Donald Rare Earths Project receives work plan approval

The work plan defines the nature and scale of the proposed mining and processing activities and identifies and assesses risks to the environment and the public. It incorporates a risk management plan to eliminate or minimise identified risks and monitor performance against defined criteria. The work plan also details the nature of community engagement. All conditions contained in the work plan are satisfactory to the company.

The work plan approval marks the final major regulatory approval required to allow the construction and operation of Phase 1 of the Donald Project to proceed.

Tiger Brown, Astron’s Managing Director, stated:

“The work plan approval represents the final major regulatory approval for the Donald Project to proceed. It enables the finalisation of critical activities, including arrangements for debt and equity financing, before a capital development submission is made to the Astron Board and the board of the Donald Project Joint Venture. The progression to a Final Investment Decision (FID) is expected this calendar year. The key prerequisite to the FID is securing appropriate project financing arrangements satisfactory to the Joint Venturers.”

Mark Chalmers, Energy Fuels’ President and CEO, stated:

“The work plan approval for the Donald Project is significant as it moves us one step closer to creating an important link between the US and Australia on rare earths and critical minerals. We believe the Donald Project is exceptional, as it contains large quantities of the ‘light’, ‘mid’ and ‘heavy’ rare earth oxides needed for a variety of commercial, clean energy and defence technologies. Energy Fuels plans to import the rare earth minerals from the Donald Project into the US, where we will process them into separated oxides at our mill in Utah for domestic and other customers.”

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