RareX Returns High-Grade Gallium Intercepts in Re-Assaying of Cummins Range Drilling

RareX (ASX: REE) has extended the gallium mineralisation at its flagship Cummins Range rare earths project in Western Australia after re-assaying 15 holes from a 2020 infill drilling campaign.

The holes sit on the eastern edge of the high-grade ore body around isolated moderately mineralised rare earth pods across the Rare Carbonatite Dyke.

The company has so far received 3,120 re-assays from 44 drill holes at Cummins Range, with the highest concentrations showing elevated rare earth and scandium grades the company attributes to a combination of residual, eluvial, and chemical weathering processes.

High-Grade Gallium Hits

Re-assaying returned significant intercepts of 28 metres at 116 grams per tonne gallium oxide, 3.98% total rare earth oxides (TREO) and 415g/t scandium oxide from 53m including 11m at 204g/t gallium oxide, 6.2% TREO and 659g/t scandium oxide.

This compares favourably with the high-grade results RareX announced earlier this year that included 115m at 146g/t gallium oxide, 3.4% TREO, and 369g/t scandium oxide, along with 60m at 99g/t gallium oxide, 3.0% TREO and 195g/t scandium oxide.

The latest results remain spatially consistent with rare earth and scandium enrichment within the regolith-hosted saprolite zone at Cummins Range, confirming the possibility of recovering gallium as a co-product alongside rare earths and phosphate.

They also enhance the project’s critical metals potential, reinforcing its strategic importance as a multi-element development within Australia’s rare earth sector.

Parallel Revenue Stream

Chief executive officer James Durrant said the new results add to one of Australia’s most consistent and high‑grade gallium datasets.

“The repetition of wide and high‑grade intervals across this deposit shows clear continuity and strengthens our confidence that gallium could become a major parallel revenue stream for Cummins Range,” he said.

“Every new batch of assays expands our understanding of just how broad and strongly mineralised this system is.”

Cummins Range hosts a mineral resource of 524Mt at 0.31% TREO, 4.6% phosphorus pentoxide, and 70g/t scandium oxide