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Efficient water splitting reactions lead to sustainable hydrogen production, which is the fuel for fuel cell devices for clean energy production. Better efficiency of hydrogen evolution reactions is achieved by the development of highly active non-precious electrocatalysts. In this work, a cobalt phthalocyanine-embedded iron ore particle hybrid composite was prepared for the electrochemical hydrogen evolution reaction (HER). First, cobalt tetrabenzimidazole phthalocyanine (CoTBImPc) was synthesized and characterized by different analytical and spectroscopic techniques. Then, iron ore particles obtained by ball milling were mixed with CoTBImPc to obtain a hybrid composite. Electrical conductivity studies revealed the semiconducting nature of the synthesized phthalocyanine molecule, whereas the composite of magnetite and phthalocyanine showed better conductive behaviour when its composition is in the ratio of …