The Zandkopsdrift rare earths project in South Africa’s endowed Northern Cape was highlighted on day-two of the Joburg Indaba, which also learnt of the rapid forward momentum of West Wits Mining’s gold-bar producing Qala Shallows mine on the doorstep of Johannesburg, as well as the advance of Pensana's rare earths project in Angola. Frontier Rare Earths CEO and co-founder James Kenny declared the company’s Zandkopsdrift to be the lowest cost producer of magnet rare earths and battery grade manga