{"id":"heavy-rare-earths-subron-deeper-drilling-grant-october-28-2026","canonicalSlug":"heavy-rare-earths-subron-deeper-drilling-grant-october-28-2026","url":"https://wellficent.com/en/news/heavy-rare-earths-subron-deeper-drilling-grant-october-28-2026","language":"en","title":"Heavy Rare Earths wins co-funding to test Subron’s deeper mineralisation model","summary":"An EIS grant will support a planned fresh-rock drilling programme beneath the rare-earth-enriched regolith at Subron.","body":["Heavy Rare Earths announced on 28 October that it had secured Western Australian Exploration Incentive Scheme co-funding for deeper drilling at its Subron project. The company described a A$150,000 drilling programme designed to investigate a possible source of the heavy rare earth enrichment previously identified in shallow material. The programme cost is not the disclosed value of the grant.","The geological model proposes that xenotime-bearing structures in basement gneiss could be associated with the enriched regolith above. Planned reverse circulation drilling will test fresh rock for evidence of that interpretation. Confirmation of a geological model remains an objective of the work, rather than a result already established by the funding award.","Eight angled holes are proposed, each with a planned depth of 180 metres and intended to provide approximately 100 metres of fresh-rock sampling. The company expects the samples to support studies of mineralogy, alteration, geological controls and the timing of mineralisation. Earlier resource-definition work comprised 547 vertical air-core holes that rarely penetrated fresh rock.","The deeper work is part of a wider programme planned for 2027. Separately, Heavy Rare Earths is reviewing the existing 159-million-tonne resource around higher-grade domains and undertaking mineralogical analysis to investigate processing routes. Those studies do not yet establish a revised resource estimate or commercial recovery performance."],"keyPoints":[],"sections":[],"text":"Heavy Rare Earths wins co-funding to test Subron’s deeper mineralisation model\n\nAn EIS grant will support a planned fresh-rock drilling programme beneath the rare-earth-enriched regolith at Subron.\n\nHeavy Rare Earths announced on 28 October that it had secured Western Australian Exploration Incentive Scheme co-funding for deeper drilling at its Subron project. The company described a A$150,000 drilling programme designed to investigate a possible source of the heavy rare earth enrichment previously identified in shallow material. The programme cost is not the disclosed value of the grant.\n\nThe geological model proposes that xenotime-bearing structures in basement gneiss could be associated with the enriched regolith above. Planned reverse circulation drilling will test fresh rock for evidence of that interpretation. Confirmation of a geological model remains an objective of the work, rather than a result already established by the funding award.\n\nEight angled holes are proposed, each with a planned depth of 180 metres and intended to provide approximately 100 metres of fresh-rock sampling. The company expects the samples to support studies of mineralogy, alteration, geological controls and the timing of mineralisation. Earlier resource-definition work comprised 547 vertical air-core holes that rarely penetrated fresh rock.\n\nThe deeper work is part of a wider programme planned for 2027. Separately, Heavy Rare Earths is reviewing the existing 159-million-tonne resource around higher-grade domains and undertaking mineralogical analysis to investigate processing routes. Those studies do not yet establish a revised resource estimate or commercial recovery performance.","category":"energy","region":"world","topics":["mining","metals"],"eventDate":"2026-10-28","eventDateBasis":"source-event-or-period","publishedAt":"2026-10-28T15:57:58Z","modifiedAt":"2026-10-28T15:57:58Z","publicationBasis":"first-publication","preparedAt":"2026-10-28T15:55:28Z","sourcePublishedAt":"2026-10-28","translatedAt":null,"sources":[{"url":"https://asx.api.markitdigital.com/asx-research/1.0/file/2924-03154219-3A705161","name":"Heavy Rare Earths","checkedAt":"2026-10-28","publishedAt":"2026-10-28"}],"translations":{"en":"https://wellficent.com/en/news/heavy-rare-earths-subron-deeper-drilling-grant-october-28-2026","tr":"https://wellficent.com/tr/news/heavy-rare-earths-subron-deeper-drilling-grant-october-28-2026","ar":"https://wellficent.com/ar/news/heavy-rare-earths-subron-deeper-drilling-grant-october-28-2026","fr":"https://wellficent.com/fr/news/heavy-rare-earths-subron-deeper-drilling-grant-october-28-2026","es":"https://wellficent.com/es/news/heavy-rare-earths-subron-deeper-drilling-grant-october-28-2026","ru":"https://wellficent.com/ru/news/heavy-rare-earths-subron-deeper-drilling-grant-october-28-2026","pt":"https://wellficent.com/pt/news/heavy-rare-earths-subron-deeper-drilling-grant-october-28-2026"},"corrections":[],"locations":[],"type":"news","classification":{"version":"1","dataKinds":["project-update"],"geographies":[{"role":"economic-scope","countryCode":"AU","subdivisionCode":null}],"evidenceBasis":["reported-observation","plan"],"measurementPeriod":null}}