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Portable PPB Featured in Paydirt Magazine
Portable PPB is profiled in the June 2026 issue of Australia's Paydirt Magazine, charting its growth from start-up to inflection point. The company's detectORE™ technology — which compresses sample analysis from weeks to hours using portable XRF — is gaining traction with major gold miners globally, and the team has more than doubled to 35+ employees.
Fred van Beuningen
From innovative start-up with a handful of employees and grand ambitions, Portable PPB now stands at the inflection point its founders always hoped it could reach. When Portable PPB founder and managing director Simon Bolster acquired the global rights for the CSIRO-developed detectORE™ geochemistry technology in 2018, he told Paydirt’s sister publication GMJ it had the potential to be “the holy grail for gold explorers”, a system which could identify gold of less than 10 ppb in the field using portable XRF analysers, upending the traditional sampling-assaying-interpretation model and speeding up the entire exploration process.
