ENERGY FUELS INC 10-K

efr-20231231 UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Washington, D.C. 20549 FORM 10-K ☒ ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 For the fiscal year ended December 31 , 2023 or ☐ TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 For the transition period from ___________________ to ___________________ Commission file number: 001-36204 ENERGY FUELS INC. (Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter) Ontario, Canada 98-1067994 (State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization) (I.R.S. Employer Identification No.) 225 Union Blvd., Suite 600 Lakewood, Colorado 80228 (Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code) ( 303 ) 974-2140 (Registrant’s telephone number, including area code) Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act: Title of each class Trading Symbol(s) Name of each exchange on which registered Common Shares, no par value UUUU NYSE American EFR Toronto Stock Exchange Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act: None (Title of Class) Indicate by check mark if the registrant is a well-known seasoned issuer, as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act. Yes ☒ No ☐ Indicate by check mark if the registrant is not required to file reports pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Act. Yes ☐ No ☒ Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days. Yes ☒ No ☐ Indicate by check mark whether the Registrant has submitted electronically every Interactive Data File required to be submitted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T (§ 232.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit such files). Yes ☒ No ☐ Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company, or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company,” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act: Large Accelerated Filer ☒ Accelerated Filer ☐ Non-Accelerated Filer ☐ Smaller Reporting Company ☐ Emerging Growth Company ☐ If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ☐ Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has filed a report on and attestation to its management's assessment of the effectiveness of its internal control over financial reporting under Section 404(b) of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (15 U.S.C. 7262(b)) by the registered public accounting firm that prepared or issued its audit report. ☒ If securities are registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act, indicate by check mark whether the financial statements of the registrant included in the filing reflect the correction of an error to previously issued financial statements. Yes ☐ No ☒ Indicate by check mark whether any of those error corrections are restatements that required a recovery analysis of incentive-based compensation received by any of the registrant’s executive officers during the relevant recovery period pursuant to §240.10D-1(b). Yes ☐ No ☒ Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Act). Yes ☐ No ☒ State the aggregate market value of the voting and non-voting common equity held by non-affiliates computed by reference to the price at which the common equity was last sold, or the average bid and asked price of such common equity, as of the last business day of the registrant’s most recently completed second fiscal quarter: $ 954.99 million. If securities are registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act, indicate by check mark whether the financial statements of the registrant included in the filing reflect the correction of an error to previously issued financial statements. ☐ Indicate by check mark whether any of those error corrections are restatements that required a recovery analysis of incentive-based compensation received by any of the registrant’s executive officers during the relevant recovery period pursuant to §240.10D-1(b). ☐ The number of common shares of the Registrant outstanding as of February 21, 2024 was 163,570,079 . DOCUMENTS TO BE INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE Certain information required in Items 10, 11, 12, 13 and 14 of Part III of this Annual Report on Form 10-K is incorporated by reference from our proxy statement for our 2024 Annual and Special Meeting of Shareholders, which will be filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission within 120 days after the end of the fiscal year ended December 31, 2023. ENERGY FUELS INC. FORM 10-K FOR THE YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2023 TABLE OF CONTENTS SUBPARTS ITEM I: CAUTIONARY STATEMENT REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS AND RISK FACTOR SUMMARY 3 ITEM II: CAUTIONARY NOTE TO INVESTORS CONCERNING DISCLOSURE OF MINERAL RESOURCES AND RESERVES 7 ITEM III: GLOSSARY OF TECHNICAL TERMS 10 ITEM IV: GLOSSARY OF REGULATORY AGENCIES AND EXCHANGES 12 PART I ITEM 1. DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS 13 ITEM 1A. RISK FACTORS 36 ITEM 1B. UNRESOLVED STAFF COMMENTS 58 ITEM 1C. CYBERSECURITY 58 ITEM 2. DESCRIPTION OF PROPERTIES 60 ITEM 2A. OVERVIEW 61 ITEM 2B. SUMMARY OF MINERAL RESERVES AND RESOURCES 64 ITEM 2C. THE NICHOLS RANCH PROJECT 68 ITEM 2D. THE WHITE MESA MILL 81 ITEM 2E. THE PINYON PLAIN PROJECT 88 ITEM 2F. THE ROCA HONDA PROJECT 96 ITEM 2G. THE SHEEP MOUNTAIN PROJECT 103 ITEM 2H. THE BULLFROG PROJECT 111 ITEM 2I. THE LA SAL PROJECT 116 ITEM 2J. THE BAHIA PROJECT 126 ITEM 2K. NON-MATERIAL MINERAL PROPERTIES 132 ITEM 3. LEGAL PROCEEDINGS 137 ITEM 4. MINE SAFETY DISCLOSURE 137 PART II ITEM 5. MARKET FOR THE REGISTRANT’S COMMON EQUITY, RELATED STOCKHOLDER MATTERS AND ISSUER PURCHASES OF EQUITY SECURITIES 138 ITEM 6. [RESERVED] 142 ITEM 7. MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS 143 ITEM 7A. QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK 156 ITEM 8. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY DATA 158 ITEM 8A. REPORTS OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM 159 ITEM 8B. CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS AND COMPREHENSIVE INCOME (LOSS) 161 ITEM 8C. CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS 162 ITEM 8D. CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CHANGES IN EQUITY 163 ITEM 8E. CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS 165 ITEM 8F. NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS 167 ITEM 8F(1). THE COMPANY AND DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS 167 ITEM 8F(2). SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES 168 ITEM 8F(3). MARKETABLE SECURITIES 173 ITEM 8F(4). RECEIVABLES 173 1 ITEM 8F(5). INVENTORIES 174 ITEM 8F(6). INVESTMENTS 174 ITEM 8F(7). PROPERTY, PLANT AND EQUIPMENT AND MINERAL PROPERTIES 176 ITEM 8F(8). ASSET RETIREMENT OBLIGATIONS AND RESTRICTED CASH 178 ITEM 8F(9). CAPITAL STOCK 179 ITEM 8F(10). BASIC AND DILUTED INCOME (LOSS) PER COMMON SHARE 180 ITEM 8F(11). SHARE-BASED PAYMENTS 180 ITEM 8F(12). INCOME TAXES 185 ITEM 8F(13). SUPPLEMENTAL FINANCIAL INFORMATION 187 ITEM 8F(14). COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES 188 ITEM 8F(15). FAIR VALUE ACCOUNTING 189 ITEM 8F(16). REVENUE 191 ITEM 8F(17). RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS 192 ITEM 8F(18). SUBSEQUENT EVENTS 192 ITEM 9. CHANGES IN AND DISAGREEMENTS WITH ACCOUNTANTS ON ACCOUNTING AND FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE 193 ITEM 9A. CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES 193 ITEM 9B. OTHER INFORMATION 193 ITEM 9C. DISCLOSURE REGARDING FOREIGN JURISDICTIONS THAT PREVENT INSPECTIONS 194 PART III ITEM 10. DIRECTORS, EXECUTIVE OFFICERS AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE 195 ITEM 11. EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION 195 ITEM 12. SECURITY OWNERSHIP OF CERTAIN BENEFICIAL OWNERS AND MANAGEMENT AND RELATED STOCKHOLDER MATTERS 195 ITEM 13. CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED TRANSACTIONS AND DIRECTOR INDEPENDENCE 195 ITEM 14. PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTANT FEES AND SERVICES 195 PART IV ITEM 15. EXHIBITS AND FINANCIAL STATEMENT SCHEDULES 195 ITEM 16. FORM 10-K SUMMARY 199 SIGNATURES 200 2 CAUTIONARY STATEMENT REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS AND RISK FACTOR SUMMARY This Annual Report on Form 10-K and the exhibits attached hereto (the “ Annual Report ”) contain “forward-looking statements” and “forward-looking information” within the meaning of applicable United States (“ U.S. ”) and Canadian securities laws (collectively, “ forward-looking statements ”), which may include, but are not limited to, statements with respect to Energy Fuels Inc.’s (the “ Company's ” or “ Energy Fuels' ”): anticipated results and progress of our operations in future periods; planned exploration; development of our properties; plans related to our business, such as the ramp-up of our uranium business in response to improved uranium prices, our rare earth element (“ REE ”) line of business, including work on our South Bahia heavy mineral sands (“ HMS ”) project in Brazil (the “ Bahia Project ”) and our planned development of capabilities for the commercial separation of REEs at our White Mesa Mill (the “ White Mesa Mill ” or the “ Mill ”) in Utah; plans related to our potential recovery of radioisotopes at the Mill for use in the production of targeted alpha therapy (“ TAT ”) medical treatments; any plans related to the acquisition of additional mineral properties; and any plans relating to the ramp-up of production or ongoing operations at any of our uranium, uranium/vanadium and/or HMS properties. These statements relate to analyses and other information that are based on forecasts of future results, estimates of amounts not yet determinable and assumptions of management. Any statements that express or involve discussions with respect to predictions, expectations, beliefs, plans, projections, objectives, schedules, assumptions, future events, or performance (often, but not always, using words or phrases such as “expects” or “does not expect,” “is expected,” “is likely,” “budgets,” “scheduled,” “forecasts,” “intends,” “anticipates” or “does not anticipate,” “continues,” “plans,” “estimates,” or “believes,” and similar expressions or variations of such words and phrases or statements stating that certain actions, events or results “may,” “could,” “would,” “might,” or “will” be taken, occur or be achieved) are not statements of historical fact and may be forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are based on the opinions and estimates of management as of the date such statements are made. We believe that the expectations reflected in these forward-looking statements are reasonable, but no assurance can be given that these expectations will prove to be correct, and such forward-looking statements included in, or incorporated by reference into, this Annual Report should not be unduly relied upon. Readers are cautioned that it would be unreasonable to rely on any such forward-looking statements as creating any legal rights, and that the forward-looking statements are not guarantees and may involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties, and that actual results are likely to differ (and may differ materially), and objectives and strategies may differ or change, from those expressed or implied in the forward-looking statements as a result of various factors. Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: global economic risks, such as the occurrence of a pandemic, political unrest or wars; cybersecurity risks associated with critical and other highly sensitive minerals of international interest, which are key to national security; risks associated with the restart and subsequent operation of any of our uranium, uranium/vanadium and HMS mines; risks associated with our commercial production of an REE carbonate (“ RE Carbonate ”) or separated REE oxides and the planned expansion of such production, and risks associated with the exploration and development of our Bahia Project in Brazil; risks associated with the potential recovery of radioisotopes for use in the Company’s TAT initiatives; risks associated with potential mineral acquisitions internationally, including geopolitical considerations; risks associated with increased regulatory requirements applicable to our operations in response to pressure from special interest groups or otherwise; and risks generally encountered in the exploration, development, operation, closure and reclamation of mineral properties and processing and recovery facilities. Forward-looking statements are subject to a variety of known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which could cause actual events or results to differ from those expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements, including, without limitation the following risks: 3 • global economic risks, including the occurrence of unforeseen or catastrophic events, such as political unrest, wars or the emergence of a widespread health emergency, which could create operational, economic and financial disruptions for an indeterminate period of time that could materially impact our business, operations, personnel and financial condition; • risks associated with Mineral Reserve and Mineral Resource estimates, including the risk of errors in assumptions or methodologies and changes to estimate disclosure rules and regulations; • risks associated with estimating mineral extraction and recovery, forecasting future price levels necessary to support mineral extraction and recovery, and our ability to increase mineral extraction and recovery in response to any increases in commodity prices or other market conditions; • uncertainties and liabilities inherent to conventional mineral extraction and recovery and/or in situ recovery (“ ISR ”); • risks associated with our commercial production of RE Carbonate, separated REE oxides, and potentially other REE and REE-related value-added products (collectively, “ RE Products ”) at the Mill or elsewhere, including risks: that we may not be able to produce RE Products that meet commercial specifications at commercial levels or at all, or at acceptable cost levels; of not being able to secure adequate supplies of uranium and REE-bearing ores in the future at satisfactory costs; of not being able to increase our sources of uranium and REE-bearing ores to meet future planned production goals; of not being able to sell our RE Products at acceptable prices; of not being able to successfully construct and operate potential other downstream REE activities, including metal-making and alloying, if pursued in the future; of legal and regulatory challenges and delays; and the risk of technological or market changes that could impact the REE industry or our competitive position; • risks associated with the uranium reserve program for the U.S. (the “ U.S. Uranium Reserve Program ”) being subject to appropriation by the U.S. Congress, and the expansion of the U.S. Uranium Reserve Program; • risks associated with current federal, state and local administrations and changes thereto, including a lack of support of mining, uranium mining, nuclear energy, REE recovery or other aspects of our business; • geological, technical and processing problems, including unanticipated metallurgical difficulties, less than expected recoveries, ground control problems, process upsets and equipment malfunctions; • risks associated with the depletion of existing Mineral Resources through extraction without comparable replacements; • risks associated with identifying/obtaining adequate quantities of uranium-bearing materials not derived from conventional material sourced by third parties (“ Alternate Feed Materials ”) and other feed sources required for the operation of our Mill; • risks associated with labor costs, labor disturbances and unavailability of skilled labor; • risks associated with availability and/or fluctuations in the costs of raw materials and consumables used in our production; • risks and costs associated with environmental compliance and permitting, including those created by changes in environmental legislation and regulation, changes in regulatory attitudes and approaches, and delays in obtaining permits and licenses that could impact expected mineral extraction and recovery levels and costs; • risks associated with increased regulatory requirements applicable to our operations in response to pressure from special interest groups or otherwise; • risks associated with our dependence on third parties in the provision of transportation and other critical services; • risks associated with our ability to obtain, extend or renew land tenure, including mineral leases and surface use agreements, and to negotiate access rights on certain properties, on favorable terms or at all; • risks associated with potential information security incidents, including cybersecurity breaches; • risks that we may compromise or lose our proprietary technology or intellectual property in certain circumstances, which could result in a loss in our competitive position and/or the value of our intangible assets; • risks associated with our ongoing ability to successfully develop, attract and retain qualified management, Board members and other key personnel critical to the success of our business, given limited significant experience in our key industries; • competition for, among other things, capital, mineral properties and skilled personnel; • the adequacy of, and costs of retaining, our insurance coverage; • uncertainty as to reclamation and decommissioning liabilities; • the ability of our bonding companies to require increases in the collateral required to secure reclamation obligations; • the potential for, and outcome of, litigation and other legal proceedings, including potential injunctions pending resolution; • our ability to meet our obligations to our creditors and to access credit facilities on favorable terms; • risks associated with our relationships with our business and joint venture partners, including associated geopolitical risks; • failure to obtain industry partner, government, and other third-party consents and approvals, when required; • failure to complete and integrate proposed acquisitions, and/or to incorrectly assess the value or risks associated with of completed acquisitions, including our acquisition of mineral concessions at the Bahia Project and any future acquisitions; • risks associated with a Brazilian federal or state government enacting or managing a conservation unit or environmental protection area or implementing a management plan in connection therewith that could impact planned production at or restrict the Company’s ability to or prevent the Company from mining significant portions of the Company’s Bahia Project; • risks associated with fluctuations in price levels for HMS concentrate (“ HMC ”) and its components, including the prices for ilmenite, rutile, titanium and zircon, which could impact planned production levels or the feasibility of production of HMC and monazite from our Bahia Project and any other HMS project the Company may acquire or participate in, which could impact monazite supply for our RE Carbonate, separated REE oxide and any other REE value-added product production; • risks posed by fluctuations in share price levels, exchange rates and interest rates, and general economic conditions; 4 • risks inherent in our and industry analysts’ forecasts/predictions of future uranium, vanadium, copper (if and when produced) and REE price levels, including the prices for RE Carbonates, separated REE oxides, REE metals and REE metal alloys; • market prices of uranium, vanadium, REEs and (if relevant) copper, which are cyclical with substantial price fluctuations; • risks associated with future uranium sales, if any, being required to be made at spot prices, unless we are able to continue to enter into new long-term contracts at satisfactory prices in the future; • risks associated with our vanadium sales, if any, generally being required to be made at spot prices; • risks associated with our RE Carbonate sales and REE oxide sales, if any, being tied to REE spot prices; • failure to obtain suitable uranium sales terms at satisfactory prices in the future, including spot and term sale contracts; • failure to obtain suitable vanadium sales terms at satisfactory prices in the future; • failure to obtain suitable copper (if and when produced) or REE sales terms at satisfactory prices in the future; • risks that we may not be able to fulfill all our sales commitments out of inventories or production and may be required to fulfill deliveries through spot purchases at a loss or through other negotiable means that are unfavorable to the Company; • risks associated with any expectation that we will successfully help in the cleanup of historic abandoned uranium mines; • risks associated with asset impairment as a result of market conditions; • risks associated with lack of access to markets and the ability to access capital; • risks associated with our ability to raise debt financing as may be required or desirable for planned expansion of our operations or for the development of projects with third parties in which we have a joint venture or other interest; • risks associated with public and/or political resistance to nuclear energy or uranium extraction and recovery; • risks associated with inaccurate or nonobjective media coverage of our activities and the impact such coverage may have on the public, the market for our securities, government relations, commercial relations, permitting activities and legal challenges, as well as the costs to us of responding to such coverage; • risks associated with potential impacts of public perceptions on our commercial relations; • uranium industry competition, international trade restrictions and the impacts they have on world commodity prices of foreign state-subsidized production, and wars or other conflicts influencing international demand and commercial relations; • risks associated with foreign government actions, policies and laws and foreign state-subsidized enterprises with respect to REE production and sales, which could impact REE prices, access to global and domestic markets for the supply of REE-bearing ores, and our sale of RE Carbonate, separated REE oxides or REE products and services globally and domestically; • risks associated with our involvement in industry petitions for trade remedies and the extension of the Russian Suspension Agreement, including costs of pursuing such remedies and the potential for negative responses or repercussions from various interest groups, consumers of uranium, and participants in other phases of the nuclear fuel cycle domestically and abroad; • risks associated with governmental or regulatory agency actions, policies, laws, regulations and interpretations with respect to nuclear energy or uranium extraction and recovery, as well as to REE and other mineral extraction and recovery activities; • risks related to potentially higher than expected costs related to any of our projects or facilities; • risks related to our ability to potentially recover copper from our Pinyon Plain Project, should we decide to pursue it; • risks related to stock price, volume volatility and market events and our ability to maintain inclusion in various stock indices; • risks related to our ability to maintain our listings on NYSE American and the Toronto Stock Exchange (“ TSX ”); • risks related to dilution of currently outstanding shares from additional share issuances, depletion of assets, etc.; • risks related to our securities, including securities regulations, and our lack of dividends; • risks related to our issuance of additional freely tradeable common shares of the Company (“ Common Shares ”) under our At-the-Market program (“ ATM ”) or otherwise to provide adequate liquidity in depressed commodity market situations; • risks related to acquisition and integration issues, or related to defects in title to our mineral properties; • risks related to our method of accounting for equity investments in other companies potentially resulting in material changes to our financial results that are not fully within our control; • risks related to conducting business operations in foreign countries including heightened risks of expropriation of assets, business interruption, increased taxation, import/export controls, or unilateral modification of concessions and contracts; • risks related to any material weaknesses that may be identified in our internal controls over financial reporting. If we are unable to implement/maintain effective internal controls over financial reporting, investors may lose confidence in the accuracy and completeness of our financial reports, negatively affecting the market price of our common stock; • risks of amendment to mining laws, including the imposition of any royalties on minerals extracted from federal lands, the designation of national monuments, mineral withdrawals or similar actions, which could adversely impact our affected properties or our ability to operate our affected properties; • risks related to proposed or completed land exchanges made between federal and state agencies that may impact our unpatented mining claims and other rights, including: undesirable changes to our mineral tenure on exchanged lands; and/or the application of production royalties not previously owed on the claims; and • risks related to our potential recovery of radioisotopes at the Mill for use in our TAT initiatives, including a risk of technological or market changes that could impact the industry or our competitive position, and any expectation that: such potential recovery will be feasible or that the radioisotopes will be able to be sold on a commercial basis; all required licenses, permits and regulatory approvals will be obtained on a timely basis or at all; and the cancer treatment therapeutics will receive the required approvals and will be commercially successful. 5 Such statements are based on a number of assumptions which may prove to be incorrect, including, but not limited to, the following assumptions: that there is no material deterioration in general business and economic conditions; that there is no unanticipated fluctuation in interest rates and foreign exchange rates; that the supply and demand for, deliveries of, and the level and volatility of prices of uranium, vanadium, REEs and our other primary metals, radioisotopes and minerals develop as expected; that uranium, vanadium and REE prices required to reach, sustain or increase expected or forecasted production levels are realized as expected; that our RE Carbonate production, planned production of separated REE oxides or any other proposed REE activities, our proposed radioisotope program, or other potential production activities will be technically or commercially successful; that we receive regulatory and governmental approvals for our development projects and other operations on a timely basis; that we are able to operate our mineral properties and processing facilities as expected; that we are able to implement new process technologies and operations as expected; that existing licenses and permits are renewed as required; that we are able to obtain financing for our development projects on reasonable terms; that we are able to procure mining equipment and operating supplies in sufficient quantities and on a timely basis; that engineering and construction timetables and capital costs for our development and expansion projects and restarting projects on standby are not incorrectly estimated or affected by unforeseen circumstances; that costs of closure of various operations are accurately estimated; that there are no unanticipated changes in collateral requirements for surety bonds; that there are no unanticipated changes to market competition; that our Mineral Reserve and Mineral Resource estimates are within reasonable bounds of accuracy (including with respect to size, grade and recoverability) and that the geological, operational and price assumptions on which these are based are reasonable; that environmental and other administrative and legal proceedings or disputes are satisfactorily resolved; that there are no significant changes to regulatory programs and requirements or interpretations that would materially increase regulatory compliance costs, bonding costs or licensing/permitting requirements; that there are no significant amendments to mining laws, including the imposition of any royalties on minerals extracted from federal lands; that there are no designations of national monuments, mineral withdrawals, land exchanges or similar actions, which could adversely impact any of our material properties or our ability to operate any of our material properties; that there are no conservation units or environmental protection areas or management plans that could impact planned production at or restrict the Company’s ability to or prevent the Company from mining significant portions of the Company’s Bahia Project; and that we maintain ongoing relations with our employees and with our business and joint venture partners. This list is not exhaustive of the factors that may affect our forward-looking statements. Some of the important risks and uncertainties that could affect forward-looking statements are described further under the following section headings in Part I of this Annual Report: Item 1. Description of the Business ; Item 1A. Risk Factors ; and Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations . Although we have attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in forward-looking statements, there may be other factors that cause results not to be as anticipated, estimated or intended. Should one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize, or should underlying assumptions prove incorrect, actual results may vary materially from those anticipated, believed, estimated or expected. We caution readers not to place undue reliance on any such forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date made. Except as required by applicable law, we disclaim any obligation to subsequently revise any forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date of such statements or to reflect the occurrence of anticipated or unanticipated events. Statements relating to “Mineral Reserves” or “Mineral Resources” are deemed to be forward-looking statements, as they involve the implied assessment, based on certain estimates and assumptions, that the Mineral Reserves and Mineral Resources described may be profitably extracted in the future. Market, Industry and Other Data This Annual Report contains estimates, projections and other information concerning our industry, our business and the markets for our products. Information that is based on estimates, forecasts, projections, market research or similar methodologies is inherently subject to uncertainties, and actual events or circumstances may differ materially from events and circumstances that are assumed in this information. Unless otherwise expressly stated, we obtained this industry, business, market and other data from our own internal estimates and research, as well as from reports, research surveys, studies and similar data prepared by market research firms and other third parties, industry and general publications, government data, and similar sources. We qualify all forward-looking statements contained in this Annual Report by the foregoing cautionary statements . 6 CAUTIONARY NOTE TO INVESTORS CONCERNING DISCLOSURE OF MINERAL RESOURCES AND RESERVES We are a U.S. domestic issuer for United States Securities and Exchange Commission (“ SEC ”) reporting purposes, a majority of our outstanding voting securities are held by U.S. residents, we are required to report our financial results under generally accepted accounting principles in the U.S. (“ U.S. GAAP ”) and our primary trading market is the NYSE American. However, because we are incorporated in Ontario, Canada and also listed on the TSX, this Annual Report also contains or incorporates by reference certain disclosure that satisfies the additional requirements of Canadian securities laws that differ from the requirements of U.S. securities laws. All mineral estimates constituting mining operations that are material to our business or financial condition included in this Annual Report for the year ended December 31, 2023, and in the documents incorporated by reference herein, have been prepared in accordance with both 17 CFR Subparts 220.1300 and 229.601(b)(96) (collectively, “ S-K 1300 ”), the SEC’s mining disclosure framework effective as of 2021, and Canadian National Instrument 43-101 - Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects (“ NI 43-101 ”), a rule developed by the Canadian Securities Administrators (the “ CSA ”) that establishes standards for all public disclosure an issuer makes of scientific and technical information concerning mineral projects. Furthermore, all mineral estimates constituting mining operations that are material to our business or financial condition included in this Annual Report are supported by pre-feasibility studies and/or initial assessments prepared in accordance with both the requirements of S-K 1300 and NI 43-101. S-K 1300 and NI 43-101 both provide for the disclosure of: (i) “Inferred Mineral Resources,” which investors should understand have the lowest level of geological confidence of all mineral resources and thus may not be considered when assessing the economic viability of a mining project and may not be converted to a Mineral Reserve; (ii) “Indicated Mineral Resources,” which investors should understand have a lower level of confidence than that of a “Measured Mineral Resource” and thus may be converted only to a “Probable Mineral Reserve”; and (iii) “Measured Mineral Resources,” which investors should understand have sufficient geological certainty to be converted to a “Proven Mineral Reserve” or to a “Probable Mineral Reserve.” Investors are cautioned not to assume that all or any part of Measured or Indicated Mineral Resources will ever be converted into Mineral Reserves as defined by S-K 1300 or NI 43-101. Investors are cautioned not to assume that all or any part of an Inferred Mineral Resource exists or is economically or legally mineable, or that an Inferred Mineral Resource will ever be upgraded to a higher category. For purposes of S-K 1300 and NI 43-101, as at December 31, 2023, the Company was classified as a development stage issuer because it was engaged in the preparation of Mineral Reserves for extraction on at least one material property. The Company will be considered a production stage issuer if it engages in material extraction of a Mineral Reserve from at least one material property. In late 2023, the Company commenced uranium production at three of its material properties, namely the Pinyon Plain Project and the La Sal and Pandora mines (each of the La Sal and Pandora mines constitutes a portion of the La Sal Project). The Pinyon Plain Project includes a Mineral Reserve. Accordingly, the Company is expected to be considered a production stage issuer in 2024 as a result of its commencing mining at the Pinyon Plain Project in late 2023 and its expected continuance of mining activities through 2024. All mineral disclosure reported in this Annual Report has been prepared in accordance with the definitions of both S-K 1300 and NI 43-101. S-K 1300 Definitions: • Development Stage Issuer: is an issuer that is engaged in the preparation of mineral reserves for extraction on at least one material property. • Development Stage Property: is a property that has mineral reserves disclosed, pursuant to S-K 1300, but no material extraction. • Exploration Stage Issuer: is an issuer that has no material property with Mineral Reserves disclosed. • Exploration Stage Property: is a property that has no mineral reserves disclosed. • Feasibility Study: is a comprehensive technical and economic study of the selected development option for a mineral project, which includes detailed assessments of all applicable modifying factors, as defined in S-K 1300, together with any other relevant operational factors, and detailed financial analyses that are necessary to demonstrate, at the time of reporting, that extraction is economically viable. The results of the study may serve as the basis for a final decision by a proponent or financial institution to proceed with, or finance, the development of the project. (1) A feasibility study is more comprehensive, and with a higher degree of accuracy, than a pre-feasibility study. It must contain mining, infrastructure, and process designs completed with sufficient rigor to serve as the basis for an investment decision or to support project financing. 7 (2) The confidence level in the results of a feasibility study is higher than the confidence level in the results of a pre-feasibility study. Terms such as full, final, comprehensive, bankable, or definitive feasibility study are equivalent to a feasibility study. • Indicated Mineral Resource: is that part of a mineral resource for which quantity and grade or quality are estimated on the basis of adequate geological evidence and sampling. The level of geological certainty associated with an indicated mineral resource is sufficient to allow a qualified person to apply modifying factors in sufficient detail to support mine planning and evaluation of the economic viability of the deposit. Because an indicated mineral resource has a lower level of confidence than the level of confidence of a measured mineral resource, an indicated mineral resource may only be converted to a probable mineral reserve. • Inferred Mineral Resource: is that part of a mineral resource for which quantity and grade or quality are estimated on the basis of limited geological evidence and sampling. The level of geological uncertainty associated with an inferred mineral resource is too high to apply relevant technical and economic factors likely to influence the prospects of economic extraction in a manner useful for evaluation of economic viability. Because an inferred mineral resource has the lowest level of geological confidence of all mineral resources, which prevents the application of the modifying factors in a manner useful for evaluation of economic viability, an inferred mineral resource may not be considered when assessing the economic viability of a mining project and may not be converted to a mineral reserve. • Initial Assessment: is a preliminary technical and economic study of the economic potential of all or parts of mineralization to support the disclosure of mineral resources. The initial assessment must be prepared by a qualified person and must include appropriate assessments of reasonably assumed technical and economic factors, together with any other relevant operational factors, that are necessary to demonstrate at the time of reporting that there are reasonable prospects for economic extraction. An initial assessment is required for disclosure of mineral resources but cannot be used as the basis for disclosure of mineral reserves. • Measured Mineral Resource: is that part of a mineral resource for which quantity and grade or quality are estimated on the basis of conclusive geological evidence and sampling. The level of geological certainty associated with a measured mineral resource is sufficient to allow a qualified person to apply modifying factors, as defined in this section, in sufficient detail to support detailed mine planning and final evaluation of the economic viability of the deposit. Because a measured mineral resource has a higher level of confidence than the level of confidence of either an indicated mineral resource or an inferred mineral resource, a measured mineral resource may be converted to a proven mineral reserve or to a probable mineral reserve. • Mineral Reserve: is an estimate of tonnage and grade or quality of indicated and measured mineral resources that, in the opinion of the qualified person, can be the basis of an economically viable project. More specifically, it is the economically mineable part of a measured or indicated mineral resource, which includes diluting materials and allowances for losses that may occur when the material is mined or extracted. • Mineral Resource: is a concentration or occurrence of material of economic interest in or on the earth's crust in such form, grade or quality, and quantity that there are reasonable prospects for economic extraction. A mineral resource is a reasonable estimate of mineralization, taking into account relevant factors such as cut-off grade, likely mining dimensions, location or continuity, that, with the assumed and justifiable technical and economic conditions, is likely to, in whole or in part, become economically extractable. It is not merely an inventory of all mineralization drilled or sampled. • Modifying Factors: are the factors that a qualified person must apply to indicated and measured mineral resources and then evaluate in order to establish the economic viability of mineral reserves. A qualified person must apply and evaluate modifying factors to convert measured and indicated mineral resources to proven and probable mineral reserves. These factors include, but are not restricted to: mining; processing; metallurgical; infrastructure; economic; marketing; legal; environmental compliance; plans, negotiations, or agreements with local individuals or groups; and governmental factors. The number, type and specific characteristics of the modifying factors applied will necessarily be a function of and depend upon the mineral, mine, property, or project. • Preliminary Feasibility Study (or Pre-Feasibility Study): is a comprehensive study of a range of options for the technical and economic viability of a mineral project that has advanced to a stage where a qualified person has determined (in the case of underground mining) a preferred mining method, or (in the case of surface mining) a pit configuration, and in all cases has determined an effective method of mineral processing and an effective plan to sell the product. (1) A pre-feasibility study includes a financial analysis based on reasonable assumptions, based on appropriate testing, about the modifying factors and the evaluation of any other relevant factors that are sufficient for a qualified person to determine if all or part of the indicated and measured mineral resources may be converted to mineral reserves at the time of reporting. The financial analysis must have the level of detail necessary to demonstrate, at the time of reporting, that extraction is economically viable. (2) A pre-feasibility study is less comprehensive and results in a lower confidence level than a feasibility study. A pre-feasibility study is more comprehensive and results in a higher confidence level than an initial assessment. 