient must be a member.
This year’s Awards Dinner will be held in Brisbane on Friday 17 October.