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• Australia's A$1.2 billion reserve will provide partner countries priority access to critical minerals.
• The exchange for this access includes joint funding and guaranteed demand from partner countries.
• This is a strategic initiative representing a bold market intervention.
• The goal is to create a more resilient and collaborative international supply chain for critical minerals.

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Australia is taking an unprecedented step to reshape the rare earth supply chain: it plans to sell stakes in a new Critical Minerals Strategic Reserve (opens in a new tab) to allied nations. This initiative, as reported by Reuters – essentially inviting partners like the UK, US, and France to co-invest in Australia’s stockpile of critical minerals – comes as Western governments scramble to end reliance on China for rare earth elements (REEs) and other “minor” but vital metals. Rare Earth Exchanges (REEx) has investigated this bold gambit, which could mark a turning point in how the world secures these strategic resources.

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