Australian companies tap Indian partners amid critical mineral push

Pilot project in Jharkhand and Hyderabad tie-ups mark early gains as Australian mining technology companies eye local subsidiaries and Indian PSUs explore Queensland's mineral assets

India’s push for mining innovation and critical minerals is drawing mining technology firms from Australia’s Queensland into partnership with local firms, signalling a new phase of resource-sector collaboration between the two economies.

 

Queensland is a major mining state in Australia, with a vast reserves of metallurgical and thermal coal apart from copper, lead, zinc, bauxite and critical minerals like vanadium, graphite, and rare earth elements.

 

Out of the nine mining equipment, technology and services (METS) companies that took part in the Queensland trade delegation to India last week, two have already tied up with local partners in Hyderabad, while another