Our short term objectives are focused on ensuring that the Nolans project has all approvals and commercial agreements, enabling us to capitalise on rare earths and phosphate market opportunities.

This will include construction of a rare earths processing plant with a plan for production from Nolans in 2012.

Test work to date has provided significant progress in the definition of the flow sheet required for the engineering of a processing plant to recover:

• rare earths,
• phosphate,
• uranium
• and by-product calcium chloride.

Approvals documents including Notice of Intent (NT Government), Project Referral (Federal Government, Department of Environment and Water Resources) and application for Mineral Lease (NT Government) have been submitted. Responses to these documents will form the basis of an Environmental Impact Statement and Bankable Feasibility Study, targeted for completion by the end of 2009.

Nolans Fact Sheets Mar 2008 (1,230kb)