Stephen Woolfenden

Vital Metals Limited is a rare earths exploration and development company with a mining project, Nechalacho, in the Northwest Territories and is building a processing plant in Saskatoon that will produce a Mixed Rare Earth Carbonate used for NdFeB magnet production. Vital Metals focuses on using new technologies for making rare earth mining and beneficiation more efficient and sustainable. It uses the high-capacity, sensor-based, TOMRA ore sorting technology to improve the concentration and beneficiation of its rare earths (which is new for REE) at its Nechalacho project. Vital Metals is also building a calcining and acid leach circuit, which is not common in rare earth processing.