ChemX Materials (ASX: CMX) has locked-in an agreement to provide private firm Vytas with high-purity assay services on quartz and...

ChemX Materials (ASX: CMX) has been awarded nearly $662,000 by the Federal Government through a research and development (R&D) rebate for...

ChemX Materials (ASX: CMX) has secured a patent from the New Zealand Intellectual Property Office for its “HiPurA” processing technology...

ChemX Materials (ASX: CMX) has received a $250,000 boost to help drive its 24-tonne per annum high-purity alumina (HPA) pilot plant...

ChemX Materials (ASX: CMX) has taken a crucial step towards high-purity alumina production after cranking up the early-stage...

ChemX Materials says it is on the cusp of producing high-purity alumina at scale using its patented “HiPurA” processing technology at its 24

ChemX Material’s high-purity alumina using its HiPurA process Credit: File ChemX Materials (ASX: CMX) has pulled in $1.1m from sophisticated investors to help fund the completion of its high purity alumina (HPA) pilot plant in Perth. The company will also look to raise another $500k from shareholders in a share purchase plan and ChemX directors will kick $65,000 into the raise. The new stock will be issued at 4.8c per share and will be gift-wrapped with one free option for ev

ChemX Materials process engineer Syed Zaidi and chief executive officer Peter Lee at the company’s laboratory in Perth. Credit: File. ChemX Materials has been granted a vital patent in Australia for its 100 per cent-owned proprietary disruptive “HiPurA” high-purity alumina (HPA) process as it eyes commercialisation options. The granted patent opens the pathway to global commercialisation of the company’s scalable and modular system, which it plans to take to pilot testing wit

Operations manager Russell Vallis at ChemX Materials’ laboratory in Perth’s southern suburb of O’Connor. Credit: File ChemX Materials has shifted its focus from its micro-plant operation to the design and delivery of the company’s high-purity alumina pilot plant after achieving 99.996 purity using its “HiPurA” process. The plant is now on track for first commissioning in next year’s first quarter and with the purity capability consolidated within the design, the next stage of

ChemX Materials has conducted significant research into its high-purity alumina product. Credit: File ChemX Materials has received more than $900,000 through a research and development (R&D) tax incentive rebate payment for developing its high-purity manganese (HPM) and alumina (HPA) projects during the past financial year. Administered by AusIndustry and the Australian Tax Office, the rebate is available for companies investing in R&D programs aimed at sustainably producing

ChemX Materials’ optimisation of a small module of its HiPurA micro-plant. Credit: File ChemX Materials has nailed the vital “4N” (99.99 per cent) product purity in alumina from its trial micro-plant in Perth and is refocusing on the commissioning of its proposed pilot plant in next year’s first quarter. The company says independent testing confirmed 4N in the analysis of a suite of 66 elements in alumina, with total impurity levels of 61 parts per million, 66ppm and 99ppm an

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A ChemX Materials chemist with an atomic absorption spectrometer. Credit: File 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 (

ChemX Materials’ manganese ore at Jamieson Tank. Credit: File ChemX Materials has established a maiden manganese resource of 13.1 million tonnes at 5.7 per cent manganese at its 100 per cent-owned Jamieson Tank deposit, 150km west of the Port of Whyalla in South Australia. The company says testwork on the resource has shown “excellent” upgrade characteristics through simple gravity and magnetic separation and it will now complete an internal scoping study on the production of

ChemX Materials’ HPA micro-plant in Western Australia. Credit: File. ChemX Materials has advanced its high-purity alumina (HPA) micro-plant flowsheet as it prepares to scale up to pilot-plant production. The company has now also identified intermediate HPA product pathways and says investment in high-precision analytical equipment and dedicated human resources has resulted in increased operational performance for its HPA micro-plant. It will now feed the enhancements directly

Peter Lee has been unveiled as the new CEO of ChemX Materials. Credit: File ChemX Materials has secured a funding package worth up to $6 million from United States-based investment firm Mercer Street Global Opportunity Fund. Management says the fresh funding will go towards the company’s high-purity manganese (HPM) play on South Australia’s Eyre Peninsula and its high-purity alumina (HPA) project in Perth’s southern suburbs. The company has also revealed it has promoted chief

High-purity alumina produced from ChemX’s proprietary “HiPurA®” micro plant, which is being upscaled to a 24 tonnes per annum pilot plant. Credit: File Budding critical materials producer ChemX Materials is set to kick off construction of its high-purity alumina (HPA) pilot plant later this month and has appointed metallurgical processing specialist, Fremantle Metallurgy, to oversee the project. Following a pre-feasibility study (PFS) tabled in August last year, validating it

ChemX Materials’ 2023 drill campaign has focused on the northern section of the Jamieson Tank manganese deposit on SA’s Eyre Peninsula. Credit: File The third and final batch of assay results from ChemX Materials’ 2023 drilling campaign at its Jamieson Tank manganese deposit on South Australia’s Eyre Peninsula have landed, including a headline 16m hit going 17.9 per cent manganese from 17m. Management says the results reveal significant manganese intercepts near surface and e

ChemX Materials has unveiled more high-grade, near-surface manganese in its second batch of assay results from drilling at its South Australian deposit, including a 6m hit grading 18 per cent manganese from just 15m. The company says it has now received data from 69 holes of its 94-hole Jamieson Tank campaign, which has targeted the high-grade manganese that can be efficiently converted to high-purity manganese – a key component in electric batteries. Other headline results i

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