Accelerating opportunities in Western Australia’s Critical Minerals Sector

The focus on critical minerals has arisen from the need for global action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Critical minerals such as lithium, nickel, cobalt, silicon and rare earth elements are essential components in many of today’s rapidly growing clean energy technologies. These minerals and others, are considered ‘critical’ because their use as an input to products of advanced manufacture cannot be easily or cost-effectively substituted, and their supply is concentrated in or constrained by a small number of jurisdictions.