The country joins a growing rank of resource-rich nations seeking to benefit more from their mineral wealth.
The Centre will assist Member States in developing exploration plans and streamlining permitting processes for critical raw materials.
This week, domestic critical mineral supply chains in the United States made progress.
The companies aim to form a domestic supply chain of rare earth magnets, a field currently dominated by China.
Critical minerals from magnets recovered from end-of-life products to be reclaimed in Belfast.
China published the second batch of April export data this week.