Northern Uranium launches rebranding

West Perth-based minerals hopeful Northern Uranium has reflected its shift to a diversified focus by rebranding itself as Northern Minerals.

Northern Minerals managing director George Bauk said the need to re-brand arose after the restructure of its alliance agreement with Areva and the acquisition of mineral rights to 6,613 square kilometres of exploration tenements in northern Australia.

""These developments have given us control over a range of highly prospective mineral assets in addition to our uranium projects, and the new name better reflects this expanded exploration focus," Mr Bauk said.

"We are particularly excited about our rare earths projects John Galt and Browns Range in Western Australia and have planned an aggressive program of works for 2011 to develop these.

"With our expanded management and geological team, which has specific experience with uranium and rare earths, and a strong cash position following our successful October capital raising, we are in a solid position to maximise the opportunities presented by our expanded mineral interests."