A coordinated approach for critical minerals

Deploying government funding to unlock private investment. 

Key initiatives:

• Queensland Critical Minerals Fund
• North West Energy Fund
• Sovereign Industry Development Fund
• Transforming Queensland Manufacturing Grants
• Mineral Acceleration Program

Reducing delays and improving project certainty.

Key initiatives:

• Resources Cabinet Committee
• Critical Minerals Queensland
• Legislative and regulatory reforms
• Office of the Coordinator-General
• Critical Minerals Zones
• Pre-competitive geoscience data
• Baseline social and environmental data

Coordinating government action to amplify industry outcomes.

Key initiatives:

• Queensland Energy Roadmap
• Transforming Queensland Manufacturing Strategy 2025–30
• Right Skills Strategy 2025–28

Building infrastructure and capability for growth.

Key initiatives:

• CopperString
• Joint Queensland-Commonwealth support package for the Mount Isa Copper Smelter
• Mount Isa Transformation Study
• Queensland Resources Common User Facility
• Future Industries Flexi-Lab
• Research and development partnerships
• Recommercialising former mine sites
• Joint Queensland–Commonwealth funding for Boyne Aluminium Smelter
• Joint Queensland–Commonwealth funding for Phosphate Hill

Promoting Queensland opportunities and securing strategic investment.

Key initiatives:

• Trade missions and international delegations
• Targeted investment attraction activities
• Queensland Critical Minerals Prospectus
• Junior Miners Investment Readiness Program
• Trade and Investment Queensland facilitation