The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (AusIMM) provides services to professionals engaged in all facets of the global minerals sector and is based in Carlton, Victoria, Australia.^[1]

The Institute had its genesis in 1893 with the formation in Adelaide of the Australasian Institute of Mining Engineers^[2] drawing its inspiration from the success of the American Institute of Mining Engineers,^[3] and some impetus from the Mine Managers Association of Broken Hill.^[4] Office-holders were equally from South Australia and "The Hill", where the Institute established its headquarters.

This approach to the foundation of a federal organization was welcomed in mining districts of other Australian colonies.^[5][6] and branches were formed in Broken Hill, the Thames Goldfield (New Zealand), Ballarat, and elsewhere. Succeeding annual conferences were held at Ballarat,^[7] Hobart, Broken Hill and other mining centres. The 1926 conference was held in Otago, New Zealand.^[8]

In 1896 its headquarters were removed from Broken Hill to Melbourne,^[9] and in June 1919 adopted its present name.^[10] In 1954 the institute applied for a royal charter,^[11] granted 1955.

The AusIMM represents more than 15 500 members drawn from all sections of the industry and supported by a network of branches and societies in Australasia and internationally.^[12]

AIME

• Sir Henry Ayers foundation president, 1893^[13]
• Uriah Dudley foundation general secretary 1893–1897
• David Lauder Stirling (c. 1871 – 30 August 1949); president 1894, secretary 1906–1941 or later; also secretary, Victorian Chamber of Mines 1898–1945
• H. W. Ferd Kayser (mine manager Mount Bischoff Tin Mining Company), vice-president 1894, president 1898, 1899
• Alexander Montgomery (government geologist in New Zealand, Tasmania, and Western Australia), president 1895
• Ernest Lidgey geological surveyor in Victoria; conducted Australia's first geophysical surveys; president 1901
• Samuel Henry McGowan (c. 1845 – 13 May 1921), accountant specializing in gold mining companies, mayor of Bendigo 1899–1900; president 1902
• F. Danvers Power, lecturer at Sydney University, president 1897, 1904.
• Robert C. Sticht general manager, Mount Lyell Mining & Railway Company, president 1905, 1915, vice-president 1909
• G. D. Delprat (manager of the Broken Hill mine), president 1906
• Dr. Alfred William Howitt, C.M.G., F.G.S., the eminent naturalist, was president 1907
• Frank A. Moss, (general manager of Kalgurli Gold Mines), president 1907^[14]
• C. F. Courtney (general manager of the Sulphide Corporation), president 1908^[15]
• Richard Hamilton, (general manager of the Great Boulder Proprietary mine), president 1909, vice-president 1910
• G. A. Richard (of Mount Morgan, Queensland), president 1910
• Herman Carl Bellinger from US; mine manager, Cobar 1909–1914, president 1912^[16]
• James Hebbard (manager of the Central Mine, Broken Hill), president 1913^[17]
• John Warren (mining) (manager of Block 10, Broken Hill), vice-president 1894, president 1902^[18][19]
• Hyman Herman (director of the Victorian geological survey), joined 1897, president 1914, remained councillor to 1959.
• Robert Silvers Black, (general manager of Kalgurli Gold Mines), president 1917^[20]
• J. W. Sutherland metallurgist at Lake View Consols and Golden Horse Shoe gold mines; president 1918^[21]
• Professor D. B. Waters of Otago, New Zealand, vice-president 1917,1918 (absent for most of this period — he was with New Zealand Tunnelling Company in France).

AIMM

• R. W. Chapman, vice-president 1906, president 1920
• Colin Fraser (later Sir Colin), president 1923
• H. W. Gepp, later Sir Herbert William Gepp, president 1924^[22]
• Ernest W. Skeats (professor of geology, University of Melbourne), vice-president 1924, president 1925
• David Lauder Stirling, general secretary 1922–45^[23]
• R. M. Murray (general manager, Mount Lyell Mining & Railway Company), president 1927
• Alfred Stephen Kenyon, treasurer 1897, secretary 1906, president 1928^[24]
• E. C. Andrews (New South Wales Government Geologist), president 1929
• William Edward Wainwright (general manager of Broken Hill South), president 1919, 1930, vice-president 1916–18, 1933, 1934
• Wiliam Harley Wainwright son of W. E. Wainwright, (chief metallurgist, BHP) life member^[25]
• Essington Lewis (managing director of BHP) vice-president 1932, president 1935
• Andrew Fairweather, president 1932 (succeeded W. E. Mainwright at Broken Hill South mine and as General Manager)
• Professor J. Neill Greenwood (dean of Melbourne University Faculty of Applied Science), president 1936,1937
• Donald Yates, superintendent of Broken Hill Associated Smelters Pty., president 1937
• Julius Kruttschnitt (general manager, Mount Isa Mines) president 1939
• Oliver H. Woodward (general manager, North Mine, Broken Hill) active in tunnelling operations WWI, president 1940
• Arthur H. P. Moline (1877–1965) (succeeded R. M. Murray as general manager, Mount Lyell, in 1944), president 1945
• Asdruebal James Keast (general manager, Zinc Corporation; Australian Aluminium Production Commission 1951–55), president 1946, vice-president 1947
• Frank R. Hockey / Francis Richard Hockey (general superintendent, BHP), president 1947, vice-president 1949,1950
• F. F. Espie / Frank Fancett Espie (general superintendent, Western Mining Corporation), president 1948
• Godfrey Bernard O'Malley, vice-president 1943–46
• Maurice Alan Edgar Mawby (director of exploration, Zinc Corporation, Limited), vice-president 1950,1951, president 1953,1954
• Ian Munro McLennan (General Manager, BHP), president 1951
• Beryl Elaine Jacka MBE, typist 1936; assistant general secretary 1945–52, secretary 1952–1976
• Gordon Colvin Lindesay Clark CMG^[26]

British

• North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers (known as the Mining Institute) founded 1852
• Institution of Mining Engineers founded 1889, incorporating the Mining Institute above
• Institution of Mining and Metallurgy founded 1892
• Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining merger of IMM and Institute of Materials in 2002.

US

• American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers (originally American Institute of Mining Engineers founded 1871)