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Critical Minerals
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Critical Minerals Innovation Hackathon 2026 Opens to Students, Start-ups and Researchers
The Mines Ministry has launched a new challenge centred on exploration and technology intelligence, bringing a strategic resource debate into a more public innovation format.
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Explained: Why Critical Minerals Have Become a Policy Priority
A new government hackathon reflects a bigger shift: minerals once seen as niche now sit inside debates on clean energy, electronics, defence and industrial strategy.
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Students Corner: Critical Minerals Hackathon Puts Resource Security in Focus
This item is useful because it connects geology, industrial policy, energy transition and innovation policy in one contemporary government initiative.