Lindian Resources has secured $9 million in funding for its Kangankunde rare earths project, with chairman Asimwe Kabunga tipping in $500,000 as the company closes in on its processing plant construction. The funds come via a share placement at a near 10.5 per cent premium on the past closing price. Two new investors have poured in $7.5 million and $1 million respectively.
Lindian Resources continues to pull impressive assays from its Kangankunde project in Malawi with the latest drill results highlighting a 3m hit at a whopping 15.6 per cent total rare earth oxides (TREO) from 69m. The high-grade intercept is contained within a larger 26m section grading 6.15 per cent TREO from 58m and includes a 1m segment at a head-turning 18.76 per cent TREO from 71m.
Lindian Resources has recorded its best drill hit to date after its latest assays confirmed a 35m intercept at a whopping 3.94 per cent total rare earth oxides at its Kangankunde project in Malawi. The impressive section was part of a wider 179m intercept going 2.2 per cent TREO from surface and also included a 4m hit at a massive 7.82 per cent TREO.
Lindian Resources' Kangankunde project in Malawi continues to produce incredible assay results from its maiden drill campaign including a 1m hit at an outstanding 9.49 per cent total rare earth oxides from 19m. The explorer says the latest results include the highest grading hole to date at the operation with a mammoth 186m intercept going 2.97 per cent total rare earth oxides from surface.
Lindian Resources is one step closer to 100 per cent ownership of its Kangankunde rare earths project in Malawi after completing the second tranche payment of $US7.5 million to former owner Rift Valley Resources. The latest figure is the second of four tranche payments with the third amount due in August this year and the fourth set for August 2026. The first portion of $US2.5 million was paid in August last year. Lindian agreed to pay Rift Valley a total of $US30 million for the project across the four tranches with $US20 million remaining.
Lindian Resources has continued its impressive run of rare earth assay results at the company's Kangankunde project in Malawi including a massive 300m hit at 2.31 per cent total rare earth oxides from surface. The explorer says all holes completed so far have started and ended in mineralisation with the 300m section including a whopping 124m intersection recording 2.53 per cent TREO from 176m to the end of the hole.
Lindian Resources has received its first assays from the company's maiden campaign at its Kangankunde project in Malawi showing continuous rare earths mineralisation from surface across the length of both holes. Assay highlights include a 1m section recording an outstanding 11.8 per cent total rare earth oxide, or “TREO” from 13m with a second 1m section going 11.1 per cent TREO from 12m.
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Lindian Resources says its first assays from a maiden drill campaign at the company's Kangankunde rare earths project in Malawi are due this month with one quarter of its RC and diamond drill program completed. The explorer is currently undertaking phase 1 of its 12,500m resource definition drilling operation including 10,000m of RC drilling and a further 2500m of diamond drilling to test mineralisation to a depth of 300m. The 44-hole campaign includes two RC rigs and one diamond drill rig.
Lindian Resources is off to a promising start with early samples from its maiden drill program at the Kangankunde rare earths project in Malawi showing continuous visible monazite from surface to current depth. The company says monazite is the rare earths bearing mineral Lindian is targeting at the project and mineralisation is consistent with expectations indicated from surface mapping.
The wait is finally over for Lindian Resources as its maiden exploration campaign at the company's Kangankunde rare earths project in Malawi kicks off marking the first drilling program at the site this century. The explorer has begun phase 1 of its 12,500m resource definition drilling program including 10,000m of RC drilling and a further 2500m of diamond drilling to test mineralisation to a depth of 300m. The 44-hole campaign will include two RC rigs and one diamond drill rig with first assays expected within six to eight weeks.
Lindian Resources is set to embark on a 12,500m resource definition drilling program at the company's brand new Kangankunde rare earths project in Malawi after enlisting a rig to roll in later this month. The drilling is designed to probe the project's historic resource and an extensive area of surface mineralisation measuring 650m-long by 400m-wide.
Lindian Resources will move forward with its plans to develop the Kangankunde rare earths project in Malawi after securing the green light from shareholders to acquire the site's owner Rift Valley Resource Developments. Shareholders unanimously voted in favour of the purchase this week after Lindian made its first tranche payment in its bid to acquire Rift Valley earlier this year.
Lindian Resources will this week seek shareholder approval to acquire 100 per cent of Rift Valley Resource Developments Limited, the Malawian company that owns the globally significant Kangankunde rare earths project. The company recently completed a series of meetings with authorities in the Kangankunde district and secured a unilateral directive to commence a series of work programs to advance Kangankunde's development.
Lindian Resources is gaining momentum as it moves into the development stage of its Kangankunde rare earths project in Malawi following successful meetings with government officials and local stakeholders. Over the past week Lindian management has met with government representatives with the company saying the Malawi Ministry for Mining has confirmed its support for the acquisition and development of the project.
Lindian Resources is one step closer to securing the Kangankunde rare earths project in Malawi after making its first tranche payment to acquire current site owner Rift Valley Resource Developments. Whilst the deal is subject to shareholder approval, the US$2.5 million transaction is the first of four payments totalling US$30m with the remaining US$27.5 million across three installments within 48 months from the start of this month.
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ASX-listed Lindian Resources has followed up its shift into rare earths exploration by appointing commodities specialist Alistair Stephens as its new Chief Executive Officer as the company awaits shareholders to approve its takeover of the globally significant Kangankunde project in Malawi. Non-Executive Chairman Asimwe Kabunga will move to the role of Executive Chairman. Lindian is aiming to take full control of Kangankunde through a 100-per cent share acquisition of Rift Valley Resource Developments.
In a transformative shift, Africa-focused bauxite explorer Lindian Resources has inked a deal to acquire the globally significant Kangankunde rare earths elements project in Malawi for US$30 million. Kangankunde has been hailed as one of the world's largest rare earths operations outside of China. The acquisition is in line with the company's pursuit of African projects.