8 • Preliminary Market Study: is a study that is sufficiently rigorous and comprehensive to determine and support the existence of a readily accessible market for the mineral. It must, at a minimum, include product specifications based on preliminary geologic and metallurgical testing, supply and demand forecasts, historical prices for the preceding five or more years, estimated long term prices, evaluation of competitors (including products and estimates of production volumes, sales, and prices), customer evaluation of product specifications, and market entry strategies. The study must provide justification for all assumptions. It can, however, be less rigorous and comprehensive than a final market study, which is required for a full feasibility study. • Probable Mineral Reserve: is the economically mineable part of an indicated and, in some cases, a measured mineral resource. • Production Stage Issuer: is an issuer that is engaged in material extraction of mineral reserves on at least one material property. • Proven Mineral Reserve: is the economically mineable part of a measured mineral resource and can only result from conversion of a measured mineral resource. • Qualified Person: is an individual who is: (1) a mineral industry professional with at least five years of relevant experience in the type of mineralization and type of deposit under consideration and in the specific type of activity that person is undertaking on behalf of the registrant; and (2) an eligible member or licensee in good standing of a recognized professional organization at the time the technical report is prepared. For an organization to be a recognized professional organization, it must: (i) be either: (A) an organization recognized within the mining industry as a reputable professional association; or (B) a board authorized by U.S. federal, state or foreign statute to regulate professionals in the mining, geoscience or related field; (ii) admit eligible members primarily on the basis of their academic qualifications and experience; (iii) establish and require compliance with professional standards of competence and ethics; (iv) require or encourage continuing professional development; (v) have and apply disciplinary powers, including the power to suspend or expel a member regardless of where the member practices or resides; and (vi) provide a public list of members in good standing. CIM and NI 43-101 Definitions: • Feasibility Study: A “feasibility study” is a comprehensive technical and economic study of the selected development option for a mineral project that includes appropriately detailed assessments of applicable modifying factors, together with any other relevant operational factors and detailed financial analysis that are necessary to demonstrate, at the time of reporting, that extraction is reasonably justified (economically mineable). The results of the study may reasonably serve as the basis for a final decision by a proponent or financial institution to proceed with, or finance, the development of the project. The confidence level of the study will be higher than that of a pre-feasibility study. • Indicated Mineral Resource: An “indicated mineral resource” is that part of a mineral resource for which quantity, grade or quality, densities, shape and physical characteristics are estimated with sufficient confidence to allow the application of modifying factors in sufficient detail to support mine planning and evaluation of the economic viability of the deposit. Geological evidence is derived from adequately detailed and reliable exploration, sampling and testing and is sufficient to assume geological and grade or quality continuity between points of observation. An indicated mineral resource has a lower level of confidence than that applied to a measured mineral resource and may only be converted to a probable mineral reserve. • Inferred Mineral Resource: An “inferred mineral resource” is that part of a mineral resource for which quantity and grade or quality are estimated on the basis of limited geological evidence and sampling. Geological evidence is sufficient to imply, but not verify, geological and grade or quality continuity. An inferred mineral resource has a lower level of confidence than that applied to an indicated mineral resource and must not be converted to a mineral reserve. It is reasonably expected that the majority of inferred mineral resources could be upgraded to “indicated mineral resources” with continued exploration. • Measured Mineral Resource: A “measured mineral resource” is that part of a mineral resource for which quantity, grade or quality, densities, shape and physical characteristics are estimated with confidence sufficient to allow the application of modifying factors to support detailed mine planning and final evaluation of the economic viability of the deposit. Geological evidence is derived from detailed and reliable exploration, sampling, and testing and is sufficient to confirm geological and grade or quality continuity between points of observation. A measured mineral resource has a higher level of confidence than that applied to either an indicated mineral resource or an inferred mineral resource. It may be converted to a proven mineral reserve or to a probable mineral reserve. 9 • Mineral Reserve: A “mineral reserve” is the economically mineable part of a measured and/or indicated mineral resource. It includes diluting materials and allowances for losses which may occur when the material is mined or is extracted and is defined by studies at pre-feasibility or feasibility level as appropriate that include application of modifying factors. Such studies demonstrate that, at the time of reporting, extraction could reasonably be justified. The reference point at which mineral reserves are defined, usually the point where the ore is delivered to the processing plant, must be stated. It is important that, in all situations where the reference point is different, such as for a saleable product, a clarifying statement is included to ensure that the reader is fully informed as to what is being reported. The public disclosure of a mineral reserve must be demonstrated by a pre-feasibility study or feasibility study. • Mineral Resource: A “mineral resource” is a concentration or occurrence of solid material of economic interest in or on the Earth’s crust in such form, grade or quality and quantity that there are reasonable prospects for eventual economic extraction. The location, quantity, grade or quality, continuity and other geological characteristics of a mineral resource are known, estimated or interpreted from specific geological evidence and knowledge, including sampling. • Modifying Factors: “ Modifying factors” are considerations used to convert mineral resources to mineral reserves. These include, but are not restricted to, mining, processing, metallurgical, infrastructure, economic, marketing, legal, environmental, social, and governmental factors. • PEA: A Preliminary Economic Assessment performed in accordance with NI 43-101. A Preliminary Economic Assessment is a study, other than a pre-feasibility study or feasibility study, which includes an economic analysis of the potential viability of mineral resources. • Pre-Feasibility Study: A “pre-feasibility study” is a comprehensive study of a range of options for the technical and economic viability of a mineral project that has advanced to a stage where a preferred mining method, in the case of underground mining, or the pit configuration, in the case of an open pit, is established and an effective method of mineral processing is determined. It includes a financial analysis based on reasonable assumptions on the modifying factors and the evaluation of any other relevant factors which are sufficient for a qualified person, acting reasonably, to determine if all or part of the mineral resource may be converted to a mineral reserve at the time of reporting. A pre-feasibility study is at a lower confidence level than a feasibility study. • Probable Mineral Reserve: A Probable Mineral Reserve is the economically mineable part of an Indicated, and in some circumstances, a Measured Mineral Resource. The confidence in the Modifying Factors applying to a Probable Mineral Reserve is lower than that applying to a Proven Mineral Reserve. • Proven Mineral Reserve: A Proven Mineral Reserve is the economically mineable part of a Measured Mineral Resource. A Proven Mineral Reserve implies a high degree of confidence in the Modifying Factors. • Qualified Person: means an individual who: (a) is an engineer or geoscientist with a university degree, or equivalent accreditation, in an area of geoscience, or engineering, relating to mineral exploration or mining; (b) has at least five years of experience in mineral exploration, mine development or operation or mineral project assessment, or any combination of these, that is relevant to his or her professional degree or area of practice; (c) has experience relevant to the subject matter of the mineral project and the technical report; (d) is in good standing with a professional association; and (e) in the case of a professional association in a foreign jurisdiction, has a membership designation that (i) requires attainment of a position of responsibility in their profession that requires the exercise of independent judgment; and (ii) requires A. a favorable confidential peer evaluation of the individual’s character, professional judgement, experience, and ethical fitness; or B. a recommendation for membership by at least two peers and demonstrated prominence or expertise in the field of mineral exploration or mining. GLOSSARY OF TECHNICAL TERMS The following defined technical terms are used in this Annual Report: • % U 3 O 8 Eq: Equivalent uranium grade calculated by combining uranium content and copper content by factoring in the grade, commodity price and metallurgical recovery for each metal. • ANM Process Area: An area (up to 2,000 hectares) granted by the Federal Government of Brazil to a Brazilian Legal Entity for the exploration and or the extraction of minerals. • APP: An Aquifer Protection Permit, issued by ADEQ (see “ Glossary of Regulatory Agencies and Exchanges ” below). • Assay: The testing of a metal or natural material to determine its ingredients and quality. • Breccia: A rock in which angular fragments are surrounded by a mass of fine-grained materials. 10 • CAP: A Corrective Action Plan. • Copper: A red-brown metal, the chemical element of atomic number 29. • Cut-off grade: The grade (i.e., the concentration of metal or mineral in rock) that determines the destination of the material during mining. For purposes of establishing “prospects of economic extraction,” the cut-off grade is the grade that distinguishes material deemed to have no economic value (it will not be mined in underground mining or if mined in surface mining, its destination will be the waste dump) from material deemed to have economic value (its ultimate destination during mining will be the processing facility). Other terms used in similar fashion as cut-off grade include net smelter return, pay limit, and break-even stripping ratio. • EA: Environmental Assessment prepared under NEPA for a mineral project. • EIS: Environmental Impact Statement prepared under NEPA for a mineral project. • eU 3 O 8 : This term refers to equivalent U 3 O 8 grade derived by gamma logging of drill holes. • Extraction: The process of physically extracting mineralized material from the ground. Exploration continues during the extraction process, and, in many cases, mineralized material is expanded during the life of the extraction activities as the exploration potential of the deposit is realized. • FONSI: Finding of No Significant Impact under NEPA, as defined below, for a mineral project. • Formation: A distinct layer of sedimentary or volcanic rock of similar composition. • Grade: Quantity or percentage of metal per unit weight of host rock. • GWDP: A groundwater discharge permit, issuable by UDEQ. • Heavy Mineral: A mineral with a density greater than 2.9 g/cm 3 . • Heavy Mineral Sand: A mineral deposit containing heavy minerals, silica sand, clay and other minerals. • HMC: Heavy Mineral Sand concentrate, containing approximately 80-90% heavy minerals. • HMS: Heavy Mineral Sand. • Host Rock: The rock containing a mineral or an ore body. • In-situ recovery or ISR: The recovery, by chemical means, of the uranium component of a deposit without the physical extraction of uranium-bearing material from the ground. ISR utilizes injection of appropriate oxidizing chemicals into a uranium-bearing sandstone deposit by injection wells, with the uranium-bearing solution being removed by extraction wells; also referred to as “solution mining.” • Mineral: A naturally formed chemical element or compound having a definite chemical composition and, usually, a characteristic crystal form. • Mineralization: A natural occurrence, in rocks or soil, of one or more metal yielding minerals. • Mineralized material: Material that contains mineralization (e.g., uranium, vanadium and/or copper) and that is not included in an SEC Reserve as it does not meet all of the criteria for adequate demonstration of economic or legal extraction. • Monazite: A phosphate mineral with a chemical composition of (Ce,La,Nd,Th)PO 4 . It is a naturally occurring uranium- and rare earth-bearing mineral. • MT: A metric ton or tonne; one MT equals 1.102 tons. • NEPA: The United States National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as amended. • NOI: A Notice of Intent, filed by Energy Fuels to a regulatory agency as a part of a licensing or permitting action related to a mineral project. • Open Pit: Surface mineral extraction in which the mineralized material is extracted from a pit or quarry. • Ore: Mineral-bearing rock that can be mined, processed and concentrated profitably under current or immediately foreseeable economic conditions. A company may only refer to reserves (as that term is defined in S-K 1300) as “ore.” • Ore body: A mostly solid and fairly continuous mass of in-ground mineralization estimated to be economically mineable. • Outcrop: That part of a geologic formation or structure that appears at the surface of the Earth. • PO: Plan of Operations for a mineral project prepared in accordance with applicable United States Bureau of Land Management or United States Forest Service regulations. • Rare Earth Elements or REEs: a group of seventeen metallic elements consisting of the fifteen lanthanide elements along with scandium and yttrium. • Reclamation: The process by which lands disturbed as a result of mineral extraction activities are modified to support beneficial land use. Reclamation activity may include the removal of buildings, equipment, machinery, and other physical remnants of mining activities, closure of tailings storage facilities, leach pads, and other features, and contouring, covering and re-vegetation of waste rock, and other disturbed areas. • RoD or Record of Decision: The final approval issued by a public land management agency for a PO. • Tonne: A metric ton (MT); one tonne equals 1.102 tons. • Uranium: a heavy, naturally radioactive, metallic element of atomic number 92. Uranium in its pure form is a heavy metal. Its two principal isotopes are U-238 and U-235, of which U-235 is the necessary component for the nuclear fuel cycle. However, “uranium” used in this Annual Report refers to triuranium octoxide, also called “U 3 O 8 ” and the 11 primary component of “yellowcake,” and is produced from uranium deposits. It is the most actively traded uranium-related commodity. • Uranium concentrate: a yellowish to yellow-brownish powder obtained from the chemical processing of uranium-bearing material. Uranium concentrate typically contains 70% to 90% U 3 O 8 by weight. Uranium concentrate is also referred to as “yellowcake.” • V 2 O 5 : Vanadium pentoxide, or the form of vanadium typically produced at the White Mesa Mill, also called “black flake.” • Valuable Heavy Minerals: The portion of heavy minerals (density greater than 2.9 g/cm3) that have economic value. Examples include ilmenite, rutile, zircon and monazite. • Yellowcake: Another name for Uranium Concentrate (U 3 O 8 ). GLOSSARY OF REGULATORY AGENCIES AND EXCHANGES • ADEQ: The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality. • ANM: The Brazilian National Mining Agency (Agência Nacional de Mineração). • BLM: The U.S. Bureau of Land Management, an agency of the U.S. Department of the Interior. • CRA: The Canada Revenue Agency, an agency of the Government of Canada. • DOC: The U.S. Department of Commerce, an executive department of the U.S. government. • DOE: The U.S. Department of Energy, a cabinet-level department of the U.S. government. • DOI: The U.S. Department of Interior, a federal executive department of the U.S. government. • DWQ: The Utah Division of Water Quality. • EIA: The U.S. Energy Information Administration, a principal agency of the U.S. Federal Statistical System. • EPA: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, an independent agency of the U.S. government. • MSHA: The Mine Safety and Health Administration, an agency of the U.S. Department of Labor. • NRC: The Nuclear Regulatory Commission, an independent agency of the U.S. government. • NYSE American: The NYSE American stock exchange, a stock exchange based in New York, New York. • OSC: The Ontario Securities Commission. • OSHA: The Occupational Safety and Health Administration, an agency of the U.S. Department of Labor. • SEC: The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, an independent agency of the U.S. government. • TCEQ: Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. • TSX: The Toronto Stock Exchange, a stock exchange located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. • UDAQ: The Utah Division of Air Quality. • UDEQ: The Utah Department of Environmental Quality. • UDOGM: The Utah Division of Oil, Gas and Mining. • USACE: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, an agency of the U.S. Department of Defense. • USFS: The U.S. Forest Service, an agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. • USFW: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, an agency of the U.S. Department of the Interior. • WDEQ: The Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality. • WDEQ-AQD: The Air Quality Division of the WDEQ. • WDEQ-LQD: The Land Quality Division of the WDEQ. • WDEQ-WQD: The Water Quality Division of the WDEQ. • WSEO: The Wyoming State Engineer’s Office. 12 PART I ITEM 1. DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS General Development of the Business Corporate Structure Energy Fuels Inc. is an Ontario corporation with its corporate offices located in Lakewood, Colorado (a city in the Denver metropolitan area). It was incorporated on June 24, 1987 in the Province of Alberta under the name “368408 Alberta Inc.” In October 1987, 368408 Alberta Inc. changed its name to “Trevco Oil & Gas Ltd.” In May 1990, Trevco Oil & Gas Ltd. changed its name to “Trev Corp.” In August 1994, Trev Corp. changed its name to “Orogrande Resources Inc.” In April 2001, Orogrande Resources Inc. changed its name to “Volcanic Metals Exploration Inc.” On September 2, 2005, the Company was continued under the Business Corporations Act (Ontario) (the “ OBCA ”). On March 26, 2006, Volcanic Metals Exploration Inc. acquired 100% of the outstanding shares of “Energy Fuels Resources Corporation.” On May 26, 2006, Volcanic Metals Exploration Inc. changed its name to “Energy Fuels Inc.” On November 5, 2013, the Company amended its Articles of Incorporation to consolidate its issued and outstanding, freely tradable Common Shares on the basis of one post-consolidation Common Share for every 50 pre-consolidation Common Shares (the “ Consolidation ”). The Company’s U.S.-based assets, which include uranium, vanadium and REE extraction, recovery, permitting, evaluation and exploration assets, are held directly and indirectly, as the case may be, by the Company’s wholly owned subsidiaries Energy Fuels Holdings Corp. (“ EF Holdings ”) and Strathmore Minerals Corp. (“ Strathmore ”). The Company, through its wholly owned subsidiary Energy Fuels Brazil Ltda., acquired the Bahia Project in the State of Bahia, Brazil on February 10, 2023, which consists of 17 mineral concessions totaling approximately 37,300 acres or 58.3 square miles. See “Part I, Item 1. Description of Business - Material Transactions ,” “Part I, Item 1. Description of Business - 2023 Corporate Developments ” and Part I, Item 2. “ Description of Properties - The Bahia Project ,” below. On February 14, 2023, the Company sold its Alta Mesa Project in Texas through the sale of its three Texas subsidiaries, Leoncito Project, LLC, Leoncito Plant, LLC and Leoncito Properties, LLC. See “Part I, Item 1. Material Transactions ,” below. All of the Company’s U.S.-based employees are employed by its subsidiary Energy Fuels Resources (USA) Inc. (“ EFUSA ”), a wholly owned subsidiary of EF Holdings, which also serves as operator of all of the Company’s U.S. properties. A diagram depicting the organizational structure of the Company and its subsidiaries, including the name, U.S. state, Canadian province or Brazilian state of incorporation, and proportion of ownership interest of each, is included as Exhibit 21.1 to this Annual Report. Energy Fuels owns a number of inactive subsidiaries which have no material assets or liabilities and do not engage in any material business activities. Each of the Company’s subsidiaries has its principal place of business and corporate office at 225 Union Blvd., Suite 600, Lakewood, Colorado 80228, USA, though additional support offices are located at a number of Company properties. The registered office of EFUSA and principal place of business for the Company is at 225 Union Blvd., Suite 600, Lakewood, Colorado 80228, USA, and the registered office of the Company is located at 82 Richmond Street East, Suite 308 Toronto, Ontario, M5C 1P1, Canada. The Company’s website address is www.energyfuels.com . The primary trading market for Energy Fuels’ Common Shares is the NYSE American under the trading symbol “ UUUU ,” and the Company’s Common Shares are also listed on the TSX under the trading symbol “ EFR .” Energy Fuels is a U.S. domestic issuer for SEC reporting purposes and, in addition, is a reporting issuer in all Canadian provinces. Options on Energy Fuels’ Common Shares are traded on The Chicago Board Options Exchange. The Designated Primary Market Maker for the Options is Group One Trading, LP. Citadel Securities is the Company’s Market Maker on the NYSE American. On December 5, 2023, IsoEnergy Ltd. (TSXV: ISO; OTCQX: ISENF) (“ IsoEnergy ”) and Consolidated Uranium Inc. (TSXV: CUR; OTCQB: CURUF) (“ CUR ”) announced the successful completion of a previously announced arrangement whereby IsoEnergy acquired all the issued and outstanding common shares of CUR (the “ CUR Shares ”). Pursuant to the arrangement, CUR’s shareholders received 0.500 common shares of IsoEnergy for every one common share of CUR. At the time of the arrangement, the Company held 16,189,548 CUR Shares, which, when converted, resulted in an approximate ownership interest in IsoEnergy’s common shares of 5.0%. Concurrently, IsoEnergy engaged in a marketed private placement offering of 8,134,500 subscription receipts. In order to maintain its post-arrangement ownership interest in IsoEnergy, the Company agreed to invest additional capital in IsoEnergy by purchasing 406,650 additional common shares as a part of the capital raise. As a result, the Company now holds a total of 8,501,424 common shares of IsoEnergy, constituting an approximate 5.0% ownership interest of IsoEnergy common shares upon completion of the merger and private placement offering. 13 Business Overview We responsibly produce several of the raw materials needed for clean energy and advanced technologies, including uranium, rare earth elements and vanadium. Our primary product is U 3 O 8 (also known as natural uranium concentrate or yellowcake), which, when further processed, becomes the fuel for the generation of clean nuclear energy. According to the Nuclear Energy Institute, nuclear energy provides nearly 20% of the total electricity and 50% of the clean, carbon-free electricity generated in the U.S. The Company generates revenues from extracting and processing materials for the recovery of uranium, vanadium and REEs for our own account, as well as from toll processing materials for others. Energy Fuels is engaged in conventional and ISR uranium extraction and recovery, along with the exploration, permitting, and evaluation of uranium properties in the U.S. The Company also extracts and recovers vanadium from certain of its uranium projects, as market conditions warrant. In 2021, the Company commenced its ramp-up to commercial production of RE Carbonate, another byproduct of the uranium recovery process, and produced and sold commercial quantities of RE Carbonate in 2021, 2022 and 2023. To further its REE initiatives, the Company is currently undertaking enhancements and modifications to existing circuits at the Mill for the planned commercial separation of neodymium-praseodymium (“ NdPr ”) oxide from its RE Carbonate, while at the same time producing a “heavies” (Sm+) RE Carbonate. The Company also continues to evaluate the potential to recover radioisotopes from its existing process streams needed for emerging TAT cancer therapeutics. The Company’s Mill is the only conventional uranium mill, and the only uranium, vanadium and REE recovery facility operating in the U.S., and has a licensed capacity to produce over 8 million pounds of U 3 O 8 per year. The Company is also securing its own sources of uranium- and REE-bearing monazite sands, and in February 2023 acquired the Bahia Project in Brazil (see “Part I, Item 1. Description of Business - Material Transactions ,” “Part I, Item 1. Description of Business - 2023 Corporate Developments ” and “Part I, Item 2. Description of Properties - The Bahia Project ” below) in furtherance of a fully integrated U.S.-based REE supply chain. The Company continues to engage in active discussions to secure other sources of monazite sands, thereby diversifying its supply base and strengthening its REE business. In addition, Energy Fuels recovers uranium from other uranium-bearing materials not derived from natural or native ores, referred to as “ Alternate Feed Materials ,” at its Mill, thereby recycling materials back into the market that would otherwise be lost to direct disposal. With its uranium, vanadium, REE and potential radioisotope production, the Mill is working to establish itself as a critical minerals hub in the U.S. Uranium is the fuel for carbon-free, emission-free baseload nuclear power, and one of the cleanest forms of energy in the world. The REEs we are now producing are used to manufacture permanent magnets for electric vehicles (“ EVs ”), wind turbines and other clean energy technologies. The radioisotopes we are evaluating for recovery from our REE and uranium processing streams have the potential to provide materials needed for emerging TAT cancer-fighting therapeutics. The very heart of our business – uranium and rare-earth production and recycling – helps us play a part in addressing global climate change, reducing air pollution, and making the world a cleaner and healthier place. The Company owns conventional uranium, uranium/vanadium and HMS properties and projects in various stages of operation, development, exploration and permitting, as well as fully permitted uranium and uranium/vanadium projects on standby. Energy Fuels also owns the Nichols Ranch Uranium Recovery Facility in Wyoming (the “ Nichols Ranch Project ”), which is a fully permitted uranium ISR facility with a licensed capacity to produce 2 million pounds of U 3 O 8 per year. While production at the Nichols Ranch Project is currently being maintained on standby, the Company is undertaking exploration and development activities to expand the resources at the Nichols Ranch Project and to further develop a wellfield to be ready for potential recommencement of production in 2025. See “The Nichols Ranch ISR Project” under Item 2 below. ISR Operations The Company conducts its ISR activities through its Nichols Ranch Project in northeast Wyoming, which it acquired in June 2015 through its acquisition of Uranerz Energy Corporation (“ Uranerz ”). 14 The Nichols Ranch Project includes: (i) a licensed and operating ISR processing facility (the “ Nichols Ranch Plant ”); (ii) licensed and operating ISR wellfields (the “ Nichols Ranch Wellfields ”); (iii) additional licensed ISR wellfields planned for future production (the “ Jane Dough Property ”); and (iv) a licensed satellite ISR uranium project (the “ Hank Project ”), which, if and when put into production would include an ISR satellite processing plant (the “ Hank Satellite Plant ”) that, when constructed, would produce loaded-resin, and associated planned wellfields (together, the “ Hank Property ”). See “ The Nichols Ranch ISR Project ” under Item 2 below. Also through the acquisition of Uranerz, the Company acquired the West North Butte property (the “ West North Butte Property ”) and the North Rolling Pin property (the “ North Rolling Pin Property ”), as well as the Arkose Mining Venture (the “ Arkose Mining Venture ”), which is a joint venture of Wyoming ISR properties held 81% by Energy Fuels and 19% by United Nuclear, LLC (see “Part II, Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data - Note 17 Related Party Transactions ”). The Nichols Ranch Project is an ISR facility with production currently on standby that recovers uranium through a series of injection and recovery wells. Using groundwater fortified with oxygen and sodium bicarbonate, uranium is dissolved within a deposit. The uranium-bearing groundwater is then collected in a series of recovery wells and pumped to the Nichols Ranch Plant where the uranium is extracted from the water. The Nichols Ranch Plant creates a yellowcake slurry that is transported by truck to the Mill, where it is dried and packaged into drums that are shipped to uranium conversion facilities. Construction of the Nichols Ranch Plant, other than the elution, drying and packaging circuits, was completed in 2013, and it commenced uranium recovery activities in 2014. In 2015, the Company commenced construction of an elution circuit at the Nichols Ranch Plant, which was completed and began operations in early 2016. The Nichols Ranch Project was placed on standby in 2020. As a result, the Company recovered de minimis pounds of U 3 O 8 from the Project in 2023 and expects to recover de minimis quantities of U 3 O 8 in 2024. Nichols Ranch is expected to be able to ramp back up to commercial production levels with limited required capital within approximately six to twelve months of a decision to recommence production. While production at the Nichols Ranch Project is currently being maintained on standby, the Company is undertaking exploration and development activities to expand the resources at the Nichols Ranch Project and to further develop a wellfield to be ready for potential recommencement of production in late 2024 or in 2025. See “Part II, Item 7. Operations Update and Outlook for 2024: ISR Extraction and Recovery Activities. ” The Company sold its Alta Mesa ISR Project for total consideration of $120 million, which closed on February 14, 2023 (see “Part I, Item 1. Description of Business - Material Transactions ” and “Part I, Item 2. Description of Properties - ISR Uranium Activities ” below). Conventional Operations The Company conducts its conventional uranium, REE, vanadium and potential medical radioisotope extraction and recovery activities through the Mill, which is the only operating conventional uranium mill, and the only uranium, REE and vanadium processing facility in the United States. The Mill located near Blanding, San Juan County, Utah, is centrally located such that it can conveniently and cost-effectively be fed by a number of the Company’s uranium and uranium/vanadium projects in Colorado, Utah, Arizona and New Mexico, as well as by ore purchases or toll milling arrangements with third parties in the region, as market conditions warrant. The Mill is licensed to process 2,000 tons of ore per day and over 8 million pounds of U 3 O 8 per year. It is primarily a uranium recovery facility but can also recover REEs and vanadium along with uranium from various uranium ores. During the year ended December 31, 2023, the Company did not recover any pounds of uranium at the Mill, other than uranium from its monazite processing that is expected to remain in circuit and not be packaged in 2024. The Mill can recycle other uranium-bearing materials not derived from natural or native ores, known as Alternate Feed Materials, for the recovery of uranium, alone or in combination with other metals. In addition, the Mill is also evaluating the potential to recover certain radioisotopes from its existing process streams that can be used for TAT medical purposes. The Mill has historically operated on a campaign basis, whereby mineral processing occurs as mill feed, contract requirements and/or as market conditions warrant. Over the years, Company-owned and third-party owned conventional uranium properties in Utah, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico have been both active and on standby in response to changing market conditions. Since 2007, the Mill has primarily recovered U 3 O 8 from conventional sources, including its La Sal Complex (the “ La Sal Project ”), Daneros Project and Tony M property in Utah (the latter two of which were sold in 2021); its Arizona 1 project (the “ Arizona 1 Project ”) and its Pinenut project (the “ Pinenut Project ”) (which is currently in an advanced state of reclamation) in Arizona, as well as from a number of Alternate Feed Materials in furtherance of its core recycling program of third-party materials otherwise subject to direct disposal. 15 In 2023, the Company focused on preparing its La Sal, Beaver, Whirlwind and Pinyon Plain Projects for future potential production, while maintaining its Nichols Ranch Project and other conventional mining properties on standby. In late 2023, the Company commenced uranium production at its Pinyon Plain Project and its La Sal and Pandora mines (the La Sal and Pandora mines each comprise a portion of the La Sal Project). Once production is fully ramped up at the three mines, which is currently planned for mid- to late-2024, the Company expects to be producing uranium at a run-rate of approximately 1.1 to 1.4 million pounds per year. Ore mined from the three mines during 2024 will be stockpiled at the Mill for processing that is anticipated to start in late 2024 or in 2025, subject to market conditions, contract requirements and/or the Mill’s schedule. The Company is also preparing two (2) mines (the Whirlwind mine and the Nichols Ranch ISR project) to commence uranium production within one (1) year, which would increase Energy Fuels' uranium production to a run-rate of over two (2) million pounds of U 3 O 8 per year starting in 2025, if strong market conditions continue as expected. At the same time, the Company will continue to produce uranium from its Alternate Feed Material recycling program, which is expected to result in an estimated 150,000 pounds of finished U 3 O 8 in 2024, while the Company stockpiles ore as raw materials from its conventional mines pending the upcoming Mill run. The Company also expects to commence an ore-buying program from third-party miners in 2024, which is expected to increase the Company’s short-term uranium production profile even further. In 2024, the Company also plans to advance permitting on the Roca Honda, Sheep Mountain and Bullfrog Projects, which could expand the Company’s uranium production to a run-rate of up to five million pounds of U 3 O 8 per year in the coming years. Furthermore, the Company expects to produce at a run-rate of 1.0-2.0 million pounds of vanadium per year, which could be held as in-process inventory or processed into finished V 2 O 5 available for sale into improving markets. During 2024, Energy Fuels expects to sell 200,000 pounds of uranium into its existing portfolio of long-term contracts, which is expected to occur in Q1-2024. In addition, a utility customer has the option to purchase a further 100,000 pounds of uranium from Energy Fuels in 2024. The Company has already sold an additional 100,000 pounds of U 3 O 8 on the spot market during Q1-2024 at a weighted average sales price of $102.88 per pound. The Company holds uncommitted inventory and, with the benefit of future production, will continue to evaluate additional spot and/or long-term uranium sales opportunities during 2024 and beyond. The Company expects uranium inventories to total between approximately 585,000 to 935,000 pounds of U 3 O 8 at year-end 2024, subject to unknown potential other uranium spot sales and purchases and the amount and time of ore production from the Pinyon Plain mine and Alternate Feed stockpiles in 2024. In addition to t he Company’s uranium business, the Company will also continue to advance its REE program at the Mill in 2024, along with the Mill’s uranium production, to fully capitalize on the Mill's unique and valuable capabilities. As previously announced, the Mill is in the process of installing the capacity to produce up to 1,000 tonnes of neodymium-praseodymium (“ NdPr ”) oxide per year, subject to receipt of sufficient monazite feed. This capacity is expected to be completed in Q1 2024. This quantity of NdPr oxide could power up to 1 million electric vehicles (“ EVs ”) per year. At the current time, the Company expects to produce roughly 25 – 35 tonnes of NdPr oxide, plus approximately 10 – 20 tonnes of an Sm + RE Carbonate, in Q2 2024 as it ramps-up and optimizes the newly installed circuit, after which the Mill currently plans to focus solely on uranium and uranium/vanadium production through at least mid-2026. Subject to successful exploration, permitting and development of the Bahia Project and market conditions, the Company currently expects that monazite produced from the Company’s Bahia Project could be available for processing at the Mill commencing as early as 2026 to produce uranium, NdPr oxide and an Sm+ RE Carbonate (or separated Terbium (“ TB ”) and Dysprosium (“ DY ”) oxides instead of an Sm+ RE Carbonate) along with continued uranium production from the Company’s Pinyon Plain, La Sal, Pandora and potentially Whirlwind mines. Similarly, if the Company successfully completes its previously announced potential joint venture on the Donald Rare Earth and Mineral Sands Project, located in the Wimmera Region of the State of Victoria, Australia (the “ Donald Project ”) (see “Part I, Item 1. 