2019年10月22日
在本月早些时候，澳大利亚上市公司Vital Metal征得了股东的同意后，现已完成了对加拿大Cheetah Resources（猎豹资源）的收购，如今Vital Metal的工作重心已转移到这个加拿大稀土项目上——索尔湖稀土项目。
Vital收购了Cheetah Resources的全部已发行股本，获得4亿缴足股款 。
若公司实现了一些里程碑式的工作目标就会发放业绩股份奖励，这些工作目标包括，使索尔湖稀土项目和Wigu山项目在两年内生产最少1000公斤的稀土氧化物，或使索尔湖稀土项目和Wigu山项目进入开采阶段。
Vital的总经理Atkins在周二（2019年10月22日）表示，Cheetah的成功收购也标志着Vital能在短期内成为一个氧化物生产商，因为早在前几周Vital便重新启动了索尔湖稀土项目。
在完成了收购活动后，我们便即刻投入到工作里，这得益于几月前，我们很幸运地能够一边进行Nechalancho稀土项目的工作，一边进行审批工作。
“我们已经完成了北T稀土氧化物矿床的加密钻孔程序，并开始对高品位氟碳铈矿矿石进行分选浓缩试验和湿法工艺试验，这将体现在我们的研究报告中，并最终使我们成为下一个稀土氧化物生产商。”
Nechalancho或索尔湖项目，据估计，拥有1.493亿吨资源储量，其中氧化物含1.42%。
22nd October 2019
ASX-listed Vital Metals has completed the acquisition of privately-held Cheetah Resources, following shareholder approval earlier this month, with the company’s focus now turning towards the Thor Lake rare earths project, in Canada.
Vital acquired all of the issued capital in Cheetah Resources in return for 400 million fully paid ordinary shares.
A number of performance shares will also become payable on the achievement of certain milestones, including Vital entering into a binding offtake for a minimum of 1000 kg of contained rare earth oxide over the Thor Lake project or the Wigu Hill project, within two years of the acquisition, or the start of mining operations at either Thor Lake or Wigu Hill.
Vital MD Geoff Atkins on Tuesday said that the completion of the Cheetah acquisition transformed Vital into a near-term rare earth oxide producer, with an early works programme already launched at the Thor Lake project.
“We have hit the ground running following the completion of the Cheetah acquisition. Over the past few months we have been very fortunate to have continued the development of the Nechalancho rare earths project while Vital undertook its regulatory approvals process.
“We have completed our infill drill programme on both the North T rare earth oxide deposit and commenced optimisation of the ore sorting concentration testwork and hydrometallurgical process testwork on the high-grade bastnaesite ore which will ultimately feed into our start-up study into becoming the next rare earth oxide producer.”
Nechalancho or Thor Lake, is currently estimated to host a 149.3-million-tonne resource, grading 1.42% rare earth oxide.
（source：miningweekly）