NioCorp to Participate in the Race to Onshore Critical Minerals Conference on Dec. 10

Rhea-AI Summary

NioCorp (Nasdaq: NB) announced that Executive Chairman and CEO Mark A. Smith will present at the RedChip Metals & Mining: The Race to Onshore Critical Minerals Virtual Investor Conference on Dec. 10, 2025 at 11:00 a.m. ET.

The 20-minute presentation will highlight the Elk Creek Critical Minerals Project and the company's potential role in onshoring U.S. production of niobium, scandium, titanium and potentially magnetic rare earth elements. A 10-minute live Q&A with Director of Investor Relations Alex Guthrie will follow. Registration is free and a replay link will be provided after the event.

News Market Reaction – NB

+1.84%

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+1.84% News Effect

On the day this news was published, NB gained 1.84%, reflecting a mild positive market reaction.

Data tracked by StockTitan Argus on the day of publication.

Key Figures

Conference date: Dec. 10, 2025 Presentation time: 11:00 a.m. ET Presentation length: 20 minutes +1 more

4 metrics

Conference date Dec. 10, 2025 RedChip virtual critical minerals conference

Presentation time 11:00 a.m. ET Start time for CEO’s virtual session

Presentation length 20 minutes CEO’s virtual conference session

Q&A length 10 minutes Investor Q&A following presentation

Market Reality Check

Price: $5.34 Vol: Volume 4,109,593 is below...

normal vol

$5.34 Last Close

Volume Volume 4,109,593 is below the 20-day average of 4,656,105, suggesting no unusual trading ahead of the event. normal

Technical Shares at $6.62 are trading above the 200-day moving average at $4.10, indicating a pre-existing upward trend despite today’s decline.

Peers on Argus

NB fell 5.31% while key metal-mining peers like LZM (-3.81%), TMQ (-3.43%), WRN ...

NB fell 5.31% while key metal-mining peers like LZM (-3.81%), TMQ (-3.43%), WRN (-2.37%), and NAK (-2.90%) were also negative. The decline is somewhat steeper than peers but broadly consistent with sector weakness.

Historical Context

5 past events · Latest: Nov 25 (Positive)

Pattern 5 events

Date	Event	Sentiment	Move	Catalyst
Nov 25	Town hall event	Positive	+1.9%	Senator Ricketts speaking at Elk Creek town halls on project progress.
Nov 21	Rights plan adoption	Positive	+9.2%	Adoption of limited-duration shareholder rights plan to protect shareholder value.
Nov 20	Supply-chain commentary	Positive	-0.6%	CEO remarks on China’s export controls and U.S. critical minerals onshoring.
Nov 12	Conference participation	Positive	+2.7%	CEO presentation at Morgan Stanley symposium on Elk Creek Project potential.
Nov 10	Land acquisition	Positive	+1.8%	Completion of all land purchases required to launch Elk Creek project.

Pattern Detected

Recent corporate and project updates around Elk Creek generally saw positive price reactions, with only one notable divergence on a geopolitical/supply-chain themed commentary.

Recent Company History

This announcement continues a series of visibility-building events for NioCorp. Over the last month, the company hosted town halls featuring U.S. Senator Pete Ricketts and Governor Jim Pillen, adopted a limited‑duration shareholder rights plan, and highlighted supply‑chain risks tied to China’s heavy rare earth controls. It also advanced the Elk Creek Project through conference participation and completed all necessary land acquisitions for the proposed mine and processing facility. Most of these news items, particularly governance and project‑advancement updates, were followed by positive price reactions within 24 hours.

Regulatory & Risk Context

Active S-3 Shelf

Shelf Active

Active S-3 Shelf Registration 2025-10-10

NioCorp has an effective Form S-3ASR shelf registration dated 2025-10-10, allowing potential offerings of common shares, warrants, debt securities and units. At least one prospectus supplement (424B5 on 2025-10-14) has used this shelf, indicating active access to capital markets for financing needs.

