Critical Minerals and Rare Earths
Viridis Positions Colossus for European Rare Earth Supply
Viridis Mining and Minerals Limited (ASX: VMM) is positioning its Colossus rare earth project in Brazil as a potential supplier to European manufacturers seeking alternatives to China-dominated supply chains. The strategy gained renewed attention after Viridis Managing Director Rafael Moreno told The Guardian that the company is targeting initial commercial production at the end of…
Power Minerals Extends Morro do Ferro Rare Earths to 186 Meters
Power Minerals Limited (ASX: PNN; OTCQB: PEIMF) has extended continuous rare earth mineralization from surface to 186 meters downhole at its Morro do Ferro project in Minas Gerais, Brazil. New assays from hole MFSR-054 identified deeper mineralization below the high-grade near-surface interval announced Sept. 4. The deepest sample returned to date also revealed a new…
Lindian’s Mine-to-Oxide Rare Earth Strategy Takes a Big Step
Highlights Lindian Resources Limited (ASX: LIN) reported on September 3, 2026 that it has executed a Technology and Engineering Services Agreement and a long-term, binding Offtake Agreement with Carester SAS, a French rare earth processing and separation specialist, covering the development of a new rare earth oxide separation facility. Together with engineering firm Tetra Tech…
Nevada Organic Phosphate Reports Clean Heavy Metal Assays
Highlights Nevada Organic Phosphate Inc. (CSE: NOP; OTCQB: NOPFF) reported on August 31, 2026 that heavy metal contaminant assays for hole MM26-10 at its Murdock Mountain project in northeast Nevada, the same hole the company reported a strong phosphate grade for on August 26, have come back well below the maximum thresholds used to determine…
Boron One Produces Commercial-Grade Colemanite Concentrate at Piskanja
Boron One Holdings Inc. (TSXV: BONE) reported producing commercial-grade colemanite concentrate from test material sourced from its Piskanja boron project in Serbia. The latest testing incorporated representative amounts of waste rock expected to enter the processing stream during potential mining. Boron One said the result more closely reflects anticipated run-of-mine conditions than its previous work.…
Nevada Organic Phosphate Extends Strike at Murdock Mountain
Nevada Organic Phosphate Inc. (CSE: NOP; OTCQB: NOPFF) reported new assay results on August 26, 2026 from hole MM26-10, a step-out drilled 1.5 kilometers along strike from previously tested ground at its Murdock Mountain phosphate project in northeast Nevada. The hole returned 10.89% P2O5 (phosphorus pentoxide, the standard measure used to express phosphate rock grade)…
What is Antimony Used For and Why is China’s Export Ban Significant?
Antimony is one of those minerals most people have never heard of until suddenly they can’t stop hearing about it. A little-known metal used in everything from ammunition to flame retardants, antimony became a flashpoint in US-China trade tensions starting in August 2024, when Beijing announced export restrictions that exposed a genuine vulnerability in the…
Irruptive Metals Reports 795.2 Meters at 0.66% CuEq at Pimentón
Irruptive Metals Corp. (TSXV: IRR) reported final assay results from its first diamond drilling campaign at the Pimentón copper-gold project in central Chile, led by a 795.2-meter mineralized interval. Hole IMP002 returned 795.2 meters grading 0.66% copper equivalent from 167 meters to the end of the hole at 962.2 meters. The interval averaged 0.31% copper…
What is Vanadium Used For?
Vanadium is not a household name the way lithium or cobalt has become, but it plays two distinct and important roles in the modern economy: strengthening the steel that underpins global construction, and — increasingly — storing renewable energy at grid scale through a battery technology built specifically around vanadium’s unique chemistry. Its addition to…
What is Tungsten Used For and Why is it Strategic?
Tungsten is a small commodity by overall market size, but it has become one of the most closely watched critical minerals in global policy circles — described by one industry expert as “a strategic choke point in the critical minerals supply chain.” China’s export restrictions, imposed in stages since February 2025, sent prices up an…
