Critical mineral publications

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Science and technical information

Geoscience Australia

• Australia’s Identified Mineral Resources (annual publication)
• Australian Mineral Exploration Review (annual publication)
• Australian commodity supply chain reviews (periodic updates)
• Critical Minerals in Australia: A Review of Opportunities and Research (2019)
• Critical commodities in Australia – an assessment of extraction potential from ores (2017)
• Critical Commodities for a High-tech world (2013)

Maps

• Australian Critical Minerals Map (annual publication)
• Australian Operating Mines Map (annual publication)

Geoscience Australia educational resources

• Educator and classroom resource: Analysing Australian geology, topography, and critical minerals using online datasets
• Poster: Meaningful Minerals
• Educator and classroom resource: Resourceful rocks, meaningful minerals, and every-day elements
• Educator and classroom resource: From Earth to innovations DAA story map and classroom activity
• Blog: What makes a mineral critical
• Blog: Critical Minerals in your day

Find more educational resources here.

Critical Minerals Mapping Initiative

• Critical Minerals Mapping Initiative portal (periodic updates)
• Deposit Classification Scheme for the Critical Minerals Mapping Initiative Global Geochemical Database (2021)
• International database on the abundance of critical minerals in ore: Relevance to research and development of critical mineral resources (2021)
• International Geoscience Collaboration to Support Critical Mineral Discovery (2020)

External publications

• Australian Critical Minerals Prospectus (annual publication)
• A review of critical mineral resources in Australia (2024)
• Geological Surveys United to Improve Critical Mineral Security (2021)
• Outlook for Selected Critical Minerals Australia (DISR) (2021)
• Critical Energy Minerals Roadmap (CSIRO) (2021)

Presentations and videos

Geoscience Australia has also produced a series of presentations on critical minerals, many of which can be found on our YouTube page.

Relevant presentations include:

• Achievements, insights and impact of the Australian Critical Minerals Research & Development Hub (2026)
• Modelling the Critical Mineral Potential of Australia (2026)
• Advancing the development of Australia’s Rare Earth Resources (2025)

• What are Critical Minerals and Strategic Materials and why do they matter? An Australian Perspective (2025)
• The Green Steel Economic Fairways Mapper (2024)
• Quartz – the unsuspected critical mineral (2024)
• Maximising critical mineral opportunities to meet global demand (2021)
• Critical Minerals Mapping Initiative Data Portal (2022)
• Dave Huston - Critical Minerals in Australia (2021)
• Unconformity-related rare earth element deposits: A new source of critical metals for Australia (2020)
• Australia’s Identified Mineral Resources (2020)