Australian government's portal to all matters relating to the critical minerals sector

The main use of antimony is to harden lead in storage batteries, and it is increasingly being used in the semiconductor industry.

Source of information on antimony in Australia from Geoscience Australia.

The Australian government's list of critical minerals operations in the country including the Costerfield and Hillgrove mines. Source: https://www.austrade.gov.au/ international/invest/opportunities/ resources-and-energy

Report on antimony in India

Report on the potential partnership between Australia and India prepared by the Australian government.

Report by Geoscience Australia into Australia's antimony resource base. Source: https://ecat.ga.gov.au/ geonetwork/srv/eng/ catalog.search#/metadata/145561

White paper written by Perpetua Resources on the strategic importance of antimony for the USA. Source: https://perpetuaresources.com/ antimony/

A study on the geopolitics of critical minerals by Washington DC based CSIS

Though high on the critical minerals list of many countries around the world, few people know much about antimony, how it’s used, or why experts consider it to be the most important mineral you’ve never heard of.

Australia has the chance to get into downstream processing of critical minerals. Courtesy of MiningNews.net

Australia's production at present all comes from the Costerfield gold-mineral operation in Victoria which is in close proximity to Southern Cross Gold's Sunday Creek project. Courtesy of MiningNews.net

Southern Cross Gold has advanced its gold drilling and underlines that it could also become the only Australian-owned producer of the critical metal, antimony.

The mineral antimony is critical to the defense-industrial supply chain and is needed to produce everything from armor-piercing bullets and explosives to nuclear weapons as well as sundry other military equipment, such as night vision goggles.

Southern Cross Gold's projects have antimony as a by-product which sits high on the critical raw materials lists of the USA, EU, Japan, Canada and (not to forget) Australia.