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Critical Minerals Conference Proceeding 2026

Conference Proceedings

Critical Minerals Conference Proceeding 2026

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The proceedings reflect the breadth of opportunities and challenges facing the sector. Explore topics including critical minerals markets and supply chains, sovereign capability, project financing and bankability, discovery and resource development, processing and refining technologies, rare earth elements, lithium recovery, circular economy approaches, mine waste revalorisation, environmental stewardship, First Nations partnerships, social license, geopolitics and supply chain resilience. These provide a valuable opportunity to share knowledge, challenge ideas and build connections across the entire critical minerals value chain.

Papers in collection

  • A circular economy approach for critical mineral recovery and high-performance geopolymer production from mine tailings Go to Paper
  • A regional blueprint for Australia’s critical minerals future – the Mackay and Greater Whitsunday model Go to Paper
  • Accelerating regional development through place-based approaches – baseline studies to de-risk critical mineral projects: a Julia Creek/Richmond case study Go to Paper
  • Achieving bankability in critical mineral projects – integrating market, offtake and financing considerations Go to Paper
  • Adapting to declining ore grades – two-stage copper smelting and the role of calcium ferrite slags Go to Paper
  • An alternate approach – heap leach flow sheet development for ASM’s Dubbo rare earth project Go to Paper
  • An integrated power-process-data architecture for resilient critical mineral processing Go to Paper
  • An investigation into the current leading solid-state battery chemistry options, precursor materials and processing requirements Go to Paper
  • An investor perspective on critical minerals opportunities Go to Paper
  • Applying generative AI to geological data discovery – the GSQ digital librarian Go to Paper
  • Australia’s opportunity to add value to critical minerals through downstream pyrometallurgical processing Go to Paper
  • Beneficiation strategies for rare earth minerals from clay-hosted ores – a critical review Go to Paper
  • Beyond social licence – First Nations partnership as critical project infrastructure Go to Paper
  • Beyond the E – the important role of social and governance in critical minerals Go to Paper
  • Beyond the flow sheet – scaling ultra-high purity alumina for semiconductor and AI infrastructure Go to Paper
  • Comparable results, credible trade – accreditation, standards and national capability in critical minerals Go to Paper
  • Critical metal inventory of Australia’s tailings and mine waste – what’s next? From aspiration to delivery Go to Paper
  • Critical mineralogy – where client’s needs meet real world mineral assemblages Go to Paper
  • Critical minerals and strategic alignment – Australia at an inflection point Go to Paper
  • Critical minerals for energy and supply network risks in the Indo-Pacific Go to Paper
  • Critical minerals in an age of strategic fragmentation – from resource endowment to industrial delivery Go to Paper
  • Critical minerals Queensland – First Nations economic participation Go to Paper
  • Crustal architecture, granites and critical minerals – machine-assisted mapping of the Yilgarn Craton, Australia Go to Paper
  • CSIRO graphite value chain capabilities Go to Paper
  • Deep sea tailings placement – regulatory trends, evolving environmental, social and governance practices and financing implications Go to Paper
  • Demonstration plants allow miners to test critical minerals processing before investing in commercial production Go to Paper
  • Demystifying the midstream bottleneck – an analytical framework for critical minerals policies Go to Paper
  • Digging into Australia’s ‘sweet spot’ on critical minerals Go to Paper
  • Digital frontiers – the impact of artificial intelligence and machine learning on Indigenous participation, economic success, sovereignty and knowledge protection Go to Paper
  • Distribution and controls on critical minerals at Rosebery, western Tasmania – from deposit to concentrate Go to Paper
  • Economic considerations in the processing of clay-hosted rare earth deposits in Australia Go to Paper
  • Electrolysis-based conversion for sustainable lithium refining Go to Paper
  • From approval to operation – how reform can accelerate Australia’s critical minerals pipeline Go to Paper
  • From batch to breakthrough – continuous magnesium metal production for a resilient critical minerals supply chain Go to Paper
  • From discovery to development – a beneficiation-first approach for the Jupiter clay-hosted REE deposit Go to Paper
  • From exploration to refining – is Australia innovating where value is created? Go to Paper
  • From mineralogy to process insight – advanced XRD analytics for critical minerals Go to Paper
  • From strategy to scale – why critical minerals innovation stalls between pilot and bankability Go to Paper
