Mkango’s DFS indicates $559m post-tax NPV for Songwe Hill rare earth project

Global miners are deploying a raft of new leaching technologies that can extract low concentrations of copper from waste rock and help avoid lengthy mine permitting delays.

The overwhelming message from miners and investors is that the situation is urgent, and getting worse, writes Clyde Russell.

The proposal now returns to the environmental commission, where it will be renegotiated before facing a second vote.

Article 27 would grant the state exclusive rights to lithium, rare earth metals and hydrocarbons while also making the state a majority shareholder of any copper mines.

Quebec plant's nameplate capacity of three tonnes per year represents approximately 20% of the global market.

SRK Consulting believes Africa can be the ‘missing resources link’ as the world prepares for an accelerating energy transition.

The company is in talks with governments eager to beef up access to rare earths outside China.

Resource definition holes intersected two of the three highest grade-width intercepts of the 2021 campaign.

GM’s chief executive officer is confident the automaker will have enough materials to build 400,000 electric vehicles this year and in 2023.