Critical Minerals Office  

Our key activities include:

• developing policy and regulatory settings that enable investment and unlock downstream opportunities
• promoting investment and building diverse and secure global supply chains, in partnership with:
  • Austrade
  • the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT)
• improving access to regulatory approvals and funding and investment information
• supporting research and development.

Partnering internationally on global supply chains

We’re working across government and with international partners to:

• help address supply chain risks
• advance research
• promote ethical and sustainable practice.

We also maintain an active presence in multilateral initiatives, including:

• IEA Critical Minerals Working Party
• Conference on Critical Materials and Minerals
• Minerals Security Partnership
• Sustainable Critical Minerals Alliance
• Critical Minerals Strategic Advisory Group in the International Organization for Standardization
• Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Energy Resource Governance Initiative
• Indo-Pacific Economic Framework
• Quadrilateral Security Dialogue.

Facilitating critical minerals research

We support research and development in partnership with:

• Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)
• Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO)
• Geoscience Australia.

This includes collaborating on the $50.5 million Australian Critical Minerals Research and Development Hub.