Surface granite (pictured) at Red Metal Limited’s Sybella project sitting just 20km from the major mining hub of Mount Isa in Queensland. Credit: File Red Metal Limited (ASX: RDM) has put another piece of a key metallurgical puzzle in place at its massive Sybella rare earths project near Mount Isa in Queensland, with impressive column leach test results from the Kary Zone's deeper, more dominant fresh granite ore. The company says two-metre column leach tests on the gra

Red Metal’s drilling program is underway at its Sybella rare earths project near Mount Isa. Credit: File Red Metal (ASX: RDM) has fired up the drill rigs for a 5000-metre drilling tilt at its giant Sybella rare earths project near Mount Isa in Queensland, aiming to both upgrade and extend its priority Kary Zone deposit ahead of upcoming economic studies. Infill drilling will focus on Sybella's southeast corner of its nearly five-billion-tonne resource, targeting broad,

Red Metal has commenced six-metre-tall column leach tests to simulate a commercial-scale heap leach for its giant Sybella rare earths project in Queensland. Credit: File Red Metal (ASX: RDM) has kicked off a crucial phase of metallurgical testwork at its Sybella rare earths project in Queensland, launching six-metre-tall column leach tests designed to simulate a full-scale, low-cost, heap leach operation for its multi-billion tonne monster. The program marks a significa

Red Metal’s drilling at its 100%-owned Sybella rare earths project near Mt Isa in Queensland. Credit: File For decades, the Western market’s playbook for breaking China’s choke-hold on the rare earths sector read like an instructional manual on how to incinerate capital. The strategy was almost dogmatic: target complex, hard-rock monazite or apatite monsters, raise astronomical sums of cash, and then attempt to construct eye-wateringly expensive, high-temperature crackin

Red Metal Limited has swooped on available ground near its two projects in Queensland, lodging 17 additional tenement applications for land prospective for iron oxide-copper-gold (IOCG) deposits. Credit: File Red Metal (ASX: RDM) has swooped on available ground near its Gulf and Three Ways projects in Queensland, lodging 17 additional tenement applications for land prospective for iron oxide-copper-gold (IOCG) deposits. The company is motoring ahead with its “Big Copper

Drill Rig on site during a previous campaign at Red Metal Limited’s big Sybella rare earths project near Mount Isa in Queensland. Credit: file Red Metal (ASX: RDM) has fired the starter’s gun on a pre-feasibility study for its Sybella rare earths project in north-west Queensland, a move designed to put some hard economic numbers around what it describes as a globally significant, large-tonnage discovery. The company has engaged a trio of Queensland-based resource consul

Is this the Escondida of rare earths? A crazy big, heap-leachable operation

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Red Metal Limited's column leach test set-up showing its 100mm and 150mm columns with coarsely crushed ore samples from the Kary Zone within its Sybella rare earths project, near Mt Isa in Queensland. Red Metal (ASX: RDM) has moved a big step closer to proving a low-cost processing route for its monster Sybella rare earths project in Queensland, with definitive column leach tests delivering stellar recoveries from coarse-crushed ore using weak sulphuric acid at ambient te

One of Red Metal’s samples from the Kary Zone at its Sybella project. The coarse crushed granite-hosted mineralisation will be subjected to column leach to extract the contained rare earths. While Red Metal Limited (ASX: RDM) believes it is on the cusp of developing an ultra-low-cost processing pathway for its giant Sybella rare earths project near Mount Isa in Queensland, the stars also appear to be lining up, with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Japanese Pri

Core from Red Metal Limited’s maiden drilling at its Pulkarrimarra gold-copper project in Paterson, WA, showing heavily pyritic and carbonaceous Broadhurst Formation with strong pyrite-carbonate-quartz veining. Credit: File Red Metal (ASX: RDM) has burst into 2026 with a technically encouraging maiden drilling campaign at its Pulkarrimarra copper gold project in Western Australia’s red-hot Paterson Province. The drill bit lit up a fertile geological system across both sedimen

Drill Rig on site at Red Metal Limited’s Sybella rare earths project near Mount Isa in Queensland. Credit: File Red Metal Limited (ASX: RDM) has delivered a high-value Easter surprise, rewarding its loyal backers with a direct slice of one of Australia’s most promising silver and copper-gold development plays. The company has unveiled plans for a major in-specie distribution of its ASX-listed Maronan Metals shares, a tactical move aimed at unlocking the full potential of bot

Red Metal Limited has linked up with ASX-listed explorer Chalice Mining under an earn-in JV on ground prospective for copper and gold at Red Metal’s Callabonna project in South Australia’s Curnamona Province.

Red Metal Ltd’s first drilling at its Pardoo play in WA’s Pilbara has hit anomalous gold in cover sequences, with a growing geochemical trail hinting at potential basement mineralisation near the Hemi corridor.

Kary Zone Column Leach tests from Red Metal Limited’s Sybella rare earths project in Queensland. Fine chips from crushing bind to the coarser fragments, helping to maintain a high permeability in the column. Credit: File Red Metal Limited (ASX: RDM) has stepped up metallurgical work at its Sybella rare earths project in northwest Queensland, with large-scale weak-acid column heap leach tests now underway on coarsely crushed granite-hosted ore. The test program is designed to

Location of the Sharon Dam project- subject of the new Red Metal JV with Artemis. Credit: File Red Metal Limited (ASX: RDM) has strengthened its position in Western Australia’s emerging Madura copper province after striking a joint venture (JV) deal designed to fast-track drilling at its highly prospective Sharon Dam iron oxide copper-gold (IOCG) target. Under the agreement, Artemis Resources (ASX: ARV) can earn up to a 60 per cent interest in Red Metal’s Sharon Dam project

Red Metal proposed ion exchange plant designed, built and operated by Core IPEX. Credit: File Red Metal Ltd (ASX: RDM) says it has made a major breakthrough in metallurgical testing of its rare earths ore from the company’s Sybella project in Queensland that will result in less impurities and higher grades. The company has managed to replace the standard two-stage impurity removal process with a simple Ion exchange process that will lower costs and increase purities. Ion exc

Red Metal owns a 44 per cent stake in ASX-listed Maronan Metals, which released positive scoping study on its namesake flagship...

The world-class Mountain Pass rare earth mine has been the recipient of US$400 million in government funding. Credit: File There are...

Red Metal’s latest Queensland copper-gold projects north of Mt Isa, where the company has secured government funding to test giant IOCG...