Leadership WA has appointed Candy Choo as chief executive as the not-for-profit prepares for Dominique Mecoy's departure. Ms Choo will take over from Ms Mecoy from October 6.
Viridis Mining and Minerals' joint venture with Ionic Rare Earths, Viridion, has secured a industrial land parcel in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais.
Perth-based junior Viridis Mining and Minerals has furthered its backing of chief executive Rafael Moreno, adding the title of managing director to his portfolio.
There are moments when policy collides with geology, and when it does, fortunes can shift overnight. The decision by the US Department of Defence, announced last week, to take a half-billion-dollar equity stake in the country's only producing rare earths mine has thrust the geopolitical spotlight onto a handful of ASX-listed juniors and reshaped their prospects in a flash.
Perth-based junior Viridis Mining and Minerals has announced its joint venture with Ionic Rare Earths has signed a five-year memorandum of understanding with a key Brazilian state entity.
Si6 Metals will assume a more commanding role in its Brazilian critical minerals joint venture with Foxfire Metals after lifting its stake in the partnership to a 70 per cent interest in any future licences – up from its 50 per cent share in the existing 10 licences. It signifies Si6's commitment to its already massive Brazilian ground-holding, which is prospective for rare earths and lithium.
Si6 Metals has detailed plans to kick off its third drilling program in Brazil's renowned “Lithium Valley”, with 20 auger holes to be plunged as the company homes in on lithium and rare earths soil anomalies going as high as 103ppm lithium and 710ppm TREO in the Padre Paraiso prospect area. The area has proven to be highly-prospective for lithium and rare earths.
Si6 Metals has secured a second license at its JV Caldera rare earths project in the mining region of Minas Gerais in Brazil and will charge a drill-rig into the area to kick-off its latest program. The newly granted land borders that of Meteoric Resources exciting Caldeira rare earths project, where high-grade ionic-clay rare earths have been discovered at grades that are generally considered to be amongst the best in the clay based rare earths sector.
Si6 Metals has unveiled clay-hosted rare earths hits from surface sampling at its joint-venture Caldera project in the State of Minas Gerais in Brazil, in addition to discovering further nickel-copper-cobalt at its Maibele North deposit, part of the company's base and precious metals play in Botswana. Si6 will now kick-off an auger drill campaign at Caldera to test for higher-grade rare earths mineralisation at depth.
Si6 Metals says it has mapped and sampled clay-rich saprolite outcrops prospective for ionic-adsorption clay rare earths up to 12m thick at its Caldera JV project it shares with Foxfire Metals in Brazil. Assays are now pending after the JV sent 16 soil, channel and auger samples to the SGS Geosol laboratory in the Brazilian State of Minas Gerais.
Octava Minerals has the drill bit primed for a maiden nickel-copper-cobalt exploration program at its Yallalong project in Western Australia's Mid West region, as part of a strategic collaboration with the CSIRO – the nation's premier science agency. The campaign will test several significant anomalies identified through the CSIRO's Kick-Start program, an initiative designed to assist innovative Australian start-ups and small-to-medium enterprises.
Si6 Metals and Foxfire Metals are poised to launch their joint venture search for rare earths and lithium at their Caldera project in Brazil that sits near Meteoric Resources' colossus Caldeira play boasting 409 million tonnes at 2626ppm TREO. Geophysical studies are underway and surface sampling will begin this week, while lithium exploration will begin in this year's second quarter in the “Lithium Valley”.
Si6 Metals and Foxfire Metals are poised to launch their joint venture search for rare earths and lithium at their Caldera project in Brazil that sits near Meteoric Resources' colossus Caldeira play boasting 409 million tonnes at 2626ppm TREO. Geophysical studies are underway and surface sampling will begin this week, while lithium exploration will begin in this year's second quarter in the “Lithium Valley”.
While 2023 saw explorers flock to the James Bay region of Quebec in Canada, a host of ASX-listed companies set their sights further north to the province of Nunavut to hunt for gold, copper and critical minerals. With Quebec becoming a little too popular, several hopefuls decided to roll the dice in the cold, but far less crowded province of Nunavut.
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