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Article: Drilling Commences at Ucore's Bokan-Dotson Ridge Rare Earth Project.
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- September 10, 2009
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HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA, Sep 10, 2009 (Marketwire via COMTEX) -- Ucore Uranium Inc. (TSX VENTURE:UCU) is pleased to announce that drilling has commenced at its 100% owned Bokan - Dotson Ridge rare earth element (REE) project located in southeast Alaska.
Ucore acquired the property in 2007, and has completed 2,938 meters of drilling over 46 drill holes in 2007 and 2008, primarily investigating the potential for uranium mineralization at the I&L zone. Those drill holes returned anomalously high levels of rare earths, with results of up to 11.5% REE as oxides across 2.5 meters in hole 98-32 (see press release June 15, 2009).
Through its wholly owned US ...