Scandium Mining News in Western Australia

West Cobar Metals Limited
West Cobar Metals Limited
WC1
Scandium
Western Australia
Metallurgical Results

WC1: Scandium Leach Testwork Delivers Promising Early Results

West Cobar Metals announced promising early results from sulfuric acid leach testwork on scandium mineralization at its Salazar Critical Minerals Project in Western Australia. The preliminary findings indicate that sulfuric acid is effective for scandium leaching and suggest that limiting leach time to six hours can significantly reduce aluminium dissolution while maintaining scandium extraction. This optimization potential is a positive step for developing an integrated processing flowsheet, though further work is required to confirm these results and assess variability.

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West Cobar Metals
West Cobar Metals
WC1
Western Australia

West Cobar Metals tests a finer recipe for Salazar scandium

West Cobar Metals has reported positive initial sizing test results at its Salazar project, where material finer than 38 micrometres concentrated 61% of the scandium in 51% of the mass while reducing iron content. The company is now proceeding with magnetic and gravity separation tests to further optimize the scandium flowsheet.

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West Cobar Metals Limited
West Cobar Metals Limited
WC1
Western Australia

WC1: Salazar Scandium Beneficiation Testwork Underway

West Cobar Metals Limited has commenced a significant front-end beneficiation testwork program for scandium at its Salazar Critical Minerals Project in Western Australia, with initial results showing a positive start. Size-fraction analysis by ALS (Perth) indicates that scandium preferentially concentrates in the fine fraction, while iron is reduced, suggesting a potential for a simpler and more economic processing pathway. Further testwork, including magnetic and gravity separation, is underway to optimize scandium upgrade and manage deleterious elements like iron and alumina.

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Hawk Resources Limited
Hawk Resources Limited
HWK
Western Australia

HWK: Olympus Scandium Project Soil Sampling Completed, WA

Hawk Resources has completed a 1,240-sample soil sampling programme at the Olympus scandium project in Western Australia to test historical anomalies. While no new assay results were provided, the company highlighted historical pXRF scandium intercepts up to 11m @ 934 ppm Sc and individual 1m samples of 2,164 ppm Sc.

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West Cobar Metals
West Cobar Metals
WC1
Western Australia

WC1 gets its pieces into place with scandium drilling campaign

West Cobar Metals has engaged Wallis Drilling for an air core program at the Salazar project in Western Australia, scheduled to begin in October 2026. The campaign aims to test higher-grade scandium zones and extensions to existing REE and titanium resources.

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Mount Ridley Mines Limited
Mount Ridley Mines Limited
MRD
Western Australia

MRD: Re-Assays Confirm Further Scandium Beyond Resources

Mount Ridley Mines Limited announced positive Phase 2 re-assay results from its Grass Patch Project, confirming extensive high-grade scandium mineralization beyond the existing Block 1 and Block 2 Mineral Resource boundaries. The new intercepts, including 22m @ 119.41 ppm Sc2O3 and 40m @ 102.09 ppm Sc2O3, significantly exceed current resource grades and demonstrate substantial potential for future resource expansion. The mineralization remains open in multiple directions and is spatially associated with existing rare earth and gallium resources, reinforcing the project as a large-scale, multi-commodity critical minerals system.

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Mount Ridley Mines
Mount Ridley Mines
MRD
Scandium
Western Australia

Cashu Research initiates coverage of Mount Ridley Mines (ASX: MRD), owner of the world's largest scandium resource

Mount Ridley Mines has upgraded the Grass Patch project in Western Australia, which is now described as the world's largest publicly reported scandium resource. The news follows significant US government commitment to rival scandium projects.

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Mount Ridley Mines
Mount Ridley Mines
MRD
Western Australia

Mount Ridley trumpets world’s largest scandium resource

Mount Ridley Mines has expanded its Grass Patch scandium resource to 946Mt at 50.1ppm, representing a significant increase in scale. The company is also developing a proprietary 'Selectro' hydrometallurgical process which showed 80% scandium recovery in initial laboratory testing.

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