Historic black and white banner of the Neumann family mineral sands operation

Three generations. One patch of Gold Coast sand.

Currumbin Minerals has been in Neumann family hands since the beginning. This is how a cabinet maker's family ended up mining minerals.

1948 — Pacific Minerals

Alfred Neumann arrived on the Gold Coast in 1922 and worked as a cabinet maker and builder. In 1948, his son Robert founded Pacific Minerals, starting mineral sand operations at Currumbin.

Historic black and white portrait of founder Alfred Neumann
Historic black and white photo of vintage Currumbin Minerals signage

1952 — Currumbin Minerals

The company was renamed Currumbin Minerals in 1952 — the name it's carried for over 70 years since, through changing markets, changing technology, and three generations of the same family at the helm.

Today

Currumbin Minerals is now part of the Neumann Group, alongside Neumann Contractors, Neumann Steel Reinforcing, Nucrush, River Sands and Action Sands. The site has grown — a state-of-the-art separation plant, a NATA-accredited laboratory, export contracts across Asia and the Middle East — but it's still the same Currumbin ground the Neumann family started on in 1948.

Historic black and white photo of the old sand processing plant

Timeline

75-plus years, one family

  1. 1922

    Alfred Neumann arrives on the Gold Coast

  2. 1948

    Robert Neumann founds Pacific Minerals, Currumbin

  3. 1952

    Renamed Currumbin Minerals

  4. 2021

    Southern Gold Coast Laboratories established

  5. 2023

    Major processing plant commissioned

  6. Today

    Part of the Neumann Group, exporting to Asia and the Middle East

Historic black and white photo of a dredging operation on the Currumbin mineral sands site

Still family-run. Still local.

Same family, same site, same reason we got into this — good mineral sand, right on our doorstep.

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