This post was originally published on this site.Ottawa says its Canada Investment Summit generated nearly C$500 billion ($358 billion) in commitments, but most of the headline sum isn’t tied to individual mines as Canada’s critical-mineral developers struggle to reach the scale large institutions seek. Prime Minister Mark Carney used the Sept. 14-15 Toronto gathering, with the Canada Pension Plan and Public Sector Pension investment boards, to showcase 167 projects requiring more than $1 trillion over five years. Minerals and metals formed the largest group, with 63 projects. The summit produced one project-specific commitment from the Canada Growth Fund, which pledged...

This post was originally published on this site.Critical Metals (Nasdaq: CRML) announced Wednesday that its patent-pending process dissolves more than 99% of eudialyte concentrate from its Tanbreez project and recovers 19 ultra-high-purity rare earth and critical metal products.  Eudialyte is a rare red or pink silicate stone used as a major industrial source for zirconium, hafnium, and heavy rare earth elements. Located at Killavaat Alannguat in southern Greenland, Tanbreez is regarded as one of the largest undeveloped heavy rare earth assets outside China.   The company said plans to run its patent-pending process at a proposed $2.2 billion-a-year refinery in Romania.  The preliminary refinery study outlines a joint venture designed to process feedstock from Tanbreez. Eudialyte ores have historically been notorious...