Major Chinese construction outfit, China Railway Seventh Group has completed a visit to Lindian Resources' bauxite assets in Guinea, West Africa, as agreed under a memorandum of understanding executed earlier this year. China Railway Seventh Group is a key player in Lindian's infrastructure grand plan and bid to bring its Guinean bauxite projects on stream in the near term.
West African bauxite hopeful, Lindian Resources has moved to separate the infrastructure interests and mining ownership structures in relation to its Lelouma, Gaoual and Woula bauxite projects in Guinea as it looks to firm up a business model for the development and operation of the assets. As part of the grand plan, the company hopes to strike binding agreements with various parties to participate in the infrastructure development required for the projects.
ASX-listed aspiring West African bauxite developer, Lindian Resources has continued to put potential infrastructure building blocks in place to help accelerate the development of its Lelouma, Gaoual and Woula bauxite projects in Guinea. Its subsidiary, Terminal Logistics and Holdings recently struck a memorandum of understanding with the Guinean Government to appraise the possible joint development of the Dobali port and an associated logistics corridor in Guinea.
Further metallurgical test work on Lindian Resources' high-grade sample ores from its Bouba conglomerate bauxite deposit in Guinea has come up trumps again. The company says digestion test work following up on recent positive results from dry screening of the Bouba ores showed they were suited to both low temperature and high temperature digestion settings in Bayer process alumina refineries.
Lindian Resources has clinched a memorandum of understanding with Chinese construction company China Railway Seventh Group that will weigh up a possible infrastructure road map to help accelerate development of, and kickstart bauxite production at, the Perth-based company's assets in Guinea. Both parties will consider entering a formal agreement to devise an infrastructure development plan for Lindian's potential low CAPEX rapid pathway to becoming a bauxite producer.
Lindian Resources has been buoyed by the successful results of screening test work done on high-grade sample ores from the Bouba conglomerate bauxite deposit at its Gaoual project in Guinea. The company says the simple dry screening process used significantly reduced the levels of the silica impurity and delivered an increase in the aluminium oxide grade in high-grade conglomerate ore samples, with minimal loss of tonnage.
ASX-listed aspiring West Africa bauxite developer, Lindian Resources, has received the Guinea Ministry of Mines' approval to acquire a 61 per cent stake in the strategic Woula bauxite project. The company sees Woula as a possible near-term entree to production given the Woula bauxite resource's direct shipping ore potential and the project's close proximity to the mature Guinea bauxite industry's transport and export infrastructure.
Lindian Resources has completed the acquisition of its 75 per cent interest in the leviathan Lelouma bauxite project in Guinea following shareholder approval. The company recently reported Lelouma's near-surface resource had been increased to 900 million tonnes grading 45 per cent aluminium oxide and 2.1 per cent silica containing a higher-grade portion totalling 398 million tonnes at 48.1 per cent aluminium oxide and 2 per cent silica.
ASX-listed West Africa bauxite hopeful, Lindian Resources, has started the next significant phase of technical analysis at its Gaoual bauxite project in Guinea as it looks to tackle the relatively high content of the impurity silica in the high-grade conglomerate deposit. The Perth-based company has just sent its geological crew to the project site to carry out all-important screening tests on Gaoual's aluminium oxide ore.
ASX-listed West Africa bauxite player, Lindian Resources, has been given the all-clear from the Guinean Government to finalise the acquisition of a 75 per cent interest in the massive, undeveloped Lelouma bauxite project in Guinea. The Perth-based junior will assume the 75 per cent stake in Lelouma's overarching ownership vehicle, Sarmin Bauxite, and take over operational control of the project.
Lindian Resources has signed an agreement to acquire the Woula bauxite project in Guinea, scooping up a 75 per cent holding in the near-term production asset. The project sits just 10km from an established mine haul road linking it to a nearby export port facility at Katougouma. The high-grade resources at Woula could potentially be mined for direct shipping ore, rapidly transforming Lindian from an emergent developer into a bauxite producer.
ASX-listed West Africa bauxite hopeful, Lindian Resources, has unveiled a 53-million-tonne increase in the resource estimate at the Lelouma bauxite project in Guinea to a monster 900 million tonnes going 45 per cent alumina as the company looks to demonstrate it could be sitting on one of the highest-quality undeveloped bauxite projects in the world.
Lindian Resources ‘elephant hunt' in Guinea has delivered in spades after the company announced this week it has made a potentially transformational acquisition after entering into an agreement to procure the colossal, 847 million tonne high-grade Lelouma bauxite project. The Lelouma project boasts an impressive grade of 45.1 per cent alumina and is located close to established mining infrastructure.
Lindian Resources has further bolstered its senior management ranks with another bauxite expert after experienced Guinea Mining Engineer, Danny Keating, was appointed to the role of Chief Executive Officer. The appointment follows hot on the heels of the company also securing the services of 45-year bauxite and alumina veteran, Yves Occello, as a Non-Executive Director.
ASX-listed bauxite hopeful Lindian Resources has snared the services of 45-year bauxite and alumina veteran, Yves Occello, pictured, appointing him as a Non-Executive Director as the company looks to beef up its board to execute a plan to advance its high-grade Gaoual conglomerate bauxite project in Guinea towards production. Occello has been a Director of Compagnie de Bauxite de Guinee, Guinea's largest bauxite producer for 30 years.
ASX-listed Lindian Resources has tabled world-class, high-grade alumina numbers at its Gaoual conglomerate bauxite project in Guinea, West Africa. The maiden indicated resource estimate for Lindian's readily mineable surface deposit of 102 million tonnes at 49.5 per cent alumina includes uber-rich tonnage of 84Mt at 51.2 per cent alumina.
