Tony Sage’s recent meeting with Donald Trump Jr. in Singapore highlights how a once-obscure rare earths project in southern Greenland could become increasingly important in the global race to secure critical minerals supply chains.
Sage, the CEO of European Lithium Ltd (ASX:EUR, OTCQB:EULIF), the owner of Critical Metals Corp, sat down with Trump Jr. to discuss the potential for the Tanbreez Rare Earths Project to help break China’s dominance over heavy rare earth elements. While the conversation was informal, it reflects the growing convergence between private capital, geopolitical strategy and the mining sector as Western governments scramble to secure supply of minerals essential to modern technology and defence systems.
Terrain Minerals Ltd (ASX:TMX, OTC:TMXAF, FRA:T4Y) has started a follow-up air-core drilling campaign at its 100%-owned Lort River Project near Esperance in Western Australia, as it looks to build on earlier high-grade rare earth results and test the scale of a newly defined clay-hosted target.
Northstar Gold Corp. (CSE:NSG) announced that it has extended the known high-grade polymetallic copper-gold-silver-molybdenum system at its Cam Copper Mine near Kirkland Lake, Ontario, with new drill results showing significant down-plunge continuity and strong metal grades.
The seven-hole, 1,204-metre definition drilling program was completed in December 2025 to support preparation of a National Instrument 43-101 technical report and mineral resource estimate by Micon International Limited. The study will evaluate the reasonable prospects for eventual economic extraction at the Cam Copper Surgical Mining Project.
Candel Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ:CADL) is advancing plans to bring its lead cancer immunotherapy toward potential commercialization, outlining new phase 3 trials and a planned regulatory filing while reporting its fourth quarter and full-year 2025 financial results.
“During the quarter, we made meaningful progress across our clinical pipeline and pre-commercial readiness, entering 2026 with strong momentum and a robust set of potential value-driving catalysts,” Candel CEO Paul Peter Tak said in a statement.
374Water Inc (NASDAQ:SCWO, FRA:8LL) said on Thursday it has received a purchase order from Garney Construction tied to a municipal project in Olathe, Kansas, marking a commercial step in deploying its technology to destroy PFAS-contaminated biosolids.
The order triggers a $2.3 million invoice and payment to the North Carolina-based waste treatment technology company and advances the next phase of the project, which involves construction and integration work led by Garney Construction.
Ideal Power Inc (NASDAQ:IPWR, FRA:5ILA) is moving steadily toward commercialization of its B-TRAN-enabled products, following a series of strategic partnerships and agreements. Last month, the company announced a multi-year cooperation with Lazzen to design and sell circuit protection products, including solid-state circuit breakers, battery disconnect units, and EV contactors, with Lazzen’s first B-TRAN-enabled breaker expected to target AI data center customers. The company also signed a letter of intent with an Asian power module manufacturer to produce and distribute B-TRAN-based power modules globally, while engagements with Stellantis on potential EV contactor programs are advancing, with key deliverables expected by mid-2026.
With a growing patent portfolio now comprising 100 issued B-TRAN patents worldwide, a clean capital structure and no long-term debt, Ideal Power is financially well-positioned to fund its growth initiatives after a $12.6 million capital raise earlier this year. In this interview, CEO David Somo discusses his first quarter on the job, the company’s path to commercialization, and the strategies driving B-TRAN adoption across key verticals such as data centers, battery energy storage, and electric vehicles.
BioVie Inc (NASDAQ:BIVI, NASDAQ:BIVIW) announced that an abstract from its SUNRISE-PD study evaluating its lead candidate bezisterim (NE3107) for Parkinson’s disease has been accepted for presentation at the AD/PD 2026 Advances in Science & Therapy annual meeting.
The conference is scheduled to take place March 17 to 21, 2026, in Copenhagen, Denmark.
G Mining Ventures Corp (TSX:GMIN, OTCQX:GMINF, FRA:W97) revealed its proven and probable gold reserves more than tripled in 2025 after adding a large reserve base from its Oko West project in Guyana.
The miner reported proven and probable reserves of 6.52 million ounces of gold at an average grade of 1.6 grams per tonne (g/t) at the end of 2025, marking a 221% increase year over year.
