source:SMALL CAPSWest Cobar Metals (ASX: WC1) has announced a nearly fourfold increase in the resource base of the Salazar clay-hosted rare earth element (REE) project near Esperance in Western Australia.The new figures are based on a Phase 1 aircore program of 283 holes for a total 9,340 metres designed to extend and infill existing inferred resources and add inferred tonnages at the Newmont and O’Connor deposits.The combined resource now totals 190 million tonnes of 1,172 parts per million TREO (total rare earth oxide) in the indicated and inferred categories.Newmont’s resource has increased...
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Nimy Resources (ASX: NIM) has hit rare earths and base metals in a newly-identified 4.5km corridor at its Mons project in Western Australia.Nimy says the results are important because they sit well away from previously-announced nickel and lithium targets, highlighting the immense prospectivity of the greenstone belt at Mons.The results follow new assays released by Nimy which identified up to 0.73% nickel.The company stated that those results pointed to a high-grade feeder source and it would start down-hole EM to find the nickel sulphide traps.Wide rare-earth corridor“We have identified a 4....
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source;INNOVNTIONAn international group of scientists have used theoretical predictions to fabricate a new rare earth catalyst that helps the oxygen evolution reaction.A group of researchers have used theoretical predictions to identify and fabricate a new electrocatalyst that aids the oxygen evolution reaction.The paper ‘Reinforcing Co-O Covalency via Ce(4f)─O(2p)─Co(3d) Gradient Orbital Coupling for High-Efficiency Oxygen Evolution,’ was published in Advanced Materials.Achieving a more efficient oxygen evolution reaction processWater-splitting electrolysers harness electrolysis to uncouple h...
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source:proactiveCircular economy-focused critical minerals company Ionic Rare Earths Ltd (ASX:IXR, OTC:IXRRF) has become the cornerstone investor in a capital raise intended to fund a potentially tier-one iconic clay rare earth project – the Colossus Rare Earths Project in the Poços De Caldas Alkaline Complex of Minas Gerais, Brazil.IXR has invested A$600,000 in Viridis Mining and Minerals Ltd, the company acquiring the project, to fund exploration and the initial upfront payment for the acquisition itself.Ionic will also provide its ionic clay rare earth expertise to fast-track the proje...
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