Sprott Inc. has launched the Sprott Rare Earths Ex-China ETF (Nasdaq: REXC), the first fund focused solely on rare earths companies operating outside China, tracking the Nasdaq Sprott Rare Earths Ex-China Index (NSREXC). The index covers miners, separators, refiners and producers of rare earth elements, with REXC required to hold at least 80% of assets in index constituents. Positioned around national and energy security themes, the ETF complements Sprott’s existing pure-play critical mineral funds in uranium, copper, lithium and nickel.

Seabridge Gold has issued an initial inferred mineral resource for the Snip North deposit at its Iskut project in British Columbia’s Golden Triangle, totalling 605.7 million tonnes grading 0.47 g/t gold, 0.07% copper and 1.5 g/t silver (9.2 million oz. gold, 28.3 million oz. silver and 923 million lb. copper). Mineralisation remains open in multiple directions, with Seabridge planning further fieldwork to refine the intrusive-hosted system and test extensions. The discovery adds a large, lower-grade copper-gold-silver resource to Seabridge’s Golden Triangle portfolio, alongside its KSM-scale assets.

Wear liners at belt conveyor transfer points act as sacrificial protection for skirtboards, preventing dents and holes that lead to spillage and dust escape, explains Daniel Marshall, Process Engineer at Martin Engineering. Marshall notes that conventional liner removal and replacement can be gruelling, often needing several workers and taking multiple days per transfer point. The discussion points to design and maintenance changes that cut change-out time and manual handling, with direct implications for confined-space work, lockout durations and dust control performance.