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Published on: 11/6/2007
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November 8, 2006 - Reno, Nevada - Urex Energy Corp. (the "Company" or "Urex") (OTCBB: URXE) is pleased to announce that Mr. Oscar Yoshitaka Yokoi, the Company's South American Manager, was appointed to the board of directors of the Company.
Mr. Yokoi has over 29 years of mining and mineral exploration experience and received a Bachelors of Science in Geology (1977) from the University of Sao Paulo and a Masters of Arts in Business Administration (2003) from UNA Belo Horizonte.During his career, Mr. Yokoi was employed by BP Minerals, Brascan, Homestake Mining Company, Votorantim and JOGMEC and has consulted for CVRD, Placer Dome, and Meridian Gold.
Mr. Yokoi has taken charge of Urex's Rio Chubut Project, which includes the recently announced drill program on the Cerro Solo Block that comprises a seismic refraction geophysical survey and a 30 hole drill program.Urex's Cerro Solo Claim Block borders Comision Nacional de Energia Atomica's ("CNEA") 10 million pound Cerro Solo Uranium Deposit.
In addition, Mr. Yokoi will direct a comprehensive geologic review of the entire Rio Chubut Property (170,000 hectares) with the objective of screening uranium anomalies for future drill testing.
More than 2,300 radiometric anomalies were defined in the Chubut Basin by airborne geophysical surveys conducted by CNEA of Argentina (CNEA, 1997).