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LEADING EDGE MATERIALS' NORRA KARR HREE PROJECT MOVES FORWARD
LEADING EDGE MATERIALS’ NORRA KÄRR HREE PROJECT MOVES FORWARD Vancouver, Marc...
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[{"type":"text","content":"LEADING EDGE MATERIALS' NORRA KARR HREE PROJECT MOVES FORWARD\n\n\n\n\n LEADING EDGE MATERIALS’ NORRA KÄRR HREE PROJECT MOVES FORWARD\n \n\n\n\n Vancouver, March 23, 2025 – Leading Edge Materials Corp.\n \n (“\n \n Leading Edge Materials\n \n ” or the “\n \n Company\n \n ”) (\n \n TSXV: LEM\n \n ) (\n \n Nasdaq First North: LEMSE\n \n ) (\n \n OTCQB: LEMIF\n \n ) provides an update for the 100% owned Norra Kärr Heavy Rare Earth Elements (“HREE”) Project.\n \n\n\n The Company continues to advance its Rapid Development Plan (“RDP”) for extraction at Norra Kärr, aiming to achieve the shortest possible timeframe to production of heavy rare earth element concentrate and nepheline syenite. A phased development approach is under consideration—starting small and quickly—to enable early access to the deposit, initial production and sales of nepheline syenite, cash flow generation, and stockpiling of HREE concentrate for later processing and sales. This approach minimizes both risk and environmental impact.\n \n\n On March 19, the European Commission (“EC”) published its Joint White Paper for European Defence Readiness 2023, highlighting the increasing geopolitical competition over critical raw materials (“CRMs”). The document states:\n \n “The EU’s strategic competitors are heavily investing… [in] security of supply of critical raw materials, fundamental for our economic and industrial production, defence capabilities, and competitiveness. They are increasingly a cause for competition and conflicts and part of power politics, as excessive dependencies can be exploited.”\n \n It also underscores the need for the EU and its member states to build strategic reserves of raw materials. The Rapid Development Plan for Norra Kärr aligns closely with this mission and the Company could progress directly to a Feasibility Study for the quarrying operation, and undertake environmental and other workstreams in parallel, to expedite the timeline to production and thereby contribute to the EU’s 2030 objectives for CRMs security of supply.\n \n\n Testwork is underway on nepheline syenite and aegirine to assess their mineralogy, chemical composition, and leachate chemistry. The results will ...