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What are Australia’s ‘critical minerals’ (and why are they critical)?

What are Australia’s ‘critical minerals’ (and why are they critical)?

It’s easy to confuse rare earths with critical minerals. So here’s a dummies guide to help you navigate Wednesday’s inaugural Financial Review Mining Summit.

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Five years ago you could attend a mining conference and never hear the term “critical minerals” uttered once.

But that has all changed, thanks more to geopolitics than geology.

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Peter KerResources reporterPeter Ker covers resource companies for The Australian Financial Review, based in Melbourne. Connect with Peter on Twitter. Email Peter at pker@afr.com

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Original URL: https://www.afr.com/companies/mining/the-critical-minerals-boom-is-about-geopolitics-not-geology-20230519-p5d9t7