Bolstered by a recent financing and now led by a new CEO, Search Minerals of Canada is pursuing several rare earths prospects in Labrador. The financing was completed for about C$1,100,000, the company announced on September 23. It also announced the appointment of Jonathan Beigle as CEO, effective September 25. Beigle has spent the last six years as CEO of Ridgeline Royalties, a critical minerals royalty company he founded in 2020.
Search is focused on finding and developing Critical Rare Earth Elements (CREE), Zirconium (Zr) and Hafnium (Hf) resources in southeast Labrador at several sites there. The company controls a belt 64 km long and 2 km wide that is road accessible, on tidewater and located near three local communities.
A preliminary economic assessment report with resource estimates for Foxtrot and Deep Fox has been completed. It is also working on four exploration prospects along the belt: Fox Meadow, Silver Fox, Fox Run and Awesome Fox. With support from the Canadian Department of Energy and Mines, the government of Newfoundland & Labrador, and the Atlantic Canada Opportunity Agency, Search has completed two pilot plant operations and produced highly purified mixed rare earth carbonate concentrate and mixed REO concentrate for separation and refining.
Its 2026 exploration program includes mobilizing crews to execute a channel sampling program across three of its high-priority targets in the Fox Harbour Volcanic Belt while simultaneously collecting bulk sample material to advance a demonstration plant, all aimed at further proving and developing the properties. See www.searchminerals.ca.
