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.

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