2023 Corporate Developments ,” below), monazite production from that project could also be available at the Mill as early as 2026, subject to market conditions, successful development of that project and successful development of the Company’s Phase 2 crack and leach and Separation Facility (see “Part I, Item 1. Development of REE Separation Capability ,” below). The Company is also in active discussions with several parties globally to acquire additional quantities of natural monazite, which, if secured and delivered to the Mill, could result in significant additional quantities of uranium and separated REE oxide production as early as 2028. The Company expects to sell all the NdPr it produces in 2024 to Neo Performance Materials (“ Neo ”) under an existing contractual arrangement with Neo. Potential REE production after 2024 is currently uncontracted. The Mill's REE production is complementary to its uranium production and is not intended to diminish the Mill's uranium production profile in any w ay. The Company will continue to selectively sell its vanadium pentoxide (“ V 2 O 5 ”) inventory (approximately 905,000 pounds as of December 31, 2023) on the spot market as markets warrant, but will otherwise continue to maintain it in inventory. No vanadium production is currently planned for 2024, though the Company continually monitors its inventory and vanadium markets to guide future potential vanadium production. 16 The Company currently has approximately 685,000 pounds of finished U 3 O 8 inventory held at the Mill and at conversion facilities owned by ConverDyn and Cameco, along with approximately another 436,000 pounds of U 3 O 8 contained in stockpiled Alternate Feed Materials and mineralized material inventory that is expected to be processed for recovery in the future. In addition, there remains an estimated 1.0 to 3.0 million pounds of solubilized recoverable V 2 O 5 remaining in the Mill’s tailings facility awaiting future recovery, as market conditions may warrant. See Part II, Item 7 “ Outlook: Conventional Extraction and Recovery Activities. ” The Company also owns the Sheep Mountain Project (the “ Sheep Mountain Project ”), which is a conventional uranium extraction project located in Wyoming. Due to its distance from the Mill, the Sheep Mountain Project is not expected to be a source of feed material for the Mill. The Sheep Mountain Project consists of permitted open pit and underground extraction components (the “ Sheep Mountain Extraction Operation ”) and a planned processing facility to process extracted mineralized material (the “ Sheep Mountain Processing Operation ”), which has not yet been permitted. The Company’s principal conventional properties include the following: • the Mill, which is an operating 2,000 ton-per-day uranium, vanadium and REE processing facility located in Utah and held through the Company’s subsidiary EFR White Mesa LLC. See “Part I, Item 2.D. The White Mesa Mill ”; • the Pinyon Plain Project, which is a fully permitted and operating uranium project with all surface facilities and a shaft in place (see “Part I, Item 2.E. The Pinyon Plain Project ”); • the Bahia Project, which is comprised of 17 heavy minerals concessions covering 37,300 acres or 58.3 square miles, held through the Company’s subsidiary Energy Fuels Brazil Ltda. (see “ 2023 Corporate Developments ,” below); • the Wate project (the “ Wate Project ”), which is a uranium deposit in the permitting stage; the Arizona 1 project (the “ Arizona 1 Project ”), which is a fully permitted uranium project on standby; and the EZ properties (“ EZ Properties ”), which are uranium deposits in the exploration and evaluation stage. All of the Company’s Arizona Strip properties are held by the Company’s subsidiary EFR Arizona Strip LLC, with the exception of the Wate Project, which is held by the Company’s subsidiary Wate Mining Company LLC. See “Part I, Item 2K. Non-Material Mineral Properties – Other Conventional Projects – Arizona Strip ”; • the Roca Honda Uranium Project (the “ Roca Honda Project” ), which is located near the town of Grants, New Mexico, held by the Company’s subsidiaries Strathmore Resources (US), Ltd. and Roca Honda Resources LLC. See “Part I, Item 2.F. The Roca Honda Project ”; • the Sheep Mountain Project, which is a uranium project located near Jeffrey City, Wyoming, including permitted open pit and underground components held by the Company’s subsidiary Energy Fuels Wyoming Inc. See “Part I, Item 2G. The Sheep Mountain Project ”; • the Bullfrog Project (the “ Bullfrog Project ”), which is located in south central Utah near the town of Ticaboo, and which is held by the Company’s subsidiary EFR Henry Mountains LLC. See “Part I, Item 2H. The Bullfrog Project ”; • the La Sal Complex of uranium and uranium/vanadium projects (the “ La Sal Project ”) (see “Part I, Item 2I. The La Sal Project ”) and the Whirlwind uranium/vanadium project (the “ Whirlwind Project ”), both of which are located near the Colorado/Utah border (the “ Colorado Plateau ”) and, in addition to nearby exploration properties, are held by the Company’s subsidiary EFR Colorado Plateau LLC. See “Part I, Item 2K. Non-Material Mineral Properties – Other Conventional Projects – Colorado Plateau ”; and • a number of non-core uranium properties, which are held in various of the Company’s subsidiaries. See “Part I, Item 2K. Non-Material Mineral Properties .” Mineral Exploration Energy Fuels holds a number of exploration properties in the Colorado Plateau, Arizona Strip, and Powder River Basin Districts. Energy Fuels conducted intermittent exploration drilling on numerous projects in the period from February 2007 through December 2013. Several of those projects have been abandoned or sold. No further exploration drilling has been performed at these properties since 2013. See “Part I, Item 2K. Non-Material Mineral Properties .” The Company plans to engage in an exploration and drilling program at its Nichols Ranch Project and further delineation at its Pinyon Plain Project in 2024. See “Part I, Item 2. The Nichols Ranch Project, The Company’s Planned Work ” and “Part I, Item 2. The Pinyon Plain Project, The Company’s Planned Work .” The Company’s Rare Earth Elements Business REEs are a group of 17 chemical elements (the 15 elements in the lanthanum series, plus yttrium and scandium) that have a variety of industrial, energy, and defense uses, including advanced permanent magnets for EVs and wind turbines, communications technology, clean energy production, consumer electronics, defense systems, lasers and numerous other applications. See “ The Rare Earth Element Market ” below. 17 On April 13, 2020, the Company announced its entry into the REE sector by embarking on a program to evaluate the production of REEs and uranium at the Mill from uranium and REE-bearing mineralized materials, thereby taking a step towards bringing the REE supply chain back to the U.S. Later that year, the Company successfully produced a mixed RE Carbonate on a pilot scale using existing Mill infrastructure and technologies, along with the contained uranium, from a sample of monazite sands. For reference, RE Carbonate is an intermediate product which is sent to an REE separation facility for separation into individual REE oxides, which is the next step in producing usable REE products. Additionally, in 2020, the Company secured a three-year supply agreement for natural monazite sands from The Chemours Company’s Offerman Mineral Sand Plant in Georgia, USA, which is currently in the process of being renegotiated after unexpected shortfalls in the monazite delivery schedule. Then, in 2021, the Company and Neo announced a new rare earth production initiative spanning European and North American critical material supply chains, pursuant to which Energy Fuels processes natural monazite sands for the recovery of uranium and RE Carbonate at the Mill and ships the RE Carbonate to Neo’s NPM Silmet AS REE separations facility in Estonia (“ Silmet ”), where it is made into separated REE materials for use in REE permanent magnets and other REE-based advanced materials. This is the most advanced REE material being produced in the U.S. today at scale, since it is a high-purity product ready for REE separation without further processing, refining or purification. In February 2023, the Company acquired the Bahia Project in Brazil, which holds significant quantities of heavy minerals, including monazite (see “Part I, Item 1. Description of Business - Material Transactions ” below). The acquisition of the Bahia Project is a part of the Company’s efforts to build a large and diverse book of monazite supply for its advancing REE processing business. The Company expects to procure monazite through Company-owned mines like the Bahia Project, joint ventures or other collaborations, and open market purchases. The Company is currently in advanced discussions with several additional current and future monazite producers around the world to potentially supply Energy Fuels’ REE initiatives. Development of REE Separation Capability In producing its commercial RE Carbonate, the Company has been separating lanthanum (“ La ”) and cerium (“ Ce ”) from the RE Carbonate stream utilizing existing Mill infrastructure in order to produce an RE Carbonate product with higher concentrations of NdPr and “heavy” REEs. This is the first commercial-level REE separation to occur in the U.S. in many years. Energy Fuels is also proceeding with the modification and enhancement of its infrastructure at the Mill (“ Phase 1 ”) to expand its REE separation facilities to be capable of producing commercial quantities of separated NdPr oxide by early 2024, followed by planned further enhancements to expand NdPr production capability (“ Phase 2 ”) and to produce separated Dy, Tb and potentially other REE materials in the future (“ Phase 3 ”) from monazite and potentially other REE process streams. The Company began construction on its “Phase 1” REE separation facilities in 2023, which includes modifications and enhancements to the solvent extraction (“ SX ”) circuits at the Mill. “Phase 1” is expected to have the capacity to process approximately 8,000 to 10,000 MT of monazite per year from the Mill’s process streams, producing roughly 4,000 to 5,000 MT TREO, containing roughly 800 to 1,000 MT of recoverable separated NdPr oxide per year, subject to receipt of sufficient monazite supply. Because Energy Fuels is utilizing existing infrastructure at the Mill, “Phase 1” capital is expected to total between $16 million and $18 million, or approximately $7 million to $9 million less than our initial $25 million budget. “Phase 1” is expected to be operational in early 2024, subject to successful construction and commissioning. At the current time, the Company expects to produce roughly 25 – 35 tonnes of NdPr oxide plus approximately 10 – 20 tonnes of an Sm+ RE Carbonate in Q2 2024, as it ramps-up and optimizes the newly installed circuit. If these milestones are achieved, Energy Fuels believes it will be the ‘first to market’ among U.S. companies with commercial quantities of separated NdPr available to EV, renewable energy and other companies for offtake. During “Phase 2,” Energy Fuels expects to expand its NdPr separation capabilities, with an expected capacity to process roughly 30,000 to 50,000 MT of monazite per year, depending on the availability of monazite and expected recovery of roughly 15,000 to 25,000 MT of TREO, containing roughly 3,000 to 5,000 MT of NdPr oxide per year, or sufficient NdPr for 1.5 to 5.0 million EVs per year. “Phase 2” is also expected to add a dedicated monazite “crack-and-leach” circuit to the Mill’s existing leach circuits, which may be constructed as the first stage of Phase 2, prior to construction of the expanded NdPr separation capabilities. The Company expects to complete “Phase 2” in 2027, subject to licensing, financing and receipt of sufficient monazite feed. During “Phase 3,” Energy Fuels expects to add “heavy” REE separation capabilities, including the production of Dy, Tb, and potentially other REE oxides and advanced materials. The Company will also evaluate the potential to produce La and Ce products. Monazite naturally contains higher concentrations of “heavy” REEs, including Dy and Tb, versus other REE-bearing ores, like bastnaesite, mainly due to the presence of another REE-bearing phosphate mineral called “xenotime.” “Phase 3” is 18 expected to enable Energy Fuels to produce separated Dy, Tb, and potentially other “light” and “heavy” products. The Company also expects to have additional “heavy” REE feedstock stockpiled from “Phase 1” and “Phase 2.” During these earlier phases, the Company expects to produce NdPr oxide and a samarium-plus (“ Sm+ ”) ”heavy” REE concentrate, which the Company will either sell or stockpile as feed for “Phase 3” REE separation. For reference, the monazite the Company has analyzed to date contains roughly 1% to 3% Dy and Tb, so 10,000 MT of monazite is expected to contain roughly 100 to 300 MT of Dy and Tb. The Company expects to complete “Phase 3” in 2028, subject to licensing, financing, and receipt of sufficient feed. Alternatively, the Company may delay Phase 2 and combine Phase 2 and Phase 3 separation capability. See also “ The Rare Earth Element Market ,” below, for further details on the REE market and “Part II, Item 7. Rare Earth Sales ” and “ Update on Rare Earth Element Initiative ” for further details on the above-referenced REE developments. There are a number of risks inherent to the Company’s REE activities. See “Part I, Item 1A. Risk Factors .” The Company’s Strategic Alliance for the Development of Radioisotopes for Medical Therapeutics On July 28, 2021, the Company announced the execution of a Strategic Alliance Agreement with RadTran LLC (“ RadTran ”), a technology development company focused on closing critical gaps in the procurement of medical isotopes for TAT cancer therapeutics and other applications. TAT is an in-development method of targeted radionuclide therapy for various cancers. It employs radioactive substances which undergo alpha decay to treat diseased tissue at close proximity. It has the potential to provide highly targeted treatment, especially to microscopic tumor cells. As in diagnostic nuclear medicine, appropriate alpha-emitting radionuclides can be chemically bound to a targeting biomolecule, such as a peptide, which carries the combined radiopharmaceutical to a specific treatment point (the cancerous cells). During the last decade, radiolabeled peptides that bind to different receptors on the tumors have been investigated as potential therapeutic agents both in the preclinical and clinical settings. Peptides, such as octreotide, alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone analogues, arginine-glycine-aspartic acid-containing peptides, bombesin derivatives and others may all be feasible for use with alpha-emitters. The primary advantage of alpha particle emitters over other types of radioactive sources is their very high linear energy transfer and relative biological effectiveness. By comparison, beta particle emitters such as yttrium-90 can travel considerable distances beyond the immediate tissue before depositing their energy, thereby causing damage to surrounding healthy tissues, while alpha particles deposit their energy in 70–100 μm long tracks, thereby causing significantly less harm to surrounding healthy tissues. Further, alpha particles are more likely than other types of radiation to cause double-strand breaks to DNA molecules, which is one of several effective causes of cell death. In other words, t he high level of radiobiological effectiveness of alpha particles, in comparison with beta emissions, requires fewer particle tracks to induce cell death. Though many alpha emitters exist, useful isotopes need to have sufficient energy to cause damage to cancer cells, while at the same time have a half-life that is long enough to provide a therapeutic dose without remaining long enough to damage surrounding healthy tissue. Clinically effective alpha particle-emitting isotopes for cancer therapy should therefore have a short half-life, which will limit long-term radiation exposure and allow for the production, preparation, and administration of these isotopes for clinical use and application. Radium 223 dichloride is the first-in-class, commercially available targeted alpha therapy approved for the treatment of patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer with bone metastases. Given the established overall survival benefit conferred by radium 223 for patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer, several other targeted alpha therapies are being investigated in clinical trials across many tumor types. Under its strategic alliance with RadTran, the Company is evaluating the feasibility of recovering Th-232 and Ra-226 from its existing RE Carbonate/uranium and uranium process streams at the Mill and, together with RadTran, is evaluating the feasibility of recovering Ra-228 from the Th-232 and potentially Th-228 from the Ra-228 and concentrating Ra-226 to commercial specifications at the Mill. Recovered Ra-228, Th-228 and Ra-226 would then be sold to pharmaceutical companies and others to produce Pb-212, Ac-225, Bi-213, Ra-224 and/or Ra-223, which are the leading medically attractive TAT isotopes for the treatment of cancer at this time. Existing supplies of these isotopes for TAT applications are in short supply, and methods of production are costly and currently cannot be scaled to meet the demand created as new drugs are developed and approved. This is a major roadblock in the research and development of new TAT drugs as pharmaceutical companies wait for scalable and affordable production technologies to become available. Under this initiative, the Company has the potential to recover valuable isotopes from its existing process streams, thereby recycling back into the market material that would otherwise be lost to disposal for use in treating cancer. Activities being undertaken by the Company at this time include evaluations of the technical feasibility of recovering Th-232, Ra-228 and Th-228 from the Mill’s RE Carbonate/uranium process streams, and Ra-226 from the Mill’s uranium process 19 streams; the permitting and licensing required to separate and recover Th-232, Ra-228, Th-228 and Ra-226 at the Mill; and the commercial feasibility of this project. There are a number of risks inherent to the Company’s isotope activities. See “ Item 1A. Risk Factors ” under Item 1A, below. San Juan County Clean Energy Foundation On September 16, 2021, the Company announced its establishment of the San Juan County Clean Energy Foundation (the “ Foundation ”), a fund specifically designed to contribute to the communities surrounding the Mill in southeastern Utah. Energy Fuels deposited an initial $1 million into the Foundation at the time of formation and now provides ongoing funding equal to 1% of the Mill’s revenues, thereby providing an ongoing source of funding to support local priorities. The Foundation focuses on supporting education, the environment, health/wellness, and local economic development in the City of Blanding, San Juan County, the White Mesa Ute Community, the Navajo Nation and other area communities. A seven-person Advisory Board, comprised of local citizens from San Juan County, evaluates grant applications on a quarterly basis and is making its recommendations to the Foundation’s Managers for final review and approval, who are currently the President and Chief Executive Officer and the Executive Vice President and Chief Legal Officer of the Company. As of the 2024 year-end, the Foundation has awarded 15 grants totaling $323,210, of which $236,710 was committed to American Indian initiatives. The Foundation’s website address is: https://sanjuancountycleanenergy.org/ . The Foundation’s website and the contents thereof should not be considered to be incorporated by reference into this Annual Report. Material Transactions Sale of the Alta Mesa ISR Project On February 15, 2023, the Company announced that it had closed on its sale of three wholly owned subsidiaries that together held Energy Fuels’ Alta Mesa ISR Project to enCore Energy (“ enCore ”) for total consideration of $120 million, paid as follows: a. $60 million cash at or prior to closing; and b. $60 million in a secured convertible note (the “ Convertible Note ”), payable in two years from the closing, bearing annual interest of eight percent (8%). The Convertible Note was convertible at Energy Fuels’ election into enCore shares at a conversion price of $2.9103, being a 20% premium to the 10-day volume-weighted average price of enCore's common shares ending the day before the closing. enCore is currently traded on the TSXV and NYSE American stock exchanges. The Convertible Note was guaranteed by enCore Energy Corp. and was fully secured by Alta Mesa. Except where the Company executed a block trade or similar distribution to sell the enCore common shares received on conversion of the Convertible Note, Energy Fuels was limited to converting the Convertible Note into a maximum of $10 million principal amount of the Convertible Note per thirty (30)-day period. In addition, enCore was required to replace the existing reclamation bonds for the Alta Mesa project (approximately $10.3 million) shortly after the closing of the transaction, which resulted in Energy Fuels receiving an additional $3.6 million cash as a return of collateral from those bonds. The Company estimates that the sale of Alta Mesa reduced Energy Fuels’ cash burn by approximately $2 million per year, which affords the Company additional resources to allocate to Energy Fuels’ uranium, REE, vanadium and medical isotope business plans for the next two to three years. During 2023, enCore redeemed $40.0 million of the principal amount of the Convertible Note and paid $1.8 million of interest to the Company in partial fulfillment of its obligations under the Convertible Note. On November 9, 2023, the Company sold the remaining $20.0 million principal amount of the Convertible Note for $21.0 million plus $1.5 million in unpaid accrued interest, less a sales commission of $0.1 million paid to a third-party broker. As a result, the Company received net cash proceeds of $64.2 million related to the redemptions, sale and interest received. Acquisition of the Bahia Project in Brazil On February 13, 2023, the Company announced that it had completed its previously announced acquisition of seventeen (17) mineral concessions between the towns of Prado and Caravelas in the State of Bahia, Brazil, totaling 15,089.71 hectares (or approximately 37.300 acres or 58.3 square miles) (the “ Bahia Project ”), for total cash consideration of $27.50 million. The Bahia Project is a well-known HMS deposit that has the potential to supply 3,000 to 10,000 metric tons of natural monazite concentrate per year for decades to the Mill for processing into high-purity REE oxides and other materials. The Company is currently in the midst of a sonic drilling program on the property to further define and quantify the HMC resource. The Company is also sampling the material and sending the material to laboratories for testing, including metal assay, mineralogic 20 characterization and process testing. The Company expects to announce drilling results this year, and to engage industry experts to calculate an initial mineral resource estimate compliant with S-K 1300 (U.S.) and NI 43-101 (Canada). 2023 Corporate Developments In addition to the Material Transactions detailed above, the Company saw the following corporate developments in 2023: On January 19, 2023, the Company sold 300,000 pounds of U 3 O 8 to the U.S. Uranium Reserve Program for $18.47 million, or $61.57 per pound. During 2023, the Company sold a total of 560,000 pounds of uranium to the U.S. Uranium Reserve Program and into its portfolio of long-term contracts for a weighted-average sales price of $59.42 per pound. During Q1-2023, the Company began modifying and enhancing its existing SX circuits at the Mill to be able to produce separated REE oxides (see “Phase 1” discussion under “Part I, Item 1. Description of Business - Development of REE Separation Capability ,” above). Phase 1, which is expected to be completed in Q1-2024 and commissioned in Q2-2024, is expected to have the capacity to produce 800 to 1,000 metric tons of separated NdPr oxide, subject to successful commissioning and ramp-up and receipt of sufficient monazite feed. On December 21, 2023, the Company announced that, in response to strong uranium market conditions, it had commenced uranium production at three of its permitted and developed uranium mines located in Arizona and Utah. In addition, the Company announced that it is preparing two additional mines in Colorado and Wyoming for expected production within one year and advancing permitting on several other large-scale U.S. mine projects in order to increase uranium production in the coming years. Once production is fully ramped up at the three mines, including the Pinyon Plain Project and the La Sal and Pandora mines (each of the La Sal and Pandora mines constitutes a portion of the La Sal Project), the Company expects to be producing uranium at a run-rate of approximately 1.1 to 1.4 million pounds per year. Ore will be stockpiled at the Mill for processing in 2024 or 2025, subject to market conditions, contract requirements and/or the Mill’s schedule. On December 27, 2023, the Company announced that it had entered into a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding (“ MOU ”) with Astron Corporation Limited (“ Astron ”) to jointly develop the Donald Project in Australia. The Donald Project is a well-known and “shovel-ready” critical mineral deposit that the Company believes could provide it with another near-term, low-cost, and large-scale source of monazite sand in an REE concentrate (“ REEC ”) that would be transported to the Company’s Mill for the recovery of REE oxides and along with the contained uranium. The Donald Project has most licenses and permits in place (or at an advanced stage of completion). The MOU contemplates that the joint venture (the “ Venture ”) would initially consist of operations to mine 7.5 million metric tons of ore per year to produce approximately 200,000 to 250,000 metric tons of HMC per year and approximately 7,000 to 8,000 metric tons of REEC (“ Stage 1 ”). It is contemplated that, as soon as practicable after commencing Stage 1 commercial production, the Venture would double ore production to 15 million metric tons per year to produce approximately 400,000 to 500,000 metric tons of HMC per year and approximately 13,000 to 14,000 metric tons of REEC per year (“ Stage 2 ”). The MOU sets out in broad terms the basis upon which the parties would enter into an Australian incorporated Venture covering the tenements MIN5532 and RL2002, which together form the Donald Project. The MOU provides for the continuation of due diligence by Energy Fuels and the negotiation of definitive and binding agreements governing the venture. The MOU provides for Energy Fuels to invest Aus$180 million (approximately $117 million at current exchange rates) to earn a 49% interest in the Venture. In addition, the Company would issue to Astron common shares having a value of $17.5 million in consideration of RL2002 being included in the Venture. There can be no assurance that the Company will enter into definitive agreements to govern the Venture, or if entered into, that the terms will be as set out in the MOU. Corporate Officers Effective July 14, 2023, John L. Uhrie departed from the Company and ceased to be its Chief Operating Officer. Effective December 31, 2023, Tom L. Brock departed from the Company and ceased to be its Chief Financial Officer. Effective January 1, 2024, Nathan R. Bennett assumed his appointment as the Company’s Chief Accounting Officer/Interim Chief Financial Officer. Company Strategy Energy Fuels intends to continue to strengthen its position as a leading uranium extraction and recovery company in the U.S., supporting that goal through uranium recovery from mined ore, Alternate Feed Materials processing, third-party processing, monazite processing, and potential land cleanup work on abandoned uranium mines (“AUM”) throughout the western U.S. and elsewhere. The Company’s strategy is to maintain and advance its ability to increase uranium production in current and improved market conditions through the Mill (currently operating), the Pinyon Plain Project and the La Sal and Pandora mines 21 (each of the La Sal and Pandora mines constitutes a portion of the La Sal Project) (currently operating) and the Nichols Ranch Project (mining operations currently on standby, maintained in a ready-state), as well as through a large uranium resource base, its Alternate Feed Materials recycling program, and existing conventional projects under construction and/or in permitting. The Company will also be performing exploration activities to increase its resource base. In addition, the Company intends to continue producing vanadium as a co-product of uranium from certain of its vanadium-base properties, as market conditions warrant. In 2024, the Company expects to continue production from the three above-mentioned conventional uranium mines now in operation, to prepare two additional conventional uranium mines for potential production as soon as 2025, to complete, commission and optimize its Phase 1 REE separation circuit in early 2024 and produce separated NdPr oxide and an Sm + RE Carbonate along with uranium from monazite sands through Q2 2024. The Company also expects to advance its Bahia Project in Brazil, to continue to evaluate entering into a Venture on the Donald Project with Astron in Australia, and to secure additional sources of monazite and potentially other feed for its emerging REE business. See “ The Company’s Rare Earth Elements Business ,” above. The Company will also continue to evaluate the potential for recovering certain radioisotopes from its existing process streams for use in making medical isotopes for emerging TAT cancer treatments. See “ The Company’s Strategic Alliance for the Development of Radioisotopes for Medical Therapeutics ,” above. As a result of the foregoing, we are now or intend to engage in the following activities in 2024: • in response to improving uranium market conditions, the Company recently began ramping up commercial uranium ore production at its conventional uranium Pinyon Plain and Pandora mines and its conventional uranium/vanadium La Sal Project. By mid- to late-2024, the Company expects to be producing uranium at a run-rate of approximately 1.1 to 1.4 million pounds per year. Uranium-bearing ore will be stockpiled at the Mill and processed later in 2024 or 2025; • the Company expects to produce between 150,000 and 500,000 pounds of finished U 3 O 8 during 2024 from conventional ore and Alternate Feed Materials, depending on the timing of ramp up of production at the Company’s Pinyon Plain, La Sal and Pandora mines; • the Company expects to sell between 300,000 and 600,000 pounds of uranium during 2024, of which between 200,000 and 300,000 pounds will be sold under its existing long-term contracts with utilities, with the remaining sales occurring on the spot market; • the Company expects to perform exploration activities at its Nichols Ranch Project and further delineation drilling at its Pinyon Plain Project to increase its resource base; • the Company expects to prepare two additional uranium mines (the Nichols Ranch ISR Project and the Whirlwind Project) to be ready to resume uranium ore production as soon as 2025. The exact timing for resumption of production from each of these projects will be subject to current and future uranium market conditions and/or procurement of additional long-term contracts; • continue the Company’s ongoing efforts to develop a fully integrated U.S. REE supply chain, including the development of the Company’s Bahia Project in Brazil; the potential acquisition of additional sources of monazite sands; the completion, commissioning, and optimization of the Phase 1 REE separation capabilities at the Company’s Mill in early 2024; and the production of NdPr oxide and an Sm + RE Carbonate, along with uranium, from monazite sands through Q2 2024 (see “ The Company’s Rare Earth Elements Business ,” above); • continue to pursue additional Alternate Feed Materials, third-party processing and other sources of feed for the Mill (including potential material recovered from AUM and other land cleanup work) and, when market conditions warrant, pursue the recovery of uranium and/or vanadium dissolved in the Mill’s tailings pond solutions; • continue to maintain projects and facilities in a state of readiness for the purpose of restarting mining activities on an expedited basis, as contract obligations and market conditions may warrant; • advance permitting and evaluation activities for the Sheep Mountain, Roca Honda and/or Bullfrog Projects; and • continue to evaluate the potential for recovering and selling certain radioisotopes from the Mill’s existing process streams for use in making medical isotopes for emerging TAT cancer treatments. 22 Uranium Sales With recent uranium market improvements, existing long-term sales commitments and the improved prospect of procuring additional long-term sales commitments, the outlook for sustained profitable production for the Company has improved significantly from the weak uranium market conditions that lasted until mid-2021. As of the date of this Annual Report, the Company has entered into three uranium sales contracts with U.S. nuclear utilities, with 200,000 pounds of deliveries that occurred in January 2024 at an average price of $75.13 per pound (totaling $15.0 million). The Company has also entered into agreements to sell 100,000 pounds to each of two customers at an average price of $102.88 per pound, with deliveries expected to occur in March 2024 (totaling $10.29 million). In addition, a utility customer has the option to purchase an additional 100,000 pounds of uranium from the Company in 2024 by providing notice to the Company on or before October 1, 2024. The Company holds uncommitted inventory and, with the benefit of production in 2024 and beyond, will continue to evaluate additional spot and/or long-term uranium sales opportunities up to 300,000 pounds during 2024 and beyond. The Company may also evaluate the purchase of uranium on the spot market, subject to market conditions and contract requirements. The Company also completed the purchase of 100,000 pounds of U.S. origin U 3 O 8 during Q4-2023 at a price of $81.00 per pound (totaling $8.10 million). The Company expects uranium inventories to total between approximately 585,000 and 935,000 pounds of U 3 O 8 at year-end 2024, subject to 2024 production levels and uranium sales and purchases. Energy Fuels’ uranium inventory provides the Company with financial flexibility, and the Company believes its existing inventories, purchases and new production will be sufficient to meet contract requirements through 2024 and over the life of the supply contracts, along with discretionary spot sales in 2024, as market conditions may warrant. Overview of Uranium Market The primary use of uranium is to fuel nuclear power plants for the generation of carbon- and emission-free electricity. According to the World Nuclear Association (“ WNA ”), as of January 2024, there were 437 operable nuclear reactors world-wide, which required approximately 170.7 million pounds of U 3 O 8 annually at full operation. Worldwide, there are currently 61 new reactors under construction with an additional 115 reactors on order or in the planning stage and 326 having been proposed. According to data from TradeTech LLC (“ TradeTech ”), the world continues to require more uranium than it produces from primary extraction. The gap between demand and primary supply is being filled by stockpiled inventories and secondary supplies, which the Company believes have dwindled significantly in recent years. According to the WNA, the U.S. currently has 93 operating reactors, one reactor under construction, and another 21 reactors on order, planned or proposed. According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (“ EIA ”), in 2022, the U.S. produced approximately 18.2% of its electricity from nuclear technology, while, according to the Nuclear Energy Institute (“ NEI ”), the U.S. achieved an average capacity factor of 92.7%, leading all other carbon-free sources by a wide margin. According to the EIA, U.S. utilities purchased approximately 40.5 million pounds of U 3 O 8 in 2022 (the last year reported). However, in 2022, U.S. uranium production was only 0.19 million pounds, of which 0.16 million pounds were produced by Energy Fuels. In 2023, interest in the uranium and nuclear sectors continued to grow substantially, which the Company believes was driven by: (1) global efforts to reduce carbon emissions and a growing focus on electrification; (2) geopolitical tensions, particularly regarding Russia’s invasion of Ukraine; and (3) speculation based on supply and demand fundamentals. The Company believes that nuclear energy is essential to the global economy and addressing climate change, as it reliably and affordably provides electricity 24/7 and 365 days per year while generating lower life-cycle carbon emissions than other baseload energy sources (NREL, September 2021). The Company believes the geopolitical uncertainty and market tightness experienced in the 2023 uranium and nuclear fuel markets will continue in 2024. Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine in 2022 continues to create uncertainty across the nuclear fuel sector, including uranium mining, conversion, and enrichment, due to Russia’s control of a significant amount of global uranium capacity across these nuclear fuel sectors. According to World Nuclear News, Russia controls 14% of the global supply of U 3 O 8 , 27% of uranium conversion, and 39% of enrichment (WNN, May 5, 2022). Furthermore, it is the Company’s belief that nuclear utilities, particularly in the U.S. and Europe, are seeking to reduce or eliminate their reliance on Russia for their supply of uranium and nuclear fuel due to the potential effects of sanctions (including pending legislation in Congress to ban Russian uranium and nuclear fuel imports), transportation, public and investor relations and other concerns. According to data from TradeTech, during 2023, uranium enrichment prices rose from $110.00 per separative work unit (“ SWU ”) to $155.00 23 per SWU (up 40%); uranium conversion prices rose from $40.00 per KgU to $46.00 per KgU (up 15%); and U 3 O 8 prices rose from $47.60 per pound of U 3 O 8 to $91.00 per pound of U 3 O 8 (up 91%). Uranium is not traded on an open market or organized commodity exchange, although the CME Group provides financially settled uranium futures contracts. Typically, buyers and sellers negotiate transactions privately, either directly or through brokers and intermediaries. Spot uranium transactions typically involve deliveries that occur immediately and up to 12 months in the future. Term uranium transactions typically involve deliveries that occur more than 12 months in the future, with long-term transactions involving delivery terms of at least three years. Uranium prices, both spot and term, are primarily published by two independent market consulting firms, TradeTech and UxC, LLC, on a weekly and monthly basis, along with daily price indicators. Other brokers, including Uranium Markets LLC, Evolution Markets Inc. and Numerco Ltd., also publish daily average uranium prices. Historically, most nuclear utilities have sought to purchase a portion of their uranium needs through mid- and long-term supply contracts, while other portions are bought on the spot market. According to EIA data, in 2022, U.S. utilities purchased 15% of their uranium on the spot market with the remaining 85% purchased under mid- and long-term contracts; through 2032, U.S. utilities have approximately 179.2 million pounds of unfilled uranium requirements (EIA, Uranium Marketing Annual Report, 2022). Buyers seek to balance the security of supply with the opportunity to take advantage of lower prices. For this reason, both buyers and sellers track current spot and term prices for uranium carefully, make considered projections as to future prices, and negotiate with one another on transactions which each deems favorable to their respective interests. The graph, below, shows the monthly spot (blue line) and long-term (red line) uranium price from August 1969 up to January 2024 as reported by TradeTech (not adjusted for inflation): To give a more recent perspective over the last five years, the graph below shows the monthly spot (blue line) and long-term (red line) uranium price from January 2020 up to January 2024, as reported by TradeTech (not adjusted for inflation): 24 According to monthly price data from TradeTech, uranium prices during 2023 were up $43.40, or 91%, for the year. Monthly spot prices began the year at $47.60 per pound of U 3 O 8 on December 31, 2022 and ended the year at $91.00 per pound on December 31, 2023, reaching a high of $91.00 per pound for the month of December 2023 and a low of $47.60 per pound at the beginning of the period. According to TradeTech, the spot price was $102.00 per pound as of February 16, 2024. TradeTech price data also indicated that long-term U 3 O 8 prices began 2023 at $53.00 per pound and ended 2023 at $68.00 per pound. The high long-term price for 2023 was $68.00 per pound in December 2023, and the low long-term price was $53.00 per pound for the months beginning with December 2022 through March 2023. The long-term price as of February 16, 2024 was $72.00 per pound. According to TradeTech, U 3 O 8 prices rose significantly in December 2023 due to: “[T]he confluence of a number of factors that were building within the market. A combination of exceptional growth expectations for future nuclear power following the United Nations’ COP 28 climate conference in Dubai earlier [in December], along with a supply deficit set against the backdrop of growing geopolitical uncertainty, accelerated the rise in prices that characterized recent months.” TradeTech, The Nuclear Review – January 2024, January 31, 2024 . In addition, on December 11, 2023, the U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation which would ban the import of Russian low-enriched uranium, or “ LEU .” While the legislation is currently stalled in the U.S. Senate, “many market participants [are] of the opinion that the Senate is likely to pass a ban similar to that passed in the House .… [and] most market participants believe it is a question of ‘when, not if’ regarding whether the Senate will take up the issue of the Russian ban on nuclear fuel in January. If this is the case, then it is very likely that sellers will respond by raising offer prices yet again.” As of the current time, the legislation remains stalled in the Senate. It is the opinion of the Company that the Russian ban is likely to result in a further increase in uranium prices in the short term. However, there is significant uncertainty around the mechanisms and criteria for the U.S. government to grant waivers from the import ban, including how much Russian uranium will be allowed to be imported into the U.S. under waivers. Therefore, the market response to the Russian ban over the medium- to long-term is unknown at this time. In addition, because uranium is a global commodity, and Russia will continue to export uranium to other nations, including China, it is the Company’s belief that any price increase could be temporary and partially driven by speculation. It is the Company’s belief that the price increase seen in early-February 2024 was driven by market fundamentals. On February 1, 2024, Kazatomprom, the state-owned Kazakh uranium company and the world’s largest uranium producer, stated that it’s 2024 and 2025 production “will be about 20% below the amount stipulated in subsoil use agreements” (World Nuclear News, Kazatomprom confirms 2024 production plans as acid woes continue, February 1, 2024). In August 2022, Kazatomprom stated that “it planned to increase its 2024 uranium production to a 90% level relative to its subsoil use agreements”, versus 80% in 2023. But that plan was adjusted “because of the challenges it is now facing”, primarily acid prices and availability, with Kazatomprom experiencing a 33.6% increase in the cost of sulfuric acid in 2023. Kazatomprom further stated that “[p]roduction plans for 2025 could be ‘unfavourably’ influenced if access to sulfuric acid continues to be limited through 2024 and delays in construction at Kazatomprom’s newly developed deposits are not reduced.” Resolution or a continuation of issues in Kazakhstan are likely to influence uranium market sentiment and price forecasts in the coming months. 25 As a result, the Company believes uranium prices are likely to continue to trend upward. This could be amplified by speculation surrounding the Russian uranium ban and other factors. However, the Company believes that there are risks to maintaining the currently elevated uranium prices, including a satisfactory conclusion to the Russia-Ukraine conflict causing Russia’s large nuclear fuel capacity to return to the global market, Kazatomprom resolving it’s production issues, and new uranium projects successfully coming online. Uranium Market Outlook and Uranium Marketing Strategy The Company believes that world demand for clean, carbon-free, reliable, and affordable baseload electricity is growing. As a result of the expected growth of nuclear energy, the depletion of existing uranium mines and inventories, and geopolitical events putting a greater focus by buyers on security of supply, the Company believes the current- and long-term fundamentals of the uranium industry remain positive. Uranium spot prices rose sharply in 2023, due to several factors, including geopolitical factors, improved long-term demand forecasts, depletion of existing mines, and demand by financial entities, all of which created significant tightness in spot markets. However, inflation, employment challenges and other factors are increasing the costs of uranium production. Therefore, the Company continues to believe that prices must remain at current levels or rise to higher levels to support the additional primary production that will be required to meet the increasing demand. We expect to see more nuclear units constructed around the world, while primary mine production drops due to depletion of resources, reduced production and low prices. According to TradeTech, world uranium requirements continue to exceed primary mine production, with the gap being bridged by dwindling secondary supplies and excess uranium inventories in various forms that have already been mined. At the same time, a large portion of global uranium production remains state-owned and state-subsidized, and therefore not subject to normal market fundamentals, which the Company believes present risks to the current strong market. However, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and continued attacks on civilian populations, has increased demand for non-Russian uranium. As a result, uranium prices exhibited strength throughout 2023, and the Company has observed significantly more interest in both spot transactions and long-term contracts for U 3 O 8 from utilities. The Company believes that certain uranium supply and demand fundamentals point to sustained market strength and potentially higher prices in the future, including significant production cuts and/or shortfalls, and increased demand from utilities, financial entities, traders, and producers. However, the Company also believes that while uranium market conditions have improved significantly since 2021, they still remain vulnerable, primarily as a result of secondary uranium supplies, excess inventories, and non-market activities of state-owned enterprises, primarily in Russia. While U.S. and European utilities are reducing their exposure to Russian supply, the Company believes that Russia maintains significant capabilities across the nuclear fuel cycle, which could re-enter the global market in the future upon resolution of the conflict in Ukraine, circumvention of trade restrictions, or other factors. As mentioned above, it remains to be seen whether Russia’s invasion of Ukraine will result in the U.S. and other western countries reducing Russian uranium supply over the long term, thereby increasing the demand for non-Russian sources of uranium, which could benefit the U.S. uranium mining industry. The Company’s marketing strategy is to seek a base of earnings and cash flow through sales of a portion of its uranium into term contracts, to the extent such contracts are available at satisfactory prices. To gain exposure to increasing uranium prices, the Company seeks to sell a portion of its planned uranium extraction into contracts with market-related formulas, if available at satisfactory prices, and through future spot and term sales. Further exposure to increasing uranium prices can be generated through the Company’s ability to bring additional uranium extraction online in the future in response to increasing prices, which can be sold on a market-related or fixed basis at then prevailing prices. During 2022, the Company entered into three long-term uranium sales contracts with U.S. nuclear utilities. Base quantities under these contracts total 3.0 million pounds with deliveries to occur during the 2023 – 2030 time period. So far, the Company delivered 260,000 pounds of uranium under these contracts in 2023 and another 200,000 pounds so far in 2024. If the buyers exercise all remaining options, total delivery quantities could increase to as much as 3.6 million pounds. Annual quantities vary year-to-year, with lower delivery quantities in the early years, and higher quantities in the later years. Contract pricing has a fixed price component (fully indexed to inflation) and a spot market component, along with floor and ceiling prices (fully indexed to inflation). The Company expects to fill deliveries during the early years of these contracts from its significant existing produced inventories. The Company also entered into contracts to sell an additional 100,000 pounds of uranium on the spot market in Q1-2024 at a weighted average price of $102.88 per pound. In addition, during Q4-2023, the Company completed the purchase of 100,000 pounds of U 3 O 8 for a price of $81.00 per pound. The Company’s uranium inventories, along with expected uranium production in 2024 and subsequent years, are expected to provide the Company with the flexibility to complete spot sales in 2024 in response to improved market conditions, should the Company desire to do so. The Company will also continue to evaluate the potential to complete opportunistic purchases of uranium during 2024. 26 The Rare Earth Element Market REEs are a group of 17 chemical elements (the 15 elements in the lanthanum series, plus yttrium and scandium) that are used in a variety of clean energy and advanced technologies, including wind turbines, EVs, cell phones, computers, flat panel displays, advanced optics, catalysts, medicine and national defense applications. Monazite, the source of REEs currently utilized by the Company, also contains significant recoverable quantities of uranium, which fuels the production of carbon-free electricity using nuclear technology. According to industry analyst Wood-Mackenzie, most demand for REEs is in the form of separated REEs, “as most end-use applications require only one or two separated rare earth compounds or products.” (Wood Mackenzie, Rare Earths, Outlook to 2030, 20 th Edition). The main uses for REEs include: (i) battery alloys; (ii) catalysts; (iii) ceramics, pigments and glazes; (iv) glass polishing powders and additives; (v) metallurgy and alloys; (vi) permanent magnets; (vii) phosphors; and (viii) others (Adamas Intelligence). By volume, REEs used for permanent magnets (neodymium (Nd), praseodymium (Pr), dysprosium (Dy), and terbium (Tb)) and catalysts (cerium (Ce) and lanthanum (La)) comprised 60% of total consumption, yet over 90% of the value consumed. Typical natural monazite sands from the southeast U.S. average approximately 55% TREO and 0.20% uranium, which is the typical grade of uranium found in uranium mines that have historically fed the Mill. Of the 55% TREO typically found in the monazite sands, the NdPr comprises approximately 22% of the TREO. NdPr is among the most valuable of the REEs, as it is the key ingredient in the manufacture of high-strength permanent magnets, which are essential to the lightweight and powerful motors required in EVs and permanent magnet wind turbines used for renewable energy generation, as well as in an array of other modern technologies, including mobile devices and defense applications. Monazite concentrates also contains higher concentrations of “heavy” REEs, including dysprosium (Dy) and terbium (Tb) used in permanent magnets, relative to other common REE ores. The Company is currently primarily focused on NdPr, Tb, Dy and, to a lesser extent, La, Ce and Sm. The REE supply chain starts at a mine. REEs are mined both as a primary target, like the Mountain Pass REE mine in California, and as a byproduct, which is the case of Chemours’ Offerman Mineral Sand Plant, where the natural monazite sands are physically separated from the other mined sands. Mining creates an ore, which in the case of the Chemours material is the natural monazite sands that are physically separated from the other mined mineral sands. The ore then goes through a process of cracking and cleaning at the Mill that may include acids or caustic solutions, elevated temperature and pressure to recover the uranium and free the REEs from the mineral matrix. After removal of the uranium, which will be sold into the commercial nuclear fuel cycle for the creation of carbon-free nuclear energy, this solution is cleaned of any remaining deleterious elements (including remaining radioactive elements) and made into an RE Carbonate, which is a form acceptable as an SX feedstock for REE separation. SX facilities then use solvents and a series of mixer-settlers for the separation of the REEs in the RE Carbonate from each other and to create the desired purified REE products (often as oxides) for the market or particular end user. Separated REE products are typically sold to various markets, depending on the use. Separated REE products can be made into REE metals and metal-alloys, which are used for magnets and other applications. To date, substantially all the RE Carbonate produced by the Mill has been sold to Neo. The Mill is currently modifying and enhancing its existing SX facilities to result in an SX REE separation circuit at the Mill, which, based on current engineering, is expected to be capable of producing up to 1,000 tonnes of separated NdPr oxide per year. The Company is also currently evaluating the potential to produce other downstream REE materials, including REE metals and alloys, in the future at the Mill or elsewhere in the U.S. REEs are commercially transacted in a number of forms and purities. Therefore, there is no single price for REEs collectively, but numerous prices for various REE compounds and materials. The primary value that the Company expects to generate in the short- to medium-term will come from NdPr, Dy, Tb, Ce, and La, as the price the Company receives from the sale of its RE Carbonate is tied to the prices of those REE oxides. In addition, the Company expects to produce separated REE oxides in the future, commencing with NdPr expected in 2024. The following table sets forth certain REE compounds and materials mid-point prices in RMB¥/kg and their approximate value in USD$/kg, according to date from Asian Metal: 27 December 31, 2022 December 31, 2023 Percent February 19, 2024 Product (RMB¥/kg) ($/kg) (RMB¥/kg) ($/kg) Change (RMB¥/kg) ($/kg) NdPr Oxide (Pr 6 O 11 : 25%; Nd 2 O 3 ): 75%) 710 103 445 63 (37) % 401 56 Ce Oxide (99.9%) 7.05 1.02 6.75 0.96 (4) % 6.55 0.92 La Oxide (99.9%) 6.95 1.00 4.15 0.59 (40) % 4.05 0.57 Dy Oxide 2,490 360 2,640 374 6 % 1,920 270 Tb Oxide 14,000 2,022 7,600 1,076 (46) % 5,650 794 The REE market is dominated by China, which produces approximately nearly 90% of refined REE products according to the International Energy Agency. According to Wood Mackenzie, “The rare earths industry continues to evolve under the energy transition. Decarbonisation of key sectors such as transport and increasing renewable energy generation is driving demand for rare earth permanent magnets. Global supply also remains strong with diversification high on the agenda for governments around the world. Prices for neodymium-praseodymium oxide were comparatively low for much of 2023. This was caused by adequate supply and sustained market uncertainty caused by challenging economic conditions, particularly within China. As we move into 2024, short term prices remain under pressure, though we expect market sentiment to improve.” While China consumes the most REEs in its manufacturing industries, much of it is consumed in the manufacture of end-use goods for export and by non-Chinese companies operating within China. REE separation facilities are additionally located in Vietnam, India, as well as Silmet in Estonia, and use a variety of feedstocks and sources with small-scale or experimental operational facilities located elsewhere (Russia included). The Company sees its commercial production of RE Carbonate to date and its expected production of NdPr oxide in 2024 as the first steps in an effort to restore the REE supply chain in the U.S., where one currently does not exist. Multiple potential domestic sources of mined mineral sands, including monazite, exist in North America and are potential feedstocks for the Mill; in addition, there is one producer of REEs from hard rock mining in California, which currently ships its material to Asia. On a global level, there is a potential to acquire natural monazite sands from the following locations: Australia, South Africa, Madagascar, New Zealand, the Philippines, Indonesia, Brazil, Malaysia, Thailand, India, Russia and others. As demand for clean energy technologies and other advanced technologies increases in the coming years, the Company expects demand and prices for REEs to increase. Increases in supply sources for REEs are expected in conjunction with this anticipated rising demand. The Vanadium Market Vanadium is a metallic element that, when converted into ferrovanadium (“ FeV ”) (an alloy of vanadium and iron), is used primarily as an additive to strengthen and harden steel and make it anti-corrosive. According to market consultant FastMarkets, over 90% of FeV is used in the steel industry. In addition, vanadium is used in the aerospace and chemical industries, and continues to see interest in energy storage technologies, including vanadium redox flow batteries. China is the largest global producer of vanadium, with additional production coming from Russia, South Africa and Brazil (Roskill). Vanadium markets have “shown steady declines over much of 2023,” according to reporting by Fastmarkets. The same report indicated that the, “end of the seasonal summer shutdown period failed to reignite end-user demand.” European ferro-vanadium prices at lowest since February 2021, September 25. A lower pricing environment persisted in late 2023 as one trader noted to Fastmarkets, “the reason why the China vanadium pentoxide exports went up in November is mainly because many market participants feel the vanadium pentoxide price is at the bottom now, and they intended to stock some, which prompted more active spot deals.” China’s November vanadium pentoxide exports up 81.46% vs month prior; imports down 99.84% . During the year ended December 31, 2023, the mid-point price of vanadium in Europe decreased by 31% from $9.44 per pound V 2 O 5 as of December 31, 2022 to $6.53 per pound V 2 O 5 as of December 31, 2023. The price of vanadium has ranged from a high of $10.80 per pound V 2 O 5 between February 3, 2023 and February 16, 2023 and a low of $5.65 per pound V 2 O 5 between December 1, 2023 and December 14, 2023. The Company believes one of the main drivers of V 2 O 5 prices is demand for steel, including global prospects for economic growth, construction, infrastructure and auto manufacturing. According to Fastmarkets, “the continued decline in the Chinese vanadium pentoxide price comes amid fewer steel mill tenders in the run-up to the Lunar New Year holiday, as well as lower bids,” and “sluggish steel demand during the off-peak season has also weighed 28 on China’s vanadium nitrogen prices.” Fastmarkets, China vanadium prices drop further on limited buying, January 25, 2024 . The Company believes that V 2 O 5 prices will increase once confidence in the Chinese and global economy returns. As of February 16, 2024, the price of vanadium was $6.88 per pound V 2 O 5. As a result of strong vanadium markets during Q1-2023, the Company opportunistically sold 79,344 pounds of V 2 O 5 (contained in FeV) at a weighted average price of $10.98 per pound. The Company expects to continue to sell vanadium from its inventory into rising markets if they continue, failing which the Company plans to maintain its vanadium inventory for future sales at opportune times. The Company currently has 905,000 of pounds V 2 O 5 in finished goods inventory and an estimated 1.0 to 3.0 million pounds of V 2 O 5 in its tailings solutions, which are available for future recovery, as market conditions warrant. Competition The uranium industry is highly competitive. The Company competes with mining and exploration companies for uranium sales, the acquisition of uranium mineral properties, and the procurement of equipment, materials and personnel necessary to explore, develop, and extract uranium from such properties. There is competition for a limited number of uranium acquisition opportunities, including competition with other companies having substantially greater financial resources, staff and facilities than the Company. As a result, the Company may encounter challenges in acquiring attractive properties, and exploring and advancing properties currently in the Company’s portfolio. In addition, Energy Fuels competes with other uranium recovery companies, along with traders, brokers, financial institutions, converters, enrichers, and other market actors, including some that are state-owned and state-subsidized, for uranium sales. Due to the Company’s limited capital, personnel and the relative size of its operations, the Company may be at a competitive disadvantage compared to some other companies with regard to exploration and, if warranted, development of and production from mining properties and securing uranium sales. The Company believes that competition for acquiring mineral prospects and completing uranium sales will continue to be intense in the future. The REE industry is also highly competitive, particularly to the extent it is dominated by China, which produces nearly 90% of refined REE products according to the International Energy Agency. Chinese companies bid aggressively to acquire monazite and other minerals to feed this production. The Company competes with Chinese companies and companies from other countries that are in or trying to break into the REE market, for sources of monazite and will be expected to compete with Chinese companies and companies from other countries as they develop production capacity at the RE Carbonate crack and leach, REE separation, REE metal and alloy making, REE magnet making, and REE product marketing and sales stages of the REE supply chain, as well as for the acquisition of monazite and other mineral properties, for mining and exploration on such properties, and for the procurement of equipment, materials and personnel necessary to explore, develop, and extract monazite from such properties. There is competition for a limited number of monazite acquisition opportunities, including competition with other companies having substantially greater financial resources, staff and facilities than the Company. As a result, the Company may encounter challenges in acquiring attractive properties, and exploring and advancing properties currently in the Company’s portfolio. In addition, Energy Fuels will compete with other REE companies, along with traders, brokers, financial institutions, and other market actors, including some that are state-owned or state-supported or subsidized, for RE Carbonate and REE oxide sales. Due to the Company’s limited capital, personnel and the relative size of its operations, the Company may be at a competitive disadvantage compared to some other companies with regard to the acquisition, exploration and, if warranted, development of and production from mining properties, production of REE products and securing REE product sales. The Company believes that competition for acquiring monazite prospects, production of REE products and completing REE product sales will continue to be intense in the future. To the extent many Chinese companies are state-subsidized or otherwise supported, the Company expects to continue to face tough competition in the REE space. The availability of funds for the acquisition, exploration, evaluation, permitting and construction of monazite projects and the development of REE separation, metal and metal alloy making and magnet making is limited, and the Company may find it difficult to compete on an international scale with larger and more established and/or subsidized REE companies for capital. The Company’s inability to continue exploration, advancement, the acquisition of new properties, and the development of REE separation, metal and metal alloy making and magnet making, due to lack of funding, could have a material adverse effect on the Company’s future operations and financial position. However, the Company believes it has a competitive advantage over many of its peers in the U.S. domestic uranium space and in the world REE space, outside of China, to the extent it has diversified business opportunities, including its ability to produce uranium, its ability to recover RE Carbonate, along with uranium, from monazite sand ores and its expected ability to produce separated REE oxides at the Mill in 2024, its ability to recover vanadium as market conditions may warrant, and its potential ability to recover certain radioisotopes for use in TAT medical therapeutics. 29 Government Regulation The Company’s properties and facilities are subject to extensive laws and regulations which are overseen and enforced by multiple federal, state and local authorities. These laws govern exploration, construction, extraction, recovery, processing, exports, various taxes, labor standards, occupational health and safety, waste disposal, protection and remediation of the environment, protection of endangered and protected species, toxic and hazardous substances, and other matters. Uranium minerals exploration, extraction, recovery, and processing are also subject to risks and liabilities associated with the perceived potential for impacts to the environment and disposal of waste products occurring as a result of such activities. Compliance with these laws and regulations may impose substantial costs on the Company and may subject the Company to significant potential liabilities. Changes in these regulations or changes in regulatory attitudes or interpretations could require the Company to expend significant resources to comply with new laws or regulations, attitudes or interpretations relating thereto, or changes to current requirements and could have a material adverse effect on the Company’s business operations. However, compliance with government regulations generally, including but not limited to environmental regulations, is an integral part of the Company’s day-to-day business and impacts virtually all the Company’s capital expenditure and operating decisions at its facilities, as the Company’s facilities and operations must comply with this extensive array of environmental, health and safety laws and regulations. The costs of compliance with these laws and regulations are therefore well understood and assumed by the Company in all its capital budgeting decisions, project analyses and cost and earnings projections. As all the Company’s competitors in the uranium mining industry in the U.S. face the same or similar regulatory requirements, the Company does not believe its need to comply with this extensive array of laws and regulations materially affects the Company’s competitive position within the U.S. uranium mining industry. As monazite is a uranium ore and is processed through the White Mesa Mill for the recovery of uranium and REEs, and all separation activities are expected to take place at the Mill, all the regulations applicable to uranium recovery and processing at the Mill apply to the processing of monazite at the Mill, the production of RE Carbonate and the planned separation of REE oxides at the Mill. Environmental Regulations Exploration, development and extraction activities are subject to environmental regulations which may prevent or delay the continuance of our activities. In general, our exploration, evaluation and extraction activities are subject to federal and state laws and regulations relating to environmental quality and pollution control. Such laws and regulations increase the costs of these activities and may prevent or delay the commencement or continuance of a given operation. Specifically, we are subject to legislation regarding emissions into the environment, water discharges, and storage and disposition of hazardous wastes. In addition, legislation has been enacted which requires facility sites to be reclaimed in accordance with such legislation. Compliance with these laws and regulations has not had a material effect on our operations or financial condition to date, compared to industry norms. Uranium milling in the U.S. is primarily regulated by the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the “ NRC ”) pursuant to the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 , as amended. Its primary function is to ensure the protection of employees, the public, and the environment from radioactive materials, and it also regulates most aspects of the uranium recovery process. The NRC regulations pertaining to uranium recovery facilities are codified in Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations. On August 16, 2004, the State of Utah became an Agreement State for the regulation of uranium mills. This means that the primary regulator for the Mill is now the State of Utah Department of Environmental Quality (“ UDEQ ”) rather than the NRC. At that time, the Mill’s NRC Source Material License was transferred to the State of Utah and became Radioactive Materials License Number UT 1900479 (the “ Radioactive Materials License ”), which was renewed in January 2018 as Amendment #8 (Renewal), then reissued as a Revised Renewal on February 16, 2018, by UDEQ’s Division of Waste Management and Radiation Control (“ DWMRC ”). The Radioactive Materials License is up for renewal in February 2028. The State of Utah incorporates, through its own regulations or by reference, all aspects of Title 10 pertaining to uranium recovery facilities. When the State of Utah became an Agreement State, it required that a Groundwater Discharge Permit (“ GWDP ”) be put in place for the Mill. The GWDP is required for all similar facilities in the State of Utah, and specifically tailors the implementation of the state groundwater regulations to the Mill site. The State of Utah requires that every operating uranium mill have a GWDP, regardless of whether the facility discharges to groundwater. The GWDP for the Mill was finalized and implemented in March 2005, then renewed in January 2018. Most recently, the GWDP renewal application was submitted in July 2022 and remains under consideration with DWMRC. The Mill also maintains a permit approval for air emissions with the UDEQ, Division of Air Quality. 30 Conventional uranium extraction is subject to regulation by a number of agencies including: (1) local county and municipal government agencies; (2) the applicable state divisions responsible for mining and protecting the environment within Utah, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, and Wyoming; (3) the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (the “ BLM ”) and the United States Forest Service (the “ USFS ”) on public lands under their jurisdiction; (4) the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration (“ MSHA ”); (5) the United States Environmental Protection Agency (the “ EPA ”) for radon emissions from underground mines; and (6) other federal agencies, including without limitation the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (“ USACE ”) and the DOE, where certain conditions exist. In addition, a uranium processing facility at the Sheep Mountain Project, if and when constructed, will be subject to regulation under the State of Wyoming, as an NRC Agreement State, as a uranium processing facility and for permanent disposal of the resulting tailings. The provisions of the Atomic Energy Act and its regulations that are applicable to uranium milling also apply to our ISR facilities in Wyoming. The Nichols Ranch Project has a Source Material License. The Nichols Ranch Source Material License was originally issued by the NRC; however, the State of Wyoming became an NRC Agreement State on September 30, 2018 and the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality (“ WDEQ ”) - Land Quality Division (“ WDEQ-LQD ”) subsequently assumed all management and oversight functions. The Nichols Ranch Source Material License was issued most recently by the NRC on March 22, 2017 as Amendment No. 5, which is currently in timely renewal with WDEQ-LQD. Nichols Ranch is also regulated by the State of Wyoming and the EPA under the Clean Water Act, the Clean Air Act and the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act. In addition, ISR wellfields require an Underground Injection Control (“ UIC ”) Permit under the Safe Drinking Water Act, as administered by the State and/or EPA. ISR operations are subject to regulations by the U.S. Occupational, Safety and Health Administration, rather than MSHA. Because monazite sands are a naturally occurring uranium ore, which also contain REEs, monazite sands are processed at the Mill under the Mill's existing Radioactive Materials License, GWDP and other permits as a uranium ore, and the resulting RE Carbonate and separated REE oxides are also recovered under those existing licenses and permits. The Company is evaluating whether any additional licenses or permits or amendments to existing licenses or permits may be required for any of the modifications and enhancements to existing Mill facilities required for and the operation of its planned REE separation circuits at the Mill. The Company currently has a Research and Development (“ R&D ”) license for the recovery of R&D quantities of Ra-226 at the Mill, issued by DWMRC in 2023. It is expected that the potential recovery and concentration of R&D quantities of Th-232, Ra-228 and/or Th-228 will also require similar R&D licenses or amendments to the existing Ra-226 R&D license and that the potential recovery and concentration of commercial quantities of Th-232, Ra-228, Th-228 and/or Ra-226 will require additional licensing by DWMRC at the Mill. Reclamation bonds or the equivalent have been posted for each of the Company’s material properties that have structures or facilities. Energy Fuels is required to have export licenses issued by the NRC for its uranium exports, unless otherwise permissible pursuant to the Mill’s existing Radioactive Materials License due to the nature of the material in question. Such licenses are obtained by the Company as required. Land Tenure U.S. Land Tenure The Company’s land holdings in the U.S. are held either by leases from the fee simple owners (private parties or the State) or unpatented mining claims located on property owned and managed by the U.S. Federal Government. Annual fees must be paid to maintain unpatented mining claims, but work expenditures are not required. Holders of unpatented mining claims are generally granted surface access to conduct mineral exploration and extraction activities. However, additional permits and plans are generally required prior to conducting exploration or mining activities on such claims. On July 9, 2009, BLM issued a Notice of Proposed Withdrawal (“ 2009 Notice ”) under which it proposed that a total of approximately one million acres of public lands around the Grand Canyon National Park be withdrawn from location and entry under the Mining Law of 1872 (the “ Mining Law ”), subject to valid existing rights. In the 2009 Notice, BLM stated that the purpose of the withdrawal, if determined to be appropriate, would be to protect the Grand Canyon watershed from any adverse effects of locatable hardrock mineral exploration and mining. The 2009 Notice segregated the lands from location and entry under the mining laws for up to two years to allow time for various studies and analyses, including appropriate National Environmental Policy Act (“ NEPA ”) analysis. In order to allow more time for BLM to complete its NEPA analysis, the U.S. Department of the Interior (the “ DOI ”) published Public Land Order 7773 on June 21, 2011, which effected a six-month emergency withdrawal of the area. The emergency withdrawal prevented the lands from being open to location and entry under the Mining Law upon expiration of the two-year segregation while the DOI completed the decision–making process on the 31 proposed withdrawal. The emergency withdrawal was effective from July 21, 2011 to January 20, 2012. During the two-year segregation and six-month emergency withdrawal, the BLM, along with its cooperating agencies, completed various studies and analyses of resources in the withdrawal area, including an Environmental Impact Statement (“ EIS ”) under NEPA. These studies and analyses were undertaken to provide the basis for the final decision regarding whether to proceed with the proposed withdrawal or to select an alternative action. Based on this analysis, on January 9, 2012, the DOI announced its final decision to withdraw from location and entry under the Mining Law, subject to valid existing rights, the total of approximately one million acres of lands originally proposed in the 2009 Notice (the “ Withdrawn Lands ”), for a 20-year period. Lawsuits challenging this decision were filed by various industry groups and interested parties. In addition, legislation has been proposed in both the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate, which would make the withdrawal permanent, subject to preexisting rights. The Company will continue to track the progress of this and any other relevant legislation. Then, on August 8, 2023, President Biden designated the Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni – Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument, which comprised approximately one million acres of previously Withdrawn Lands in three distinct areas to the south, northeast and northwest of Grand Canyon National Park. As stated in the fact sheet for the national monument designation, “The national monument designation recognizes and respects valid existing rights. The proclamation specifies that maintenance and upgrades to water infrastructure for flood control, utilities, water district facilities, wildlife water catchments, and other similar uses may continue; and that utility lines, pipelines, and roads can