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.

USGS summary of the antimony market for five years up to 2023

Video discussion on alternative energy storage solutions and the role antimony plays in liquid metal batteries.

A report on the importance of diversity of energy storage solutions to minimise mineral supply chain risks to produce batteries including the development of liquid metal batteries where antimony is the cathode.

The Minerals Council of Australia released a guide to the minerals and metals that are essential to future applications for daily life. Antimony appears nine times in applications ranging from computer memory processing, anti-bacterial and anti-microbial materials, pacemakers and electric fire trucks!

A historic report for the colonial Department of Mines on antimony deposits in Victoria

Infographic on geopolitical importance & supply risk of antimony

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.