Critical minerals
The Hub supports the objectives of Australia’s Critical Minerals Strategy 2023–2030 to grow Australia’s critical minerals sector, expand downstream processing, position Australia globally as a secure, reliable and ethical supplier of critical minerals and help meet future global demand.
Australia’s Critical Minerals List and Strategic Materials List was last updated in February 2024 and contains minerals:
- essential to our modern technologies, economies and national security, specifically the priority technologies set out in the Critical Minerals Strategy
- for which Australia has geological potential for resources
- in demand from our strategic international partners
- that are vulnerable to supply chain disruption.
Australian Critical Minerals Map
The Australian Critical Minerals Map is updated annually by Geoscience Australia and is current as of December 2024.
