{"id":293765,"date":"2025-08-28T16:38:49","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T20:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/noticias\/everest-metals-receives-financial-support-for-rubidium-extraction\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T16:42:02","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T20:42:02","slug":"everest-metals-receives-financial-support-for-rubidium-extraction","status":"publish","type":"noticias","link":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/news\/everest-metals-receives-financial-support-for-rubidium-extraction\/","title":{"rendered":"Everest Metals receives financial support for rubidium extraction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Australia&#8217;s Everest Metals Corporation (EMC) has received a significant boost for its <strong>Mt Edon project<\/strong> in Western Australia. The backing comes from the Minerals Research Institute of Western Australia (MRIWA), which has granted A$150,000 to advance the extraction and purification of rubidium, a key critical mineral in multiple technology industries. <\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Towards rubidium chloride production<\/h2>\n\n<p>The funding is part of the METS Innovation program, which seeks to accelerate the development of technologies applicable to mining. The objective of the project is to validate a system capable of <strong>producing rubidium chloride with 95% purity <\/strong>in a constant and scalable manner. <\/p>\n\n<p>The program will start in September and will have the technical participation of Edith Cowan University, through its Mineral Recovery Research Centre (MRRC), which will provide research and laboratory testing support.<\/p>\n\n<p>In addition, the company has already initiated advanced studies in collaboration with the national scientific agency <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/news\/solar-cells-imprinted-solar-cells-of-cryo-efficiency\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"140443\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CSIRO<\/a><\/strong> to characterize the rubidium, lithium and cesium deposits at Mt Edon.<\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">More details on the Mt Edon project<\/h2>\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/everestmetals.au\/projects\/wa-mt-edon-project\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mt Edon<\/a><\/strong> is located about 420 km northeast of Perth and has an inferred resource estimate of 3.6 million tonnes grading 0.22% Rb2O. EMC plans to develop a commercial pilot plant using a direct extraction process (DRE), provisionally patented in February this year. <\/p>\n\n<p>Interest in rubidium has grown due to its application in telecommunications, defense technologies, advanced electronic devices and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/news\/honda-tests-hydrogen-derived-hydrogen-fuel-cell-power-plant\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"287153\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">hydrogen batteries<\/a><\/strong>. Despite its high commercial value, its global supply is limited, with China as the main supplier. <\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/everestmetalscorporation_emc-everestmetals-rubiduim-activity-7366603685524602881-VyOH?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=member_desktop&amp;rcm=ACoAABwDBTAB4GohX6ZtDU9YmG5cMdgez-p4kwY\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Everest Metals<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Photo: shutterstock<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among the company&#8217;s plans is the use of a direct extraction process developed in Australia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8403,"featured_media":293756,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categoria_noticias":[13030,13060],"etiqueta_noticias":[],"class_list":["post-293765","noticias","type-noticias","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","categoria_noticias-industry","categoria_noticias-mining"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/noticias\/293765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/noticias"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/noticias"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8403"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/noticias\/293765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"categoria_noticias","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categoria_noticias?post=293765"},{"taxonomy":"etiqueta_noticias","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/etiqueta_noticias?post=293765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}