Critical minerals
It’s Earth Science Week! Could you dig a geoscience career?
Every smartphone, TV and electric vehicle has a geological backstory. It’s time to meet the people behind the minerals in this tech.
Jasmine Fellows October 13, 2026
Critical minerals are vital for Australia’s future. They’re used to manufacture advanced technologies like mobile phones, computers, fibre-optic cables, semi-conductors and more!
Every smartphone, TV and electric vehicle has a geological backstory. It’s time to meet the people behind the minerals in this tech.
Every smartphone, TV and electric vehicle has a geological backstory. It’s time to meet the people behind the minerals in this tech.
Behind the clean energy boom are a whole range of critical minerals. And lots of them. Let’s check ’em out!
Did you know critical minerals are key to driving the green energy transition?
Australia has huge underground reserves of important minerals for green tech, so if you’ve got a passion for science and care about Mother Earth there could be a career in it for you
Congratulations to the winners of the University of Adelaide Young Scientist of the Year video competition!
Congratulations to the eight University of Adelaide Young Scientist of the Year video competition runners-up Sustainable sugarcane, soil erosion and pest management are just some
To find more of the minerals we need, mining companies are taking things to another level: space.
