The Global Mining Tech 50 is a unique listing of the world’s leading mining and metals technology enterprises, based on annual revenues in mining and metals markets. These include exploration, mine development, operations, connected infrastructure management and metals processing, reprocessing and recycling.
These entities – including significant divisions within large mining equipment manufacturers, contractors and diverse software companies – generated an estimated US$6.8 billion of mining/metals sales in 2025.
Individual enterprise revenues are publicly reported, discussed (on investor calls, etc) and/or conveyed via charts and other data. Some companies provided information on a not-for-publication basis. It is hoped the level of transparency in a sector touted as vital to the future of mining and metals investment, health and safety, and environmental impacts, improves in future.
Nevertheless, a global mining and metals tech sector can finally be said to be taking shape.
The Global Mining Tech 50 are:
- ABB. Zurich, Switzerland-headquartered ABB has a large mining and metals business which reportedly contributed 7% of its US$33.22 billion of 2025 revenues. Its motion (drives, electric motors, generators and motion control) business contributed $8.2 billion, with mining/metals said to account for 12% ($984 million) of that. Automation (integrated automation, electrical and digital solutions) generated a further $8.1 billion, with mining, metals, pulp and paper generating 21% of that, or $1.7 billion. All up, mining and metals tech contributed an estimated $1489 million of ABB revenue in 2025.
- Hexagon. Mining has been a growing segment of Hexagon’s business for more than a decade and today represents a combined €442.6 million, or cUS$513 million, of its core autonomous solutions and geosystems division revenues. The company says 9% of its overall sales are mining-related software, sensors and controls: $566 million in 2025. Back in 2005 Hexagon acquired Leica Geosystems, which had bought Australian mining technology company Tritronics two years earlier. Hexagon doubled down on mining in 2014 when it acquired US software company Mintec. It has been a prolific acquirer of mining tech firms since.
