A feasibility study has confirmed a technically viable and rapid pathway to develop mineral sands using a domestic rare earths processing facility. 

The access agreements for the final blocks of land required for Coroccohuayco have been completed. 

As at September 30, 2026, the regional tailings storage facility was 77% completed. 

The Phase II expansion was officially opened on October 16, 2026. 

Critical minerals company Anson Resources announced an application for subsurface mineral rights beneath Green River State Park on October 7. 

Larvotto Resources has shipped its first antimony concentrate. 

Jansen Stage 1 is 87% complete and Stage 2 is 18% complete. 

Cobalt Blue announced a term sheet with STG Metals on October 19, 2026, for proposed cobalt metal offtake. 

Blencowe Resources has received the final tranche of $250 000 in grant funding from the US International Development Finance Corporation. 

Orion Minerals announced on October 19, 2026, that the $40-million Tranche A financing from Glencore for construction and startup of the Upper-Level (Uppers) had become unconditional. 

Overall progress has reached about 60%. 

Torngat Metals has reported the completion of an updated feasibility study. 

Tharisa Minerals has agreed to sell 50% of platinum group metals concentrate to Rustenburg Platinum Mines, a subsidiary of Valterra Platinum. 

The project involves the upstream development of an openpit mine and an 860 000 t/y flake graphite concentrate plant in the Côte-Nord region of Quebec. 

An update to the front-end engineering design study is continuing.  

The project proposes the the brownfield redevelopment and restart of the prior-producing Kearney mine as a conventional openpit operation using contractor truck-and-shovel mining.  

Minerals 260 is developing the Bullabulling gold project – one of Australia’s largest undeveloped gold projects. 

The project entails the development of a factory with capacity to produce neodymium/iron/boron permanent sintered magnets. 

Anson Resources' demonstration facility is intended to support the broader development of the Green River project, which it is advancing as a direct lithium extraction-based operation. 

The exploitation permit has been formalised. 

All primary approvals needed for the Stage 1 development are now in place. 

Rare earths and mineral sands company VHM Limited has signed a nonbinding term sheet with Japanese trading and investment company Mitsui for the acquisition up to 65 000 t/y of heavy mineral... 

Work on the 2027 updated life-of-mine plan started in the second quarter of 2026 and is targeted for completion late in the first quarter of 2027. 

Arafura has secured a binding five-year offtake agreement with a leading global raw materials trading company to supply 850 t/y of neodymium/praseodymium oxide. 

The project has been designated as a strategic project under the EU's Critical Raw Materials Act. 

The Steenkampskraal Monazite Mine has opened its Phase 1 concentrate plant. 

US Citizenship and Immigration Services approved the project’s EB-5 investment offering on September 30. 

Jade Gas Holdings plans to develop coal bed methane resources within the Tavantolgoi XXXIII unconventional gas basin. 

KEFI Gold and Copper is restarting development after suspending work on September 7, following a serious safety incident on September 4.