Victory Metals has reported breakthrough metallurgical results at its North Stanmore project, which is situated in a tier-one mining jurisdiction in the mid-west region of Western Australia.
By using a simple cyclosizing method (isolating the -10.9 micrometres cyclosizing), Victory Metals achieved an “incredible” increase in the concentration of critical rare earth elements, eliminating the need for complex chemical processing or expensive circuits.
The results revealed a 53 per cent rise in terbium, a 25 per cent rise in dysprosium, and a 100 per cent rise in scandium grades.
“This is an incredible outcome at a time when the world’s understanding of the importance of these critical and strategic minerals is rapidly growing,” Victory Metals chief executive officer and executive director Brendan Clark said.
“With a simple and low-cost size fractionation step, we’ve delivered significant grade increases in three of the world’s most strategically important elements, terbium, dysprosium and scandium,” said Clark.
With governments moving to secure non-Chinese supply amid China’s proposed export bans on these elements due to their important role in military defence, Clark said this makes “projects like North Stanmore become even more critical”.
Terbium, dysprosium, and scandium are all captured in the 1 December 2025 Chinese export ban, where military end-use is implicated.
“Our results show we can concentrate the value upfront, potentially lowering operating costs and boosting payables,” said Clark.
