Venture Minerals

Venture Minerals is a mining and exploration company in Australia. Its website now presents it as Critica Limited and describes a critical minerals platform built on rare earths, yttrium, tungsten, tin and gallium. Its projects are in Tasmania and Western Australia.

Products and services

• Jupiter and Brothers Project: Clay-hosted rare earths including neodymium-praseodymium, dysprosium and terbium, plus yttrium and gallium, with a scoping study underway.
• Mt Lindsay Project: a tungsten and tin project in north-west Tasmania, where a lower-impact underground concept is being studied.
• South West Project: Nickel, copper and platinum group elements in Western Australia, run as a joint venture with Chalice Mining.
• Riley Iron Ore Mine: a north-west Tasmania site with a transport plan that includes protecting the Tasmanian devil.
• Other exploration: earlier material lists the Golden Grove North and Kulin projects in Western Australia.

Customers and markets

It aims to supply Western supply chains for electric vehicles, renewable energy, defence, advanced manufacturing, data centres and robotics.

Key facts

• Based in: Australia, with projects in Tasmania and Western Australia
• Current trading name: Critica Limited
• Commodities: Rare earths, tungsten, tin, nickel, copper