The Australian Critical Minerals R&D Hub: Mobilising Australia’s critical minerals industry

Australia has abundant geological potential in minerals essential to the technologies that underpin the transition to net zero. However, our critical minerals industry in its infancy and dominated by junior miners struggling to get project funding. Capitalising on our comparative advantage requires overcoming many obstacles: geopolitical tensions; trade restrictions; concentrated supply chains dominated by low-cost producers with low ESG standards; opaque markets; and closely guarded processing and manufacturing IP.

What role can R&D play in overcoming these challenges?

The Australian Critical Minerals R&D Hub was established in October 2022 with a mission to coordinate national R&D efforts and deliver the technical breakthroughs needed to grow Australia’s critical minerals industry and diversify supply chains of strategic significance. The Hub brings together the 3 leading science agencies: CSIRO, ANSTO and Geoscience Australia, and is hosted by CSIRO.

This webcast is for our partner organisations and is an overview of the Australian Critical Minerals R&D Hub and the work underway to fund, coordinate and support collaboration in critical minerals R&D.