ASX-listed St George Mining has signed partnership agreements with Brazilian scientific and research organisation Serviço Nacional de Aprendizagem Industrial (Senai) and nonprofit industrial federation Federação das Indústrias do Estado de Minas Gerais (FIEMG) to support the development of downstream production opportunities for niobium and rare-earth elements (REE) from the advanced, high-grade niobium/REE Araxá project in Minas Gerais, Brazil. The Araxá project hosts extensive high-grade niobium and rare earths with drilling returning more than 500 intercepts of high-grade mineralisation starting from surface, with grades of up to 8% niobium pentoxide and 33% total rare earth oxides.
