Small, agile mining equipment, technology and services (METS) companies are vital to driving much-needed innovation in the mining space because incumbent major suppliers “are not often very good at disrupting themselves”, RCF Jolimont director Charles Gillies has told a Perth mining forum.
RCF Jolimont is the mining innovation investment arm of large mining private equity investor, Resource Capital Funds, which currently has about US$2.5 billion under management. It has a number of current investments in small mining tech and equipment scale-ups, and has chalked up some notable recent exits.
