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Kimberley rare earths prospect Northern Minerals has pushed back its annual general meeting over concerns Chinese interests may be defying orders to divest shares in the company.

Kalgoorlie's chronic housing shortage is impeding Northern Star Resources' ability to lift output amid record gold prices, as it grapples with 100 vacancies.

Northern Minerals has moved to capitalise on the Albanese-Trump critical minerals deal, entering a trading halt ahead of a $60 million raise.

Alcoa and Arafura Rare Earths have emerged among the major beneficiaries of a meeting between Donald Trump and Anthony Albanese, winning investments in the hundreds of millions.

Australia's critical minerals sector is gaining momentum as US–China trade tensions escalate, prompting new deals, investment and government action to secure new supply chains.

Northern Minerals has set a $592 million price tag on developing its Browns Range heavy rare earths project, as it seeks to challenge China's grip on the critical mineral.

A growing portfolio of mineral sands, gas and rare earths projects is driving the north-west's resources future.

The United States Department of Defense will join Gina Rinehart on the share registry of US-listed rare earths producer MP Materials, in a bid to secure its critical supply chains.

Federal Treasurer Jim Chalmers has escalated a dispute over Northern Minerals shares, taking legal action against one of the company's foreign investors.

Critical minerals miners have overwhelmingly welcomed Anthony Albanese's scarcely-detailed pledge to build a stockpile that could be used as a bargaining chip in trade negotiations.

Investors with Chinese connections have fulfilled the federal government's order to sell their shares in rare earths junior Northern Minerals.

Northern Minerals has announced plans to raise $48 million, as it moves closer towards a final investment decision at its Browns Range heavy rare earths project.

Rare earths junior Northern Minerals has announced one shareholder has yet to divest its shareholding in the company, following yesterday’s mandated sell-off deadline.

Former Western Australian governor and federal defence minister Kim Beazley has called for Australia to “play the same game” as China in securing supply of the nation's rare earths output.

Broome may be growing and changing but some things remain, with economic benefit, community and the environment a constant source of public debate.

Fresh moves to drive diversification of Australia's critical minerals pose questions about the role of China – the nation's largest trading partner.

A 'green' pricing premium for critical minerals produced in Australia remains unlikely, industry experts have told a Business News event.

A Chinese shareholder ordered to sell his stake in Northern Minerals has come within a whisker of being elected to the company's board, in one of several unusual voting results.

Northern Minerals management has stressed a cyber breach on its systems this week was unrelated to a government divesture order against Chinese interests on its share registry.

Rare earths junior Northern Minerals has been targeted in a cyber-attack, less than two days after Treasurer Jim Chalmers ordered Chinese investors to sell their stakes in the company.

In this week's edition of Bulls N' Bears Big Hits, we unravel some of the more curious drill intersections revealed on the ASX, including Southern Cross Gold's 0.5m at 473g/t gold equivalent from 913.6m. We also take a close look at other notable drill hits in the past week from Falcon Metals, Flynn Gold, Northern Minerals and Austral Resources.

Our weekly appointments wrap includes Kylie Maj, Steve Formica, Adam Handley, Shane Hartwig, Alwyn Vorster, Kellie Davis, Zac Komur and Jennifer Purdie.

Rare earths junior Northern Minerals has announced a series of board changes.

Lacklustre common-use infrastructure is proving a hurdle for the Kimberley to latch onto booming demand for rare earth elements.

A foreign fund controlled by a Chinese businessman is planning to oust Northern Minerals founder and executive chair Nicholas Curtis and to inspect the company's financials.

Aruma Resources' deep dive into its Saltwater project in Western Australia's Pilbara region is tossing up a myriad of intriguing high-grade polymetallic targets from first-pass rock-chip sampling. The company's latest results have returned high-grade manganese peaking at 40 per cent, in addition to anomalous vanadium, uranium, iron, lead and zinc tipping into the melting pot of previously-reported anomalous copper, cobalt and rare earths.

