Northern Minerals Limited updated investors on its priority work program for 2021, including the planned completion of a feasibility study for construction of a commercial-scale beneficiation plant at Browns Range. Northern Minerals has identified a market opportunity to pursue the development of a full-scale production operation with processing via a standalone commercial-scale beneficiation plant to produce a saleable heavy rare earth xenotime concentrate product. Several facilities outside of China have been identified with capability and capacity to process the heavy rare earth xenotime concentrate produced at Browns Range. The Board believes that committing to this accelerated pathway to commercial-scale production represents a lower risk approach compared to pursuing a full-scale version of the Browns Range Pilot Plant, which includes both the beneficiation and hydrometallurgical processing circuits to produce a more refined rare earth carbonate product. If approved, the key driver behind Northern Minerals assessing the viability of developing the beneficiation plant first is that it could potentially deliver cashflow to the Company in 2023, at least two years earlier than the more complex project. In this regard, the Company is working towards completing a feasibility study for a commercial-scale beneficiation plant at Browns Range over the coming months and the decision whether or not to develop the commercial-scale beneficiation plant will be made by the Board following completion of that study. In parallel to the feasibility study on the beneficiation plant, Northern Minerals will continue to ramp- up its ongoing investment in exploration across its Browns Range tenement package, including the immediate commitment to complete a further 8,000m of drilling before the end of June 2021. Along with follow-up drilling of encouraging results from the initial 8,500m drilling campaign at the end of 2020, several promising new greenfields targets will be drilled in the second phase of drilling scheduled to commence immediately following the end of the northern wet season. The Company is targeting near-surface, high grade Dazzler style mineralisation to significantly grow its Mineral Resource endowment and increase the potential life of mine at Browns Range to more than 20 years. Northern Minerals is continuing R&D testwork at its existing Browns Range Pilot Plant, which will feed into the new feasibility study on the beneficiation plant as well as future commercial studies. The current focus of work is completing the construction and installation of the ore sorter equipment, with trial and commissioning of the system expected to occur in the second quarter of 2021.