Critical minerals

The Hub supports the objectives of Australia’s Critical Minerals Strategy 2023–2030 to grow our 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.

Explore the 2024 Australian Critical Minerals Map via Geoscience Australia.

Find out more about critical minerals and their uses via Geoscience Australia.