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Ketchikan to be home of rare earth plant

SE Alaska chosen for Ucore's first Strategic Metals Complex North of 60 Mining News – February 2, 2018

After investigating locations across the United States to host its first Strategic Metals Complex, or SMC, Ucore Rare Metals Inc. has decided that a Southeast Alaska town with a Pacific Rim port is the ideal place to build the cutting-edge rare earths processing facility.

"Engineering and economic studies have confirmed that Ketchikan is our preferred location to construct our first strategic and...

 

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