Materials Wrap: Deals, funding and critical minerals power Week 18

• Australian Mines topped the week after a scandium study put hard numbers around Flemington
• Vanadium Resources and Loyal Metals jumped on offtake and takeover news respectively
• Toubani and Tambourah fell hard despite project progress, showing investors still punish uncertainty
• Gold funding deals stayed busy, while rare earths and battery materials names kept adding processing wins