About UNSW Green Minerals

Research-backed decision tools for the green minerals transition

UNSW Green Minerals develops transparent modelling frameworks that help industry, government, and investors evaluate cost, emissions, policy exposure, and transition pathways across critical minerals value chains.

Why we exist?

Critical minerals are essential to the clean energy transition, but the pathways for producing, processing, and exporting them are becoming increasingly complex. Project decisions now need to account for cost, emissions, infrastructure constraints, carbon policy, certification requirements, and long-term market access. UNSW Green Minerals bridges this gap by translating research-grade techno-economic and emissions modelling into practical decision-support tools for project screening, pathway comparison, and investment planning.
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What we do

Model Value Chains

Map cost and emissions from mine to market across processing, transport, and export stages.

Compare Pathways

Evaluate technology, energy, logistics, policy, and certification scenarios side by side.

Support Decisions

Provide structured outputs for capital planning, partner engagement, and investment discussions.

Built for transparent decision-making

Our approach makes complex value-chain decisions easier to compare by bringing cost, emissions, technology, logistics, and compliance into one structured framework.

• Techno-economic modelling across value-chain stages
• Emissions accounting for energy and process inputs
• Scenario comparison across technologies and pathways
• Carbon policy and market exposure testing
• Decision-ready outputs for industry and government users

Interested in applying our tools to your project?

Talk to UNSW Green Minerals about project scoping, pathway comparison, research collaboration, or decision-support tool development.