Doug Bright

ChemX Materials has confirmed the significant 4N (99.99 per cent) purity results from its 100 per cent-owned high-purity alumina “micro-plant” in Perth’s southern suburbs in Western Australia. The results were determined across an impressive spectrum of 66 elements and represent a key milestone for the company – achieved within just a year of commissioning its HPA facility ¬– on its pathway to 5N purity.

Estrella Resources is evaluating its Carr Boyd project in Western Australia’s Goldfields region for lithium-pegmatite potential associated with a granitic or monzonitic body that intrudes the northern flanks of the mafic-ultramafic nickel host. New interpretations and a recent nickel discovery have highlighted areas of nickel potential and also indicate possible pegmatite-hosted lithium and related mineralisation within the project.

Askari Metals’ soil sampling at its Callawa project near Marble Bar in Western Australia's Pilbara region has yielded significant nickel-copper-cobalt mineralisation, with a top value of 1808ppm nickel. It also threw up a a strong nickel-chromium correlation to a high of 2349ppm chromium, a high magnesium- chromium content and a typical nickel-copper ratio – all indicating a strong potential for peridotite-dunite-associated nickel mineralisation.

The Australian Patent Office has granted Neometals’ recycling subsidiary Primobius timely protection for the key hydrometallurgical separation “hub” of its lithium-ion battery (LiB) recycling process – the downstream component of its mechanical battery disassembly “spoke” plant. The company recently revealed it had received an order from Mercedes-Benz for a 10-tonne per day lithium-ion battery shredding plant for its new recycling operation in Germany.

Lindian Resources has launched a 4000m mine development drilling program at its Kangankunde rare earths project in Malawi in a bid to upgrade about 20 million tonnes of its inferred resource to higher categories before finalising its stage-one pit outline. The company says the campaign is one of the key steps in its transition to production.

Reach Resources has entered into a tenement sale agreement to acquire a new exploration licence from Firebird Metals, extending its grip on prospective manganese terrain in Western Australia’s Edmund Basin. The strategy is in line with the company’s anticipation of increasing global demand for critical lithium, manganese and rare earths in the ongoing global phase of decarbonisation and attendant electrification.

When all looked lost for a group of parent hopefuls in India, a groundbreaking piece of Australian medical technology developed by Memphasys has turned their dreams of the pitter-patter of tiny feet into reality. Memphasys confirmed today that after its Felix system led to a baby boy being born in India in April, another 10 families have now welcomed little ones into the world.

Strickland Metals has kicked off two 3D induced-polarisation surveys at its priority Rabbit Well and Iroquois base metals prospects in Western Australia’s Earaheedy Basin – an emerging metallogenic terrane believed to have tier-one base metal potential. The company says both prospects exhibit coincident geophysical and surface geochemical anomalies and are geologically well-situated for the mineralisation styles it is chasing.

ABx Group has installed a pilot-scale bath reactor and an associated support system at its Alcore Technology Centre in NSW to trial the production of hydrogen fluoride from aluminium smelter waste. The chemicals research and manufacturing company has developed a world-first process to produce hydrogen fluoride from a fluoride-rich waste product known as “bath”, which is often produced in excess from aluminium smelting.