News Articles for Northern Minerals

Iluka Resources has inked the first offtake deal for its $1.2 billion Eneabba rare earths refinery, in a move which could allow it to up its stake in Northern Minerals to 19.9 per cent.

Our board moves wrap includes Shane Volk, Alwyn Vorster, Mark Tory, and Shane Hartwig.

Northern Minerals has tabled a 47 per cent increase to its Wolverine deposit mineral resource near Halls Creek in WA that now sits at 6.44 million tonnes at 0.96 per cent total rare earth oxide for 61,492 tonnes of TREO. The update follows an independent review by mining consultancy group CSA Global

Mineral explorer Valor Resources has appointed highly experienced exploration executive Robin Wilson to the role of Technical Director as it looks to beef up the company's core skills. Wilson brings over 30 years of global exploration experience in many critical mineral commodities with a particular focus on uranium.

Our board moves wrap includes Paul Williamson, Kate Stoney, Trevor Harris, Nicholas Curtis, and Bin Cai.

Northern Minerals has been refining its heavy rare earths processing systems using a specialised pilot plant that could see the company become the world's first serious heavy rare earth producer outside of China. Northern has an expanding dysprosium and terbium resource base at its flagship Browns Range project. Both products are critical in the manufacture of permanent magnets in an electric vehicle motor.

Our board moves wrap includes Tod McGrouther, Krista Bates, Kate Adams, Geoff Starr, Robert Jager, Adrian Jessup, Mauro Piccini, Trevor Dixon, and Adam Handley.

ASX-listed heavy rare earths developer Northern Minerals, has secured a $4.3 million refund from the ATO as part of the Government's research and development tax offset scheme for work completed at its Browns Range Pilot plant project in the Kimberley. The refund comes off the back of trial beneficiation and hydrometallurgical plant testing designed to advance the company's knowledge around processing of its heavy rare earths.

Our board moves wrap includes Kell Nielsen, Nicholas Curtis, and David Casey.

Our board moves wrap includes Stephen Gerlach, Kevin Reid, Justin Osborne, David Coyne, Tejal Magan, David Baumgartel, Peter Evans, and Colin McCavana.

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ASX-listed Northern Minerals has progressed its potentially game changing ore sorting initiative with the successful testing of the sorter system at its Browns Range rare earths pilot operation in the north of WA. The company is now producing sorted material and converting this to a 30 percent total rare earth oxide concentrate. Processing of the ore sorted material has resulted in remarkably better recoveries.

ASX-listed heavy rare earths player Northern Minerals has its sights trained on a new set of prospects at its flagship Browns Range project in WA's East Kimberley region. The trio of targets were highlighted by preliminary field portable X-ray fluorescence hits the company says point to broad geochemical anomalies that it intends following up with more drilling shortly.

Our board moves wrap includes Bin Cai, Belinda Pearce, Mark Tory, Shenny Ruan, and Tim Allison.

ASX-listed heavy rare earth explorer and producer Northern Minerals has kicked off vital resource drilling at its advanced Browns Range project in WA's north. The planned 12,000m of reverse circulation drilling is aimed at defining new resources and reserves ahead of next year's project bankable feasibility study and final investment decision on a commercial-scale operation.

Heavy rare earth price tailwinds are strengthening as Northern Minerals kicks off two months of resource drilling at Browns Range in WA's north. The drilling, and certainly pricing, will be vital factors in new economic projections for commercial-scale beneficiation at one of the world's most advanced "heavy" rare earths ventures. Dysprosium has surged 50 per cent since last November and terbium pricing is also heading northwards.

Our weekly appointments wrap includes Jamie Calder, Simon Pooley and Kurt Warburton.

Northern Minerals continues to optimise its cutting-edge rare earth processing circuit in WA, with the addition of an ore sorter that management says has the potential to double the feed grade to the milling circuit. The new equipment might also deliver considerable cost savings for future production by increasing throughput and reducing both capital and operational expenditure.

Northern Minerals is set to leap back into rare earth exploration at Browns Range in WA's Kimberley region, tabling a plan to drill up to 10,000m. The upcoming reverse circulation drilling will follow up on the last field season that generated numerous stellar rare earth oxide hits including 12m going 0.43 per cent TREO from just 34m.

Northern Minerals has passed another significant milestone after producing more than 210,000 kilograms of heavy rare earth carbonate concentrate for sale to end-users. A 40,406kg shipment of concentrate from Northern's Browns Range rare earths pilot plant is due to be dispatched to its European offtake partner within days. The shipment will contain dysprosium, terbium and yttrium.

