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Alaska uranium deposit attracts interest

As Washington lawmakers seek to ban uranium imports from Russia, Ucore's Ross-Adams mine at Bokan draws attention North of 60 Mining News - June 8, 2022

Last updated 6/23/2022 at 2:44pm

Float plane lands at Ucore’s uranium and rare earths project in Alaska.

Ucore Rare Metals Inc.

A plane lands on Kendrick Bay in front of Bokan Mountain, a Southeast Alaska property that hosts a historic uranium mine and modern deposit of rare earths and critical minerals.

With renewed interest in nuclear to generate zero-carbon electricity for the clean energy future, coupled with Russia's ongoing war in Ukraine, the past-producing Ross-Adams uranium mine on Ucore Rare Metals Inc.'s Bokan Mountain project in Southeast Alaska has caught the attention of unnamed parties interested in this potential domestic source of nuclear fuel.

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