B2i Digital adds Chilwa Minerals as featured company

B2i Digital named Chilwa Minerals its newest Featured Company, giving the Malawi-focused explorer a wider platform with US investors. The company says its Lake Chilwa project contains niobium, tantalum, gallium and rare earths tied to jet engines, chips, electric motors and defense supply chains.

Why it matters: - Chilwa Minerals is drilling for metals on a single project in Malawi that sit on the US critical minerals list. - The project has exposure to supply chains for jet engines, electric motors, computer chips, defense systems and other industrial uses. - The company’s US listing gives American investors direct access to the story as Washington looks for more non-China supply sources.

What happened: - B2i Digital named Chilwa Minerals Limited its newest Featured Company. - Chilwa Minerals trades on Nasdaq under CHWM and on the Australian Securities Exchange under CHW. - The company is searching for critical minerals around Lake Chilwa in southern Malawi. - B2i Digital said it will introduce Chilwa to its network of retail and institutional market participants. - Chilwa Minerals also published a Featured Company profile through B2i Digital.

The details: - Chilwa says it has found niobium, tantalum, gallium and rare earths on one project. - The United States government classifies all four as critical minerals. - Chilwa says Brazil produces about 90% of the world’s niobium, while China produces about 98% of global gallium. - Recent results reported Nov. 5, 2026 showed niobium from ground level to 57 meters, or 187 feet, at about 0.315% niobium oxide. - Drilling has traced the niobium zone for 270 meters, or 886 feet, without reaching its edge. - The same rock also contains tantalum and gallium. - Chilwa is working with three drill rigs. - The company is provisionally targeting May to June 2027 for its first official estimate of niobium in the ground. - Chilwa’s early working range for the niobium target is 34 million to 51 million metric tons of rock, grading 0.14% to 0.22% niobium oxide. - Mineral sands along the lake already have a measured inventory of 171.8 million metric tons. - Those mineral sands contain titanium minerals and zircon. - Chilwa says the mineral sands grade about 3.44%. - The company has found 16 of the 17 rare earth elements, including some in clay under the sands along 8 kilometers, or 5 miles. - Chilwa is testing how to extract the rare earths. - Mota-Engil, an African engineering and construction company, owns about 30% of Chilwa.

Between the lines: - The pitch is as much about geopolitics as geology. - Chilwa is framing the project as a potential alternative source of minerals that are heavily concentrated in a few countries, especially China and Brazil. - B2i Digital’s role gives the company extra visibility with capital markets audiences that track critical-mineral plays. - Chief Executive Officer David Shapiro said the project should interest US investors because the elements show up in products ranging from jet engines to iPhones and electric cars. - Founder and Managing Director Cadell Buss said the company has been meeting with US government officials this year and sees supply security as a national security issue.

What’s next: - Chilwa plans more drilling as it works toward a first official niobium estimate. - The company is continuing test work on how to recover the rare earths. - Investors will be watching for whether the early exploration targets hold up under additional drilling and technical review. - The company points readers to its announcement and its website for more information.

The bottom line: - B2i Digital is putting a growing Malawi critical-minerals story in front of US investors, and Chilwa is using that spotlight to argue its project could help fill strategic supply gaps.