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#### 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—
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> > (a) antimony,
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> > (b) bauxite,
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> > (c) bismuth,
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> > (d) chromite,
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> > (e) cobalt,
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> > (f) hafnium,
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> > (g) ilmenite,
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> > (h) indium,
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> > (i) leucoxene,
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> > (j) lithium,
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> > (k) magnesite,
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> > (l) molybdenite,
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> > (m) monazite,
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> > (n) nickel,
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> > (o) niobium,
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> > (p) ores of silicon,
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> > (q) platinum group metals,
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> > (r) rare earth minerals,
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> > (s) rutile,
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> > (t) scandium and its ores,
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> > (u) tantalum,
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> > (v) tungsten and its ores,
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> > (w) vanadium,
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> > (x) zircon.
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> **cl 77B:** Ins 2025 No 37, Sch 4\[7\].