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Glencore has confirmed its binding offtake agreement for Centaurus Metals’ Jaguar Nickel Project remains effective, preserving a key commercial pillar as the developer negotiates the rest of its funding package. No new funding commitment or Final Investment Decision has yet been announced.

Arafura Rare Earths has signed a binding five-year offtake agreement covering up to 850 tonnes a year of NdPr oxide at nameplate production. The deal expands on an earlier term sheet, but leaves pricing mechanics, counterparty identity and conditions precedent undisclosed.

VHM has agreed a non-binding term sheet with Mitsui covering up to 65,000 tonnes a year of heavy mineral concentrate from its Goschen project. The proposed deal could add a cornerstone customer and potential trade-finance support, but a binding agreement and funding remain outstanding.

Finder Energy is targeting a final investment decision for its Kuda Tasi-Jahal oil project by 30 November, with approvals and engineering largely complete. The decisive hurdles now sit in financing and contract awards, including the rig, shipyard and EPCI packages.

Renascor has produced battery-grade purified spherical graphite at demonstration scale, achieving 99.97% carbon purity through its hydrofluoric acid-free process. The result strengthens the commercialisation case, but Siviour graphite trials, customer qualification and project financing are still ahead.

EcoGraf has completed a A$4.727 million capital raising to support debt financing and development work at its Epanko graphite project in Tanzania. The raise combines a shareholder-backed SPP with a discounted placement to institutional and sophisticated investors.

TMK Energy’s Gurvantes XXXV Pilot Well Project delivered record September gas production, with average output rising 8% month on month to 872 cubic metres a day. Workover and drilling rigs are now being mobilised, while a gas-to-power investment decision is due before the end of October.

Wide Open Agriculture has completed a study for a proposed 10,000-tonne-per-year lupin protein facility with indicative annual revenue of A$240 million to A$295 million. The project remains unfunded, unapproved and years from production, leaving contract manufacturing as the immediate test of the company’s strategy.

Finder Energy has extended the Kuda Tasi and Jahal project’s Final Investment Decision deadline to 30 November, after widening its international EPCI tender process. The company says debt financing is nearing its final stages, but the delay adds another checkpoint before its late-2027 drilling target.

Heavy Minerals reported a sharply wider FY2026 loss and a $3.15 million net working capital deficit, with its auditor flagging material uncertainty over the company’s ability to continue as a going concern. The balance sheet pressure sits alongside stronger project milestones, including a post-year-end Port Gregory study and the push to fund Kanmantoo.

EcoGraf has replaced its earlier Epanko announcement after ASX correspondence, setting out the assumptions behind a potential increase in Stage 1 production to 87,600 tonnes per annum. The higher-throughput case lowers estimated unit costs, but remains preliminary and is not yet the basis for project financing or a final investment decision.

Centaurus Metals has signed the contract securing initial 20MW of 230kV grid power for its Jaguar nickel project in Brazil. The infrastructure milestone removes one development hurdle, while funding negotiations and final connection approvals remain outstanding.