Enabling profitable, secure and responsible Australian critical minerals supply chains.
Industries Reliant on Critical Minerals
Clean Energy & Renewable Power
Electric Vehicles & Automotive Manufacturing
Defence, Aerospace & National Security
Semiconductors & Advanced Electronics
Telecommunications & Digital Infrastructure
Medical Technology & Pharmaceuticals
Mining, Processing & Industrial Machinery
Aerospace & Space Exploration
Robotics, Automation & AI Hardware
​Construction, Infrastructure & Clean Industrial Technologies
What are Critical Minerals?
​Critical minerals is an umbrella terminology that encompasses metals and minerals deemed essential to an industry, a nation's goals or security.
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Geoscience Australia defines a critical mineral as “a mineral or element (solid, liquid or gas) that is essential for modern technology and cannot be easily substituted with a different mineral​ AND ​there is a risk that the supply of that mineral could be disrupted”.
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Disruptions can be natural, logistical, and geopolitical.
The Critical Minerals Association networks use the following classification:
Critical Minerals
Minerals that are necessary for the industrial objectives of a country or company. Most of these have supply chain vulnerabilities.
Strategic Minerals
Minerals with diplomatic or defence importance.
Metals that are necessary to make new technology work. These have limited supply chain vulnerabilities.