Managing Director & CEO Rowena Smith recently joined Loghic Events for a feature podcast exploring how Australian Strategic Materials is helping to address growing vulnerabilities in global rare earth supply chains. In the interview, Rowena discusses ASM’s vertically integrated mine to metals strategy, the Company’s established metallisation capability outside China, and why ASM’s rare earth…
Australian Strategic Materials (ASM) Managing Director and CEO Rowena Smith joined a panel of international supply chain and policy experts at the 2025 U.S. Export-Import Bank (EXIM) Annual Conference, contributing to a critical discussion on building resilient supply chains for rare earths and critical minerals. The panel, titled “Resilient Supply Chains for Critical Minerals: Enhancing…
As the Australian Labor Party plan to deliver a further A$1.2 billion to establish a national Critical Minerals Strategic Reserve, if re-elected, ASM Managing Director & CEO Rowena Smith had the opportunity to speak to Edward Boyd on Sky News Australia’s Business Weekend program to discuss what this policy could potentially enable and how ASM…
Recent market volatility has emphasised the urgent need to develop secure, sustainable supply chains outside of the tightly controlled Chinese rare earth element (REE) market. Increased export restrictions by China on a range of medium and heavy REEs this month highlights the vulnerability of the broader market whilst signalling the significant opportunity it represents for…
Australian Strategic Materials (ASM) is pleased to welcome Dominic Heaton to its Board as an Independent Non-Executive Director. Dominic has extensive experience in the mining and mineral processing sector and has held several high-profile leadership roles across various jurisdictions. He brings a depth of expertise that will directly contribute to ASM’s development and growth objectives…
Australian Strategic Materials (ASM the Company) is pleased to announce it has been awarded a A$5 million grant under the Australian Federal Government’s International Partnership in Critical Minerals (IPCM) Program. Above: Minister for Resources the Hon Madeleine King MP (centre) visited the Dubbo Project to announce the IPCM grant funding for ASM. Left Mark Coulton…
ASM is pleased to present its 2024 Annual Report, highlighting the strategic and operational progress the Company made during the past financial year and the path it is on to successfully deliver its mine to metals strategy. “It is fair to say, the critical minerals sector has been firmly in the spotlight and ASM is…
Australian Strategic Materials (ASM or the Company) welcomes the release of a new digital Australian Critical Minerals Prospectus – a key resource in building international partnerships and supporting the development of Australia’s critical minerals sector. ASM’s cornerstone rare earths and critical minerals Dubbo Project is featured in the prospectus, which “showcases investment-ready projects that have…
Australian Strategic Materials (ASM) was delighted to present at this year’s Diggers & Dealers Mining Forum. MD & CEO Rowena Smith presented the ASM opportunity and provided an update on the highlights delivered since we were in Kalgoorlie 12 months ago. You can watch a recording of Rowena’s full presentation courtesy of the Diggers &…
The security and sustainability of critical mineral supply chains continues to be at the forefront of national policy development and international partnership ambitions. As these discussions evolve, Australian Strategic Materials (ASM) has teamed up with Mining Journal and MiningNews.Net to produce a whitepaper focused on rare earth elements markets, their challenges and their opportunities. This…