Jack Lifton, Byron King and Vital Metals' Geoff Atkins on the global rare earths market

In this episode of the Critical Minerals Corner, Critical Materials’ industry expert and InvestorIntel Editor-in-Chief Jack Lifton is joined by Critical Minerals Corner Co-Host & InvestorIntel Columnist Byron King, and Geoff Atkins, Managing Director of Vital Metals Limited (ASX: VML) to discuss how Vital Metals plans to guarantee feedstock to the non-Chinese rare earths supply chain and about how a rare earths project is different from any other mining project.

In this InvestorIntel interview, the panel discussed the high grades of neodymium and praseodymium found at Vital Metals' Nechalacho Rare Earths Project in Canada. With a growing push from the governments globally to establish rare earths supply chains outside of China, Geoff provided an update on Vital's off-take agreements signed with new separation facilities entering Europe and North America.

About Vital Metals Limited

Vital Metals Limited is Canada’s first rare earths producer following commencement of production at its Nechalacho
rare earths project in Canada in June 2021. It holds a portfolio of rare earths, technology metals and gold projects located in Canada, Africa and Germany.

Nechalacho Rare Earth Project - Canada

The Nechalacho project is a high grade, light rare earth (bastnaesite) project located at Nechalacho in the Northwest Territories of Canada and has potential for a start-up operation exploiting high-grade, easily accessible near surface mineralisation. The Nechalacho Rare Earth Project hosts within the Upper Zone, a JORC Resource of 94.7MT at 1.46% TREO comprised of a Measured Resource of 2.9MT at 1.47% TREO, an Indicated Resource of 14.7MT at 1.5% TREO, and an Inferred Resource of 77.1MT at 1.46% TREO.

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Thank you for the interesting discussion. Good to hear the emphasis on the need for specialization within the processing process. Can't just produce a general processed material and sell it to all comers, but rather as stated the need for specificity in relation to each client's needs. Lynas took years to iron out its processing to get to where it is today. RE investors I think forget the knowledge, skills and experience that is needed to get any new RE processing facility going (looks like Lynas and the SRC may be potential prime movers here in N. America). The value in the chain really grows from processing and beyond so as a RE investor I am interested in considering what the investment value of a miner vs a miner and/or processor over the longer term will be? Again, thanks for the discussion.