Rainbow Rare Earths and US critical minerals policy: CEO George Bennett's insights
May 01, 2024 at 03:23 pm
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Rainbow Rare Earths Ltd CEO George Bennett joins Proactive's Stephen Gunnion with details of a Financial Times feature that highlighted the company's Phalaborwa rare earths project as a bellwether for US critical minerals policy.
Bennett highlighted the US Development Finance Corporation's commitment of $50 million to Phalaborwa, which is recognized for its potential to become the highest-margin rare earth project globally. Despite recent volatility in critical mineral prices, Bennett stated that Rainbow could maintain substantial EBITDA margins even at lower market prices due to its strategic and economical project design.
Bennett also addressed the global dependency on Chinese rare earth supplies, noting China’s dominance in production and processing critical for modern technology and defence applications. He proposed that the US government should consider stockpiling rare earths to secure a stable supply chain outside of China. This would support the development of a strategic supply chain in the West, enhancing global supply security.
Furthermore, Bennett expressed confidence in the resilience of the Phalaborwa project against price fluctuations, citing its innovative recycling of gypsum waste in South Africa as a key factor in its low production costs and high profitability potential.
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Rainbow Rare Earths Limited is a Guernsey-based mining company. The Company is engaged in the development of rare earth mineral projects in South Africa and Burundi. Its projects include Phalaborwa Project and Gakara Project. The Phalaborwa Project is a gypsum stack re-treatment project for the recovery of rare earths located in South Africa. The Phalaborwa Rare Earths Project has an inferred mineral resource estimate of 30.4 metric tons (Mt) at 0.44% TREO contained within phosphogypsum in two unconsolidated stacks derived from historic phosphate hard rock mining. The Gakara Rare Earth Project is located in Western Burundi, approximately 20 kilometers (km) south-southeast of Bujumbura, covering a combined area of approximately 135 square kilometers (km2). The mining permit covers an area of over 39 km2. It hosts various veins consisting of the minerals bastnaesite and/or monazite. Its subsidiaries include Rainbow Mining Burundi, Rainbow International Resources Ltd. and others.