Aruma Resources has kicked a goal at the start of its hunt for rare earths at its Saltwater project in Western Australia, with the discovery of significant rare earths mineralisation and cobalt-copper-enriched rocks. Results have reaffirmed the potential for the area to host unconformity heavy rare earths and highlighted the prospectivity for base metals deposits along an interpreted 80km strike length of prospective host rocks.

Northern Minerals has kicked off its mission to establish a rock-solid financial structure behind its 100 per cent-owned Browns Range rare earths project in northern Western Australia. Management says the Federal Government's Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility has completed a strategic review of its project and will now begin a detailed due diligence process as it considers a potential funding arrangement.

Aruma Resources is hunting for unconformity-related rare earths at its Saltwater project in WA's emerging Pilbara province. Fieldwork will consist of detailed mapping and extensive surface sampling through an 80km prospective strike, with work to start at a 15km-long priority radiometric target. Previous results of up to 11 per cent rare earths at the project will give Aruma confidence it could have the real deal.

Northern Minerals has been awarded $5.9 million as part of the Australian Government's Critical Minerals Development Program. Management says the funding will go towards key work programs at its Browns Range rare earths project in Western Australia's East Kimberley region, including resource definition drilling at its Wolverine deposit, advanced front-end engineering and design and early work activities.

A battery materials company chaired by former Liberal Party leader Mike Nahan is among a cohort of Western Australian companies to secure a share of federal government grants.

Valor Resources has staked three new mineral claims covering 6.41 square kilometres in Canada's world-class Athabasca Basin – two of which cover the historical Beatty River heavy rare earths project. Management says previous explorers tabled assays of up to 8.75 per cent total rare earths oxide, with up to 1.15 per cent dysprosium from trenching and surface sampling.

Northern Minerals has extended the mineralisation of its flagship Wolverine deposit following solid assays from the company's recent diamond drilling program at its Browns Range project in northern Western Australia. Assay highlights show a 17.6m intercept at 1.96 per cent total rare earths oxide (TREO) from 589m, including a 9.94m hit going 3.27 per cent TREO from 589m.

Northern Minerals' definitive feasibility study for its Browns Range rare earths project in WA is on track to be completed in the fourth quarter of this year, as it continues to develop mining, metallurgical processing and plant and engineering design studies. The mining strategy has been determined as an open pit to 125m depth, followed by an underground mine at its Wolverine deposit.

Treasurer Jim Chalmers has blocked a Chinese investment fund from increasing its stake in a rare earth company on national security grounds.

Heavy rare earths player Northern Minerals has appointed GR Engineering Services and MACA Interquip to conduct early phase engineering and design work for its proposed commercial-scale beneficiation plant at Browns Range, in the north of WA. The company considers the operation's Wolverine resource to be amongst the nation's highest-grade dysprosium and terbium orebodies and says the looming award of the contract is a key step in updating its definitive feasibility study for a full-scale processing hub.

Rare earths developer Northern Minerals has appointed two Perth contractors for its proposed beneficiation plant at Browns Range in Carnarvon.

Our board moves wrap includes Giles Everist, Johnathon Busing, Kavi Bekarma, Nick Woolrych, Ming Lu, and James Ellingford.

Northern Minerals has secured a $3.9 million refund from the ATO as part of the Federal Government's research and development tax offset scheme for a suite of activities completed at its Browns Range pilot plant project in the Pilbara. The reimbursement follows ongoing trial beneficiation and hydrometallurgical work that is aiming to further the company's expertise in the processing of its heavy rare earths.

Northern Minerals has inked a deal with Iluka Resources to supply the company with rare earths concentrate from its Browns Range project in northern WA. The agreement covers the asset's initial 8-year-plus mine life and includes the supply of 30,500 tonnes of contained total rare earth oxides. The deal also includes a $78 million funding package with Iluka to establish commercial-scale production at the project.