Vanguard Australian Shares Index ETF

VAS

VAS.AX was created on 2009-05-04 by Vanguard. The fund's investment portfolio concentrates primarily on total market equity. Vanguard Australian Shares Index ETF seeks to track the return of the S&P/ASX 300 Index before taking into account fees, expenses and tax.

Pilbara Minerals Limited

PLS

Pilbara Minerals Ltd. engages in the exploration and evaluation of mineral properties. The company is headquartered in Perth, Western Australia and currently employs 768 full-time employees. The company went IPO on 2007-09-19. The firm is primarily engaged in the exploration, development, and mining of minerals in Australia. Its 100% owned Pilgangoora hard-rock lithium operation is located approximately 120 kilometers (kms) from Port Hedland in Western Australia’s resource-rich Pilbara region. The operation consists of two processing plants: the Pilgan Plant, located on the northern side of the Pilgangoora area and produces spodumene and tantalite concentrates, and the Ngungaju Plant is located to the south produces spodumene concentrate. The company owns 70% of the Mt Francisco project, which is located 50 km south-west of the Pilgangoora Project and hosts the large occurrence of outcropping pegmatites located nearby to Port Hedland. The company is also pursuing a proposed downstream joint venture (JV) for the development of an approximately 43,000 tons per annum (tpa) lithium carbonate equivalent (LCE) lithium chemical conversion facility in South Korea.

Vanguard MSCI Index International Shares ETF

VGS

VGS.AX was created on 2014-11-18 by Vanguard. The fund's investment portfolio concentrates primarily on total market equity. Vanguard MSCI International Shares Index ETF seeks to track the return of the MSCI World ex-Australia Index (with net dividends reinvested) in Australian dollars before taking into account fees, expenses and tax.

Core Lithium Ltd

CXO

Core Lithium Ltd. is an Australian based mineral exploration company, which engages in the acquisition, exploration, evaluation, and development of copper, gold, uranium, and iron ore properties. The company is headquartered in Perth, Western Australia. The company went IPO on 2011-02-11. The company owns and operates Finniss Lithium project, which is located south of Darwin Port in the Northern Territory. The project lies within a prospective area for lithium in the NT, the Bynoe Pegmatite Field, and covers approximately 500 square kilometers (km2) of granted tenements. The project is approximately 88 kilometers (km) by sealed road from Darwin Port, Northern Territory. Its other projects include Shoobridge Lithium, Anningie and Barrow Creek Lithium, Napperby Uranium, Yerelina and Mt Freeling, and Blueys-Inkheart. The Shoobridge Lithium Project is located approximately 80 km south-southeast of Finniss near Darwin in the Northern Territory. The Anningie and Barrow Creek encompass eight exploration licenses over approximately 2,000 km2 in and around the Anningie and Barrow Creek tin-tantalum pegmatite fields in the Northern Territory. Napperby is an advanced uranium project within the central Northern Territory.

Arafura Rare Earths Ltd

ARU

Arafura Rare Earths Ltd. engages in the exploration and development of mineral resource properties. The company is headquartered in Perth, Western Australia. The company went IPO on 2003-11-05. The firm produces rare earth products from the Nolans Project. The Nolans Project consists of a mine, process plant, including beneficiation, extraction and separation plants, and related infrastructure to be constructed and located at the Nolans site, approximately 135 kilometers north of Alice Springs in Australia's Northern Territory. Its rare earth products are Neodymium-Praseodymium (NdPr) oxide, and Mixed middle-heavy rare earths (SEG/HRE) oxide. NdPr oxide is the Company's flagship product, which is used by magnet and magnet alloy customers. The Company’s primary products from the Nolans project are rare earths, which are used in catalytic converters in automobiles, consumer electronics, energy efficiency lighting, optics, alloys, advanced ceramics and permanent magnets that enable e-mobility and renewable energy applications.