  • Froth image-based monitoring of copper flotation circuits using localised principal component models Go to Paper
  • Geochemical controls on rubidium enrichment and recovery in the Mount Edon pegmatite, Western Australia Go to Paper
  • How government can support the acceleration of critical mineral project delivery, supported by policy, regulation and initiatives Go to Paper
  • Hydrometallurgical processing of ferromanganese smelter wastes for high-purity manganese sulfate production Go to Paper
  • Impact of high sodium on separation and extraction performance in lithium brine processing Go to Paper
  • Impact of transition metal impurities (Co, Cu, Ni, Fe) on vanadium electrolyte performance – toward direct electrolyte production from leach liquors Go to Paper
  • Licensing the social licence – identifying legitimacy-based SLO issues in Victoria’s critical minerals industry Go to Paper
  • Meeting rising global sulfuric acid demand and constrained fossils supply – the role of copper derived output Go to Paper
  • Midstream in Australia – ambition versus reality: confronting the structural constraints Go to Paper
  • Mine operations management – digitally connect mine production Go to Paper
  • Mine waste dumps critical minerals resource characterisation framework for Zimbabwe Go to Paper
  • Modelling scenarios for future mineral supply considering uncertain exploration outcomes and ESG risks Go to Paper
  • Nano-bubbles effect on critical minerals flotation performance Go to Paper
  • Novel fluorescence for spodumene imaging Go to Paper
  • OpenCu – an open source framework for evaluating renewables integration in the copper value chain Go to Paper
  • Operational improvement in spodumene grinding circuits using Derrick fine screens Go to Paper
  • Optical sorting for coarse REE pre-concentration by ink-coating and magnetic lifting Go to Paper
  • Partnerships as enablers of integrated rare earth supply chains – lessons from emerging industry models Go to Paper
  • Pilot scale critical mineral processing Go to Paper
  • Recovery of manganese as a critical mineral from aqueous structures Go to Paper
  • Redrawing the investment map – government intervention and the evolution of critical minerals transactions for ASX companies Go to Paper
  • Revalorising historical tin mine wastes – a sustainable source of In, Sn, Sb, W and Bi Go to Paper
  • Securing heavy rare earth supply beyond China – a comparative assessment of in situ recovery and heap leaching for ion-adsorption clay deposits Go to Paper
  • Selective flocculation-flotation of fine spodumene – recovering lithium from particles currently lost to tailings Go to Paper
  • Selective leaching of rare earth elements from NdFeB magnet waste using salt solution Go to Paper
  • Simple yet accurate routine analysis of rare earth materials from ores through to concentrates using a single X-ray fluorescence application Go to Paper
  • Social licence and critical minerals – comparative insights from Australian and Canadian public attitude surveys Go to Paper
  • Strengthening Indo-Pacific critical mineral supply chains – opportunities for regional collaboration in the battery ecosystem Go to Paper
  • Supporting Australia’s critical minerals strategy through applied processing research Go to Paper
  • Sustainable and energy-efficient flow sheet optimisation for integrated recovery of niobium and tantalum oxide from carbonatite ores Go to Paper
  • Systematic characterisation of Queensland’s mineral deposits and their alteration footprints – insights and tools for critical mineral exploration Go to Paper
  • Technology risk addressal in valuing assets containing novel commodity processing technologies Go to Paper
  • The evolving role of precompetitive geophysics in supporting exploration success in Queensland Go to Paper
  • The impact of co-occurring ions (potassium, sodium and calcium) in the recovery of lithium hydroxide from lithium liquors using electrodialysis Go to Paper
  • Thermodynamic re-optimisation of the Ni-Fe-Cu-S-As system – supporting the processing of complex Australian ores Go to Paper
  • Towards sustainable cobalt extraction – carbothermic reduction assisted microwave leaching of heterogenite cobalt oxide ores Go to Paper
  • Transparent market design for lithium – order books, price normalisation and quality adjusted auctions Go to Paper
  • Turning pyrite to pyrrhotite for critical metal extractions – reactions during thermal decomposition Go to Paper
  • Unlocking capacity – use of process control and monitoring to increase the barge loading capacity at Metro Mining Bauxite Hills Mine Go to Paper
  • Unlocking secondary resources requires a new way of thinking Go to Paper
  • Upgrading rare earth from clay deposits in Western Australia – mineralogical controls via physical and thermochemical treatments Go to Paper
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  • Published: 2026
  • Unique ID: P-05266-B0X2F0

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