This post was originally published on this site.Volta Metals (CSE: VLTA; US-OTC: VOLMF) traced gallium 210 metres beneath the current open-pit outline at its Springer rare earth project in Ontario, widening the mineralized footprint beyond what the existing resource captures. Hole SL26-31 returned 399 metres grading 51.8 grams gallium oxide per tonne from 3 metres downhole. SL26-32 cut 53.9 metres grading 1.22% total rare earth oxides and 47 grams gallium oxide from 372.1 metres to the hole’s end at 426 metres, Volta said Monday in a statement. Springer lies 8 km outside Sturgeon Falls, roughly 300 km north of Toronto....

This post was originally published on this site.Sunrise Energy Metals (ASX:SRL, OTCQX:SREMF) said Monday the company intends to pursue listing on a U.S. securities exchange, following news on Friday that the US Department of War’s Office of Strategic Capital  confirmed a conditional commitment of up to $400 million  in financing to support the development of Sunrise’s 100%-owned Syerston scandium project in New South Wales, Australia.   Scandium is essential for defence, advanced manufacturing, artificial intelligence infrastructure and wireless spectrum technologies.   The US has not actively mined scandium in decades, leaving the market heavily dependent on China.   “It may become an American company,” chairman Robert Friedland said Monday in a Bloomberg TV interview. “Uncle Sam likes these companies to...