Round 1 - Critical Minerals and High-Tech Metals Exploration Program
Resources funding for community organisations, companies and indigenous organisations, offered by NSW Resources.
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- Funding
- $5k to $250k
- From $5,000 to $250,000
- Where
- New South Wales
- Opened
- 16 April 2025
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Who can apply
- Community organisations
- Companies
- Indigenous organisations
- Partnerships
- Sole traders
- Trusts
These are the applicant types NSW Resources lists for this program. It is a starting filter, not the full eligibility test, and the guidelines on the official page are what decide an application.
Eligibility, in NSW Resources's own words
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What Round 1 - Critical Minerals and High-Tech Metals Exploration Program funds
The Critical Minerals and High-Tech Metals Exploration Program seeks to promote investment in NSW minerals through co-investment in underexplored areas to search for deposits of metallic minerals and critical minerals and high-tech metals. The objective of the Program is to the support the long-term sustainability of the NSW resources sector by encouraging mineral exploration and discovery to: ensure a sustainable economic resource pipeline for
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How to apply
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About Round 1 - Critical Minerals and High-Tech Metals Exploration Program
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When does Round 1 - Critical Minerals and High-Tech Metals Exploration Program close?
This round of Round 1 - Critical Minerals and High-Tech Metals Exploration Program closed in June 2025. GrantWindow keeps the record because most Australian grant programs run again, and the alert list is told the night NSW Resources opens the next one.
How much funding is available through Round 1 - Critical Minerals and High-Tech Metals Exploration Program?
NSW Resources publishes a funding amount of $5k to $250k, noted as: From $5,000 to $250,000. Confirm it in the guidelines on the official page before you build a budget around it.
Who can apply for Round 1 - Critical Minerals and High-Tech Metals Exploration Program?
NSW Resources lists this program as open to community organisations, companies, indigenous organisations, partnerships, sole traders and trusts. That is a starting filter rather than the full eligibility test: the criteria in the funder's guidelines are what decide an application.
Is Round 1 - Critical Minerals and High-Tech Metals Exploration Program still open?
This round is closed. Closed rounds stay on record because most Australian grant programs run again, and the reopening is the one worth being early for. The alert list is told the night it does.
Who runs Round 1 - Critical Minerals and High-Tech Metals Exploration Program, and does GrantWindow take a cut?
Round 1 - Critical Minerals and High-Tech Metals Exploration Program is offered by NSW Resources in New South Wales. Applications are made through the funder, never through GrantWindow: we take no applications, charge no fee and act as no intermediary. Any site offering to apply on your behalf for a government grant is worth a very careful look.
Where this record came from
© State of New South Wales. For current information go to www.nsw.gov.au. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
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- Last checked24 Oct 2026The day we last read this program on the funder's own page.
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