Contents
Critical commodities for a high-tech world:
Australia’s potential to supply global demand
Roger G. Skirrow, David L. Huston, Terrence P. Mernagh, Jane P. Thorne, Helen Dulfer and Anthony B. Senior
Part one: Critical Commodities and Australian Supply
Roger G. Skirrow, Jane P. Thorne, Anthony B. Senior and David L. Huston
1.1 Metals and minerals for a high-tech world
1.2 Purpose and scope of the report
1.3 What are critical commodities?
1.4 Global perspective on critical commodities: country summaries and demand
1.5 Australia's potential for critical commodities
Part two: Geology of Critical Commodities, and Australia's Endowment and Potential
David Huston, Terry Mernagh, Helen Dulfer, Roger Skirrow
2.1 A mineral systems framework for critical commodities
2.2 Porphyry-epithermal mineral system
2.3 Granite-related mineral system
2.4 Iron oxide copper-gold mineral system
2.5 Mafic-ultramafic orthomagmatic mineral systems
2.6 Sub-aqueous, volcanic-related mineral system
2.7 Orogenic mineral system
2.8 Basin-hosted mineral system
2.9 Alkaline intrusion-related mineral system
2.10 Surficial Mineral Systems
2.11 Potential for Australian critical commodity production
Appendix: Critical commodities summaries: Characteristics, supply, demand, and criticality