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

St George Mining executive chairman John Prineas (3rd from right), with other St George staff and Elbert Muller Nigri (left) from CIT-SENAI at the CIT-SENAI pilot plant in Belo Horizonte. Credit: File St George Mining (ASX: SGQ) has kicked off a crucial pilot plant study at its massive Araxá niobium and rare earths project in Brazil, marking a key step in developing a processing flowsheet to unlock the value of two sets of critical minerals from the one deposit. Work ha

St George Mining chairman John Prineas (right) at a signing ceremony for the Minas Gerais Rare Earths Processing Centre, with Australian Ambassador to Brazil Sophie Davis, Invest Minas President Ms Pedrosa and Secretary of State Ms Corrêa da Costa. Credit: File St George Mining (ASX: SGQ) has struck a landmark deal with the State of Minas Gerais and a major Brazilian industrial player, the Lima & Pergher Group, to pioneer a new rare earths processing centre in the South A

St George Mining’s drilling continues at its giant Araxá rare earths and niobium project in Minas Gerais, Brazil. Credit: File St George Mining (ASX: SGQ) has formally kicked off the permitting process for a potential mine at its massive Araxá rare earths and niobium project in Brazil, lodging key environmental documents within the State of Minas Gerais. The move represents a significant milestone, shifting the project from discovery and definition into the formal approva

St George Mining’s metallurgical test work has produced separate high-grade concentrates from its Araxá project, including 39.6 per cent niobium pentoxide at a flotation recovery rate of 54.3 per cent. Credit: File St George Mining's (ASX: SGQ) Araxá rare earths and niobium project has put some serious numbers on the board in Brazil, with the company delivering a massive resource upgrade over the deposit that catapults into globally significant territory. The company t

St George Mining will collaborate with the Federal Centre for Technological Education (CEFET) of Minas Gerais on the construction of a new large-scale pilot plant at CEFET’s Araxá campus. St George Mining (ASX: SGQ) has delivered a series of record breaking drill results at its Araxá project in Brazil, belting its latest rare earths and niobium assays clean out of the park. The company described the results as the “most spectacular drill results to date” which included a

St George Mining has been drilling its Araxá rare earths project in Brazil on a round-the-clock basis. Credit: File St George Mining (ASX: SGQ) has landed its longest rare earths and niobium drill intercept to date at its Araxá project in Brazil, with a near-200m run from surface adding more heft to an already chunky critical minerals system. The company’s latest batch of 23 diamond holes returned a headline hit of 199.5m grading 2.86 per cent total rare earth oxides and 0.

St George Mining has secured a $60 million funding package to fast-track its massive Araxá rare earths and niobium project in Brazil, with Gina Rinehart's Hancock Prospecting tipping in $20 million.

St George Mining's niobium froth flotation second cleaner stage for the company’s beneficiation test work for its Araxá project. St George Mining (ASX: SGQ) has kicked a major goal at its world-class Araxá niobium and rare earths project in Brazil, with initial metallurgical testwork successfully producing two separate high-grade concentrates from a single ore stream. The Perth-based explorer says early-stage flotation work on a five-tonne bulk sample of near-surface sa

St George Mining has brought lithium-ion battery heavyweight ATL onto its register. The ATL battery product family (pictured) includes high energy density, high power, fast charge and arbitrary-shaped cells. St George Mining (ASX: SGQ) is bringing global battery heavyweight Amperex Technology Limited onto its share register in a $2M deal that gives the group a strategic stake in the company as part of a restructure of the pair’s existing Lithium Star joint venture. Unde

St George Mining has recruited global engineering leader Worley to lead development studies at its world-class Araxá niobium-rare earths project in Brazil, fast-tracking the path to commercial production.

St George Mining’s Araxá diamond drilling continues to deliver thick rare earths and niobium intercepts from surface. As St George Mining (ASX: SGQ)keeps the drill bits busy spinning at the company’s fully owned Araxá rare earths and niobium project in Brazil, its latest assays have once again screamed “grade”, “scale” and “continuity”. From a batch of 13 diamond drill holes, the company has shone a spotlight on three of its latest top hits, all straight from surface.

St George Mining executive chairman John Prineas showcasing the company’s world-class rare earths-niobium Araxá project to investors and government representatives from the US during the Brazil-US Critical Minerals Forum in March. Credit: File St George Mining (ASX: SGQ) has nailed its thickest hit yet at the company’s Araxá rare earths and niobium project in Brazil, serving up a hefty slab of high-grade rare earths and niobium mineralisation beginning right from surface. Fr

St George Mining executive chairman John Prineas (centre right) at the Brazil-US Critical Minerals Forum in March with (L–R): Thiago Amaral, Gabriel Escobar and Daniel Guimarães Medrado de Castro. Credit: File St George Mining (ASX: SGQ) has rolled out another big-ticket partnership at its Araxá critical minerals project in Brazil, striking a strategic alliance with innovative metals processor Boston Metal to chase a cleaner, potentially cheaper pathway to niobium production

St George Mining has linked up with a leading European rare earths processing firm to conduct testing on rare earths material from the company’s blockbuster Araxá project, in Brazil. Credit: File St George Mining (ASX: SGQ) has linked up with a globally-leading European rare earths processing firm to conduct testing on the company’s hard-rock rare earths material at its blockbuster Araxá project, in the Brazilian State of Minas Gerais. Management has signed a memorandum of u

St George Mining’s Brazil country head (left) and Fernando Contadini, chief executive officer of Nanum (right), at the signing of the MoU. Credit: File St George Mining (ASX: SGQ) is taking aim at the “basket value” problem that plagues many rare earths projects, signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to explore a downstream process that could upgrade the product mix from its Brazilian Araxá project. Under a non-binding deal with Brazilian fine chemicals group Nanum Nan

St George Mining’s round-the-clock diamond drilling at Araxá is keeping all hands on deck in the core store. Credit: File St George Mining (ASX: SGQ) seems irrepressible as it keeps the drill bit spinning at its 100 per cent-owned Araxá rare earths and niobium project in Brazil and delivering more assays showing thick, high-grade mineralisation from surface. The company says the latest results from 16 diamond drill holes have confirmed strong grade continuity in the monster c

St George Mining executive chairman John Prineas (right) checking diamond drill core from its high-grade Araxá REE-niobium project in Brazil. Credit: File St George Mining (ASX: SGQ) has bolstered its leadership ranks by hiring a seasoned in-country geologist as it accelerates planning and development of the company’s world-class Araxá rare earths-niobium project in Brazil. Ms Carla Grasso is a highly credentialled senior resource geologist, with more than two decades of ope

St George Mining will soon join the Australian S&P/ASX All Ordinaries Index. Credit: File St George Mining (ASX: SGQ) has scored a visibility boost after clinching a spot in the much-coveted S&P/ASX All Ordinaries (All Ords) Index, effective prior to the open of trade on Monday, March 23. The All Ords tracks the top 500 companies on the Australian Securities Exchange by market capitalisation, so inclusion can help broaden a stock’s investor audience and lift liquidity throug

St George Mining has been furiously drilling out its Brazilian Araxá rare earths and niobium project in the lead up to its latest resource upgrade. Credit: File St George Mining (ASX: SGQ) has delivered a stunning resource upgrade at its already giant Araxá rare earths and niobium project in the Barreiro carbonatite complex in Minas Gerais, Brazil, lifting the project’s mineral resource by a hefty 75 per cent and reinforcing its credentials as a potential Tier‑1 global rare