White Cliff Minerals has polished off a high-resolution magnetic and radiometric survey at its Yinnetharra lithium and rare earths project about 100km northeast of Gascoyne Junction in WA. The operation is within earshot of several high-profile plays including Hastings Technology Metals' world-class Yangibana rare earths acreage and Arrow Minerals' emerging Reid Well prospect where rock chip sampling returned grades of up to 3.77 per cent lithium oxide.
Arafura Rare Earths says its Nolans project has the capacity to deliver strong financial returns after releasing a study with higher costs but increased revenue.
Hastings Technology Metals is hoping to raise up to $110 million to develop its proposed Yangibana rare earths project in Western Australia's Gascoyne region.
Venus Metals Corporation has lit up multiple priority targets using remote sensed data at the company's Mangaroon rare earths project in one of the country's fastest emerging rare earths districts. The company's four tenement package on the edge of WA's Gascoyne region borders significant rare earth ventures held by ASX-listed Hastings Technology Metals, Dreadnought Resources and Lanthanein Resources.
Andrew Forrest's Wyloo Metals will make its first move into rare earths by backing ASX-listed aspiring producer Hastings Technology Metals for $150 million via a convertible notes arrangement.
Iluka Resources plans to proceed with construction of Australia's first fully-integrated rare earths refinery at Eneabba, with the federal government to provide most of the funding.
Revisions to Hastings' rare earth project have more than doubled its forecast return to $1 billion, but higher labour and commodity prices have run up capital costs by $142 million.
The federal government's NAIF fund has chipped in for the Perdaman project, a $4.3 billion proposed fertiliser plant tipped to produce 2 million tonnes of urea per year.
Hastings Technology Metals has received federal government backing to the tune of $140 million to build its Yangibana rare earths project in Western Australia's Gascoyne region.
The federal government has given the environmental all clear for Hastings Technology Metals to build a rare earths processing plant in Western Australia's Gascoyne region.
Mineral sands miner Iluka Resources has started work on three new projects while continuing to assess development of a fully integrated rare earths refinery north of Perth.
Venus Metals has pounced on a hefty 546 square kilometres of ground prospective for nickel, copper, platinum group elements, gold and rare earths in the Gascoyne region of Western Australia. Two of the new licences, one granted and one under application, adjoin tenure hosting a 1km-long outcropping structure where rock chip samples have returned 1 per cent copper and 0.6 per cent nickel.
Hastings Technology Metals is seeking another $44 million to advance its Yangibana project, just days after receiving $57 million for the same purpose.
Rare earth company Hastings Technology Metals has secured funds from a share placement to progress the construction of its Yangibana joint venture in Western Australia.
Today's board moves wrap includes Wilson Lim, Bruce McFadzean, Bradley Marwood, Anthony Rovira, Trevor Benson, Brett Dickson, Jonathan Murray, Dev Shetty, Tara Robson, and Phillip Coulson.
The Environmental Protection Authority has recommended conditional environmental approval for Hastings Technology Metals' $427 million Yangibana rare earths project in the Upper Gascoyne.
Hastings Technology Metals has reported that capital costs of its Yangibana rare earths project are expected to be approximately $427 million, compared to the $335.3 million figure it outlined in its definitive feasibility study.
West Perth-based Augustus Minerals Ltd has offloaded its 19 per cent interest in a Kazakhstan project for over $2 million in a bid to focus on its Western Australian project.