Nextech3D.AI (CSE:NTAR, OTCQX:NEXCF, FRA:1SS) announced that it has secured a three-year subscription agreement valued at approximately $175,000 for its ARitize3D platform, covering 3D product modeling and augmented reality visualization services for e-commerce.
The company said the agreement includes services for approximately 2,500 product SKUs and provides 36 months of ARitize3D platform hosting. Payments under the contract are expected to total about $58,000 per year over the three-year term.
Tap Global Group, the AIM-listed digital finance and cryptocurrency payments platform, rose 6% to 1.38p after announcing that its entire board and senior leadership team have voluntarily locked in shares representing 63% of the company's issued capital for a minimum of three years.
Under the agreement, no participating shareholder may sell shares on the open market until at least March 2029, and even after that date they are permanently barred from open market sales under any circumstances.
Asiamet Resources Ltd (AIM:ARS, OTC:KMGLF, FRA:0FK), the AIM-listed mining company, saw its shares surge 10% to 1.7p after receiving a key regulatory approval from China for the sale of its KSK copper project in Indonesia.
China's State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (SASAC), the body that oversees state-owned enterprises, has cleared the transaction, removing a significant hurdle for the deal agreed in November 2025.
Pantheon Resources PLC (AIM:PANR, OTCQX:PTHRF) told investors it is overhauling its board as it pauses material well activity during farm-in talks, with the Alaska-focused oil and gas group also saying available funds are sufficient for the rest of calendar 2026.
The company said Michael Spencer will become chairman immediately after Thursday’s AGM, replacing David Hobbs, who is stepping down from the board.
Poolbeg Pharma PLC (AIM:POLB, OTC:POLBF, FRA:POLBF), the AIM-listed clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, has appointed Dr Adrian Kilcoyne to its Scientific Advisory Board, bringing more than 20 years of oncology and immunology drug development experience to the company.
Kilcoyne is currently chief medical officer at Cellectis, the French biotechnology company focused on allogeneic CAR-T therapies, which engineer a patient's immune cells to target and destroy cancer.
Anglo Asian Mining Plc (LSE:AAZ, OTC:AGXKF, FRA:A4A) told investors it has passed a cumulative production milestone of 1 million gold equivalent ounces from its Azerbaijan operations, underscoring the scale it has built since first bringing Gedabek into production in 2009.
The AIM-listed producer said the threshold was verified at the end of January, and detailed that the underlying total output since the mine start-up comprises roughly 851,000 ounces of gold, 1.9 million ounces of silver and more than 30,000 tonnes of copper.
St George Mining Ltd (ASX:SGQ, FRA:S0G, OTC:SGQMF) has signed a strategic alliance with Brazilian technology company Nanum Nanotecnologia to explore downstream processing opportunities for rare earths from its Araxá project in Minas Gerais, Brazil.
The memorandum of understanding (MoU) will focus on assessing technologies to commercialise cerium contained in the project’s large rare earth resource while upgrading the concentration of higher-value magnet rare earths such as neodymium and praseodymium (NdPr).
Locksley Resources Ltd (ASX:LKY, OTCQB:LKYRF)has produced antimony trioxide at 99.5% purity from feedstock sourced from its Desert Antimony Mine at the Mojave Project in California, a milestone the company says supports its ambition to help establish a domestic US antimony supply chain.
The bench-scale result represents an important step in demonstrating that ore from the Mojave Project can be processed into a high-purity refined product suitable for industrial and strategic markets. With the United States currently reliant on imported antimony and facing limited domestic refining capability, Locksley is positioning the project as a potential contributor to secure supply of the critical mineral.
Lodestar Minerals Ltd (ASX:LSR, OTC:LSMLF) has intersected visible copper sulphide mineralisation in its first drill hole at the Three Saints copper project in northern Chile, providing early geological support for a potential iron oxide copper-gold (IOCG) system within the prospective Coastal Cordillera belt.
The maiden diamond drill hole, L3SRD003, intersected chalcopyrite, magnetite, pyrite and molybdenite across multiple intervals from about 190 metres depth to the end of the hole at 600 metres, with mineralisation remaining open at depth. The project sits in a region that hosts several large IOCG-style deposits, including the Candelaria mine about 65 kilometres away.
