77BCritical minerals for deferral approvals

77B Critical minerals for deferral approvals

77B Critical minerals for deferral approvals

For the Act, section 291AA(13), definition of critical mineral, the following minerals are prescribed—

(a) antimony,

(b) bauxite,

(c) bismuth,

(d) chromite,

(e) cobalt,

(f) hafnium,

(g) ilmenite,

(h) indium,

(i) leucoxene,

(j) lithium,

(k) magnesite,

(l) molybdenite,

(m) monazite,

(n) nickel,

(o) niobium,

(p) ores of silicon,

(q) platinum group metals,

(r) rare earth minerals,

(s) rutile,

(t) scandium and its ores,

(u) tantalum,

(v) tungsten and its ores,

(w) vanadium,

(x) zircon.

cl 77B: Ins 2025 No 37, Sch 4[7].