Rare Element Resources Announces $3.4 Million Registered Direct Offering

Rare Element Resources Ltd. (the Company ) (NYSE MKT: REE and TSX: RES) today announced that it has entered into a definitive purchase agreement with a single institutional investor pursuant to which it agreed to sell an aggregate of 5,230,770 common shares and warrants to purchase up to 2,615,385 common shares in a registered direct offering. The purchase price for each unit, consisting of one common share and a warrant to purchase 0.5 common shares, is US$0.65, representing an approximate 15% discount to the five-day volume weighted average price ending on April 23, 2015. The warrants will be exercisable, at a price of US$0.85 per share, immediately following issuance and will expire three years from the date of issuance. The closing of the offering is expected to take place on or about April 29, 2015, subject to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions, including the approval of the Toronto Stock Exchange and NYSE MKT. Proceeds from the offering will be used for pre-development of the Bear Lodge Rare Earth Element Project, including for progression of permitting, continued test work on rare earth element separation, engineering and optimization studies, and progression of a feasibility study, as well as for working capital and other general corporate purposes.

H.C. Wainwright & Co., LLC acted as exclusive placement agent in connection with the offering.

A shelf registration statement (File No. 333-189235) relating to the common shares and warrants issued and issuable in the offering has been filed with and declared effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC ). A prospectus supplement relating to the offering will be filed by the Company with the SEC. Copies of the prospectus supplement, together with the accompanying prospectus, can be obtained at the SEC ™s website at http://www.sec.gov, or from Rare Element Resources Ltd., 225 Union Boulevard, Suite 250, Lakewood, Colorado 80228, or from H.C. Wainwright & Co. by e-mailing placements@hcwco.com.

This press release does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any securities of the Company in this offering. There shall not be any offer, solicitation of an offer to buy, or sale of securities in any state or jurisdiction in which such an offering, solicitation, or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or jurisdiction. Any offering in the United States will be made only by means of a prospectus, including a prospectus supplement, forming a part of the effective registration statement.

Rare Element Resources Ltd. is a publicly traded mineral resource company focused on exploration and development of rare-earth element deposits, specifically those with significant distribution of critical rare earths. The Company is advancing development of the Bear Lodge Project, located in northeast Wyoming. Bear Lodge is a significant mineralized district containing many of the less common, more valuable critical rare earths that are essential for electronics, fiber optics, laser systems for health and defense, as well as many evolving green technologies, like hybrid cars, solar panels and wind turbines. Permitting and feasibility work on the Project continue to advance. The Company is a member of the U.S. Department of Energy ™s Critical Materials Institute, a combined government and private sector organization committed to eliminating supply chain issues for rare earths and other critical elements.

For additional information, please contact Robbin Lee at 720-278-2462 or rlee@rareelementresources.com.

Forward-Looking Statements

This news release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of securities legislation in the United States and Canada. Except for statements of historical fact, certain information contained herein constitutes forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are usually identified by our use of certain terminology, including will, believes, may, expects, should, seeks, anticipates, plans, has potential to, or intends, or by discussions of strategy or intentions. Such forward-looking statements include statements regarding completion of the offering and the use of proceeds of this offering. Such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and other factors which may cause our actual results or achievements to be materially different from any future results or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially include, but are not limited to, regulatory matters; the future price of our common shares, which will be dependent on such matters as the progress of our Bear Lodge Project, fluctuations in demand for, and price of, rare earth products, success of process technology under testing, and any overhang resulting from the issuances in this offering; timing of any unexpected events at the Bear Lodge property; delay or failure to receive government approvals and permits; changes in U.S. and Canadian securities markets; and general economic conditions. There can be no assurance that future developments affecting the Company will be those anticipated by management. Please refer to the discussion of these and other uncertainties and risk factors set out in our filings made from time to time with the SEC and the Canadian regulators, including, without limitation, our reports on Form 10-K and Form 10-Q. We expect that the above estimates will change as new information is received and that actual results will vary from these estimates, possibly by material amounts. While we may elect to update our forward-looking information at any time, we do not undertake to update at any particular time or in response to any particular event. Investors and others should not assume that any forecasts in this press release represent management ™s estimate as of any date other than the date of this press release.

Rare Element Resources Ltd.
Robbin Lee, 720-278-2462
rlee@rareelementresources.com