Strategic NewsWhere the World's Critical Minerals Come From - WorldAtlas
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Where the World's Critical Minerals Come From - WorldAtlas

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Understanding global critical minerals supply chains is foundational to Australia's resource sovereignty strategy and industrial decoupling from China. The article likely maps where key minerals originate, which directly informs Australia's dependency vulnerabilities and opportunities to secure strategic supply chains for defence manufacturing and energy transition.

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This development bears on 3 of the eight pillars of Australian preparedness — the overall picture right now is 5/100.

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