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. The ETF currently has 21916.72m in AUM and 303 holdings. 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 provision of exploration and evaluation of mineral properties. The company is headquartered in Perth, Western Australia and currently employs 877 full-time employees. The company went IPO on 2007-09-19. The firm owns 100% of an independent hard-rock lithium operation, the Pilgangoora operation in Australia, and the Colina Project in Brazil. Its Pilgangoora operation is located 140 kilometers (kms) from Port Hedland in Western Australia’s resource rich Pilbara region on Nyamal and Kariyarra Country. Spodumene concentrate from its Pilgangoora operation is shipped from Port Hedland, the bulk export port, to lithium chemical converters primarily in China. The firm's Colina project is located 10 kms from the town of Salinas in the world class mining jurisdiction of Minas Gerais, Brazil. The firm is also integrated into the lithium value chain through its joint venture with POSCO in South Korea, which manufactures battery-grade lithium hydroxide.

Bellevue Gold Limited

BGL

Bellevue Gold Ltd. engages in the exploration and evaluation of minerals and mine development in Australia. The company is headquartered in Perth, Western Australia. The company went IPO on 2005-12-20. The Bellevue Gold Project is located in the northern part of the Norseman Wiluna Greenstone belt in the Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia. The project is approximately 40 kilometers (km) north (by sealed highway) from the regional center of Leinster and covers approximately 1,930 square kilometers (km2) of mining and exploration licenses. The project represents one of Australia's highest-grade gold mines, with a Mineral Resource of approximately 3.1 million ounces (Moz) at 9.9 grams per ton (g/t) global grade resource.

Liontown Resources Limited

LTR

Liontown Resources Ltd. engages in the exploration and evaluation of minerals. The company is headquartered in Perth, Western Australia. The company went IPO on 2006-12-27. The firm controls two major hard rock lithium deposits. The firm's projects include Kathleen Valley Project and Buldania Project. The Kathleen Valley Project is located in an established mining region about 60 kilometers north of Leinster and 680 kilometers north-east of Perth, Western Australia. The Kathleen Valley Lithium Project is a Tier-1 battery metals asset with excellent grade and scale in one of world's best mining districts. The Buldania Project is in the Eastern Goldfields Province of Western Australia, approximately 600 kilometers east of Perth. The Project is close to major road and rail infrastructure with direct access to the Port of Esperance 200 kilometers to the south. The firm's downstream expansion project includes investigating the potential for an integrated refinery to upgrade its spodumene from the Kathleen Valley mine to higher value lithium products.

Lynas Rare Earths Limited

LYC

Lynas Rare Earths Ltd. engages in the production of rare earth minerals. The company is headquartered in Perth, Western Australia and currently employs 1,127 full-time employees. The Company’s operations include Mt Weld, Lynas Malaysia, Kalgoorlie and Lynas USA. The company focuses on developing the Mt Weld resource, which includes ongoing exploration, production of mixed rare earths concentrates, and an expansion project to increase concentrate feedstock production to support 12,000 tons per annum of finished NdPr oxide. The Lynas Malaysia advanced materials plant is located on a 100-hectare site in the Gebeng Industrial Estate, a purpose-built petrochemical industry zone near Kuantan, on the east coast of Malaysia. Its rare earths processing facility in Kalgoorlie undertakes value-added processing of rare earths. The firm's subsidiaries include Lynas Malaysia Sdn Bhd, Lynas Africa Ltd, Lynas Kalgoorlie Pty Ltd and Lynas USA LLC.