• Neotech Metals began a metallurgical process development program with Dorfner Anzaplan to draft a preliminary processing flowsheet for the Hecla-Kilmer rare earth project in Ontario.
• Ontario’s Critical Mineral Innovation Fund will partially fund work on a conceptual processing plant targeting rare earths, niobium, gallium, and purified phosphoric acid.
• Program builds on 2025 testwork showing about 75% total rare earth oxide recovery, 89% phosphate recovery under mild leaching conditions.
• Bench-scale work targets a high-grade apatite concentrate, a 60 kg bulk concentrate for hydrometallurgical testing, and impurity removal with REE precipitation.
• Final report will outline recoveries, concentrate grades, reagent consumption, and next steps, including a potential pilot phase.

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