Market Pulse Summary

This announcement highlights another investor‑relations event centered on the Elk Creek Critical Min...

Analysis

This announcement highlights another investor‑relations event centered on the Elk Creek Critical Minerals Project, emphasizing niobium, scandium, titanium, and magnetic rare earth elements in a virtual conference format. It follows recent town halls, land‑acquisition completion, and governance steps such as a shareholder rights plan. Investors may watch how management uses platforms like this to communicate project financing progress, capital plans under the effective S-3ASR, and timelines for advancing Elk Creek toward construction.

Key Terms

niobium, scandium, titanium, magnetic rare earth elements, +1 more

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niobium technical

"critical minerals, specifically niobium, scandium, titanium, and potentially, magnetic rare"

Niobium is a metallic element used as a small but critical ingredient in alloys and high-performance materials to improve strength, heat resistance and electrical properties. For investors, niobium acts like a specialty ingredient in a recipe: a little goes a long way and its availability and price can significantly affect costs and margins for companies in construction, transport, energy and advanced technology sectors that rely on stronger, lighter or superconducting materials.

scandium technical

"critical minerals, specifically niobium, scandium, titanium, and potentially, magnetic rare"

Scandium is a rare, lightweight metal used in small amounts to make aluminum stronger and lighter—think of it as a booster ingredient added to aluminum the way a pinch of yeast changes dough. It matters to investors because its scarcity, concentrated mining sources, and unique role in aerospace, defense, and high-performance products can create supply-driven price swings and make companies that produce or use scandium strategically important.

titanium technical

"critical minerals, specifically niobium, scandium, titanium, and potentially, magnetic rare"

Titanium is a strong, lightweight, silver-gray metal known for resisting rust and heat, often used where durability and low weight matter, like airplanes, medical implants, and high-performance components. For investors, titanium's role as a critical industrial material means its availability, extraction costs, and price swings can affect mining companies, manufacturers, and industries that rely on it much like gasoline prices influence transport-heavy businesses.

magnetic rare earth elements technical

"titanium, and potentially, magnetic rare earth elements. Following Mr. Smith's presentation,"

Magnetic rare earth elements are a small group of metallic elements used to make the strongest permanent magnets found in electric motors, wind turbines, hard drives and many high-tech products. They matter to investors because their supply is limited and geographically concentrated, so changes in availability, trade policy or price act like a sudden fuel shortage for industries that rely on them, affecting costs, profits and the outlook for related stocks.

critical minerals technical

"Race to Onshore Critical Minerals Virtual Investor Conference on Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2025,"

Materials needed to build modern technologies—like batteries, electronics, renewable energy systems and defense equipment—that have few easy substitutes and often come from a small number of countries or mines. Investors care because their supply can be disrupted, expensive or slow to increase, which affects the cost, availability and growth prospects of companies and industries that rely on them; think of them as critical spare parts for the global economy.

AI-generated analysis. Not financial advice.

Register for the Live Webcast of the Event Here: https://www.redchip.com/webinar/redchip/85823325098

NioCorp CEO Mark Smith will present at the virtual mining investment conference onWednesday, Dec. 10 at 11:00 AM ET

CENTENNIAL, CO / ACCESS Newswire / December 8, 2025 / NioCorp Developments Ltd. ("NioCorp" or the "Company") (Nasdaq:NB), a leading U.S. critical minerals developer, is pleased to announce that Executive Chairman and CEO Mark A. Smith will participate in the RedChip Companies Inc. ("RedChip") Metals & Mining: The Race to Onshore Critical Minerals Virtual Investor Conference on Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2025, at 11:00 a.m. ET.

Mr. Smith will participate in a 20-minute virtual session where he is expected to highlight the Elk Creek Critical Minerals Project and the potential to onshore and reshore U.S. production of certain critical minerals, specifically niobium, scandium, titanium, and potentially, magnetic rare earth elements. Following Mr. Smith's presentation, NioCorp's Director of Investor Relations Alex Guthrie will participate in a 10-minute Q&A session.