continue to be maintained, upgraded, and built consistent with proper care and management of the monument objects. Existing mining claims – predating a 20-year mineral withdraw initiated in 2012 – will remain in place, and the two approved mining operations within the boundaries of the monument would be able to operate.” As a result of the 2009 withdrawal from location and entry and the 2023 national monument designation, no new mining claims may be staked on the Withdrawn Lands or within the boundaries of the national monument, and no new Plans of Operations may be approved, other than Plans of Operations on mining claims that were valid at the time of the segregation, withdrawal or national monument designation, as applicable, and that remain valid at the time of plan approval. Case law indicates that a miner establishes valid Congressionally provided rights under the Mining Law through certain unilateral acts, and that such acts are presumptively recognized as valid claims in which the holder has valid existing rights unless and until the DOI or U.S. Federal Courts declare otherwise. However, the BLM and USFS, each at their discretion, may perform a mineral examination and Mineral Report, which involves an economic evaluation of a project, in order to reflect an agency’s belief about certain mining claims that may be used in support of a future mining claim contest on the validity of existing rights. All the Company’s properties located on the Arizona Strip, with the exception of its Wate property and certain exploration properties held by the Company’s subsidiary, Arizona Strip Partners LLC, are located within the Withdrawn Lands and boundaries of the Grand Canyon National Monument. A mineral examination on the Company’s EZ Project will need to be completed by BLM, in conjunction with its review of the Company’s proposed Plan of Operations for that project. Mineral examinations were not required for the Company’s Arizona 1 and Pinenut projects, which had previously approved Plans of Operations and were previously active. Although the Company’s Pinyon Plain Project also has an approved Plan of Operations, and a mineral examination is not required, the USFS voluntarily performed a mineral examination on that project in 2012 in order to clarify the agency’s own position on the underlying claims and concluded that the Pinyon Plain Project’s claims constituted valid existing rights (“ VERs ”). The USFS also concluded that no additional approvals were required on the Pinyon Plain Project that would trigger any further NEPA analysis as a major federal action. The Company believes that all its material projects within the Withdrawn Lands and boundaries of Grand Canyon National Monument are on valid mining claims that will withstand a mineral examination. However, market conditions may postpone or prevent the performance of mineral examinations on certain properties and, if a mineral examination is performed on a property, there can be no guarantee that the mineral examination would not result in one of more of the Company’s mining claims being deemed invalid and/or that ongoing litigation challenging the validity of a VER determination would not result in the overturn of such determination, either of which could prevent a project from proceeding. Former President Obama additionally designated the Bears Ears National Monument by executive order in December of 2016, which comprised 1.35 million acres of land in San Juan County, Utah. The designated land included a portion of County Road 258, which the Company formerly relied on for access to its formerly owned Daneros Project (for which it currently acts as Operator on behalf of successor-in-interest Consolidated Uranium Inc., see “Part II, Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data - Note 17 Related Party Transactions ”), and a property boundary that abutted the boundary of the Mill and encompassed two water sampling sites the Company monitors for the Mill. In December 2017, former President Trump issued a Proclamation that amended former President Obama’s 2016 Proclamation and reduced the monument to two parcels encompassing a total of 201,876 acres, releasing 1.15 million acres. That Proclamation was later challenged in Federal Court. On December 23, 2017, the Company issued a press release reiterating its past and present support of Bears Ears National Monument, and clarifying that the Company sought only minor adjustments to the original boundaries of the monument to prevent the boundary from directly abutting some of its existing operations, which were very minor adjustments, insignificant 32 compared to the original size of the monument and not a reflection of former President Trump’s nearly 85% reduction. Then, on October 8, 2021, President Biden issued a new proclamation restoring the original borders of Bears Ears National Monument, which consists “of those lands reserved as part of the Bears Ears National Monument as of December 3, 2017, and the approximately 11,200 acres added by Proclamation 9681, encompassing approximately 1.36 million acres.” In doing so, all such lands and interests contained within the monument were “appropriated and withdrawn from all forms of entry, location, selection, sale, or other disposition under the public land laws or laws applicable to the USFS, from location, entry, and patent under the mining laws, and from disposition under all laws relating to mineral and geothermal leasing, other than by exchange that furthers the protective purposes of the monument” (see “ A Proclamation on Bears Ears National Monument ,” dated October 8, 2021). As a result, it is possible that the Mill could become subject to additional requirements, restrictions and costs if the reversion to the original designation is upheld in Court, pending any legal challenges by the State of Utah or otherwise. Brazilian Land Tenure Mineral tenure is guaranteed by the Federal Constitution in Brazil. Mineral resources are separate from the surface owners (i.e. split estate), and the Republic of Brazil is the owner of all mineral resources. The federal government can grant mineral rights for exploration and production to Brazilian companies (or foreign companies with established Brazilian entities). Brazilian entities that are granted mining rights have the ownership of the product they are mining. Mineral rights can be assigned, transferred or subject to encumbrance, provided that legal requirements are fulfilled and that the transaction is registered with and approved by the Brazilian National Mining Agency (“ ANM ”). Mineral rights do not grant the land where the mineral deposits are located, but do provide the possibility of creating a mineral easement that allows holders of the mineral rights the ability to explore or mine the mineral and take ownership of the product. This right of access also includes neighboring lands, as long as ANM recognizes that such lands are needed for exploration and production. The surface owners are entitled to a royalty and damages caused by exploration, mining and ancillary activities. A maximum royalty is set at half the federal government royalty. If the company and the surface owner are unable to reach an agreement the matter will be settled by the local court based on criteria provided in applicable laws. The granting of mineral rights in Brazil is performed in four steps: 1. Exploration Authorization : A 1-3 year authorization that is renewable for an additional 1-3 years. Exceptions can be made for additional renewals following the first authorization. The purpose of this authorization is to allow a company to explore for a mineral of interest. The company must then submit an exploration report to ANM. ANM will approve or deny the report based on the economic and technical feasibility of exploiting the mineral explored for under the report. 2. Right to Request a Mining Concession : Following approval of the exploration report the company has 1 year to apply for a mining concession. This request period can be renewed, upon request and justification, based on ANM’s criteria. If ANM does not agree with the justification, ANM may request the holder of the mineral right to proceed with the request for a mining concession stage. Eventually, ANM can forfeit the request right if there is clear and strong evidence of procrastination. 3. Mining Concession Request : The request for a mining concession has to include a mine development plan. Furthermore, the mining concession will only be granted once an environmental construction permit is obtained. Extensions can be granted if the environmental permitting process is delayed. The holder must use best efforts to obtain the environmental permit and report to ANM. Eventually, ANM can deny the request if there is clear and strong evidence of procrastination. 4. Mining Concession : This is the approval to mine. Once this is granted the company has six months to start mining and is required to provide an annual report to ANM. The mining concession is valid for the life of the mine. Environmental and Social Efforts and Impacts Uranium is the fuel for carbon-free, emission-free baseload nuclear power and is a key factor in successfully combating global climate change. In addition to producing uranium from our mines, we recycle other companies’ uranium-bearing tailings or wastes (Alternate Feed Materials) at the Mill for the extraction of uranium that would otherwise have been permanently disposed of, thereby reducing the need for new mining by maximizing extraction of existing sources and limiting the number of constituents ultimately disposed of. We also recover previously disposed of uranium and vanadium by recycling the Mill’s tailings solutions. Furthermore, our production of a commercially salable RE Carbonate through the recycling of natural monazite sands, which have historically been considered wastes due to their radioactive content, and our planned REE 33 separation activities, allow us to provide crucial links in a commercially viable U.S. REE supply chain for use in key green energy technologies, such as solar panels, wind turbines, and electric and hybrid car batteries. In addition, our program for the potential recovery of radioisotopes for use in the production of TAT therapeutics for cancer treatments involves recycling the Mill’s existing process streams for the recovery of valuable radioisotopes that have traditionally been considered wastes and have been permanently disposed of. Through these operations and initiatives, we remain diligent in our efforts to ensure our operations minimize any impacts to public health, safety and the environment, including any impacts to water, air, wildlife, soil, cultural resources, the occupational health and safety of our workers and any impacts to members of the public. Our Environment, Health, Safety and Sustainability (“ EHSS ”) Committee has been delegated authority by the Board to monitor and guide the Company in developing and implementing its core EHSS principles, including maintaining radiation exposures not only within regulatory limits but as low as reasonably achievable through an extensive internal audit program, as well as authority for monitoring programs to identify and mitigate risks in ensuring the highest standards of environmental protection and human health and safety across the Company’s operations. The EHSS Committee also monitors the Company’s sustainability programs, including its efforts to pro-actively evaluate its programs and activities to ensure they meet the Company’s sustainability goals and objectives. Our Sustainability Report, which was first released in 2020 and is in the process of being updated, is available on the Company’s website at www.energyfuels.com . Our operations are located primarily in rural and underserved areas and support the local economies, not only through the taxes we pay to local authorities and the salaries and wages we pay to our employees and to numerous third-party contractors, such as transportation companies, equipment rental companies, equipment vendors and service providers, but also indirectly through the “multiplier effect” to the communities as a whole. That is, the money we pay directly to our employees, contractors, vendors and providers is spent by them in the communities, thereby providing income to local businesses and wages and salaries to employees and owners of those business, who in turn spend their income, salaries and wages on other businesses in the community. Indeed, as the largest private employer in San Juan County, Utah, the Mill is a very significant factor in the local economy. In furtherance of our sustainability objectives, the Company’s Foundation contributes to the communities surrounding the Mill in Southeastern, Utah by providing funding to support local priorities. The Foundation focuses on supporting education, the environment, health/wellness, and local economic development in the City of Blanding, San Juan County, Indigenous and other area communities. See “ San Juan County Clean Energy Foundation .” Employees As of the date of this Annual Report, the Company and its subsidiaries have approximately 147 full-time employees, substantially all of whom are employed through the Company’s wholly owned, indirectly held subsidiary Energy Fuels Resources (USA) Inc. We operate in established mining areas where we have found sufficient available personnel for our business plans. Energy Fuels is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to making employment decisions based on valid job requirements, without regard to race, color, national origin, gender, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression, disability, veteran status or any other legally protected status. The Company also provides reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with known disabilities and employees whose work requirements interfere with a religious belief unless doing so would result in an undue hardship to the Company or cause a direct threat to health or safety. The Company actively engages with its Board of Directors (the “ Board ”) to continually make improvements to diversity through inclusion. Pursuant to the Company’s Diversity Policy, Energy Fuels’ Governance and Nominating Committee (“ GN Committee ”) is required to monitor, on an ongoing basis, the implementation and effectiveness of the Diversity Policy and to, at least annually, assess: (i) the mix of diversity, skill and expertise on the Board and the Executive Team, (ii) the measurable objectives set pursuant to the Policy, and (iii) progress in achieving such measurable objectives, including any targets, if set. As a part of its annual assessment, the GN Committee reviews its Diversity Policy for relevance and effectiveness, any new shareholder advisory guidelines, TSX and NYSE American company guides and any changes to legal requirements, and provides to the Company’s Board its Annual Report with recommendations to improve and sustain diversity at the executive and Board levels. Most recently, in January 2024, the GN Committee recommended to the Board, and the Board approved and adopted, a number of diversity-based recommendations that include maintaining its measurable objectives of having, at current Board size, a qualified Board that is at least 30% gender diverse (including a minimum of one woman) at all times with at least one qualified racially or ethnically diverse director on the Board at all times. See the Company’s Proxy Statement on Schedule 14A, filed April 4, 2023, for our most recent disclosure on Energy Fuels’ diversity statistics. 34 Available Information Detailed information about Energy Fuels is, and will continue to be, included in our annual reports on Form 10-K, our quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, current reports on Form 8-K, proxy statements on Schedules 14A and other reports, and amendments to those reports that we file with or furnish to the SEC and, for Canadian purposes, the Ontario Securities Commission (“ OSC ”). The Company is a U.S. domestic issuer for SEC reporting purposes, most of its shareholders are U.S. residents, the Company is required to report its financial results under U.S. GAAP and its primary trading market is the NYSE American. However, prior to January 1, 2016, we were a foreign private issuer subject to limited periodic disclosure and current reporting requirements of the U.S. Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “ Exchange Act ”), so we did not file Forms 10-K or 10-Q prior to January 2016. All such Forms 10-K, 10-Q and 8-K, including any amendments to such reports, filed after January 1, 2016 are available free of charge on our website, www.energyfuels.com , as soon as reasonably practicable after we electronically file such reports with, or furnish such reports to, the SEC. However, our website and any contents thereof should not be considered to be incorporated by reference into this Annual Report. In addition, all public filings, including Insider Reports, of the Company can be found on the SEC’s Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval (“ EDGAR ”) platform, and on the OSC’s System for Electronic Document Analysis and Retrieval (“ SEDAR ”) and System of Electronic Disclosure by Insiders (“ SEDI ”). We will furnish copies of such reports free of charge upon written request to our Investor Relations department. You can contact our Investor Relations department at: Energy Fuels Inc. 225 Union Blvd., Suite 600 Lakewood, Colorado, 80228 Tel: 303.974.2140 Fax: 303.974.2141 Toll Free: 1.888.864.2125 E-mail: investorinfo@energyfuels.com Additionally, our Articles of Incorporation and By-laws, Charters of the Audit, Compensation, GN and EHSS Committees, Sustainability Report, and the majority of our Company policies, are available on our website. We will furnish copies of such information free of charge upon written request to our Investor Relations department. 35 ITEM 1A. RISK FACTORS The following information pertains to the outlook and conditions currently known to Energy Fuels that could have a material impact on its financial condition. Other factors may arise in the future that are currently not foreseen by management of Energy Fuels that may present additional risks, including risks that the Company currently feels are immaterial. Current and prospective shareholders of Energy Fuels should carefully consider these risk factors when making investment decisions. Our failure to successfully address any of the risks and uncertainties described below could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and/or results of operations, and the trading price of our Common Shares may fluctuate widely. We cannot assure you that we have or will successfully or fully address these risks or other unknown risks that may affect our business. Risks Related to our Industry We are subject to the risks normally encountered by companies in the mineral extraction industry. We are subject to the risks normally encountered by companies in the mineral extraction industry, such as: • the discovery of unusual or unexpected geological formations; • accidental fires, floods, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and other natural disasters; • unplanned power outages and water shortages; • controlling water and other similar mining hazards; • operating labor disruptions and labor disputes; • the ability to obtain suitable or adequate machinery, equipment or labor; • our liability for potential pollution or other hazards; and • other known and unknown risks involved in the conduct of exploration, development and operation of mines, extraction and recovery facilities and mills, along with the markets for uranium, rare earths, vanadium and heavy mineral sands. The development of mineral properties is affected by many factors, including, but not limited to: the cost of operations; variations in the grade of mineralized material; fluctuations in metal markets; costs of extraction and processing equipment; availability of equipment and labor; labor costs and possible labor strikes; government regulations, including without limitation, regulations relating to taxes, royalties, allowable extraction or production, and importing and exporting of minerals; government actions, including without limitation the establishment or expansion of mineral withdrawals, parks and monuments; land exchanges; foreign exchange; employment; worker safety; transportation; and environmental protection. Our results of operations are significantly affected by the market prices of uranium, vanadium, rare earth elements and heavy mineral sands, which are cyclical and subject to substantial price fluctuations. Our earnings and operating cash flow are and will be particularly sensitive to the long- and short-term changes in the market prices of uranium, vanadium and REEs, as well as heavy mineral sands and their components, including the prices for ilmenite, rutile, titanium and zircon, which could impact planned production levels or the feasibility of production of HMC and monazite from our Bahia Project and any other HMS projects and which could impact monazite supply for our RE Carbonate and planned REE oxide production. Among other factors, these prices also affect the value of our resources, reserves and inventories, as well as the market price of our Common Shares. Market prices are affected by numerous factors beyond our control. With respect to uranium, such factors include, among others: demand for nuclear power; political and economic conditions in uranium producing and consuming countries; public and political response to a nuclear incident or fear of a nuclear incident; reprocessing of used reactor fuel, the re-enrichment of depleted uranium tails and the enricher practice of underfeeding; sales of excess civilian and military inventories (including from the dismantling of nuclear weapons; the premature decommissioning of nuclear power plants; and from the build-up of Japanese utility uranium inventories as a result of the Fukushima incident) by governments and industry participants; uranium supply, including the supply from other secondary sources; production levels and costs of production, and government actions such as, for instance, any plans included in President Biden’s 2024 fiscal budget and those taken pursuant to the U.S. Uranium Reserve Program. With respect to vanadium, such factors include, among others: demand for steel; the potential for vanadium to be used in advanced battery technologies; political and economic conditions in vanadium producing and consuming countries; world production levels; and costs of production. With respect to REEs, such factors include, among others: demand for REEs; political and economic conditions in REE producing and consuming countries; REE-bearing ore supply from secondary sources; international interest in the purchase of RE Carbonate and separated REE oxides, absent a U.S.-based separation facility; public and political response to REE initiatives at the Mill; governmental investment in domestic REE 36 infrastructure; world production levels; costs of production; risks associated with foreign governmental actions, policies, laws, rules, regulations and foreign state subsidized enterprises, with respect to REE production and sales, which could impact REE prices available to the Company and impact our access to world and domestic markets for the supply of REE-bearing ores and the sale of RE Carbonate, REE oxides, and other REE products and services to world and domestic markets; and other government actions, including licensing and import requirements. With respect to HMC and its components including the prices for ilmenite, rutile, titanium and zircon, such factors include, among others: demand for titanium and zircon; political and economic conditions in HMC producing and consuming countries; other government actions, including licensing and import requirements; geopolitical factors; world production levels; exploration, mining, processing, refining and other costs of production; grades of HMC supplies; scale of mining method; growth in end-use demand of titanium and zircon, including GDP growth in consuming countries; available mineable deposits and upgrading facilities; currency fluctuations; and other market demand and supply dynamics. Other factors relating to the prices of uranium, vanadium, REEs and HMC include: levels of supply and demand for a broad range of industrial products; substitution of new or different products in critical applications for our existing products; expectations with respect to the rate of inflation; the relative strength of the U.S. dollar and of certain other currencies; interest rates; global or regional political or economic crises; regional and global economic conditions; and sales of uranium, vanadium, RE Carbonate, REE oxides and other REE products and services, and HMC by holders in response to such factors. If prices are below our cash costs of extraction or recovery and remain at such levels for any sustained period, we may determine that it is not economically feasible to continue commercial extraction, recovery or processing at any or all of our projects or other facilities and may also be required to look for alternatives other than cash flow to maintain our liquidity until prices recover. Our expected levels of uranium, vanadium and REE recovery and other business activity are dependent on our expectation and the industry’s expectations of uranium, vanadium, REE and HMC prices, which may not be realized or may change. In the event we conclude that a significant deterioration in expected future uranium, vanadium, REE or HMC prices has occurred, we will assess whether an impairment allowance is necessary which, if required, could be material. The recent fluctuations in the price of many commodities is an example of a situation over which we have no control, and which could materially adversely affect us in a manner for which we may not be able to compensate. There can be no assurance that the price of any minerals recovered from or processed at our properties will be such that any deposits can be operated at a profit. Our profitability is directly related to the market prices of uranium, vanadium, REEs and HMC recovered. We may, from time to time, undertake commodity and currency hedging programs with the intention of maintaining adequate cash flows and profitability to contribute to the long-term viability of the business. We anticipate selling forward in the ordinary course of business if, and when, we have sufficient assets and recovery to support forward sale arrangements and forward sale arrangements are available on suitable terms. There are, however, risks associated with forward sale programs. If we do not have sufficient recovered product to meet our forward sale commitments, we may have to buy or borrow (for later delivery back from recovered product) sufficient product in the spot market to deliver under the forward sales contracts, possibly at higher prices than provided for in the forward sales contracts, or potentially default on such deliveries. In addition, under forward contracts, we may be forced to sell at prices that are lower than the prices that may be available on the spot market when such deliveries are completed. Although we may employ various pricing mechanisms within our sales contracts to manage our exposure to price fluctuations, there can be no assurance that such mechanisms will be successful. There can also be no assurance that we will be able to enter into additional term contracts for future sales of uranium, vanadium or RE Carbonate at prices or in quantities that would allow us to successfully manage our exposure to price fluctuations. The majority of our properties do not contain Mineral Reserves under S-K 1300 and NI 43-101, and some of the Company’s properties, projects and facilities may not be economic at any point in time or at all. Only two of our properties – the Sheep Mountain and Pinyon Plain mines – contain Mineral Reserves under SEC S-K 1300 and NI 43-101 (see “Item II, Cautionary Note to Investors Concerning Disclosure of Mineral Reserve and Mineral Resource Estimates ”). Depending on uranium, vanadium, REE and HMC prices, some or all of our properties, projects and facilities may not be economic for uranium, vanadium, REE or HMC extraction, recovery or processing at any point in time. Generally, we intend to continue to hold, and in certain cases advance, properties, projects and facilities which may not be economic at any point in time in anticipation of possible future increases in the prices of uranium, vanadium, REEs and/or HMC, as the case may be. However, in those circumstances, there can be no assurance at any time that such prices will ever, or within a reasonable time period, increase to the levels required to advance those properties or, in the case of projects or facilities on standby, to resume exploration, extraction, recovery or processing activities at those projects or facilities. In the event of depressed commodity prices, we would continue to hold our standby properties, projects and facilities because we believe that prices are likely to rise, to such levels within a reasonable time period to justify future production. This ability to maintain 37 scalability as commodity prices increase is a key component of our business strategy. However, as there is a cost associated with holding and, in some cases, maintaining such properties, projects and facilities on standby during periods of depressed commodity prices, in those circumstances we continuously evaluate, on a case-by-case basis, such costs against the prospects for price increases, and may from time to time sell, drop or reclaim any such properties, projects or facilities. Mining on properties having no known Mineral Resources or Mineral Reserves is inherently speculative and may not prove to be economic at any point in time or at all. Mining is an inherently speculative business. Some of the properties on which we have the right to mine are not known to have any Mineral Reserves or Mineral Resources. There is a possibility that we will not discover uranium, vanadium, REEs and/or HMS, or potentially copper, on any or all of our properties which can be mined or extracted at a profit at any point in time or at all. Even if we do discover and mine such minerals, the deposits may not be of the quality or size necessary for us or a potential purchaser of the property to make a profit from mining it. Few properties that are explored are ultimately developed into producing mines, and mines that are developed may not be profitable. Unusual or unexpected geological formations, geological formation pressures, fires, power outages, labor disruptions, flooding, explosions, cave-ins, landslides and the inability to obtain suitable or adequate machinery, equipment or labor, as well as all necessary licenses and permits, are just some of the many risks involved in mineral exploration programs and their subsequent development. However, we may elect, now or in the future, to proceed with the extraction of minerals on one or more of those projects without having completed the technical work required to declare a Mineral Reserve. If we are then unable to extract uranium, vanadium, REEs and/or HMC, or potentially copper, in commercially viable quantities, the capital investment of mining such properties may be lost and could materially impact our business. Exploration, development, extraction, mining, recovery and milling of minerals, and the transportation and handling of the products recovered, are subject to extensive international, federal, state and local laws and regulations. These regulations govern, among other things: acquisition of the property or mineral interests; maintenance of claims; tenure; expropriation; prospecting; exploration; development; construction; extraction and mining; recovery, processing, milling and production; price controls; exports and imports; taxes and royalties; labor standards; occupational health; waste disposal; toxic substances; water use; land use; American Indian or other foreign indigenous peoples consultations and accommodations; environmental protection and remediation; endangered and protected species; mine, mill and other facility decommissioning and reclamation; mine safety; transportation safety and emergency response; and other matters. Compliance with such laws and regulations has increased the costs of exploring, drilling, developing, constructing, operating and closing of our mines, mills, plants and other extraction, recovery and processing facilities. It is possible that, in the future, the costs, delays and other effects associated with such laws and regulations may impact our decision as to whether to operate existing mines or facilities, or, with respect to exploration, development or construction properties, whether to proceed with exploration, development or construction. It is also possible that such laws and regulations may result in our incurring significant costs to remediate or decommission properties if it is determined they do not comply with applicable environmental standards at such time. We expend significant financial and managerial resources to comply with applicable laws and regulations. We anticipate continuing to do so as the historic trend toward stricter government regulation may continue. However, there can be no assurance that future changes in applicable laws and regulations or attitudes and interpretations relating thereto, will not adversely affect our activities, operations or financial condition. New laws and regulations, amendments to existing laws and regulations or changes in attitudes and interpretations resulting in more stringent implementation of existing laws and regulations, including through stricter license and permit conditions or changes in enforcement attitudes and interpretations, could have a material adverse impact on us, increase costs, cause a reduction in levels of, or suspension of, extraction or recovery and/or delay or prevent the construction or development of new mineral extraction properties. Mineral extraction is subject to potential risks and liabilities associated with impacts to the environment and the disposal of waste products occurring as a result of mineral exploration, extraction, mining, milling, recovery and production. Environmental liability may result from mining or mineral extraction activities conducted by others prior to our ownership of a property. Failure to comply with applicable laws, regulations and permitting requirements may result in enforcement actions. These actions may result in orders issued by regulatory or judicial authorities causing activities or operations to cease or be curtailed, and may include corrective measures requiring capital expenditures, installation of additional equipment or remedial actions. Companies engaged in uranium, monazite or other exploration operations may be required to compensate others who suffer loss or damage by reason of such activities and may have civil or criminal fines or penalties imposed for violations of applicable laws or regulations. Should we be unable to fully fund the cost of remedying an environmental problem, the Company might be required to suspend activities or operations, declare bankruptcy or enter into interim compliance measures pending completion of the required remedy, which could have a material adverse effect on the Company. To the extent that we are subject to uninsured environmental liabilities, the payment of such liabilities would reduce otherwise available earnings and could have a material adverse effect on us. In addition, we do not have coverage for environmental losses generally or for 38 certain other risks as such coverage cannot be purchased at a commercially reasonable cost. Compliance with applicable environmental laws and regulations requires significant expenditures and increases mine and facility, construction, development and operating costs. While the very heart of our business – uranium production, which is the fuel for carbon-free, emission-free baseload nuclear power – and our recycling programs, help address global climate change and reduce air pollution, the world’s focus on addressing climate change will require the Company to continue to conduct all its operations in a manner that minimizes the use of resources, including the unnecessary use of energy resources, in order to continue to minimize air emissions at our facilities, which can also increase mine and facility, construction, development and operating costs. Regulatory and environmental standards may also change over time to address global climate change, which could further increase these costs. There is a risk that current and future government administrations will not support mining, uranium mining, nuclear energy or other aspects of our business and may limit, restrict or prevent the use of public lands for mining and other activities. Worldwide demand for uranium is directly tied to the demand for electricity produced by the nuclear power industry, which is also subject to extensive government regulation and policies. The development of mineral properties and related facilities is contingent upon governmental approvals that are complex and time consuming to obtain and that, depending upon the location of the project, involve multiple governmental agencies. The duration and success of such approvals are subject to many variables outside of our control. Any significant delays in obtaining or renewing permits or licenses in the future could have a material adverse effect on us. In addition, the international marketing of uranium is subject to governmental policies and certain trade restrictions, such as those imposed by the suspension agreement between the U.S. and Russia. Changes in these policies and restrictions may adversely impact our business. Public acceptance of nuclear energy and competition from other energy sources is unknown. Growth of the uranium and nuclear industry will depend upon continued and increased acceptance of nuclear technology as an economic means of generating electricity. Because of unique political, technological and environmental factors that affect the nuclear industry, including the risk of a nuclear incident and fears of nuclear incidents in the event of terrorism, wars, insurrections or natural disasters, the industry is subject to public opinion risks that could have an adverse impact on the demand for nuclear power and increase the regulation of the nuclear power industry. Nuclear energy competes with other sources of energy, including oil, natural gas, coal, hydroelectricity and renewable energy sources. These other energy sources are to some extent interchangeable with nuclear energy, particularly over the longer term. Sustained lower prices of oil, natural gas, coal and hydroelectricity may result in lower demand for uranium concentrates. Increased government regulation and technical requirements may make nuclear energy uneconomic, resulting in lower demand for uranium concentrates. Technical advancements and government subsidies in renewable and other alternate forms of energy, such as wind and solar power, could make these forms of energy more commercially viable and put additional pressure on the demand for uranium concentrates. Unfavorable media coverage of mining or nuclear energy could negatively affect our business. The Company is subject to media coverage relating to mining and the production of uranium and other forms of nuclear energy, as well as the production of RE Carbonate, separated REE oxides, HMC and the extraction and concentration of radioisotopes for use in TAT medical treatments, some of which can be inaccurate, non-objective or politically motivated. As a result, the Company is frequently required to address or respond to such media coverage, which can be costly and time-consuming for the Company. Such inaccurate and non-objective media coverage can also negatively impact public perception of the Company’s activities, the market for the Company’s securities, government relations, permitting activities and legal challenges. Potential impacts of public perceptions on our commercial relations. Given the controversial nature of the mining and nuclear industries, the Company is subject to the risk that suppliers, customers, co-venturers or other business relations may be discouraged from