Explore critical minerals through interactive data

Austrade’s Australian Critical Minerals Prospectus moved from a static report to a public, interactive view. This project record describes how Data-Driven used Power BI to make projects easier to find and compare.

The current Austrade prospectus remains the source for current project information.

The problem with a PDF-only prospectus

A PDF can present a polished summary, but it makes a growing project list harder to search by location, mineral, company, or development phase.

Austrade needed to keep the prospectus suitable for investors while giving visitors a faster path to relevant projects.

What Data-Driven delivered

The project record describes a Power BI report embedded in the public prospectus.

Geographic exploration

The report uses an Australian map with state and territory boundaries. Project markers connect locations to the available project details.

Filters and search

Visitors can narrow the view by:

• state or territory
• critical mineral
• project phase
• company
• project name

These paths let a visitor start from either a place, a resource, or a known organisation.

Project details

The report presents fields such as project status, mineral, company, and location in a consistent view.

Publishing and data preparation

Data-Driven supported data cleaning and transformation before publication. The solution record also notes a Power Apps path for managing source updates.

The public report is the published view. This case record does not claim that every source change appears in real time.

The launch evidence

An Australian Government September 2024 media release described the digital prospectus and its interactive map. At launch, it said the prospectus showcased more than 55 investment-ready projects.

That count is a dated launch figure. Use the live Austrade prospectus for the current set.

What changed for the reader

The new format lets a visitor move from a broad national view to a filtered set of projects without scanning a full report.

Austrade still provides a downloadable summary. The interactive and document formats serve different jobs: exploration in the browser and a fixed record for download or print.

Evidence boundary

The public prospectus confirms the interactive experience. This case record describes Data-Driven’s delivery scope.

It does not provide measured adoption, investment, time-saving, or data-quality results. Those outcomes would need separate evidence.