News: Suppliers
4 February 2026
Nimy ships high-grade gallium ore from Western Australia to M2i in USA
Mining exploration company Nimy Resources Ltd of Perth, Western Australia has shipped its first high-grade gallium ore consignment from its Block 3 gallium deposit at the Mons Project in Western Australia to the USA under the collaboration agreement with US-listed company M2i Global, which specializes in the development and execution of a complete global value supply chain for critical minerals.
The ore will be analysed to determine the optimum processing pathway to make it suitable for use in the US defence and national securities industries. This ore will be sent to selected academic institutions and a defence industrial base company, which will determine the refining processes required to produce the desired product for their needs. As part of this, it intends to establish a critical mineral reserve, creating a resilient supply chain that addresses the global shortage of essential minerals and metals.
Nimy says that this milestone process step supports future Western gallium supply chain security, linking the resource to developing processing capability in the USA.
With a large JORC (Australasian Joint Ore Reserves Committee)-compliant resource of 2700t of contained gallium, Nimy has already established critical scale, showing that Block 3 at the Mons Project can be a significant supplier to western markets that are desperately trying to source non-Chinese gallium.
The focus is now on metallurgical work, including determining the optimum processing routes to prepare Nimy’s gallium for the desired end uses.
The analysis that will be conducted on this shipment of ore by various groups as part of the M2i arrangement is expected to provide valuable information as Nimy considers development and offtake options.
“Distributing the material to leading academic institutions and defence industrial base companies for refining analysis will accelerate our path to commercial production,” believes Nimy’s managing director Luke Hampson. “With ongoing expansion programs and a near-term JORC-compliant resource, Nimy is well positioned to deliver reliable gallium supply to support global semiconductor and defence needs.”
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