or decline to continue commercial relations with or enter into new commercial relations or arrangements with the Company due to fear of reprisals from the media, public or special interest groups based on public perceptions of the nature of the Company’s business or the nature or location of its assets, particularly driven by the ability of the media, public and special interest groups to influence public perceptions through the media, social media and the internet. The uranium and REE industries are highly competitive. The international uranium industry, including the supply of uranium concentrates, is highly competitive. Our uranium business is in direct competition with: a relatively small number of publicly traded or privately funded uranium mining companies; 39 nationally subsidized uranium companies; uranium produced as a byproduct of other mining operations; excess inventories, including inventories made available from decommissioning of nuclear weapons; reprocessed uranium and plutonium; used reactor fuel; and the use of excess Russian enrichment capacity to re-enrich depleted uranium tails. A large quantity of current world production is foreign state-subsidized and appears to be relatively inelastic in that uranium market prices appear to have little effect on the quantity supplied. In the case of foreign state-subsidized production, uranium production may not be fully subject to market factors and may be sold at prices that may be less, or even significantly less, than the costs of production. The supply of uranium from Russia is to some extent (and increasingly) impeded by a number of international trade agreements and policies. These agreements and any similar future agreements, governmental policies or trade restrictions are beyond our control and may affect the supply of uranium available in North America, Europe and Australia/New Zealand. We compete with other mining companies and individuals for capital, Mineral Resources and Mineral Reserves and other mining assets, which may increase the cost of acquiring suitable claims, properties and assets. We also compete with other mining companies to attract and retain key executives, employees and consultants. In addition, there are relatively few bona fide and legitimate customers for uranium. There can be no assurance that we will continue to be able to compete successfully with our competitors in acquiring such properties and assets or in attracting and retaining skilled and experienced employees. The REE industry is competitive, particularly to the extent it is dominated by China, which produces nearly 90% of refined REE products according to the International Energy Agency. Many Chinese companies are state-supported or subsidized, and Chinese companies bid aggressively to acquire monazite to feed this production. The Company competes with Chinese companies, and companies from other countries that are in or trying to break into the REE market, for sources of monazite, and will be expected to compete with Chinese companies and companies from other countries as they develop production capacity at the RE Carbonate crack and leach, REE separation, REE metal and alloy making, REE magnet making, and REE product marketing and sales stages of the REE supply chain, as well as for the acquisition of monazite and other mineral properties, for mining and exploration on such properties, and for the procurement of equipment, materials and personnel necessary to explore, develop and extract monazite from such properties. There is competition for a limited number of monazite acquisition opportunities, including competition with other companies having substantially greater financial resources, staff and facilities than the Company. As a result, the Company may encounter challenges in acquiring attractive properties and exploring and advancing properties currently in the Company’s portfolio. The Company believes that competition for acquiring monazite prospects, production of REE products and completing REE product sales will continue to be intense in the future. Mining operations involve a high degree of risk. The exploration, construction, development, operation and other activities associated with mineral projects, along with the expansion of existing recovery operations and mining activities and restarting of projects, involve significant risks, including financial, technical and regulatory risks. The development or advancement of any of the exploration properties in which we have an interest is contingent upon obtaining satisfactory exploration results, project permitting and licensing and financing. The exploration, construction, development, operation and other activities associated with mineral projects involves significant financial risks over an extended period of time, which even a combination of careful evaluation, experience and knowledge may not eliminate. While discovery of a mine or other facility may result in substantial value, few properties that are staked and explored are ultimately developed into producing mines or extraction or recovery facilities. Major expenses may be required to establish Mineral Resources and Mineral Reserves by drilling and to finance, permit, license and construct extraction, mining, recovery and processing facilities. It is impossible to ensure that the current or proposed exploration, permitting, construction and development programs on our mineral properties will result in profitable commercial extraction, mining or recovery operations. Whether a mineral deposit will be commercially viable depends on a number of factors, which include, among other things: the accuracy of Mineral Resource and Mineral Reserve estimates; the particular attributes of the deposit, such as its size, geology, grade and accessibility; the ability to economically recover commercial quantities of the minerals; proximity to necessary infrastructure and availability of personnel; financing costs; governmental regulations, including regulations relating to prices, taxes, reclamation bonds and royalties; the potential for litigation; land use; importing and exporting; and environmental and cultural protection, including but not limited to the governmental establishment of mineral withdrawals, parks and monuments and land exchanges. The construction, development, expansion and restarting of projects are also subject to: the successful completion of engineering studies with adequate results to proceed; the issuance of necessary governmental licenses and permits; the availability of adequate financing; engineering and construction timetables and capital costs being correctly estimated for our projects, including restarting projects on standby; and such construction timetables and capital costs not being affected by unforeseen circumstances, including but not limited to delays due to litigation/injunctions. The effect of these factors cannot be accurately predicted, but the combination of these factors, along with others, may result in our not receiving an adequate return on invested capital. 40 It is possible that actual costs and economic returns of current and new extraction, mining, or recovery operations may differ materially from our best estimates. It is not unusual in the mining industry for new mining operations and facilities to experience unexpected problems during the start-up phase, to take much longer than originally anticipated to bring them into a recovery or producing phase, to require more capital than anticipated, to operate at a higher cost than expected and/or to have reclamation liabilities that are higher than expected. There can be no assurance that, as the Company mines its properties or disposes of properties, the reduction of existing Mineral Resources and/or Mineral Reserves through depletion or sales will be replaced with new resources of comparable value. There is uncertainty in the estimation of Mineral Reserves and Mineral Resources. Only two of our properties – the Sheep Mountain and Pinyon Plain mines – contain Mineral Reserves as defined under S-K 1300 and NI 43-101. See “Item II, Cautionary Note to Investors Concerning Disclosure of Mineral Reserve and Mineral Resource Estimates. ” Mineral Reserves and Mineral Resources are statistical estimates of mineral content pursuant to S-K 1300 and NI 43-101 based on limited information acquired, in large part, through drilling and other sampling techniques and require judgmental interpretations of geology. Successful extraction requires safe and efficient mining and processing. Our Mineral Reserves and Mineral Resources are estimates, and no assurance can be given that the estimated Mineral Reserves and Mineral Resources are accurate or that the indicated levels of uranium, vanadium, REEs or HMC will be produced economically or otherwise. Actual mineralization or formations may be different than predicted. Further, it may be many years from the initial phase of drilling before production is possible and, during that time, the economic feasibility of exploiting a discovery may change. Mineral Reserve and Mineral Resource estimates for properties that have not commenced extraction, production or recovery are based, in many instances, on limited and widely spaced drill-hole information, which is not necessarily indicative of the conditions between and around drill holes. Accordingly, such Mineral Resource and Mineral Reserve estimates may require revision as more drilling information becomes available, as actual extraction, production or recovery experience is gained, and as methods and technologies develop further. It should not be assumed that all or any part of our Mineral Resources constitute, or will be converted into, Mineral Reserves. Market price fluctuations of uranium, vanadium, REEs or HMC as applicable, as well as increased production and capital costs and/or reduced recovery rates, may render our proven and probable Mineral Reserves unprofitable to develop at a particular site or sites for periods of time or may render Mineral Reserves containing relatively lower grade mineralization uneconomic. Opposition to mining may disrupt our business activities. In recent years, governmental agencies, non-governmental organizations, individuals, communities and courts have become more vocal and active with respect to their opposition to certain mining and business activities, including with respect to production and uranium recovery at our facilities, such as the Mill and the Pinyon Plain Project. This opposition may take on forms such as road blockades, vandalism, threats and/or slander, applications for injunctions seeking to cease certain construction, development, extraction, mining and/or milling or recovery activities, refusals to grant access to lands or to sell lands on commercially viable terms, lawsuits for damages or to revoke or modify licenses and permits, issuances of unfavorable laws and regulations, changes in regulatory attitudes and interpretations and other rulings contrary to or otherwise harming our interests. These actions can occur in response to current activities or in respect of mines or facilities that are decades old. In addition, these actions can occur in response to our activities or the activities of other unrelated entities. Opposition to our activities may also result from general opposition to nuclear energy and mining. Opposition to our business activities are beyond our control. Any opposition to our business activities may cause a disruption to our business activities and may result in increased costs and delays, which could have a material adverse effect on our business and financial condition. We are subject to technical innovation and obsolescence. Requirements for our products and services may be affected by: technological changes in nuclear reactors, enrichment and used uranium fuel reprocessing; facilities and processes for REE and radioisotope recovery; and substitutes for REEs, HMC and the radioisotopes the Company may potentially be producing. These technological changes could reduce the demand for our products and services and/or increase the supply of competitive products and services. The cost competitiveness of our operations may be impacted through the development and commercialization of other mining, milling, processing and other technologies. As a result, our competitors may adopt technological advancements that give them an advantage over the Company or that reduce the demand for the Company’s products and services or make them obsolete. 41 Mining, extraction, recovery, processing, construction, development and exploration activities depend, to a substantial degree, on adequate infrastructure. Reliable roads, bridges, power sources and water supply are important determinants affecting capital and operating costs. We consider the existing infrastructure to be adequate to support our proposed operations and activities. However, unusual or infrequent weather phenomena, including drought, flooding, sabotage, government and/or other interference in the maintenance or provision of such infrastructure could adversely affect our operations and activities, financial condition and results of operations. Mining, mineral extraction, recovery and milling are subject to a high degree of risk, and we are not insured to cover against all potential risks. Our operations and activities are subject to all the hazards and risks normally incidental to exploration, construction, development, extraction and mining of mineral properties, and recovery, processing and milling, including: environmental hazards; industrial accidents; labor disputes, disturbances and unavailability of skilled labor; encountering unusual or unexpected geologic formations; rock bursts, pressures, cave-ins and flooding; periodic interruptions due to inclement or hazardous weather conditions; technological and processing problems, including unanticipated metallurgical difficulties, ground control problems, process upsets and equipment malfunctions; the availability and/or fluctuations in the costs of raw materials and consumables used in our production and recovery processes; the ability to procure mining and other equipment and operating and other supplies in sufficient quantities and on a timely basis; and other extraction, mining, recovery, milling and processing risks, as well as risks associated with our dependence on third parties in the provision of transportation and other critical services. Many of the foregoing risks and hazards could result in damage to, or destruction of, our mineral properties or processing or recovery facilities, personal injury or death, environmental damage, delays in or interruption of or cessation of extraction, mining, production and recovery from our mines or processing facilities or in our exploration, construction or development activities, delay in or inability to receive regulatory approvals to transport our uranium, vanadium, REE or HMC concentrates, and costs, monetary losses and potential legal liability and adverse governmental action. In addition, due to the radioactive nature of the materials handled in uranium extraction, mining, recovery, processing and transportation (both trucking and shipping), additional costs and risks are incurred by us on a regular and ongoing basis. While we may obtain insurance against certain risks in such amounts as we consider adequate, the nature of these risks are such that liabilities could exceed policy limits or could be excluded from coverage. There are also risks against which we cannot insure or against which we may elect not to insure. The potential costs that could be associated with any liabilities not covered by insurance or in excess of insurance coverage or compliance with applicable laws and regulations may cause substantial delays and require significant capital outlays, adversely affecting our future earnings, financial position and competitive position. No assurance can be given that such insurance will continue to be available or will be available at economically feasible premiums or that it will provide sufficient coverage for losses related to these or other risks and hazards. This lack of insurance coverage could result in material economic harm to us. Risks associated with our REE business. There are a number of risks inherent to our REE activities, which include the following: • The risk of achieving and maintaining an adequate supply of monazite sands for processing at the Mill. Although the Company has acquired the Bahia Project, it is currently an exploration and development project and is not an operating mine at this time. As a result, the Company does not currently own its own operating monazite-bearing mine(s) and is completely dependent on contractual arrangements for its REE feed sources at this time. There can be no guarantee that the Company will be able to secure adequate monazite supply over the long-term at suitable prices or that the Bahia Project will be developed into an operating monazite-producing mine. In addition, the price the Company may be required to pay for monazite sands is subject not only to commercial factors but also to the risk of influence by foreign policy and/or foreign state-owned enterprises. We will evaluate potential acquisitions of additional mines or resource properties and joint ventures with mine or resource property owners, but there can be no guarantee that any such acquisitions or joint ventures can be realized on acceptable terms. Further, to the extent the Company is required to purchase monazite ore sources and rely on REE separation facilities located outside the U.S., we may be at a transportation cost disadvantage compared to processing facilities in China or elsewhere that may be closer to potential ore sources and/or REE separation facilities; • The risk of being able to contract to sell the Mill’s REE product at satisfactory prices. The Company has entered into one sales contract with an REE separation facility and intends to secure potential sales contracts with other REE separation facilities for the sale of the RE Carbonate produced at the Mill and with NdPr and other REE oxide users for any separated NdPr and other REE oxides produced by the Company, but there can be no guarantee that any such 42 contracts will be entered into on satisfactory terms, or at all, or extended, in the future. If the Company is not able to secure adequate contracts for the sale of its RE Carbonate, REE oxides or other REE products, we may be required to hold our RE Carbonate, REE oxides and other REE products in inventory until they can be sold at reasonable prices, which would require the commitment of the Company’s cash resources while the REE product is being held in inventory. We would also bear the risk that the REE product may not be able to be sold at reasonable prices in the future, either due to a lack of a market for the purchase of our RE Carbonate, REE oxides or other REE products and/or a reduction in REE commodity prices and, hence, we bear the risk of a reduction in the value of our RE Carbonate, REE oxides or other REE products. We anticipate that the U.S. government may take steps to support the development of a U.S. supply chain for REEs through price support or other mechanisms, but there can be no guarantee that any such support will be given, or if given, would benefit the Company; • The risk of process failures in the production of RE Carbonates or separated REE oxides, such as the Company’s ability to continue producing RE Carbonate and to potentially produce separated REE oxides at commercial specifications and on a commercial scale at acceptable costs, which could prevent future commercial production of RE Carbonate and/or separated REE oxides at the Mill cost-competitively or at all; • The risk that we may not be able to increase our sources of natural monazite sands or other ores in amounts sufficient to sustain cost-competitive production of RE Carbonate, REE oxides or other REE products at the Mill or elsewhere; • The inability of the Company to successfully or cost-competitively process other types of REEs and uranium-bearing ores and materials at the Mill, such as those produced from coal-based resources or Alternate Feed Materials; • The inability of the Company to successfully enhance and modify existing Mill facilities to commission or otherwise construct and operate its planned REE separation circuits at the Mill or elsewhere, and potentially other downstream REE activities, including metal-making and alloying, in the future at the Mill or elsewhere, at acceptable costs or at all; • The risk of: permit and license challenges, the failure to obtain or retain any needed permit or license amendments, or changes in regulatory attitudes or interpretations. The Mill can produce RE Carbonate, along with uranium, from natural uranium- and REE-bearing monazite sand ores, but additional permitting or licensing may be required to permit certain of the Company’s planned REE separation circuits and facilities and potential REE metal and metal alloy facilities at the Mill or elsewhere. The existing licensing regime and any new or existing permits or licenses or amendments that may be required are subject to challenge, which could delay or prevent existing production or any new construction, as well as any separation and other activities; • The current shortage of supply of REEs and the resulting prices for REEs, and the fear that supplies of REEs may not be forthcoming on a timely basis to meet new demands for REEs, such as for permanent magnets for EVs, may encourage end-users to substitute away from REEs to advance and use other technologies to meet consumer demands for end products, which could result in a significant reduction in demand for and prices of REEs. Sustained reductions in the price of REEs would impact the Company’s returns from its REE initiatives and could render them infeasible; • The risk that further exploration, permitting and development work on the Bahia Project may result in a determination by the Company that developing a mine on the property is not feasible; • The risks associated with HMC production at the Company’s Bahia Project or any other HMS project acquired by the Company in the future, and the risks associated with HMC pricing could impact the profitability of mining the Company’s Bahia Project or any such other HMS projects, which could impact the supply of monazite available to the Company from such projects; • The risk of conducting exploration and mining activities in Brazil, including: the need to rely on English/Portuguese translations provided by third parties; variations in laws, labor practices, and social norms that could impact the Company’s ability to conduct business in a timely and effective manner; and delays caused by cross-border logistics, such as import and export processes; and • Increases in the supply of REEs through the addition of new mines and/or REE processing facilities could increase the global supply of REEs and reduce the price of REEs and REE products. Sustained reductions in the price of REEs would impact the Company’s returns from its REE initiatives and could render them unfeasible. Risks Associated with our TAT Radioisotope Initiatives. There are a number of risks related to our potential recovery of radioisotopes at the Mill for use in the development and production of emerging TAT cancer treatments, including: • The risk that the potential recovery of such radioisotopes at the Mill may not be technically feasible or that the radioisotopes may not meet commercial specifications; • The risk that such radioisotopes may not be economically feasible to produce or may not be able to be sold on a commercial basis at a sufficient price and quantity; • The risk that the Company is not able to enter into commercial commitments for the sale of offtake of radioisotopes that are adequate to justify the capital and other expenditures required to produce the radioisotopes; 43 • The risk that the Company may not be able to secure the reagents, materials, supplies and other components necessary for recovery of the radioisotopes on reasonable commercial terms or in adequate quantities; • The risk that all required licenses, permits and regulatory approvals may not be obtained on a timely basis or at all; • The risk that the medical isotopes derived from such radioisotopes produced at the Mill may not prove their efficacy at clinical trials and may not obtain all required approvals for commercial use; • The development of competing cancer treatment therapeutics that could render the TAT therapeutics less attractive or obsolete; • The current shortage of supply of such radioisotopes and the resulting prices for such radioisotopes, and the fear that supplies of the radioisotopes may not be forthcoming on a timely basis to meet new demands for cancer therapies, may encourage pharmaceutical companies to advance and use other technologies to meet consumer demands for end products, which could result in a significant reduction in demand for and prices of the radioisotopes the Mill is capable of producing. Sustained reductions in the price of such radioisotopes would impact the Company’s returns from its TAT initiatives and could render them infeasible; and • Increases in the supply of such radioisotopes through the addition of radioisotope processing facilities, including the permitting and retrofitting of other uranium mills for the recovery of radioisotopes, or through the sales of radioisotopes by various U.S. or foreign governments from government production or existing government stockpiles, could increase the global supply of such radioisotopes and reduce the price of the radioisotopes. Sustained reductions in the price of such radioisotopes would impact the Company’s returns from its TAT radioisotope initiatives and could render them unfeasible. Risks Relating to our Regulatory Environment Our business is subject to extensive environmental regulations that may make exploring, mining or related activities expensive, and which may change at any time. We are required to comply with environmental protection laws and regulations and permitting requirements promulgated by federal agencies and various states, provinces, counties and local governments in the countries in which we operate and conduct our activities in connection with extraction, mining, recovery and milling operations. The uranium industry is subject not only to the worker health and safety and environmental risks associated with all mining activities, but also to additional risks uniquely associated with uranium extraction, mining, recovery and milling. We expend significant resources, both financial and managerial, to comply with these laws and regulations. The possibility of more stringent regulations exists in the areas of worker health and safety, storage of hazardous materials, standards for heavy equipment used in extraction, mining, recovery or milling, the disposition of wastes, the decommissioning and reclamation of exploration, extraction, mining, recovery, milling and in-situ sites, climate change and other environmental matters, each of which could have a material adverse effect on the cost or the viability of a particular project. We cannot predict what environmental legislation, regulations or policies will be enacted or adopted in the future or how future laws and regulations will be administered or interpreted in the countries we operate. The recent trend in environmental legislation and regulation is generally toward stricter standards, and this trend is likely to continue in the future. This recent trend includes, without limitation, laws and regulations relating to air and water quality, mine and other facility reclamation, waste handling and disposal, the protection of certain species and the preservation of certain lands and cultural resources. These regulations may require the acquisition of permits or other authorizations for certain activities. These laws and regulations may also limit or prohibit activities on certain lands. Compliance with more stringent laws and regulations, changes in regulatory attitudes and approaches, as well as potentially more vigorous enforcement policies, stricter interpretation of existing laws and stricter permit and license conditions may necessitate significant capital outlays, may materially affect our results of operations and business or may cause material changes or delays in our intended activities. There can be no assurance of our continued compliance or ability to meet stricter environmental laws and regulations and permit or license conditions or changes in attitudes or interpretations relating thereto. Delays in obtaining permits and licenses could impact expected production levels or increases in expected uranium, vanadium, REE and/or HMC extraction levels. Our operations may require additional analyses in the future, including environmental, cultural, and social impact and other related studies. Certain activities require the submission and approval of environmental assessments or the more comprehensive environmental impact statements, and the like. We cannot provide assurance that we will be able to obtain or maintain all necessary permits that may be required to continue operations or exploration and development of our properties or, if feasible, to commence construction, development, operation or other activities relating to mining facilities at such properties on terms that enable operations or activities to be conducted at economically justifiable costs. If we are unable to obtain or maintain licenses, permits or other rights for construction, development and operation of our properties, or otherwise fail to manage adequately future environmental issues, our uranium, vanadium, REE and/or HMC recovery operations and mining activities could be materially and adversely affected. 44 Further, our business is subject to risks associated with increased regulatory requirements or changes in attitudes or interpretations relating thereto applicable to our operations in response to pressure from special interest groups or otherwise. Changes in regulatory requirements or changes in attitudes or interpretations relating to existing regulatory requirements could have a material adverse effect on our operations and financial condition. Our operations on U.S. federal lands may be impacted by mineral withdrawals or the designation of national monuments by the U.S. President or government, either of which could have significant impacts on the Company and our operations, as well as by other factors. Mining claims on U.S. federal lands are subject to mineral withdrawals by the federal government or the designation of national monuments by the President of the U.S. under the Antiquities Act. In both cases, the withdrawal or the designation of a national monument withdraws the area from location and entry under the Mining Law, subject to valid existing rights. What this means is that no new mining claims may be filed on the withdrawn or designated lands and no new plans of operations may be approved, other than plans of operations on mining claims that were valid at the time of withdrawal or designation and that remain valid at the time of plan approval. Whether or not a mining claim is valid must be determined by a mineral examination conducted by BLM or USFS, as applicable. The mineral examination, which involves an economic evaluation of a project, must demonstrate the existence of a locatable mineral resource and that the mineral resource constitutes discovery of a valuable mineral deposit. We believe that all our material Arizona Strip projects are on valid mining claims that would withstand a mineral examination. Mineral claims that are in the exploration stage and upon which economic deposits have not yet been delineated are generally prevented from proceeding to the plan of operations stage during the withdrawal period or indefinitely in the case of the designation of a national monument. See the discussions under “Part I, Item 1. Description of Business - U.S. Land Tenure ,” above, for a discussion on the recent Grand Canyon withdrawal and designation of the Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument in Arizona and the Bears Ears National Monument in Utah, none of which are believed to have significant impacts on the Company at this time, but which have the potential to significantly impact the Company in the future. In addition to the Grand Canyon withdrawal and the Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument and Bears Ears National Monument, there are currently other designated or proposed withdrawals of federal lands for the purposes of mineral location and development and proposed designations of national monuments. While such proposals are not yet final and would require further federal action, if they were to occur, it is uncertain whether any such withdrawals or designations would affect in any manner our current mineral projects. Any future withdrawal of mineral lands from location and entry or future designation of additional national monuments has the potential to prevent further development on exploration stage claims held by the Company in the affected area as well as the potential for the Company to lose the ability to continue to develop mining operations on other claims in the affected area if a mineral examination indicates the deposit is uneconomical and that the claim is not valid, either of which could have significant impacts on the Company. The risks of exchanges of state-owned lands in mineral withdrawal areas or national monuments for federal lands outside the withdrawal area or national monument but that are within the boundaries of and affect any of our properties, or similar actions, could adversely impact our affected properties or our ability to operate our affected properties. Possible amendments to the General Mining Law or other laws could make it more difficult or impossible for us to execute our business plan. Members of the U.S. Congress have repeatedly introduced bills which would supplant or alter the provisions of the U.S. Mining Law, as amended. Such bills have proposed, among other things, to (i) either eliminate or greatly limit the right to a mineral patent; (ii) significantly alter the laws and regulations relating to uranium mineral development and recovery from unpatented and patented mining claims; (iii) impose a federal royalty on production from unpatented mining claims; (iv) impose time limits on the effectiveness of plans of operation that may not coincide with mine or facility life; (v) impose more stringent environmental compliance and reclamation requirements on activities on unpatented mining claims; (vi) establish a mechanism that would allow states, localities and American Indian tribes to petition for the withdrawal of identified tracts of federal land from the operation of the U.S. general mining laws; and (vii) allow for administrative determinations that mining or similar activities would not be allowed in situations where undue degradation of the federal lands in question could not be prevented. If enacted, such legislation could change the cost of holding unpatented mining claims and could significantly impact our ability to develop locatable mineral resources on our patented and unpatented mining claims. Although it is impossible to predict at this point what any legislated royalties might be, enactment could adversely affect the potential for construction and 45 development and the economics of existing operating mines and facilities. Passage of such legislation could adversely affect our financial performance. The EPA has in recent years announced an intention to propose new rules that, if promulgated, could result in increases in mine surety arrangements to cover currently non-existing and unidentified potential future environmental costs, which could severely impact or render infeasible many existing or prospective mining operations. EPA dropped this proposal after considering comments received during the public participation process. Nevertheless, there is a risk that similar regulations could be proposed in the future, which could have significant impacts on the Company and the mining industry as a whole. The SEC’s disclosure requirements for Mineral Reserves and Mineral Resources, as codified in Subpart 1300 of Regulation S-K 1300, create ambiguity for issuers required to comply with both the requirements of S-K 1300 and NI 43-101, and may result in increased compliance costs for the Company. S-K 1300, as promulgated by the SEC and effective starting in 2021, requires that the Company disclose specific information related to its material mining operations, including its Mineral Resources and Mineral Reserves. While S-K 1300 is substantively the same as NI 43-101, it is relatively new compared to NI 43-101 and, thus, remains subject to unknown interpretations that could require the Company to incur substantial costs associated with compliance. Where substantive disclosure in one regulatory scheme is more restrictive/stringent than in the other, the Company opted to take the more restrictive/stringent approach in its technical reports. NI 43-101 has a prescribed format, whereas S-K 1300 does not; as such, the Company’s technical reports follow the formatting requirements of NI 43-101. Any further revisions to, or interpretations of, S-K 1300 or NI 43-101 could result in the Company incurring unforeseen costs associated with compliance, both in the U.S. and in Canada. We are a “large accelerated filer” and are subject to a fully integrated audit pursuant to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. The Company is a “large accelerated filer,” meaning that, as of December 31, 2023 (and for the first time as of December 31, 2021): (i) we had a public float of $700 million or more as of the most recently completed second fiscal quarter; (ii) we had been subject to the requirements of the Exchange Act Section 13(a) or 15(d) for a period of at least 12 calendar months; (iii) we filed at least one annual report pursuant to the Exchange Act Section 13(a) or 15(d), and (iv) we were not eligible to use the requirements for “smaller reporting companies” under the applicable revenue test. As such, we are subject to a fully integrated audit pursuant to Section 404(b) of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, as amended (“ SOX ”), in order to assess, as of the most recent fiscal year-end, the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control structure and procedures for financial reporting, as reported in an audit report of our independent public accounting firm. As a result, there are risks that one or more significant deficiencies or material weaknesses may be identified in the Company’s internal controls and procedures requiring remediation. Our future business and results of operations face uncertainties as a result of any action or inaction of the U.S. Government pursuant to its U.S. Uranium Reserve Program. On December 27, 2020, the COVID-Relief and Omnibus Spending Bill, which included $75 million for the proposed establishment of a strategic U.S. uranium reserve, was signed into law. While the now established U.S. Uranium Reserve Program has made a number of appropriations, with the Company having sold some of its uranium inventory into the U.S. Uranium Reserve Program in 2023, there remains a risk that, if any future required appropriations passed by the U.S. Congress are deferred, or if they are implemented in a way that does not provide the required support for the Company’s activities, and uranium and vanadium markets do not support production activities and/or the Company’s REE and TAT initiatives are not adequate to otherwise sustain the Company’s other business activities, we may reduce our operational activities, including potentially monetizing certain non-core assets as required in order to minimize our cash expenditures while preserving our core asset base for increased production in the future as market conditions may warrant. Participation in Industry Trade Petition and related activities could have negative repercussions. The Company has previously participated in industry trade petitions, including in particular the filing of an industry trade petition under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 (as amended) From Imports of Uranium Products that Threaten U.S. National Security with the U.S. Department