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.