RareX Initiates Community Engagement for Mrima Hill Project
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ASX Release
11 August 2025
RareX Initiates Community Engagement for Mrima Hill Project
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Highlights
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RareX commissions leading East African consultancy firm, AWEMAC, to conduct early-stage community
engagement for the Mrima Hill Project.
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Programme includes interviews and focus group discussions with local leaders and residents in Kwale
County to inform project planning.
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AWEMAC brings a track record of over 500 projects in environmental, social, and stakeholder domains
across the region.
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Engagement findings will feed directly into project design, ensuring alignment with community priorities and
long-term support.
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The RareX-Iluka consortium proposal for Mrima Hill, is under consideration by the Kenyan National Mining
Corporation
RareX Limited (ASX: REE – RareX, or the Company) is pleased to announce that, as part of the Iluka–RareX
consortium’s proposal for the development of the Mrima Hill critical minerals project in Kenya, 1 early community
engagement has now commenced.
The Company has engaged the African Waste and Environment Management Centre (AWEMAC), a leading East
African environmental and social safeguards consulting firm with a strong record in stakeholder engagement and
environmental governance.
AWEMAC will lead a program of qualitative assessment including key person interviews and focus group
discussions in Kwale County to better understand local community priorities, concerns, and expectations. These
insights will be incorporated into the evolving project design and development strategy.
RareX Managing Director, James Durrant, commented:
“We’re confident that the Iluka–RareX consortium offers the strongest delivery model for Mrima Hill. But a project
like this must earn the trust of local communities from the outset. AWEMAC’s deep local experience ensures this
process is handled respectfully, professionally, and in a way that builds mutual confidence.”
AWEMAC has previously delivered over 500 environmental, social, and stakeholder engagement assignments
across the East African region and is supported by a multi-disciplinary team of environmental scientists,
sociologists, and community development experts. Their participatory approach ensures voices on the ground are
heard early, clearly, and constructively.
This engagement complements the technical, commercial and academic inputs of the RareX submission, and
reinforces the Company’s long-term commitment to collaborative development aligned with Kenya Vision 2030.
1 ASX Announcement dated 22 April 2025: RareX and Iluka in consortium for Mrima Hill
Further updates will be provided as the consortium proposal progresses.
This announcement has been authorised for release by the Board of RareX.
RareX is a critical minerals company specialising in rare earths and gallium, niobium as well as scandium in hard
rock carbonatites.
The exploration focus of the business is on the Mt Mansbridge xenotime heavy rare earths project near Browns
Range, the Khaleesi Project in the East Yilgarn which is a district-scale, elevated gallium & niobium, alkaline
intrusive complex, and the Cummins Range near-mine anomalies.
The Company’s engineering and commercial focus is on the mid-study-level, Cummins Range Project (+$330M
NPV8 post-tax*) - a carbonatite hosted rare earths and phosphate project, containing magnet grade rare earths
and battery grade phosphates, and substantial gallium and scandium. It is technically Australia’s largest
undeveloped rare earths project.
RareX have been curating a portfolio of carbonatite related projects including the newly acquired bulls-eye Piper
Project along trend from both Nolans Bore and the Luni niobium deposit. RareX will continue to develop and
optimise its portfolio.
RareX maintains material investments in Kincora Copper (ASX:KCC), Cosmos Exploration (ASX:C1X) and Canada
Rare Earth Corporation (LL.V).
For further information on the Company and its projects visit www.rarex.com.au
* The forecast financial information was released on 22 August 2023. The Company confirms that the material assumptions underpinning the
production target and forecast financial information continue to apply and have not materially changed
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