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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese listens to US President Donald Trump during a meeting in the Cabinet Room at the White House in Washington, October 20 (Image: AAP/Lukas Coch)

When Anthony Albanese declared Australia was “ready to go” with a sweeping new critical minerals agreement with the United States that would unlock a resources pipeline with as much as US$53 billion — and US$5 billion in investment commitments — it sounded decisive.

It’s a heady headline figure for what was fuzzily couched as a “framework”, and details of the announcement came largely fact-free. For a deal that had been in negotiations for “four, five months” , it was thin on detail.

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