The virtual RedChip conference will feature presentations from CEOs and senior executives leading exploration, development, and production efforts across the critical minerals landscape. Each presentation will be followed by a live Q&A session, giving investors the opportunity to engage directly with company leadership.

Individuals can register for the free virtual conference here: https://www.redchip.com/webinar/redchip/85823325098. A replay link will be provided following the event.

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FOR MORE INFORMATION:

Jim Sims, Chief Communications Officer, NioCorp Developments Ltd., (720) 334-7066, jim.sims@niocorp.com

Alex Guthrie, Director, Investor Relations, NioCorp Developments Ltd., (720) 334-7066, aguthrie@niocorp.com

@NioCorp $NB #Niobium #Scandium #rareearth #neodymium #dysprosium #terbium #ElkCreek

ABOUT NIOCORP

NioCorp is developing the Elk Creek Project that is expected to produce niobium, scandium, and titanium. The Company also is evaluating the potential to produce several rare earths from the Elk Creek Project. Niobium is used to produce specialty alloys as well as High Strength, Low Alloy steel, which is a lighter, stronger steel used in automotive, structural, and pipeline applications. Scandium is a specialty metal that can be combined with Aluminum to make alloys with increased strength and improved corrosion resistance. Scandium is also a critical component of advanced solid oxide fuel cells. Titanium is used in various lightweight alloys and is a key component of pigments used in paper, paint and plastics and is also used for aerospace applications, armor, and medical implants. Magnetic rare earths, such as neodymium, praseodymium, terbium, and dysprosium are critical to the making of neodymium-iron-boron magnets, which are used across a wide variety of defense and civilian applications.

Forward-Looking Statements

This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and forward-looking information within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities laws. Forward-looking statements may include, but are not limited to, statements made during the Company's participation in the event; NioCorp's expectation of producing niobium, scandium, and titanium, and the potential of producing rare earths, at the Elk Creek Project; and NioCorp's ability to secure sufficient project financing to complete construction of the Elk Creek Project and move it to commercial operation. Forward-looking statements are typically identified by words such as "plan," "believe," "expect," "anticipate," "intend," "outlook," "estimate," "forecast," "project," "continue," "could," "may," "might," "possible," "potential," "predict," "should," "would" and other similar words and expressions, but the absence of these words does not mean that a statement is not forward-looking.

