Rare Earth Elements

Australia-based critical minerals miner RZ Resources has been granted approval by New South Wales' Department of Planning, Housing and Infrastructure to proceed with first production from the Copi... 

The University of Oulu, in Finland, has found new ways to recover valuable materials from ashes, including metals, nutrients and minerals for industrial use. The university determined new... 

After increasing its stake in the Tanbreez project to 92.5% earlier this month, Nasdaq-listed Critical Metals Corporation has secured a 15-year binding offtake agreement with fellow-listed... 

Defense Metals has started a confirmatory pilot flotation plant test programme, which will be conducted at the SGS Canada metallurgical facility in Lakefield, Ontario. 

The preliminary economic assessment envisages the construction of an on-site processing plant with a throughput of about 2.7-million tonnes a year over an initial 30-year mine life.  

The junior mining and exploration sectors in South Africa provide a way forward to expand the country’s critical minerals discovery and producing capability, with various funding programmes to... 

US exploration and technology company US Critical Material Corp (USCM) has entered into a nonbinding memorandum of understanding (MoU) with ASX-listed Bayan Mining and Minerals to jointly evaluate... 

Canadian critical minerals company KAP Minerals and Japanese trading and industrial materials company Hanwa have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to advance a strategic partnership... 

An independent Joint Ore Reserves Committee-compliant mineral resource estimate (MRE) for ASX-listed Aldoro Resources’ 85%-owned Kameelburg rare earth element/strontium/niobium project, in Namibia,... 

ASX-listed Dateline Resources says the results of the bankable feasibility study (BFS) for its 100%-owned Colosseum gold and rare earth element (REE) project, in San Bernardino County, California,... 

As South African mining companies navigate the complexities caused by decades of intensive extraction, which have significantly reduced the availability of the world’s richest and most accessible... 

TSX-V-listed Tsodilo Resources has announced a collaborative research initiative with the University of Cape Town (UCT) Department of Geological Sciences to support its critical minerals and rare... 

Aim-listed Ironveld has reported that, following a detailed metallurgical audit to address product variability, the company has implemented key technical improvements as part of a reconfiguration... 

The Steenkampskraal monazite mine (SMM) has officially broken ground on its new processing plant in the Western Cape. This milestone advances the mine’s phased development plan and positions South... 

Aim- and TSX-V-listed rare earth elements and associated minerals company Mkango Resources’ subsidiaries HyProMag and Mkango Rare Earths UK have been named as collaborative project winners of the... 

TSX-listed Neo Performance Materials has successfully commissioned a small-scale heavy rare earth element (HREE) solvent extraction production line at its Silmet facility, in Estonia. The solvent... 

Australia-listed critical minerals company American Rare Earths has further defined an execution plan for pilot plant processing for its Halleck Creek project, in Wyoming, in the US. The pilot...