Forrest refinery partner shares in $50m critical minerals grants

"The grants will support Australia's new critical minerals strategy, to be released shortly and which will outline how Australia can capture the significant opportunity of growing its critical minerals processing sector," Ms King said. "Australia has remarkable potential to meet the increasing global demand for the critical minerals needed for clean energy technologies, such as electric vehicles and batteries, as the world moves to decarbonise." Watch on China While some of the 13 grants are aimed at getting rare earths and tungsten mines into production, most are focused on downstream processing and refining. The $2.2 million granted to Evolution will…