Latest Heavy Rare Earths News

ABx Group secures environmental approvals consultancy for Sunrise Bauxite Project as Good Importing International invests A$2.7 million for a 70% stake. GII's option on NSW assets expires, leaving ABx with full control.

Heavy Rare Earths Limited has updated key dates for its non-renounceable entitlement offer aimed at raising $728,119 before costs, adjusting the ex-date and record date among other milestones.

Brazilian Rare Earths (ASX: BRE) has delivered a striking scoping study for its Rocha da Rocha Rare Earths Province in Brazil, anchored by the Monte Alto deposit’s world-class 11.3% TREO grade, projecting robust economics and a low-cost production path.

Dateline Resources faces a US court injunction halting operations at its Colosseum Project, while ASX suspends and then reinstates trading over disclosure timing concerns.

Australian Rare Earths (ASX: AR3) has successfully commissioned and begun pilot-scale processing of 30 tonnes of ore at ANSTO’s Sydney facility, producing high-purity rare earth oxide samples to support commercialisation and a bankable feasibility study.

The Federal Treasurer has tightened restrictions on foreign shareholders Real International Resources and Qogir Trading, blocking share disposals without prior approval and reinforcing voting bans amid ongoing compliance concerns.

Basin Energy has kicked off follow-up drilling at its Newmans rare earth discovery in northwest Queensland, aiming to confirm continuity along a 3.3 km mineralised corridor. Assay results are expected by mid to late September, marking the start of a busy second half of 2026 for the company.

West Cobar Metals is fast-tracking its scandium exploration at the Salazar Project in Western Australia, targeting higher-grade zones with aircore drilling planned for late 2026 alongside advancing metallurgical testwork.

Mount Ridley Mines’ first TIMA automated mineralogy study at Grass Patch reveals rare earth elements are locked in discrete phosphate minerals, supporting flotation as a key beneficiation step ahead of leaching and Phase 1 metallurgical testwork.

Enova Mining’s latest auger drilling results at East Salinas confirm significant near-surface rare earth element mineralisation, reinforcing the project’s potential as a large saprolite-hosted REE system in Brazil.

Heavy Rare Earths Limited (ASX:HRE) has secured $2.028 million through a placement and entitlement offer to advance drilling programs and a strategic review across its key projects in South Australia and Western Australia.

Ionic Rare Earths (ASX: IXR) has secured $8 million through a placement to back its Belfast Plant commercialisation and US growth plans, supported by a mix of domestic and international investors including a strategic US partner.