Independent mineral policy research institution
The Centre for Mineral Policy and Governance works at the intersection of mineral security, governance and diplomacy, producing rigorous, non-partisan research for policymakers, industry and the public.
Featured work
A three-layer statutory architecture for a national critical minerals stockpile, with node-mineral matrices, comparative reserve design and release governance.
Framework, evidence and recommendations, available in full from the publications library.
Open in libraryHow national reserve programmes are structured, and where their statutory architecture succeeds or fails.
Supply security and mineral poverty assessed together, and the cost of measuring only one.
The conditions under which supply, processing and demand positions convert into durable negotiating leverage.
MVI
A quantitative instrument measuring the exposure of an economy's strategic sectors to mineral supply disruption, integrating import dependence, supplier concentration and substitutability into a single comparable score.
MDLI
A companion instrument assessing how mineral positions across supply, processing and demand convert into negotiating leverage between states, tracked across minerals and country pairs.
Mining codes, minerals legislation and the international instruments that govern extraction.
02National mineral strategies, white papers and institutional reports, curated and organised.
03Production, trade and criticality datasets, alongside the Centre's own indices.
About the Centre
CMPG is an independent, non-partisan research institution. We study the rules, rents, security and human consequences of mineral extraction across jurisdictions, and publish everything openly.
