🔍 Positioned at the heart of America’s critical minerals strategy

Locksley Resources Limited is pleased to announce it has formalised a research collaboration with Columbia University, one of the United States’ premier institutions in sustainable mineral processing, to advance next-generation recovery and separation of REEs and other energy and technology critical metals from geologic resources in the Mountain Pass region, California.

📌 Why It Matters:

The collaboration strengthens Locksley’s U.S. based rare earth recovery capability and further builds out the Company’s expanding Mine-to-Market critical minerals platform, at a time when the United States is accelerating investment in domestic alternatives to Chinese-controlled supply chains and expanding critical minerals development.

📌 Investor Highlights:

• Locksley Resources enters into a Sponsored Research Agreement with Columbia University to develop advanced, sustainable processing technologies for Rare Earth Elements (REE) and critical metal recovery 
  
  
• Research will integrate AI-driven ore characterisation, innovative electrochemical recovery, and CO2 assisted mineral processing to address limitations of traditional, non-U.S. processing methods
  
  
• Program complements Locksley’s existing green DeepSolv™ antimony processing partnership with Rice University, establishing a unified, dual-commodity U.S. technology development strategy 
  
  
• Techno-Economic Assessment (TEA) and Life-Cycle Analysis (LCA) will underpin recommendations for scalable, low-impact pilot pathways in the U.S. 
  
  
• Research focus areas align directly with critical funding mandates from the Department of Energy’s (DOE) recent US$355 million funding announcement. Including the US$80 million “Mine of the Future – Proving Ground” initiative, supporting development, processing innovation, and sustainable mining technologies

👉 View the full announcement here.