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Victory Metals dispatches heavy RE concentrate from pilot plant

July 14, 2026 Miners News

Victory Metals has commenced dispatching heavy rare earth mineral concentrate from its purpose-built flotation pilot plant in Perth, Western Australia, to potential offtake partners in Australia, Japan and the United States of America for independent product examination. “Our pilot plant has moved from a commissioning milestone to consistent, reliable operation, and that consistency is exactly what our preferred offtake partners…

American Rare Earths confirmed oxide production at Halleck Creek

December 17, 2025December 17, 2025 Miners News

Explorer American Rare Earths, which is advancing its Halleck Creek project in Wyoming, confirmed this week that it had produced rare earth oxides from its ore using an updated preliminary pre-feasibility study mineral processing flowsheet. Full story.

Rio Tinto offloads stake in Winu

December 10, 2024December 10, 2024 Miners News

Rio Tinto will sell a 30% stake in its Winu copper-gold project in Western Australia to Japan’s Sumitomo Metal Mining Co. for $399 million, reported Bloomberg. “This is a unique opportunity to derisk our investment,” said Katie Jackson, Rio’s chief executive of copper. “We look forward to working more broadly as strategic partners to find new ways to deliver value…

Sleeping Giant mill reawakens

February 21, 2024February 21, 2024 Miners News

Quebec-based Abcourt Mines said the mill at its Sleeping Giant underground gold operation in the Abitibi region of the province restarted processing on February 13. Full story.

BHP, Rio Tinto partner with major steelmaker on decarbonisation efforts

February 12, 2024February 12, 2024 Miners News

Australia’s leading iron ore producers – BHP and Rio Tinto – have partnered with BlueScope to accelerate the decarbonisation of steelmaking by agreeing to jointly investigate the development of the country’s first ironmaking electric smelting furnace (ESF) pilot plant. Under a framework agreement, the companies will consolidate the work each party has completed to date, leveraging both miners’ deep knowledge…

American Lithium starts next phase of Falchani work

July 13, 2022July 13, 2022 Miners News

Canadian-based American Lithium Corp. has commenced the environmental work required for a pre-feasibility study (PFS) on the Falchani lithium project in southeastern Peru with the initiation of an environmental impact assessment (EIA) with SRK Peru. The EIA process will run in parallel with work to update the company’s existing preliminary economic assessment on Falchani. American Lithium said it believes that…