of Commerce (“ DOC ”), and may choose to participate in similar undertakings now or in the future as it deems necessary and appropriate. Although the Company believes the bipartisan appropriation was a significant accomplishment that has directly benefited Energy Fuels through the U.S. Uranium Reserve Program's first round of contract awards and that will ultimately strengthen the 46 U.S. uranium mining industry, bolster national defense, and improve supply diversification for U.S. utilities and their customers, there is a risk that future contract awards, if any, may be given in a way that does not benefit the Company. There is also the potential for negative responses or repercussions to Energy Fuels' receipt of any such U.S. Uranium Reserve Program contract awards from various special interest groups, government entities, consumers of uranium and participants in other phases of the nuclear fuel cycle, both domestically and abroad, which could have a negative impact on the Company and its operations. In addition, the costs of pursuing such actions have been and could continue to be significant. Participation in the renewal of the Russian Suspension Agreement and related activities could have negative repercussions. In October 2020, the DOC and the State Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom, acting on behalf of the Government of the Russian Federation, together signed an amendment (the “ Russian Amendment ”) to the “ Agreement Suspending the Antidumping Investigation on Uranium from the Russian Federation ” (the “ Russian Agreement ”), thereby extending limitations on the import of Russian low-enriched uranium into the U.S. for use as fuel for nuclear reactors until the year 2040 and tightening restrictions in order to close loopholes identified in the original Russian Agreement. The Company participated with the DOC in its efforts to secure the Russian Amendment as an advocate for domestic uranium producers, which has the potential for negative responses or repercussions to these activities from various special interest groups, government entities, consumers of uranium and participants in other phases of the nuclear fuel cycle, both domestically and abroad, and could thereby negatively impact the Company and its operations. The new or lasting impacts of the USMCA (formerly NAFTA) on the Company remain unclear, and any action by the President of the United States to withdraw from or materially modify certain other international trade agreements in the future could adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations, to the extent dependent on the jurisdiction of our incorporation. Although our primary trading market is the NYSE American, a majority of our outstanding voting securities are held by U.S. residents, we are a U.S. domestic issuer for SEC reporting purposes, and substantially all of our assets, operations and employees are in the U.S., the Company is incorporated in Ontario, Canada. On September 30, 2018, trade representatives acting on behalf of the U.S., Mexico and Canada renegotiated the terms of the North American Free Trade Agreement (“ NAFTA ”) in what is known as the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (“ USMCA ”), which entered into force on July 1, 2020 after being approved by the U.S. Congress. At this time, the new or lasting impacts of the USMCA on the Company remain unclear. In addition, if the President of the United States takes action to withdraw from or materially modify certain other international trade agreements, and such actions depend on the jurisdiction of our incorporation, then our business, financial condition and results of operations could possibly be adversely affected, depending on the nature of the action. Risks Related to Our Business Some of our mineral properties may never be put into a state of production. Depending on uranium, vanadium, REE and HMS prices, some of our mineral properties may never be put into a state of production. Two of our projects have Mineral Reserves as defined by S-K 1300 and NI 43-101 — the Sheep Mountain Project and the Pinyon Plain Project. Because the probability of an individual prospect ever having Mineral Reserves as defined by S-K 1300 and NI 43-101 is uncertain, our other properties may not contain any Mineral Reserves. Even if Mineral Reserves are identified, depending on commodity prices, we may not put a property into a state of production due to insufficient capital or other reasons. Any funds spent on exploration, construction, development, extraction and recovery on any properties that are not put into production may be lost. We do not know with certainty that economically recoverable uranium exists on all of our properties as defined by S-K 1300 and NI 43-101. Further, although we are undertaking uranium extraction activities at our Mill and are mining at several of our properties at current commodity prices, our lack of established Mineral Reserves on a number of our properties means that we are uncertain as to our ability to continue to generate revenue from our operations. We may never discover additional uranium in commercially exploitable quantities, and, depending on commodity prices, our identified deposits currently classified as Mineral Resources may never qualify as commercially mineable Mineral Reserves. We will continue to attempt to acquire the surface and mineral rights on lands that we think are geologically favorable or where we have historical information in our possession that indicates uranium mineralization might be present. The exploration and, if warranted, construction relating to or development of mineral deposits involves significant financial and other risks over an extended period of time, which even a combination of careful evaluation, experience and knowledge may not eliminate. Few properties which are explored are ultimately developed into producing mines. Major expenditures are required to establish Mineral Reserves by drilling and to construct mining and processing facilities at a site. Our operations and activities are subject to the hazards and risks normally incident to exploration and production of uranium, precious and base metals, any of which could result in damage to life or property, environmental damage and possible legal liability for such 47 damage. While we may obtain insurance against certain risks, the nature of these risks is such that liabilities could exceed policy limits or could be excluded from coverage. There are also risks against which we cannot insure or against which we may elect not to insure. The potential costs which could be associated with any liabilities not covered by insurance, or in excess of insurance coverage, or compliance with applicable laws and regulations may cause substantial delays and require significant capital outlays, adversely affecting our future earnings and competitive position and, potentially, our financial viability. The Mill has historically been run on a campaign basis as sufficient feed materials are available, and there can be no assurance that sufficient mill feed will be available in the future to sustain future campaigns. The Mill has historically operated on a campaign basis, whereby mineral processing occurs as mill feed, cash needs, contract requirements and/or market conditions may warrant. Each milling campaign is subject to receipt of sufficient mill feed that would allow us to operate the Mill on a profitable basis and/or recover a portion of its standby costs. Due to significantly improved uranium prices in 2023, three of the Company’s conventional mines were brought back into operation near the end of the year, with the remaining conventional properties remaining either on standby, in the evaluation and permitting phase, undertaking rehabilitation and preparedness work or inactive, and no third-party conventional properties are operating to provide mill feed. However, in times of depressed commodity prices when conventional mine production is entirely or significantly on standby, the Mill has relied primarily on processing Alternate Feed Materials and has also recycled tailings pond solutions for the recovery of uranium and vanadium. The Company continuously seeks to identify and secure additional Alternate Feed Materials and other sources of mill feed, such as materials from the cleanup of AUM sites. The Company is also continuing with its commercial production of RE Carbonate and is performing modifications and enhancements to the Mill’s circuits to allow for the separation of REE oxides. However, there can be no assurance that sufficient conventional ores, Alternate Feed Materials, suitable tailings pond solutions and/or other sources of mill feed will be available in the future, or that our planned increases to production of RE Carbonate and separated REE oxides will be successful, so as to allow us to operate the Mill on a profitable basis and/or recover a portion of the Mill’s standby costs at any time. There can be no guarantee that we will be able to enter into additional new term sales contracts in the future for uranium, vanadium, REEs or HMC on suitable terms and conditions. The Company secured three new long-term sales contracts with U.S. nuclear utilities in May 2022 and is continuing to strategically pursue additional uranium sales commitments with pricing expected to have both fixed and market-related components. The Company believes that recent price increases, volatility and focus on security of supply in light of Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine have increased the potential for the Company to make uranium sales and procure additional term sales contracts with utilities at pricing that sustains production and covers corporate overhead. However, there can be no guarantee that the Company will be able to enter into additional long-term contracts for the delivery of significant amounts of uranium at satisfactory prices in the future. Fixed-price long-term contracts for vanadium are generally not available and the Company’s existing contract for the sale of RE Carbonate is at prices that vary with the prices of REEs. Thus, there can be no guarantee that the Company will be able to enter into long-term contracts for the delivery of significant amounts of vanadium or RE Carbonate or other REE products or HMC at satisfactory prices in the future. The failure to enter into new term sales contracts on suitable terms could adversely impact our operations and mining activity decisions and resulting cash flows and income. Vanadium mineral resource estimates for the La Sal Complex are based in part on Mill production records. For the Company’s La Sal Complex uranium-vanadium property, vanadium assay results are not available for all drill holes such that the vanadium mineral resource estimate is in part based on a ratio of vanadium to uranium supported by actual mill production records from the Mill. There is a risk that the use of a ratio based on Mill production records may increase the potential uncertainty in vanadium grades. We may be unable to raise debt financing as may be required or desirable. The Company may not be able to raise debt financing as may be required or desirable for planned expansion of our operations or for the development of projects with third parties in which we have a joint venture or other interest. The failure to raise debt financing on suitable terms or at all when required or desirable could have a material adverse effect on our operations and financial condition. 48 We may be unable to timely pay our outstanding debt obligations, which may result in us losing some of our assets covered by mortgage and/or other security arrangements, and which may adversely affect our assets, results of operations and/or future prospects. We may from time to time enter into arrangements to borrow money in order to fund our operations and expansion plans, and such arrangements may include covenants that restrict our business in some way. We may also from time to time acquire properties whereby certain payment obligations owed to the seller are paid by us over time, with the seller’s sole remedy for non-payment by us being re-acquisition of the property. Events may occur in the future, including events out of our control, that would cause us to fail to satisfy our debt or financing instruments. In such circumstances, or if we were to default on our obligations under such debt or financing instruments, the amounts drawn in accordance with the underlying agreements may become due and payable before the agreed maturity date, and we may not have the financial resources to repay such amounts when due. Although all our reclamation obligations are bonded, and cash and other assets have been reserved to secure a portion but not all the bonded amounts, to the extent the bonded amounts are not fully collateralized, we will be required to provide additional cash to perform our reclamation obligations when they occur. In addition, the bonding companies have the right to require increases in collateral at any time, failure of which would constitute a default under the bonds. In such circumstances, we may not have the financial resources to perform such reclamation obligations or to increase such collateral when due. We may need additional financing in connection with the implementation of our business and strategic plans from time to time. The exploration, construction, development and acquisition of mineral properties and the ongoing operation of mines and other facilities requires a substantial amount of capital and may depend on our ability to obtain financing through joint ventures, debt financing, equity financing or other means. We may accordingly need further capital in order to take advantage of further opportunities or acquisitions. Our financial condition, general market conditions, volatile uranium and vanadium markets, volatile interest rates, legal claims against us, a significant disruption to our business or operations, or other factors may make it difficult to secure financing necessary for the expansion of mining activities or to take advantage of opportunities for acquisitions. Further, volatility in the credit markets may increase costs associated with debt instruments due to increased spreads over relevant interest rate benchmarks, or may affect our ability, or the ability of third parties we seek to do business with, to access those markets. Continued volatility in equity markets, specifically including energy and commodity markets, may increase the costs associated with equity financings due to a low share price and may create the potential need for us to offer higher discounts and other value (e.g., warrants). There is no assurance that we will be successful in obtaining required financing as and when needed on acceptable terms, if at all. We have experienced negative cash flows from operations and may need additional financing in connection with the implementation of our business and strategic plans from time to time. The Company has had negative cash flow from operations in prior years, and at low commodity prices a number of our mining properties will be on standby, making it less likely that the Company will be able to generate positive cash flows from operations in those circumstances. If the Company cannot generate positive cash flows from operations, its ability to fund its operations and implement its business plans may depend on its ability to obtain financing through joint ventures, debt financing, equity financing or other means. There can be no assurance that we will be able to achieve and maintain positive cash flow from operations to fund our financing needs. Further, if cash flows from operations are negative, there is no assurance that the Company will be able to raise additional funds, if needed, or that if any such additional funds are raised, that the Company will be able to raise such funds on commercially attractive terms. If we do not achieve positive cash flows or are unable to raise additional funds when needed, we may not be able to continue to fund our operations. We are subject to costs associated with decommissioning and reclamation of our properties. For so long as we are and remain the owner and operator of the Mill, the Nichols Ranch Project and numerous uranium, uranium/vanadium, REE and HMS projects and other facilities located in the U.S., Brazil and elsewhere, and certain other permitting, construction, development and exploration properties, we are obligated to ultimately reclaim or participate in the reclamation of our properties upon the occurrence of certain predetermined criteria using closely monitored and carefully developed, approved methods. Our reclamation obligations are bonded, and cash and other assets have been reserved to secure a portion, but not all, of the bonded amounts. Although our financial statements will record a liability for the asset retirement obligation, and the bonding requirements are generally periodically reviewed by applicable regulatory authorities, there can be no assurance or guarantee that the ultimate cost of such reclamation obligations will not exceed the estimated liability to be 49 provided on our financial statements. Further, to the extent the bonded amounts are not fully collateralized, we will be required to come up with additional cash to perform our reclamation obligations when they occur. Decommissioning plans for our properties have been filed with applicable regulatory authorities. These regulatory authorities have accepted the decommissioning plans in concept, not upon a detailed performance forecast, which has not yet been generated. Over time, further regulatory review of the decommissioning plans may result in additional decommissioning requirements, associated costs and the requirement to provide additional financial assurances, including as our properties approach or go into decommissioning. It is not possible to predict what level of decommissioning and reclamation (and financial assurances relating thereto) may be required in the future by regulatory authorities. Our mineral properties may be subject to defects in title or risks of forfeiture. We have investigated our rights to explore and exploit all our material properties and, to the best of our knowledge, those rights are in good standing. However, no assurance can be given that such rights will not be revoked, or significantly altered, to our detriment. There can also be no assurance that our rights will not be challenged or impugned by third parties, including by governments, surface owners, and non-governmental organizations. The validity of unpatented mining claims on U.S. public lands is sometimes difficult to confirm and may be contested. Due to the extensive requirements and associated expense required to obtain and maintain mining rights on U.S. public lands, our properties are subject to various title uncertainties common to the industry with the attendant risk that there may be defects in title. In addition, certain lands have been withdrawn around the Grand Canyon National Park, including most recently in the newly established Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument, from location and entry under the Mining Laws. All the Company’s properties located on the Arizona Strip, with the exception of its Wate property and certain exploration properties held by the Company’s subsidiary, Arizona Strip Partners LLC, are located within the withdrawn lands and boundaries of the Grand Canyon National Monument. No new mining claims may be filed on the withdrawn lands and no new plans of operations may be approved, other than plans of operations on mining claims that were valid at the time of withdrawal and that remain valid at the time of plan approval. Whether or not a mining claim is valid must be determined by a mineral examination conducted by BLM or USFS, as applicable. The mineral examination, which involves an economic evaluation of a project, must demonstrate the existence of a locatable mineral resource and that the mineral resource constitutes discovery of a valuable mineral deposit. We believe that all our material Arizona Strip projects are on valid mining claims that would withstand a mineral examination. Further, our Arizona 1 Project has an approved plan of operations which, absent modification, would not require a mineral examination. Although our Pinyon Plain Project also has an approved plan of operations, which, absent modification, would not require a mineral examination, the USFS performed a mineral examination at that mine in 2012, and concluded that the underlying mining claims are valid existing rights (a decision which has been involved in a court challenge). However, market conditions may postpone or prevent the performance of mineral examinations on certain other properties and, if a mineral examination is performed on a property, there can be no guarantee that the mineral examination would not result in one or more of our mining claims being considered invalid, which could prevent a project from proceeding. Certain of our properties, or significant portions thereof, are mineral leases that have fixed terms, both with State and private parties. Certain of our properties are subject to other agreements that may affect our ability to explore, permit, develop and operate them, including surface use, access and other agreements. There can be no guarantee that we will be able to renew or extend such leases and agreements on favorable terms or at all. The failure to renew any such leases or agreements could have a material adverse effect on our operations. The granting of mineral rights in Brazil is performed in four steps: exploration authorization, right to request a mining concession, mining concession request and mining concession grant. Each step requires that certain actions must be taken, results must be achieved by the Company, and in some circumstances approvals must be obtained, within certain time periods, which can be extended or renewed in certain circumstances by the Brazilian National Mining Agency (“ ANM ”). The Company’s mineral rights in Brazil are at risk of being forfeited if the Company fails to take the required actions, fails to achieve the required results or fails to obtain the required approvals, within the required time frames and ANM declines to extend or renew such time frames. The forfeiture of any such mineral rights could have a material adverse effect on our operations. See “Part I, Item 2J. The Bahia Project .” Because we may be unable to secure access rights to certain of our properties, we may be unable to explore and/or advance such properties. We are currently in the process of negotiating and clarifying access rights to certain of our properties, such as the Roca Honda Project and the Wate Project, with private landholders. There can be no guarantee that we will be able to negotiate or clarify 50 such access rights on favorable terms, or at all. The failure to negotiate or clarify such access rights on suitable terms could have a material adverse effect on our operations. Risks associated with carrying on our business in foreign countries. The Company faces a number of risks related to conducting business operations in foreign countries including heightened risks of political instability, expropriation of assets, business interruption, increased taxation, import/export controls, unilateral modification of concessions and contracts. We also face the typical risks associated with doing business in foreign countries, including: different market and economic forces, resulting from new business environments with new competitors and different consumer preferences; dealing with local suppliers who may have a strong foothold in the area; the need to build up brand awareness and trust in a new market; different customer and supplier demographics; language and cultural barriers; extreme weather events and natural disasters that can present a sustained business risk relating to supply logistics and other factors; the additional requirements of foreign legal systems; the impacts of foreign tax requirements; the need to comply with foreign regulations and operations compliance; the need to comply with foreign legal systems, including as they relate to contract enforceability; the requirement to stay abreast of and remain in compliance with changing laws and regulations; and the lack of purchasing power parity compared to domestic competitors. Any number of these risks could have a material adverse effect on our operations, liquidity and financial condition. Our operations outside the United States and Canada require us to comply with a number of United States, Canadian and international regulations, violations of which could have a material adverse effect on our business, consolidated results of operations, and consolidated financial condition. Our operations outside the United States and Canada require us to comply with a number of United States, Canadian and other international regulations. For example, our operations in countries outside the United States and Canada are subject to the United States Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (“ FCPA ”), which prohibits United States companies and their agents and employees from providing anything of value to a foreign official for the purposes of influencing any act or decision of these individuals in their official capacity to help obtain or retain business, direct business to any person or corporate entity, or obtain any unfair advantage, as well as to the Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act (“ CFPOA ”), which is the Canadian equivalent of the FCPA. Our activities create the risk of unauthorized payments or offers of payments by our employees, agents, or joint venture partners that could be in violation of anti-corruption laws, even though some of these parties are not subject to our control. We have internal control policies and procedures and have implemented training and compliance programs for our employees and agents with respect to the FCPA and CFPOA. However, we cannot assure that our policies, procedures, and programs will always protect us from reckless or criminal acts committed by our employees or agents. We are also subject to the risks that our employees, joint venture partners, and agents outside of the United States may fail to comply with other applicable laws. Allegations of violations of applicable anti-corruption laws have resulted and may in the future result in internal, independent, or government investigations. Violations of anti-corruption laws may result in severe criminal or civil sanctions, and we may be subject to other liabilities, which could have a material adverse effect on our business, consolidated results of operations and consolidated financial condition. Risks associated with a Brazilian federal or state government enacting or managing a conservation unit or environmental protection area. There is a risk of a Brazilian federal or state government enacting or managing a conservation unit or environmental protection area or implementing a management plan in connection therewith that could impact planned production at or restrict the Company’s ability to or prevent the Company from mining significant portions of the Company’s Bahia Project. Such an action could have a material adverse effect on our operations, liquidity and financial condition. We are subject to foreign currency risks. Our operations are subject to foreign currency fluctuations. Our operating expenses and revenues are primarily incurred in U.S. dollars, while some of our cash balances and expenses are measured in Canadian dollars. The fluctuation of the Canadian dollar in relation to the U.S. dollar will consequently have an impact on our profitability and may also affect the value of our assets and shareholders’ equity. In addition, any strengthening of the U.S. dollar relative to other currencies makes our mineral extraction and recovery less competitive in relation to similar activities in other countries. Any strengthening of the U.S. dollar in relation to the currencies of other countries can have a material impact on our cash flows and profitability and affect the value of our assets and shareholders’ equity. 51 We may not realize the anticipated benefits of previous acquisitions. We may not realize the anticipated benefits of acquiring: the Sheep Mountain Project in 2012; Denison Mines Corp.’s U.S. Mining Division in 2012, including the Mill, certain of the Arizona Strip Properties, the Bullfrog Project and the La Sal Project; Strathmore in 2013, including the Roca Honda Project; Uranerz in 2015, including the Nichols Ranch Project; and the Bahia Project in Brazil in 2023, due to integration, operational and uranium, REE, HMC and/or vanadium market challenges. Decreases in commodity prices have required us to place or maintain a number of acquired properties and facilities on standby and to defer permitting and construction and development activities on certain other acquired assets, until market conditions warrant otherwise, and, in some cases, we have elected to sell or abandon certain of these properties at a loss. Our success following those acquisitions will depend in large part on the success of our management in valuing the acquired assets and integrating the acquired assets into the Company. Our failure to properly value the assets and to achieve such integration and to mine or advance such assets could result in our failure to realize the anticipated benefits of those acquisitions and could impair our results of operations, profitability and financial results. We prepare estimates of future uranium, uranium/vanadium and REE (monazite) extraction and recovery, and there are no assurances that such estimates will be achieved. We may from time to time prepare estimates of future uranium, vanadium, monazite, HMS or other mineral extraction and recovery, or increases in uranium, vanadium, monazite, HMS or other mineral extraction and recovery, for particular operations, or relating to our ability to increase uranium, vanadium, monazite, HMS or other mineral extraction and recovery in response to increases in commodity prices, as market conditions warrant or otherwise. No assurance can be given that any such extraction and recovery estimates will be achieved, nor can assurance be given that extraction or recovery increases will be achieved in a cost effective or timely manner. Failure to achieve extraction and recovery estimates or failure to achieve extraction and recovery in a cost effective or timely manner could have an adverse impact on our future cash flows, earnings, results of operations and financial condition. These estimates are based on, among other things, the following factors: the accuracy of Mineral Resource and Mineral Reserve estimates; the accuracy of assumptions regarding ground conditions and physical characteristics of mineralized materials, such as hardness and presence or absence of particular metallurgical characteristics; the accuracy of estimated rates and costs of extraction, recovery and processing; assumptions as to future commodity prices; assumptions relating to changes in laws, regulations or policies, or lack thereof, that could impact the cost and time required to obtain regulatory approvals, licenses and permits; assumptions relating to obtaining required licenses and permits in a timely manner, including the time required to satisfy environmental analyses, consultations and public input processes; assumptions relating to challenges to or delays in the licensing and permitting process; and assumptions regarding any appeals or lack thereof, or injunctions or lack thereof, relating to any approvals, licenses or permits. Our actual uranium, vanadium, monazite, HMC or other mineral extraction and recovery may vary from estimates for a variety of reasons, including, among others: actual mineralized material extracted, mined or recovered varying from estimates of grade, tonnage, dilution, metallurgical and other characteristics; short-term operating factors relating to the Mineral Resources and Mineral Reserves, such as the need for sequential construction or development of mineralized materials or deposits and the processing of new or different mineral grades; risk and hazards associated with extraction, mining and recovery; natural phenomena, such as inclement weather conditions, underground floods, earthquakes, pit wall failures and cave-ins; unexpected labor shortages or strikes; varying conditions in the commodities markets; and delays in obtaining or denial, challenges or appeals of regulatory approvals, licenses and permits or renewals of existing approvals, licenses or permits. In addition, the Company is evaluating potentially recovering copper at the Mill as a byproduct with uranium from its Pinyon Plain Project. There can be no assurance that this evaluation will result in the Mill being able to recover copper at the Mill as a byproduct on an economic basis. We depend on the issuance of license amendments and renewals, which cannot be guaranteed. We maintain regulatory licenses and permits in order to operate our Mill and Nichols Ranch Project and conventional mines, which are subject to renewal from time to time and are required in order to operate in compliance with applicable laws and regulations. In addition, depending on our business requirements, it may be necessary or desirable to seek amendments to one or more of our licenses or permits from time to time. While we have been successful in renewing our licenses and permits on a timely basis in the past and in obtaining such amendments as have been necessary or desirable, there can be no assurance that such license and permit renewals and amendments will be issued by applicable regulatory authorities on a timely basis or at all in the future. 52 We will need to continuously add to our Mineral Reserve and Mineral Resource base and to expand our sources of Alternate Feed Materials. The majority of our properties do not contain any Mineral Reserves under S-K 1300 and NI 43-101. See Item II, “ Cautionary Note to Investors Concerning Disclosure of Mineral Reserve and Mineral Resource Estimates. ” Our material Mineral Resources are located at the Nichols Ranch Project, the Pinyon Plain Project, the Roca Honda Project, the Sheep Mountain Project, the Bullfrog Project and the La Sal Project. These projects are our primary sources (and potential sources) of current and future uranium concentrates. Unless other Mineral Resources or Mineral Reserves are discovered or extensions to existing resource bodies are found, our sources of extraction, production and recovery for uranium concentrates will decrease over time as our current Mineral Resources and Mineral Reserves (contained at the Pinyon Plain and Sheep Mountain mines) are depleted. There can be no assurance that our future exploration, construction, development and acquisition efforts will be successful in replenishing our Mineral Resources or finding or developing Mineral Reserves. In addition, while we believe that many of our properties will eventually engage in extraction or mining activities, there can be no assurance that they will be placed into such activities, or that they will be able to replace current extraction or mining activities. We also recover uranium by processing Alternate Feed Materials at our Mill. There can be no assurance that additional sources of Alternate Feed Materials will be forthcoming in the future on commercially acceptable terms or otherwise, or that we will be successful in receiving all required regulatory approvals, licenses and permits on a timely basis to allow for the receipt and processing of any such Alternate Feed Materials. In addition, we rely on monazite for our RE Carbonate and planned REE oxides at the Mill. There can be no assurance that additional sources of monazite will be forthcoming in the future on commercially acceptable terms or otherwise, or that the Bahia Project, which is currently in its exploration and development phase, will be commercially profitable. Our sales of uranium, vanadium and REE products expose us to the risk of non-payment. Our sales of uranium, vanadium, HMC and REE products expose us to the risk of non-payment. We manage this risk by monitoring the credit worthiness of our customers and requiring prepayment or other forms of payment security from customers with an unacceptable level of credit risk. Most of the Company’s uranium sales are to major nuclear utilities, which pose a relatively low risk of non-payment due to their large size and capitalization. We are dependent on key personnel and qualified and experienced employees. Our success will largely depend on the efforts and abilities of certain senior officers and key employees, some of whom are approaching retirement. Certain of these individuals have significant experience in the uranium and REE industries. The number of individuals with significant experience in these industries is small. While we do not foresee any reason why such officers and key employees will not remain with us, other than through retirement, if for any reason they do not, we could be adversely affected. We have not purchased key person life insurance for any of these individuals, other than for our Chief Executive Officer. Our compensation programs include cash and equity incentive compensation components designed to attract and retain qualified personnel, which, in the case of our equity incentive programs, contain both time-vesting and performance-based requirements that also help retain qualified personnel. Further, all current and future executive officers of the Company receive, or are expected to receive, employment agreements with the Company, which also serve to attract and retain qualified personnel. In addition, the Company prioritizes the development of its existing management personnel and the advancement of existing personnel to fill vacancies as they arise, which the Company believes is an important element in developing, attracting and retaining the most qualified management personnel. Nevertheless, our success will depend on the availability of qualified and experienced employees to work in our operations and our ability to develop, attract and retain such employees. The number of individuals with relevant mining and operational experience in the Company’s key industries, especially the U.S. uranium and REE industries, is small. As the Company grows there is a risk that we may not be able to grow our qualified workforce and management team in pace with the growth of our business and activities, which could hamper our growth efforts. We are dependent on business partner, government and third-party consents and approvals. We have a number of joint ventures and other business relationships from time to time relating to our properties and projects, including key projects, such as the Arkose Mining Venture, which can restrict our ability to act unilaterally with respect to those 53 projects in certain circumstances. There can be no assurances that we will be able to maintain relationships with our joint venture and business partners to allow for satisfactory exploration, permitting, construction, development, extraction, mining, recovery or milling relating to any such projects. Our operations and activities are also dependent from time to time on receiving government and other third-party consents and approvals. There can be no assurances that all such consents and approvals will be forthcoming when required. Certain of our directors may be in a position of conflict of interest with respect to the Company due to their relationship with other resource companies. Some of our directors are also directors of other companies that are similarly engaged in the business of acquiring, exploring and developing natural resource properties. Such associations may give rise to conflicts of interest from time to time. In particular, one of the consequences will be that corporate opportunities presented to a director may be offered to another company or companies with which the director is associated and may not be presented or made available to us. Our directors are required by law to act honestly and in good faith with a view to the best interests of the Company, to disclose any interest which they may have in any project or opportunity of the Company, and to abstain from voting on such matter. Conflicts of interest that arise will be subject to and governed by the procedures prescribed in our Code of Business Conduct and Ethics and by the OBCA. Our relationship with our employees may be impacted by changes in labor relations. None of our operations or activities currently directly employ unionized workers who work under collective agreements. However, there can be no assurance that our employees or the employees of our contractors will not become unionized in the future, which may impact our operations and activities. Any lengthy work stoppages may have a material adverse impact on our future cash flows, earnings, results of operations and financial condition. U.S. investors may have difficulty bringing actions and enforcing judgments under U.S. securities laws against an Ontario corporation. Although our primary trading market is the NYSE American, a majority of our outstanding voting securities are held by U.S. residents, we are a U.S. domestic issuer for SEC reporting purposes, and substantially all of our assets, operations and employees are in the U.S., the Company was incorporated in Ontario and, as a result, investors in the U.S. or in other jurisdictions outside of Canada may have difficulty bringing actions and enforcing judgments against us, our directors, our executive officers and some of the experts named in this Annual Report based on civil liabilities provisions of the federal securities laws or other laws of the U.S. or any state thereof or the equivalent laws of other jurisdictions of residence. An information security incident, including a cybersecurity breach, could have a negative impact to the Company’s business or reputation. To meet business objectives, the Company relies on both internal information technology (“ IT ”) systems and networks and those of third parties and their vendors to process and store sensitive data, including confidential research, business plans, financial information, process technology, intellectual property and personal data that may be subject to legal protection. The extensive information security and cybersecurity threats, which affect companies globally, pose a risk to the security and availability of these IT systems and networks, and to the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the Company’s sensitive data. The Company continually assesses these threats and makes investments to increase internal protection, detection and response capabilities, as well as to ensure the Company’s third-party providers have the required capabilities and controls to address this risk on an ongoing basis. In addition, we provide confidential and proprietary information to our third-party business partners in certain cases where doing so is necessary to conduct our business. While we obtain assurances from those parties that they have systems and processes in place to protect such data and, where applicable, that they will take steps to ensure the protections of such data by third parties, those partners may nonetheless also be subject to data intrusion or otherwise compromise the protection of such data. Any compromise of the confidential data of our customers, consumers, suppliers, partners, employees or ourselves, or failure to prevent or mitigate the loss of or damage to this data through breach of our IT systems or other means, could substantially disrupt our operations, harm our customers, consumers, employees and other business partners, damage our reputation, violate applicable laws and regulations, subject us to potentially significant costs and liabilities and result in a loss of business that could be material. To date, the Company has not experienced any material impact to the business or operations resulting from information or cybersecurity attacks; however, because of the frequently changing attack techniques, along with the increasing volume and sophistication of the attacks paired with the increasingly high exposure of the Company due to its efforts to compete internationally in the REE industry, there is the potential for the Company to be targeted and adversely impacted. The Company may not maintain cybersecurity insurance having sufficient coverage to cover all financial losses, or any at all, in the event of an information security or cyber incident. 