Criticality and opportunity assessment

Criticality and R&D capacity and opportunity assessment

Tranche 1: 2023-2026

Project name	Lead agency	Aim
Mineral Criticality Assessment	Geoscience Australia	Objective assessment of Australia’s mineral needs and vulnerabilities

Geoscience Australia is leading the criticality assessment, which is examining Australia’s mineral export and import vulnerabilities, and the extent to which minerals are critical for Australia’s economy, future sovereign capabilities, and security. To date, project outputs have been used to inform the December 2023 update of the critical minerals list. The project will build an enduring mineral criticality assessment capability at Geoscience Australia to support evidence-based government decision making and inform Australian strategic policy on critical minerals.