Looking up the valley toward the Rocky Mountains at the Rare One Project, East Kootenay, BC
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Rare Earth Elements · British Columbia

Rare One Project

0Rocky Mountain Rare Earth Belt
0East of Invermere, BC
0Beyond Minerals ownership
1979–2017Historical exploration database
Summary

In the Alkaline Province, neighbouring Wicheeda

The Rare One Project encompasses 6,500 hectares in British Columbia's Rocky Mountain Rare Earth Belt, within the Alkaline Province — a geological domain stretching over 1,000 km along the western flank of Ancestral North America that hosts multiple rare-earth-element and base-metal projects.

The project is positioned in the same belt as the Wicheeda Deposit (Defense Metals), which hosts 29.2 Mt of Measured and Indicated resource at an average grade of 2.27% TREO — a benchmark for what this geological setting can deliver.

  • 32 km east of Invermere, East Kootenay region, southeastern BC
  • Approximately 2.5 hours' drive from Cranbrook via highway and logging roads
  • Targets light-REE magnet metals — the inputs for EV motors and wind turbines
  • 100% owned by Beyond Minerals

Previous work completed

  • Initial prospecting (1979)
  • Soil geochemistry, prospecting and geological mapping
  • Access road construction
  • Stream / silt sampling
  • Gravity survey
  • Sustained work programs from 2005–2017

Key findings

Monazite — a phosphate mineral rich in light rare earth elements — has been identified as an effective pathfinder on the property. Soil geochemistry and gravity surveys revealed elevated REEs along with lead-zinc targets, giving the 2026 program a ranked target set to advance.

2026 Exploration Program

In the first phase of the 2026 field program, crews collected 24 stream-sediment samples and 21 rock samples across the property's drainage network — with several taken directly from the Fenwick Sill — all now delivered to the laboratory and pending assay results.

The program is designed to establish vectoring toward the source of the elevated rare-earth values in historical soil surveys, and to test whether the Fenwick Sill, coincident with a 6 km NW–SE geochemical anomaly subparallel to regional stratigraphy, represents a coherent geological source for REE enrichment across the property. Read the full update →

Sr. Geologist Paul Baxter mapping and sampling at the Fenwick Sill
Sr. Geologist Paul Baxter mapping and sampling at the Fenwick Sill — 2026 field program.

Gallery

Maps sourced from beyondminerals.ca; field photos from the Rare One Project.

Rare One project regional map — Rocky Mountain Rare Earth Belt claims
Regional map — Rare One claims within BC's Rocky Mountain Rare Earth Belt / Alkaline Province. Source: beyondminerals.ca. Click to enlarge.

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