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FAQ: Ucore Rare Metals' Kingston Facility and Samarium Supply Risk

By NewsRamp Editorial Team

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Ucore Rare Metals' North American processing hub offers investors a strategic advantage by addressing samarium's high supply risk and reducing dependence on China's dominant supply chain.

Ucore Rare Metals is developing a first-of-its-kind Ontario facility to refine samarium and gadolinium oxides, creating a Western alternative to China's magnet-materials infrastructure.

Ucore's project strengthens Western supply chains for critical minerals, enhancing energy technology security and reducing geopolitical vulnerabilities for a more stable future.

Samarium has been identified as the most at-risk critical mineral for 2025, making Ucore's Canadian refining facility suddenly strategically important for Western manufacturing.

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FAQ: Ucore Rare Metals' Kingston Facility and Samarium Supply Risk

The content discusses Ucore Rare Metals Inc.'s advancement of its Kingston processing facility in Ontario, Canada, which aims to refine samarium and gadolinium oxides, and highlights the escalating supply risk for samarium as identified by the U.S. Geological Survey.

The U.S. Geological Survey's draft 2025 supply-risk model identifies samarium as having the highest supply disruption risk among the 50 materials evaluated, making it the most at-risk mineral.

Ucore is developing a first-of-its-kind North American processing hub dedicated to refining samarium and gadolinium oxides.

The Kingston facility is located in Ontario, Canada.

The facility is part of Ucore's broader strategy to establish a Western alternative to China's dominant magnet-materials infrastructure and rebuild a complete, Western-controlled supply chain for critical materials used in advanced manufacturing and energy technologies.

The development is strategically important because the United States faces its most severe supply-chain warning yet for a key defense mineral (samarium), and Ucore's project provides a Western alternative to reduce dependency on foreign sources.

Ucore Rare Metals trades as TSX.V: UCU and OTCQX: UURAF.

The latest news and updates relating to UURAF are available in the company's newsroom at https://ibn.fm/UURAF.

This is part of a wider effort to create a Western-controlled supply chain for critical materials, reducing reliance on China's infrastructure for materials essential to defense, advanced manufacturing, and energy technologies.

The content was disseminated on behalf of Ucore Rare Metals Inc. by Rocks & Stocks, a specialized communications platform within the InvestorBrandNetwork, and may include paid advertising. Rocks & Stocks is one of 75+ brands in IBN's Dynamic Brand Portfolio that provides various corporate communications solutions.

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