Mining Projects

The PCMX initiative

PCMX is an industry-led market-development initiative exploring how a more transparent and efficient physical marketplace for critical minerals could operate. Its focus is on designing a symmetric market model in which buyers and sellers have equal rights, visibility and transactional options, with price discovery informed by observable bids, offers, negotiations and completed transactions.

The initiative, including individual pilot initiatives, recognises the structural differences of the market in each mineral and their supply chains. Leading the current early work is lithium-spodumene, reflecting Australia’s importance to global lithium supply and the opportunity to strengthen transparency in this market.

The proposed next phase is to engage and collaborate with prospective buy-side and other international market participants to test and refine the market design, with a view to piloting the model with interested buyers and sellers.

Critical Minerals Forward Production

The DFCRC is working with its partners on developments to turn production output in critical minerals into investable product. This initiative is aimed at improving the critical minerals marketplace in long term price finding, increased liquidity, and better support for the activation of new production capacity.

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