GMA Garnet Group

GMA's history traces to 1971, when Target Minerals pegged mineral sands tenements on the Western Australian coast; 1983 is considered the founding year, when production and global marketing of industrial garnet began. The operating company, previously Target Minerals NL, Garnet Producers NL and Garnet Millers Associates Pty Ltd, was renamed GMA Garnet Pty Ltd in 1993. GMA Garnet Middle East was established in 1999 with a bulk handling and packaging plant in the Jebel Ali Free Zone, Dubai, followed by a waste management recycling plant there in 2003.

GMA employs more than 500 people across Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East and the Americas, and owns mines and processing plants in Australia, North America, Europe and the Middle East, handling alluvial, crushed and reprocessed garnet. It is part of the Jebsen & Jessen Group, a privately owned industrial group with a heritage dating back to 1895.