Australia’s critical mineral opportunity
Critical minerals are crucial to building a Future Made in Australia. We need them for Australia’s economic sovereignty, defence capabilities, critical technologies and the acceleration of the clean energy transition.
The critical minerals sector is a priority industry under the Future Made in Australia agenda’s economic resilience and security stream. This recognises that the sector is both critical to economic resilience and security and vulnerable to disruptions.
Australia is home to some of the largest recoverable critical minerals deposits on earth. We are a strategic partner of choice to secure long-term supply of ethically sourced and high-quality critical minerals.
Growing Australia’s critical minerals sector
Australia’s Critical Minerals Strategy aims to grow Australia’s critical minerals sector by:
- creating diverse, resilient and sustainable supply chains through strong and secure international partnerships
- building sovereign capability in domestic critical minerals processing
- using our critical minerals to help Australia become a renewable energy superpower
- extracting more value from our resources onshore, which creates jobs and economic opportunities.
