Australian government's portal to all matters relating to the critical minerals sector

The main use of antimony is to harden lead in storage batteries, and it is increasingly being used in the semiconductor industry.

Source of information on antimony in Australia from Geoscience Australia.

The Australian government's list of critical minerals operations in the country including the Costerfield and Hillgrove mines. Source: https://www.austrade.gov.au/ international/invest/opportunities/ resources-and-energy

Report on antimony in India

Report on the potential partnership between Australia and India prepared by the Australian government.

Report by Geoscience Australia into Australia's antimony resource base. Source: https://ecat.ga.gov.au/ geonetwork/srv/eng/ catalog.search#/metadata/145561

White paper written by Perpetua Resources on the strategic importance of antimony for the USA. Source: https://perpetuaresources.com/ antimony/

A study on the geopolitics of critical minerals by Washington DC based CSIS

China ratcheted up trade tensions with the US with a ban on several materials with high-tech and military applications, in a tit-for-tat move after President Joe Biden ’s government escalated technology curbs on Beijing.

Antimony has surged in interest across Australian investment portfolios, simultaneously driven by rising prices and the quality of local antimony exploration assets.

Antimony prices have been on a rapid uptrend since Beijing announced the addition of antimony and some of its products to China’s export licensing scheme from 15 September.

Despite featuring high on the critical minerals lists of many nations, antimony has until recently been relatively overlooked.

Great power competition between the United States and China centres on technological supremacy. This extends beyond future-defining technologies such as high-end chip manufacturing, advanced AI, and quantum computing to include the supply chains underpinning these technologies, particularly critical minerals.

China’s latest export restrictions reveal yet another critical mineral vulnerability for the United States.