Rainbow Rare Earths announced that updated bulk density estimates for the Phalaborwa Resource has confirmed a ca. 16% increase in overall expected tonnages. This should lead to an increase in the project life from the current 14 years in the Preliminary Economic Assessment by over two years.

As previously announced, Rainbow's technical team has been focused onevaluation of the density at depth of the two phosphogypsum stacks that make up the Resource at the Phalaborwa rare earth development project in South Africa. To this end, the Company has been advised by US-based global gypsum experts Ardaman and Associates Inc., a Tetra Tech Company ("Ardaman"), who have been tasked with the design of the new gypsum stack for the ongoing Definitive Feasibility Study at Phalaborwa. Ardaman gave Rainbow a revised drilling technique for the current gypsum stacks based on their experience of over 100 gypsum stacks worldwide, and it was expected that the in-situ dry density for the stacks would increase at depth compared to the conservative bulk density estimate of 1.2 t/m3 used in the Phalaborwa Mineral Resource Estimate.

A drilling campaign was carried out at Phalaborwa in H2 Fiscal Year 2023 to provide representative samples from the stacks and samples from this campaign were submitted to Ardaman for comprehensive bulk density testing at their laboratory in Orlando, USA. Ardaman has provided the results of these tests, which reveal a clear corelation of higher bulk density with increasing depth as shown in the graphics at the end of this announcement. The increased bulk density reported by Ardaman has resulted in a significant increase of ca.

16% in the Resource tonnes from 30.4 Mt to 35.1 Mt, extending the operating life by over two years. Samples from the drill campaign will now be assayed for grade by SGS in South Africa in order to allow for an updated JORC compliant Mineral Resource Estimate. This work is also expected to upgrade the Inferred Resources to the Measured and Indicated categories.