Mining News: Bokan Mountain may be strategic deposit

Investors take note as demand for unfamiliar rare earth elements raises profile of resource in Southeast as global supply shrinks

Rose Ragsdale

For Mining News

Advances in high technology, especially the recent drive to produce increasingly efficient hybrid automobiles, is spurring demand for rare earth elements and energizing a little-known mining sector with at least one known Alaska mineral deposit. Thanks to analysts touting the virtues of investing i....

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Promising deposit in Southeast Alaska

Wide spectrum of REEs

REEs in Alaska

Dependence on imports