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.

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.

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 1,102 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.

Imugene Limited

IMU

Imugene Ltd. is a biopharmaceutical company, which engages in the research, development, and commercialisation of health technologies against cancer. The company is headquartered in Sydney, New South Wales. The company is engaged in developing a range of new and novel immunotherapies that seek to activate the immune system of cancer patients to treat and eradicate tumors. Its platform technology seeks to harness and promote the body’s immune system against cancerous tumors. Its product pipeline includes an off-the-shelf (allogeneic) cell therapy CAR T drug Azer-Cel (azercabtagene zapreleucel) which targets CD19 to attack blood cancer. Its pipeline includes an Oncolytic Virus and B-Cell Immunotherapies aimed at treating a variety of cancers in combination with standard of care drugs and immunotherapies. Its lead candidate is a chimeric vaccinia (pox) virus known as CF33, which is a combination of genomic sequences from multiple vaccinia virus strains to generate a new, safer and more potent virus. Its Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-engineered T cells (CAR T) are T cells redirected against tumors through engineered expression of CARs.

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.