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Australian Critical Minerals Map 2023
This map shows the locations and status of Australian operating mines, mines under development, mines on care and maintenance and mineral deposits associated with a critical mineral resource in 2023. Operating mines include projects that have reported a critical mineral resource, but do not necessarily produce critical minerals. Developing mines are deposits where the project has a positive feasibility study, development has commenced or all approvals have been received. Mines under care and maintenance and mineral deposits are those projects with a known critical mineral resource estimate that may produce critical minerals in the future.
For the purposes of this map, critical minerals are defined as minerals and elements that are vital for modern technology and whose supply may be at risk of disruption. As at December 2023, the Australian critical minerals list comprised antimony, arsenic, beryllium, bismuth, chromium, cobalt, fluorine, gallium, germanium, graphite, hafnium, high purity alumina, indium, lithium, magnesium, manganese, molybdenum, niobium, platinum group elements, rare earth elements, rhenium, selenium, silicon (high purity silica/quartz), scandium, tantalum, tellurium, titanium, tungsten, vanadium and zirconium. In February 2024, the Australian Government updated the Australian critical minerals list to include nickel. The fifth edition of this map includes the location and status of Australian nickel mines and deposits in 2023. These commodities are coloured by mineral groupings on the map.
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- 2023-12-04T01:08:50
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- 2024-04-01T03:53:23
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- 2016-01-01T00:00:00
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details Publisher Geoscience Australia
Canberra Author Colclough, H.
MEG Internal Contact Author Pheeney, J.
MEG Internal Contact
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Australian Critical Minerals Map 2023
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Point of contact Colclough, H.
MEG Internal Contact Point of contact Pheeney, J.
MEG Internal Contact
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Mining
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Critical Minerals
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Operating Mines
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Critical Mineral Deposits
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© Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia) 2024
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Australian Critical Minerals Map 2023 - Fifth Edition (pdf) [35.0 MB]
Australian Critical Minerals Map 2023 - Fifth Edition (pdf) [35.0 MB]
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Australian Critical Minerals Map Data 2023 - Fifth Edition (xlsx) [105.5 KB]
Australian Critical Minerals Map Data 2023 - Fifth Edition (xlsx) [105.5 KB]
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Australian Critical Minerals Map 2023 - Fourth Edition (pdf) [33.9 MB]
Australian Critical Minerals Map 2023 - Fourth Edition (pdf) [33.9 MB]
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Australian Critical Minerals Map 2023 - A4 version (jpg) [7.3 MB]
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