Barkly Rare Earths begins 10,000m drilling program in Northern Territory

Barkly Rare Earths is starting a major drilling program in the Northern Territory to expand its rare earths resource. Across reporting by The Age, the Brisbane Times and the Sydney Morning Herald, the company is described as launching a 10,000-metre drill campaign, with drilling scheduled to begin next week. The program is aimed at growing the scale of the company’s existing rare earths resource, which it currently reports as 40 million tonnes. The articles present the drilling as a key step in developing and extending the NT resource, though they do not provide additional technical details such as the drilling locations, expected results, or timelines beyond the start of work next week. The coverage is consistent in stating both the scale of the drilling and the starting point of the resource estimate. Overall, the sources agree that Barkly Rare Earths is moving from planning into an active field phase to improve and potentially increase its rare earths inventory in the Northern Territory.