With a fresh $20m in the vault, ASX-listed Northern Minerals has tabled the final results of the 2020 drilling blitz at its 100 per cent-owned Browns Range heavy rare earths project in WA. A total of 72 holes have tested several targets, confirming the existing resources at the Dazzler deposit and indicating the potential for new resource growth close by.

Northern Minerals has completed an oversubscribed share placement, with the funds going towards exploration at the company's rare earths projects in WA and the Northern Territory.

Aspiring ASX-listed heavy rare earths developer, Northern Minerals is looking to shave two years off its target date for commercial production and cash flow at its 100 per cent-owned Browns Range project in WA. The company is now aiming for first cashflows from a full-scale beneficiation plant at Browns Range in WA's top end as early as 2023.

Aspiring ASX-listed heavy rare earths developer Northern Minerals, has delivered on its pre-Christmas plan with 8,500m of RC drilling at its Browns Range project in WA's East Kimberley region. The results produced some solid hits including 9m at 0.54 per cent TREO from 53m downhole and 11m at 0.37 per cent TREO from 52m in two separate holes at its greenfield Toad prospect.

ASX-listed heavy rare earths hopeful, Northern Minerals, has a couple of reasons to hit the festive season with an element of good cheer following a year of significantly improved price action in two key payable elements that occur in the mineral resource at its Browns Range heavy rare earths project in WA.

Chemical producer Coogee and corporate advisory firm Lisle Group have joined more than a dozen mining and engineering firms on a state government taskforce targeting future battery industries.

Today's board moves wrap includes Rhoderick Grivas, Joshua Letcher, Helen Fisher, Susan Hunter, Telma Southgate, Alfie Germano, Wayne Best, and Adrian Griffin.

Today's board moves wrap includes Trinidad Perez, Jose Merino, LiangBing Yu, Mike Utsler, John Jetter, Sheng Lu, and Luke Wang.

Northern Minerals has launched a major drilling campaign at its Browns Range heavy rare earths project in WA's East Kimberley region, with 8,000m of the 16,500m RC program planned for the financial year set to be completed before Christmas. It has also recently started building a $5.9 million ore sorter at the front end of the project's pilot plant that is flagged as a low-cost method of potentially doubling the ore feed grade.

Northern Minerals has banked the majority of the almost $10 million lifeline the Australian Taxation Office promised it after settling a protracted research and development grant dispute that played havoc with its balance sheet. The company has banked $8.64 million from the ATO and a further $1.3m is due in by the end of the week. Northern used the money to repay $2m in debt.

Heavy rare earth explorer and developer Northern Minerals is gearing up to hunt for Dazzler lookalikes having set aside $5 million for exploration and development drilling at the company's Browns Range project in the Kimberley. Drill rigs are expected onsite in October and results will feed into an updated feasibility study. The resulting document could well be the precursor to Northern Minerals emerging as the first supplier of heavy rare earths outside China.

The Australian Taxation Office has thrown Northern Minerals a $10 million cash lifeline and wiped out a further $9 million in potential debt after settling a protracted research and development grant dispute that has played havoc with the company's finances. The dispute related to which aspects of Northern Minerals' Kimberley-based, heavy rare earths pilot plant were technically considered R&D.

Rare earths producer Northern Minerals will receive a $9.9 million refund from the ATO after settling a long-running tax dispute related to earlier research and development claims.

Our board moves wrap includes Cathy Moises, David Saxelby, Bill Healy, Peter Thomas, Andrew Barclay, Yves Occello, Mark Tory, and Colin McCavana.

With its Browns Range pilot plant in WA's north set to re-start heavy rare earths production any day now, ASX-listed Northern Minerals has moved quickly to replace its former MD, George Bauk, by promoting long-serving Chief Financial Officer and Company Secretary, Mark Tory, to the role of Chief Executive Officer. Tory is a Chartered Accountant with over three decades of mining industry experience.

After a hiatus period that was partly caused by Government policy decisions and COVID-19, Northern Minerals is looking to start producing rare earths in WA again. The company has begun planning the logistics to restart its Browns Range pilot plant in WA's Kimberley region which will be the only substantial heavy rare earths producer outside of China.

An array of companies, from blue chip miners to SMEs, is pursuing downstream processing of WA's battery minerals, despite the sharp downturn in the lithium market.

Our board moves wrap includes Marat Abzalov, Grant Pierce, Glenn Whiddon, George Bauk, and Colin McCavana.

Northern Minerals managing director George Bauk has resigned from the role after 10 years, with the West Perth-based company now on the hunt for a new leader ahead of a planned restart of its Browns Range operations.

Tougher restrictions for securing foreign investment is the latest hurdle for miners seeking to develop projects.