Tasman Provides Update on Mining Lease for Norra Karr Heavy Rare Earth Element Project

Tasman Metals (NYSE MKT: TAS). Mr Mark Saxon, President & CEO, provides an update on the Mining Lease for the Norra Karr heavy rare earth element (REE) project in Sweden.On May 21st 2013, Tasman announced that a 25 year Mining Lease for Norra Karr had been granted to the Company, and that stakeholders had the right to file an appeal. On July 25th 2013, the Company provided an update that an appeal had been lodged by certain stakeholders. The filing of this appeal had no impact on the legal status of the Mining Lease, and the Company was confident that the appeal would not be successful.Tasman has now been notified by the Swedish Ministry of Industry (Naringsdepartementet) that the Mining Lease for Norra Karr has been confirmed and the appeal was unsuccessful. Following this decision, no further right of appeal exists against the validity of the Mining Lease. As announced May 21st 2013, the Mining Lease gives Tasman the full mineral rights for the Norra Karr project for an initial period of 25 years, which is then automatically renewed in 10 year increments if the mine See full press release