Ucore Rare Metals Inc (UURAF)

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Ucore Commences Phase II of Oils Sands Project

March 6, 2017 - HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA - Ucore Rare Metals, Inc. (TSXV:UCU) (OTCQX:UURAF) ("Ucore" or the "Company") is pleased to report on its joint efforts to monetize rare earth elements and constituent metals from the Alberta oil sands. In 2016, the Company announced that it has partnered with a Major Alberta Oil Sands Producer ("MOSP") in the undertaking, which has received funding from the National Research Council of Canada Industrial Research Assistance Program ("NRC-IRAP") (see Ucore Press Release dated July 18, 2016).

Phase I of the development agenda, now successfully completed, has included initial flow-sheet design work, beginning with input material from a froth treatment plant located at Fort McMurray, AB. Representative samples comprising a tailing slurry and containing REE, Ti, and a range of other valuable metals, were then obtained from the MOSP process flow. Also during Phase I, a Pregnant Leach Solution ("PLS") formulation process was designed by Edwin Bentzen, BSc. of Bentzen & Assoc. of Arvada, CO (the "Bentzen Process"). The Bentzen Process, proprietary to Ucore, has been designed specifically to modify the bitumen PLS for submission to Molecular Recognition Technology (MRT) metals separation.


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An interesting application of the process.

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