Hardie Pacific’s diverse portfolio of mineral, energy, and geological projects across New Zealand, Australia, and the wider Asia–Pacific region. Our work spans critical minerals, rare earth elements, natural hydrogen, ultramafic‑based carbon mineralisation, and strategic resource developments.
Our projects reflect more than fifty years of multidisciplinary capability across geology, exploration, investment, and long‑term resource stewardship.
Central Gold and Bucklands Gold hold major positions in the Otago goldfield, targeting large-scale gold and tungsten systems with promising structural potential, historic workings, and drill-ready prospects across highly prospective ground.
Hardie Pacific is actively working to introduce carbon mineralisation to the southern hemisphere. Our Australian company, Carbozorb, has permit locations in New South Wales, while our New Zealand company, Weora, has permits spanning much of the country. As the CO2 naturally reacts with MgO rich rocks, the process is recognised as being permanently stored.
We collaborate with researchers from universities and industries that emit CO2 and other harmful gases, such as fluorine. Together, we aim to prevent the release of these gases into the atmosphere and instead store them securely and permanently mineralised.
Ultramafic rocks produce natural hydrogen (H2) when metamorphosed in the presence of water, a process called serpentinisation. Although natural hydrogen exploration is still in its infancy, seeps are known to occur around the world, including within Weora and Carbozorb’s licence areas. One of the world’s largest seeps, is at Poison Bay, Fiordland, New Zealand.
It is unlikely that hydrogen will be found in pressurised stagnant reservoirs, as with traditional methane deposits, instead, natural hydrogen occurs more often as slow flowing accumulations. Hydrogen gas is being continually generated from the serpentisation of the ultramafic rocks and it flows along the natural fractures within the rock mass. We are investigating the economic potential for natural hydrogen across the licence portfolio’s and whether engineered systems for in situ carbon mineralisation could commercially produce hydrogen, which when captured can be used for power generation, industry, motor vehicles and others.
Many of these resources occur within Hardie Pacific’s areas of operation, where natural processes have already concentrated valuable minerals. These settings offer accessible, lower-impact development pathways and the potential to deliver reliable supply, diversify revenue streams, and support industries that depend on consistent, high-quality mineral inputs.
As governments and industries prioritise secure and transparent supply chains, new producers with strong geological foundations and strategic alignment are becoming increasingly important. Hardie Pacific’s regional footprint, combined with favourable geology and rising demand from advanced industries, positions its critical mineral assets within a broader global shift toward resilient, future-focused mineral supply.
Operate in secure, low‑risk jurisdictions.
landholdings, permits, infrastructure access
In rare earths and strategic investments
Focused, high‑value critical mineral exploration.
