West McArthur is situated in the Athabasca Basin in Saskatchewan, between 6-30 km to the west of the world's richest uranium mine: Cameco's McArthur River.
Canadian company said it wants to focus on its core gold projects Fenelon and Martiniere, and is selling its Grasset and RUM projects in Quebec and its Sudbury and NW projects in Ontario.
Developers of battery metals projects can win support from the US government as it seeks to counter the dominance of China in clean-technology supply chains.