The forward-looking statements are based on the current expectations of the management of NioCorp and are inherently subject to uncertainties and changes in circumstances and their potential effects and speak only as of the date of such statement. There can be no assurance that future developments will be those that have been anticipated. Forward-looking statements reflect material expectations and assumptions, including, without limitation, expectations and assumptions relating to: NioCorp's ability to receive sufficient project financing for the construction of the Elk Creek Project on acceptable terms, or at all; the future price of metals; and the stability of the financial and capital markets. Such expectations and assumptions are inherently subject to uncertainties and contingencies regarding future events and, as such, are subject to change. Forward-looking statements involve a number of risks, uncertainties or other factors that may cause actual results or performance to be materially different from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, those discussed and identified in public filings made by NioCorp with the Securities and Exchange Commission and with the applicable Canadian securities regulatory authorities and the following: NioCorp's ability to operate as a going concern; NioCorp's requirement of significant additional capital; NioCorp's ability to receive sufficient project financing for the construction of the Elk Creek Project on acceptable terms, or at all; NioCorp's ability to achieve the required milestones and receive the full $10.0 million in reimbursement under the DoW Agreement; NioCorp's ability to receive a final commitment of financing from the Export-Import Bank of the United States or other debt financing or financial support on acceptable timelines, on acceptable terms, or at all; NioCorp's ability to access the full amount of the expected net proceeds under the standby equity purchase agreement (the "Yorkville Equity Facility Financing Agreement") with YA II PN, Ltd., an investment fund managed by Yorkville Advisors Global, LP; NioCorp's ability to continue to meet the listing standards of The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC; risks relating to NioCorp's common shares, including price volatility, lack of dividend payments and dilution or the perception of the likelihood of any of the foregoing; the extent to which NioCorp's level of indebtedness and/or the terms contained in agreements governing NioCorp's indebtedness, if any, the Yorkville Equity Facility Financing Agreement or other agreements may impair NioCorp's ability to obtain additional financing, on acceptable terms, or at all; covenants contained in agreements with NioCorp's secured creditors that may affect its assets; NioCorp's limited operating history; NioCorp's history of losses; the material weaknesses in NioCorp's internal control over financial reporting, NioCorp's efforts to remediate such material weaknesses and the timing of remediation; the possibility that NioCorp may qualify as a passive foreign investment company under the U.S. Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the "Code"); the potential that the business combination with GX Acquisition Corp. II and other related transactions could result in NioCorp becoming subject to materially adverse U.S. federal income tax consequences as a result of the application of Section 7874 and related sections of the Code; cost increases for NioCorp's exploration and, if warranted, development projects; a disruption in, or failure of, NioCorp's information technology systems, including those related to cybersecurity; equipment and supply shortages; variations in the market demand for, and prices of, niobium, scandium, titanium and rare earth products; current and future offtake agreements, joint ventures, and partnerships, including our ability to negotiate extensions to existing agreements or to enter into new agreements, on favorable terms or at all; NioCorp's ability to attract qualified management; estimates of mineral resources and reserves; mineral exploration and production activities; feasibility study results; the results of metallurgical testing; the results of technological research; changes in demand for and price of commodities (such as fuel and electricity) and currencies; competition in the mining industry; changes or disruptions in the securities markets; legislative, political or economic developments, including changes in federal and/or state laws that may significantly affect the mining industry; trade policies and tensions, including tariffs; inflationary pressures; the impacts of climate change, as well as actions taken or required by governments related to strengthening resilience in the face of potential impacts from climate change; the need to obtain permits and comply with laws and regulations and other regulatory requirements; the timing and reliability of sampling and assay data; the possibility that actual results of work may differ from projections/expectations or may not realize the perceived potential of NioCorp's projects; risks of accidents, equipment breakdowns, and labor disputes or other unanticipated difficulties or interruptions; the possibility of cost overruns or unanticipated expenses in development programs; operating or technical difficulties in connection with exploration, mining, or development activities; management of the water balance at the Elk Creek Project site; land reclamation requirements related to the Elk Creek Project; the speculative nature of mineral exploration and development, including the risks of diminishing quantities of grades of reserves and resources; claims on the title to NioCorp's properties; potential future litigation; and NioCorp's lack of insurance covering all of NioCorp's operations.

Should one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize or should any of the assumptions made by the management of NioCorp prove incorrect, actual results may vary in material respects from those projected in these forward-looking statements.

All subsequent written and oral forward-looking statements concerning the matters addressed herein and attributable to NioCorp or any person acting on its behalf are expressly qualified in their entirety by the cautionary statements contained or referred to herein. Except to the extent required by applicable law or regulation, NioCorp undertakes no obligation to update these forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events.

SOURCE: NioCorp Developments Ltd.

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FAQ

When will NioCorp (NB) present at the RedChip Race to Onshore Critical Minerals conference?

NioCorp CEO Mark A. Smith will present on Dec. 10, 2025 at 11:00 a.m. ET.

How long is the NioCorp (NB) presentation and will there be a Q&A?

The presentation is 20 minutes followed by a 10-minute live Q&A with Alex Guthrie.

What topics will NioCorp (NB) cover during the Dec. 10 presentation?

NioCorp will highlight the Elk Creek Critical Minerals Project and onshoring prospects for niobium, scandium, titanium and potentially magnetic rare earths.

How can investors register for NioCorp's (NB) virtual presentation on Dec. 10, 2025?

Investors can register for the free webcast via the RedChip webinar registration link provided in the company announcement.

Will a replay of the NioCorp (NB) presentation be available after the Dec. 10 event?

Yes, a replay link will be provided following the event.