Japanese JOGMEC Explores Rare Metals in Uzbekistan

Uranium (Nuclear Minerals) / Exploration, Mining, Marketing, & Acquisitions

Demir Azizov reports that the Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation - JOGMEC - together with the Uzbek State Committee on Geology and Mineral Resources are conducting geological exploration for rare metals in the Chatkal-Kurama rare earth zone of Uzbekistan. Targets are tantalum, niobium, lithium, beryllium, rubidium, cesium and REEs in accordance with an agreement concluded between the committee and JOGMEC in 2013. They are also conducting geological exploration on two perspective areas of sandstone-type uranium in the Navoi region.

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