Latest Rare Earths News

Encounter Resources has identified a shallow, high-grade niobium zone at Joyce, 6 kilometres east of its Green deposit, with drilling ending in mineralisation. Assays from surrounding holes are due in October and will determine whether the zone has meaningful lateral continuity.

Enova Mining reduced its half-year loss to $790,000, but an explicit going-concern warning puts future funding at the centre of its rare earth exploration story. The company ended June with $723,000 in cash while advancing several high-grade exploration targets across Brazil and Australia.

The Australian Taxation Office has confirmed the tax treatment of Brazilian Rare Earths’ Alurion Resources demerger, including roll-over relief and the split of shareholders’ cost bases. The ruling gives eligible BRE investors a clearer framework for handling the distribution in their tax records.

QEM has ranked the Vaught-Peck prospect as the leading target at its newly acquired Garden Valley project in Idaho after reviewing historical records of columbite, samarskite and other rare-metal minerals. The opportunity remains prospective rather than proven, with no modern drilling, assays or resource estimate yet reported.

Australian Rare Earths has moved its Koppamurra pilot plant beyond heap leaching, recovering rare earths from about 5,000 litres of leach solution into a Mixed Rare Earth Hydroxide intermediate product. The result provides an early test of the downstream flowsheet, although commercial economics and final product quality remain unproven.

Gold Mountain has identified clustered niobium, magnet rare earth and phosphate anomalies across four Araxá prospects after expanding its stream sediment dataset to 515 samples. The results sharpen exploration targets, but the project remains well short of drilling, resource definition or economic assessment.

Viridis Mining and Minerals has selected Sedgman and Blossom as the preferred EPCM partner for its Colossus rare earths project, with up to US$3 million approved for work before a final investment decision. The full contract remains conditional, but engineering and procurement activity will begin immediately.

VHM has taken Goschen from a permitted project to a more financeable development, with Iluka committing to buy all planned rare earth concentrate and providing A$40 million in convertible note funding. The company remains pre-revenue, has not made a Final Investment Decision and will need further funding before construction can begin.

Oceana Metals has begun its first rare earths-focused drilling campaign at Serra Negra in Brazil, targeting a high-grade central corridor ahead of a maiden JORC resource estimate. The program starts with two rigs and is backed by A$8.16 million in cash plus a further $12.6 million from a July placement tranche.

Magnum Mining has defined a connected 32.5km² Plateau Zone at its Piracanjuba North project in Brazil after positive results from another 86 auger holes. The company is targeting a maiden JORC Mineral Resource Estimate in November 2026, but the latest desorption figures remain laboratory screening results rather than recoveries or economic data.

Cazaly Resources has refined two magnetic targets at its Abenab North project in Namibia, clearing the way for planned maiden drilling of potential rare earth, copper and base-metal mineralisation. A third target, Cadix, has been downgraded after historic mapping errors were identified.

Sovereign Metals says a simple add-on circuit at its Malawi project could generate US$722 million of pre-tax value from monazite by-product recovery. The opportunity is commercially striking, but remains a preliminary scoping result dependent on further testwork, approvals, funding and customer qualification.