54 The Company may compromise or lose its proprietary technology or intellectual property in certain circumstances, which could result in a loss in the Company’s competitive position and/or the value of its intangible assets. The increased reliance on technology, coupled with the Company’s developing REE and radioisotope initiatives, which involve novel technology developed in part by the Company and in part by others and by consultants, may expose the Company to material risks of theft or loss of proprietary technology and other intellectual property, including technical data, business processes, data sets or other sensitive information. Among the risks faced by the Company are: • failure to obtain patents or trade rights when available; • failure to adequately contractually establish rights to proprietary technology and other intellectual property in joint venture situations or other situations where the Company and its co-venturers, other business associates or consultants may be jointly contributing to the development of proprietary technology and other intellectual property; • failure to adequately limit rights or access to unprotected proprietary technology and other intellectual property; • failure to adequately identify and enforce infringements of proprietary technology and other intellectual property; • the risk of theft of technology, data and intellectual property through a direct intrusion by private parties or foreign actors, including those affiliated with or controlled by state actors; • the risk of reverse engineering by joint venture partners or other parties, including those affiliated with state actors, and any patents the Company may have being subsequently infringed or know-how or trade secrets being stolen; and • the Company may be required to compromise protections or yield rights to technology, data or intellectual property in order to conduct business in or access markets in a foreign jurisdiction, either through formal written agreements or due to legal or administrative requirements in the host nation. The Company takes what it considers to be reasonable steps to protect its proprietary technology and intellectual property, but there can be no assurance that it will successfully protect its proprietary technology and intellectual property in all circumstances. There is therefore a risk that the Company may compromise or lose its proprietary technology and intellectual property in certain circumstances, which could result in a loss in the Company’s competitive position and/or the value of its intangible assets. We may be required to provide financial statements of one or more of our equity method investees in our annual reports on Form 10-K and rely on our equity method investees to provide us with these financial statements to fulfill our SEC reporting obligations. We account for our economic ownership interest in our equity method investments using the equity method of accounting or at fair value using the fair value option (collectively, the “ equity method investees ”). Pursuant to Rule 3-09 of Regulation S-X (“ Rule 3-09 ”), we may be required to provide in our annual reports on Form 10-K financial statements for these equity method investees (the “ Regulation S-X Financial Statements ”). If required to provide Regulation S-X Financial Statements for these equity method investees, we have relied, and may in the future rely, on these equity method investees to provide us with their Regulation S-X Financial Statements. In addition, we do not control the financial reporting process of our equity method investees and cannot change the way in which these equity method investees report their respective financial results. These equity method investees may not provide us with the Regulation S-X Financial Statements necessary to enable us to complete our SEC filings on a timely basis or at all. If we are required to provide Regulation S-X Financial Statements for any of our equity method investees and are unable to do so, it may cause us to no longer be deemed timely and current with our SEC reporting obligations. In such event, we could become ineligible to use a registration statement on Form S-3. In addition, the SEC may not declare effective any registration statement that we file in connection with an offering that requires the financial statements under Rule 3-09 to be included. Any resulting inability to complete a registered offering may materially adversely impact our business, liquidity position, growth prospects, financial condition and results of operations. Our method of accounting for equity investments in other companies held by the Company could result in material changes to the Company’s financial results that are not fully within the Company’s control. The Company accounts for investments over which it exerts significant influence, but not control, over the financial and operating policies through the fair value option of ASC Topic 825 – Financial Instruments. Changes in the fair value of these investments are recognized in Other Income (Loss) in the Company’s Consolidated Statements of Operations and Comprehensive Income (Loss). The resulting related gains or losses are not fully within the control of the Company and could be material. 55 General Risk Factors We are subject to global economic risks. In the event of a general economic downturn or a recession, there can be no assurance that our business, financial condition and results of operations would not be materially adversely affected. During the global financial crisis of 2007-2008, economic problems in the U.S. and Eurozone caused deterioration in the global economy as numerous commercial and financial enterprises either went into bankruptcy or creditor protection or had to be rescued by governmental authorities. Access to public financing was negatively impacted by sub-prime mortgage defaults in the U.S., the liquidity crisis affecting the asset-backed commercial paper and collateralized debt obligation markets, and massive investment losses by banks with resultant recapitalization efforts. Moreover, the occurrence of unforeseen or extended catastrophic events, including in particular the COVID-19 pandemic, and the emergence of a future pandemic or other widespread health emergency (or concerns over the possibility of such an emergency) could create economic and financial disruptions. These types of challenges can impact commodity prices, including for uranium, vanadium and REEs, as well as currencies and global debt and stock markets. As a result of COVID-19, or in the case of a future pandemic or other widespread health emergency, quarantine or otherwise, requirements or circumstances may require the Company to change the way it conducts its business and operations, including requiring the Company to reduce or cease operations at some or all its facilities for an indeterminate period of time. Furthermore, our critical supply chains may similarly be disrupted for an indeterminate amount of time. All these factors could have a material impact on the Company’s business, operations, personnel and financial condition. These types of challenges may impact our ability to obtain equity, debt or other financing on terms commercially reasonable to us, or at all. Additionally, these types of factors, as well as other related factors, may cause decreases in asset values that are deemed to be other than temporary, which may result in impairment losses. If these types of challenges occur, or if there is a material deterioration in general business and economic conditions, our operations could be adversely impacted and the trading price of our securities could be adversely affected. Russia ’ s Invasion of Ukraine is severely and unpredictably impacting global energy markets and supply chains, and rising concerns over a second severe nuclear accident in Ukraine could seriously hurt public reception to nuclear energy. Russia’s February 2022 invasion of Ukraine continues to severely impact global energy markets and supply chains by causing economic uncertainty, price volatility, supply shortages and national security concerns to such a degree that the International Energy Agency (“ IEA ”) has called it “the first truly global energy crisis, with impacts that will be felt for years to come.” As the Company is engaged in a number of energy sectors, including uranium, REEs and vanadium, it is expected that such global impacts will necessarily impact the Company, though the full extent of any such impacts are not well understood at this time. While supply and shipping impacts could materially interfere with our ability to conduct business, for example, other global responses - such as the U.S. Inflation Reduction Act’s provision of funds for energy and climate programs, including the expansion of tax credits and incentives to promote clean energy technologies (see Table 6.3 “ Recent policy changes and announcements regarding electricity supply ,” World Economic Forum), and an apparent shift away from global reliance on Russian exports via government sanctions and other means - could materially benefit our business by creating additional market opportunities with utilities providers attempting to lessen their reliance on Russian markets. The uranium industry also potentially faces renewed skepticism and distrust as a result of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. According to the World Nuclear Association (“ WNA ”), “In the early hours of 4 March the Zaporizhzhia plant in southeastern Ukraine became the first operating civil nuclear power plant to come under armed attack. Fighting between forces overnight resulted in a projectile hitting a training building within the site of the six-unit plant. Russian forces then took control of the plant. The six reactors were not affected and there was no release of radioactive material. Since late October [2022], Russia has repeatedly targeted Ukraine’s civilian infrastructure, including the country’s energy system, with missile strikes. Widespread blackouts have resulted, and external power supply to all four of the country’s nuclear plants has been affected.” (WNA, “ Ukraine: Russia-Ukraine War and Nuclear Energy ,” Feb. 6, 2023). Russia’s interference with Ukrainian nuclear plants in violation of Article 56 of the Additional Protocol of 1979 to the Geneva Conventions, which states that nuclear power plants “shall not be made the object of attack, even where these objects are military objectives, if such an attack may cause the release of dangerous forces and consequent severe losses among the civilian population” (WNA, 2023), may result in increased and serious harm to global reception to nuclear energy due to the current war’s proximity to Chrenobyl, site of the then-Soviet Union’s 1986 nuclear accident. To date, no changes in the Company’s internal control over financial reporting resulting from the Russian invasion of Ukraine and/or supply chain disruptions have been deemed necessary. 56 The price of our Common Shares is subject to volatility. Securities of mining companies have experienced substantial volatility and downward pressure in the recent past, often based on factors unrelated to the financial performance or prospects of the companies involved. These factors include macroeconomic conditions in North America and globally and market perceptions of the attractiveness of particular industries. The price of our securities is also likely to be significantly affected by short-term changes in uranium, vanadium, REE and HMC prices, changes in industry forecasts of uranium, vanadium, REE and HMC prices, other mineral prices including oil and natural gas, currency exchange fluctuation, or in our financial condition or results of operations as reflected in our periodic earnings reports. Other factors unrelated to our performance that may have an effect on the price of our securities include the following: the extent of research coverage available to investors concerning our business may be limited if investment banks with research capabilities do not follow our securities; adverse proxy voting recommendations or limited portrayals of the Company’s business, operations or executive compensation practices made to shareholders by shareholder advisory firms resulting from their use of general-purpose formulas that are not suited to the Company’s business, operations or practices, and that may counteract the Company’s substantive disclosures, which often include detailed analyses specific to the Company and which are capable of mitigating apparent market concerns; lessening in trading volume and general market interest in our securities may affect an investor’s ability to trade significant numbers of our securities; the size of our public float and the exclusion from market indices may limit the ability of some institutions to invest in our securities; and a substantial decline in the price of our securities that persists for a significant period of time could cause our securities to be delisted from an exchange, further reducing market liquidity. Our exclusion from certain market indices may reduce market liquidity or the price of our securities. If an active market for our securities does not continue, the liquidity of an investor’s investment may be limited and the price of our securities may decline. If an active market does not exist, investors may lose their entire investment. As a result of any of these factors, the market price of our securities at any given point in time may not accurately reflect our long-term value. Securities class-action litigation often has been brought against companies in periods of volatility in the market price of their securities and following major corporate transactions or mergers and acquisitions. We may in the future be the target of similar litigation. Securities litigation could result in substantial costs and damages and divert management’s attention and resources. The issuance of additional Common Shares may impact the trading price of our Common Shares. In times of depressed commodity prices, the Company may be required to raise additional capital to meet its liquidity requirements, through the issuance of additional Common Shares under our ATM or otherwise, and/or dispose of assets. If we raise additional funding by issuing additional equity securities or securities convertible, exercisable or exchangeable for equity securities, such financing may substantially dilute the interests of our shareholders and reduce the value of their investment. Similar dilution could result from the sale of assets to meet liquidity requirements. We are subject to litigation and other legal proceedings arising in the normal course of business and may be involved in disputes with other parties in the future which may result in litigation. The causes of potential future litigation and legal proceedings cannot be known and may arise from, among other things, business activities, environmental laws, permitting and licensing activities, volatility in stock prices or alleged failure to comply with disclosure obligations. The results of litigation and proceedings cannot be predicted with certainty and may include injunctions pending the outcome of such litigation and proceedings. Failure to resolve any such disputes favorably may have a material adverse impact on our financial performance, cash flow and results of operations. If we fail to maintain an effective system of internal controls, we may not be able to accurately report financial results and/or prevent fraud. Internal controls over financial reporting are procedures designed to provide reasonable assurance that transactions are properly authorized, assets are safeguarded against unauthorized or improper use, and transactions are properly recorded and reported. Disclosure controls and procedures are designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by a company in reports filed with securities regulatory agencies is recorded, processed, summarized and reported on a timely basis and is accumulated and communicated to a company’s management, including its chief executive officer and chief financial officer, as appropriate, to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure. A control system, no matter how well designed and operated, can provide only reasonable, not absolute, assurance with respect to the reliability of reporting, including financial reporting and financial statement preparation. 57 ITEM 1B. UNRESOLVED STAFF COMMENTS None. ITEM 1C. CYBERSECURITY The Company maintains a cyber risk management program designed to identify, assess, manage, mitigate and respond to cybersecurity threats. This program is integrated within the Company’s enterprise risk management program. The Company regularly assesses the threat landscape and takes a holistic view of cybersecurity risks, with a layered cybersecurity strategy based on prevention, detection and mitigation. The Company has appointed an interdisciplinary team to oversee cybersecurity at the management level, as a part of which it reviews all enterprise-level cybersecurity risks at least annually, or more frequently as needed. Key cybersecurity risks, including cybersecurity threats associated with the use of third-party service providers, are incorporated into the Company’s enterprise risk management process as needed. Additionally, the Company has implemented numerous IT policies and procedures concerning cybersecurity matters, which include policies that directly or indirectly relate to encryption standards, antivirus protection, remote access, multi-factor authentication, confidential information and the use of the internet, social media, email and wireless and personal devices for both Company business and personal matters while utilizing Company resources, among other relevant topics. These policies go through an internal review process on a periodic basis and are, if needed, updated and re-approved by the appropriate members of management. In addition, the Company’s Cybersecurity Policy, which is maintained on a confidential basis to protect some of the more sensitive aspects of the Company’s cybersecurity protections in place, is reviewed and approved annually by both the Audit Committee and the full Board of Directors. Employees receive training, as appropriate, on these policies. The underlying controls of the cyber risk management program are based on recognized best practices and standards for cybersecurity and information technology, including the National Institute of Standards and Technology (“ NIST ”), the Center for Internet Security Benchmark (“ CIS ”) and Service Organization Controls Types 1 and 2 of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (“ SOC ”). The Company has expanded investments in IT security, including additional end-user training, using layered defenses, identifying and protecting critical assets, and strengthened its monitoring and alerting activities. Additionally, the Company has engaged an independent, third-party expert consultant to assess and analyze the Company’s enterprise cybersecurity, governance, risk and compliance operations and programs against the NIST and CIS frameworks. The third-party consultant tests the Company’s defenses by performing simulations and drills at both a technical level (including through penetration tests) and by reviewing its operational policies and procedures. These tests and assessments are useful tools for maintaining a robust cybersecurity program to protect our investors, customers, employees, vendors, and intellectual property. These tests serve as the foundation for the Company’s three-year plan to further enhance its cyber infrastructure. The Company established its interdisciplinary team to monitor and assess cybersecurity risks on an ongoing basis, which is led by the Company’s Chief Financial Officer. It is a cross-departmental team that consists of legal, finance, internal audit and operations personnel, with all significant implementation efforts executed by our IT Manager, who has more than 20 years of experience in IT, enterprise security and cyber risk management, with support from the Company’s third-party expert consultant, as needed. This team is in charge of developing, maintaining and measuring compliance with the cyber risk management program, and dedicates significant resources to cybersecurity and risk management processes to adapt to the ever-changing cybersecurity landscape and to respond to emerging threats in a timely and effective manner. The Company utilizes a sophisticated network monitoring service as a first line of defense for potential cybersecurity incidents, which is supplemented by employee training to ensure internal responsiveness where an incident may first be detected. When a potential incident is first detected, the matter is communicated the IT Manager as soon as possible so that the Company may work quickly and diligently to re-secure its systems and work to minimize any damage and further risk to the Company as a result thereof; to this end, a monitored email address dedicated solely to the reporting of such incidents is in place. Upon receipt, the IT Manager is charged with immediately investigating the report to ensure the existence or possibility of a cyberattack and employs every effort toward thwarting or limiting a cyberattack, if ongoing, to the fullest extent possible to avoid further damage and exposure to the Company and its systems. As soon as an immediate threat or cyberattack is sufficiently contained to permit it, the IT Manager notifies designated executive officers of the situation, who are charged to direct the IT Manager on any additional or special measures to be taken, including but not limited to a Company-wide alert or directive, which the IT Manager must follow/implement without delay. Questions or concerns relating to a directive’s validity may be confirmed only by the IT Manager or a designated executive officer through a known form of contact not questionably in breach. As soon as reasonably practicable after response efforts commence, the designated executive officers are required to notify the Chair of the Audit Committee of the situation and to thereafter keep the Chair apprised of all material developments, 58 who may escalate the matter to the full Board in the Chair’s discretion. The Company’s emergency response plan also sets forth the Company’s procedures for a transition back into normal work practices, as well as security incident investigation, remediation procedures, security incident recovery and mandatory reporting. The Audit Committee has been delegated, by and on behalf of the Board of Directors, direct and primary oversight of the Company’s cybersecurity risk exposures and the steps taken by management to monitor, mitigate and manage/respond to cybersecurity risks and incidents. The CFO, together with the appropriate members from the Company’s interdisciplinary team as needed, brief the Audit Committee on the effectiveness of the Company’s cyber risk management program on at least a quarterly basis, or more frequently as needed basis on a wide range of topics, including recent developments, evolving standards, vulnerability assessments, third-party and independent reviews, the threat environment, technological trends and information security considerations arising with respect to the Company, its peers and third parties. In addition, cybersecurity risks are reviewed by the Board of Directors, at least annually, as part of the Company’s corporate enterprise risk mapping exercise. The Board and the Audit Committee also receive prompt and timely information regarding any cybersecurity incident that meets the SEC, OSC and stock exchange-established reporting thresholds, as well as ongoing updates and follow-up disclosures regarding any such incident until it has been wholly addressed and remediated. The Company faces risks from “cybersecurity threats” (as defined in Item 106(a) of Regulation S-K) that could have a material adverse effect on its business, financial condition, results of operations, cash flows or reputation. The Company has experienced, and will continue to experience, immaterial “cybersecurity incidents” (as defined in Item 106(a) of Regulation S-K) in the ordinary course of its business. However, prior cybersecurity incidents have not had, and are not reasonably likely to have, a material adverse effect on the Company’s business, financial condition, results of operations, or cash flows. See “Part I, Item 1A. Risk Factors – An information security incident, including a cybersecurity breach, could have a negative impact to the Company’s business or reputation. ” 59 ITEM 2. DESCRIPTION OF PROPERTIES 60 Overview Energy Fuels is a leading U.S.-based critical minerals company. The Company mines uranium and produces natural uranium concentrates that are sold to major nuclear utilities for the production of carbon-free nuclear energy. Energy Fuels recently began production of mixed RE Carbonate, an advanced REE material at the White Mesa Mill and plans to produce commercial quantities of separated REE oxides at the White Mesa Mill in 2024. Energy Fuels also produces vanadium from certain of its projects, as market conditions warrant, and is evaluating the recovery at the Mill of radionuclides needed for emerging cancer treatments. Energy Fuels holds two of America's key uranium production centers: the White Mesa Mill in Utah and the Nichols Ranch ISR Project in Wyoming. In 2023, the Company acquired the Bahia Project in Brazil, which is believed to have significant quantities of titanium (ilmenite and rutile), zirconium (zircon) and REE (monazite) minerals. ISR Uranium Activities The Company conducts its ISR recovery activities through its Nichols Ranch Project in northeast Wyoming, which it acquired in June 2015 through the acquisition of Uranerz. The Nichols Ranch Project includes: (i) the Nichols Ranch Plant (100% ownership); (ii) the Nichols Ranch Wellfields (100% ownership); (iii) the Jane Dough Property (81% ownership); (iv) the Hank Project (100% ownership), which includes the permitted but not constructed Hank Satellite Plant; (v) North Rolling Pin (100% ownership); and (vi) West North Butte (100% ownership). See “ The Nichols Ranch ISR Project. ” The Company also acquired through the acquisition of Uranerz the Reno Creek Property (which it has since sold) and the Arkose Mining Venture, a joint venture of ISR properties held 81% by Energy Fuels. See “ Non-Material Mineral Properties - Other ISR Projects .” Production from existing wellfields at Nichols Ranch was depleted during 2021. In order for Nichols Ranch to engage in future uranium production, the Company will need to incur capital expenditures to develop additional wellfields. While production at the Nichols Ranch Project is currently being maintained on standby, the Company is undertaking exploration and development activities to expand the resources at the Nichols Ranch Project and to further develop a wellfield to be ready for potential recommencement of production in late 2024 or in 2025. Alta Mesa Transaction and Assignment of Convertible Note On February 14, 2023, the Company closed on its sale to enCore of three wholly-owned subsidiaries that together held the Alta Mesa ISR Project for total consideration of $120 million (the “ Alta Mesa Transaction ”), paid as follows: • $60 million in cash, which included $6 million prior to closing and $54 million at closing; and • $60 million Convertible Note, payable in two years from the closing, bearing annual interest of eight percent (8%). The Convertible Note was convertible at Energy Fuels’ election into fully paid and non-assessable enCore common shares at a conversion price of $2.9103 per share, being a 20% premium to the 10-day volume-weighted average price of enCore shares ending the day before the Closing. The Convertible Note was guaranteed by enCore and fully secured by Alta Mesa. Except in the instance of a block trade or similar distribution to sell the enCore common shares received on conversion of the Convertible Note, Energy Fuels was limited to selling a maximum of $10 million of enCore common shares per thirty (30)-day period. As a post-closing condition of the Alta Mesa Transaction, enCore was required to replace the $3.59 million of reclamation bonds then in place for Alta Mesa. Upon replacement, the original bonds were released and the Company received back the underlying collateral during the year ended December 31, 2023. Then, on November 13, 2023, the Company announced that, on November 9, 2023, it sold to MMCAP International Inc. SPC (“ MMCAP ”) the remaining unpaid balance of $20 million owed under the secured Convertible Note issued to the Company by enCore for total consideration of $21 million plus $1.5 million in unpaid accrued interest, less a sales commission of $100,000 paid to a third-party broker. As disclosed in the Company’s Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2023, enCore previously paid $40 million toward the $60 million principal Convertible Note balance and $1.8 million of interest to the Company in partial fulfillment of its obligations under the Convertible Note. As a result of enCore’s earlier pay-down and the $22.4 million received in connection with the Convertible Note’s sale, the Company has now received payment in full for the Alta Mesa Transaction, and no further consideration is owed in connection therewith. Conventional Uranium Activities The Company conducts its conventional uranium extraction and recovery activities through its 100% owned White Mesa Mill, which is the only operating conventional uranium mill in the U.S. The Mill, located near Blanding, Utah, is centrally located such that it can be fed by a number of the Company’s uranium and uranium/vanadium projects in Colorado, Utah, Arizona and New 61 Mexico, as well as by ore purchase or toll milling arrangements with third party miners in the region, as market conditions warrant. The Company also owns the Sheep Mountain Project in Wyoming, which is a conventional uranium project. Due to its distance from the White Mesa Mill, the Sheep Mountain Project is not expected to be a source of feed material for the Mill. The Sheep Mountain Project consists of the Sheep Mountain Extraction Operation (both open pit and underground), which is permitted, and the proposed Sheep Mountain Processing Operation (heap leach), which is not permitted at this time. The Company’s principal conventional uranium properties include the following: • the White Mesa Mill (see “ The White Mesa Mill ”); • the Pinyon Plain Project (see “ The Pinyon Plain Project ”); • the Roca Honda Project (see “ The Roca Honda Project ”); • the Sheep Mountain Project (see “ The Sheep Mountain Project ”); • the Bullfrog Project (see “ The Bullfrog Project ”); • the La Sal Project (see “ The La Sal Project ”); • the Arizona Strip uranium properties located in north-central Arizona, including: the Arizona 1 Project, the Wate Project, and EZ Project (see “ Non-Material Mineral Properties – Other Conventional Projects – Arizona Strip ”); and • the Whirlwind Project located in southwest Colorado on the Colorado and Utah border (see “ Non-Material Mineral Properties – Other Conventional Projects – Colorado Plateau ”). The Company has a 100% interest in all these conventional properties. The Mill is licensed to process 2,000 tons of mineralized material per day. It is primarily a uranium recovery facility that mills uranium mineralized materials from the Company’s uranium mines on the Colorado Plateau as well as ore purchased or toll milled from third party miners in the region, as market conditions warrant. In addition, the Mill can recycle other uranium-bearing materials not derived from natural or native ore, known as Alternate Feed Materials, for the recovery of uranium, alone or in combination with other metals. In this regard, the Company is currently evaluating a number of potential Alternate Feed Materials for the recovery of uranium. The Mill is also pursuing other opportunities to process mineralized materials from the clean-up of abandoned uranium mines on the Navajo Reservation and in the Four Corners area of the U.S. Energy Fuels recently began production of mixed RE Carbonate, an advanced REE material, at the White Mesa Mill, and plans to produce commercial quantities of separated REE oxides at the White Mesa Mill in 2024. Energy Fuels also produces vanadium from certain of its projects, as market conditions warrant, and is evaluating the recovery at the Mill of radionuclides needed for emerging cancer treatments. The material projects are shown on the map above and are described in further detail below. Properties that the Company does not consider material are summarized at the end of this Item 2. Conventional Activities (Other) Bahia Project On February 10, 2023, the Company acquired 17 Agencia Nacional de Mineracao (“ ANM ”) Process Areas totaling 15,089.71 hectares in the state of Bahia, Brazil comprising the Bahia Project. The primary minerals associated with the Bahia Project are ilmenite, rutile, zircon and monazite. See “Bahia Project,” below. The Company acquired the Bahia Project to expand its in-ground holdings of monazite for REE processing at the Mill. See Item I, “ Material Transactions ” above and Item 2, “ The Bahia Project ” below. Under S-K 1300 regulations, Bahia Project is an exploration stage property because there are no Mineral Resources or Mineral Reserves disclosed for the property. In 2024, the Company plans to initiate permitting activities, finish phase I of drilling (2,250 meters) and initiate phase II drilling on the Bahia Project, which is expected to provide the necessary data to disclose Mineral Resources on a portion of the project. Uranium, Vanadium and Rare Earth Recovery History The following tables show the mineralized material processed and pounds of uranium and vanadium and total rare earth oxides recovered from the Company’s projects and facilities from January 1, 2019 to December 31, 2023: (1) 62 Recovery History (1) Project or Source 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 Alternate Feed Materials (2) Tons (000) --- 3 --- NA (2) NA (2) Ave. % U 3 O 8 --- 3.3 --- NA (2) NA (2) Recovered Pounds U 3 O 8 (000) --- 161 --- 144 (3) --- Tailings Solution Recycle & Production from In-Circuit Material (4) Recovered Pounds U 3 O 8 (000) --- --- --- 47 --- Recovered Pounds V 2 O 5 (000) --- --- --- 67 1,807 Recovered Metric Tons Total Rare Earth Oxide (TREO) --- --- 0 --- --- Conventional Feed Materials (5) Tons (000) 326 0.1 --- --- --- Contained Grade % U 3 O 8 0.46 0.5 --- --- --- Recovered Pounds U 3 O 8 (000) (6) --- 1 --- --- --- Recovered Pounds V 2 O 5 (000) --- --- --- --- --- Recovered Metric Tons Total Rare Earth Oxide (TREO) 260 95 120 --- --- Nichols Ranch (7) Recovered Pounds U 3 O 8 (000) 0.2 0.5 0.5 6 70 Alta Mesa (8) Recovered Pounds U 3 O 8 (000) --- --- --- --- --- Total Pounds of U 3 O 8 Recovered (000) 0.2 162 --- 197 70 Total Pounds of V 2 O 5 Recovered (000) --- --- --- 67 1807 Total Metric Tons of TREO Recovered 260 95 120 --- --- Notes: (1) Mineralized material is shown as being processed and pounds recovered during the year in which the materials were processed at the Mill or at the Nichols Ranch Plant, which is not necessarily the year in which the materials were extracted from the project facilities. (2) All Alternate Feed Materials were processed at the Mill. A number of different Alternate Feed Materials were processed during the period 2019 – 2023. The table shows the average uranium grades and the total pounds recovered from all Alternate Feed Materials processed at the Mill during each of the years in that period. Because of the variability in uranium grades, pounds recovered is considered to be the relevant metric and tons fed is not considered to be relevant. (3) The 161,000 pounds recovered in 2022 include nil pounds recovered for the accounts of third parties. The 144,000 pounds recovered in 2020 include nil pounds recovered for the accounts of third parties. (4) Pounds contained in tailings solutions containing previously unrecovered uranium and vanadium, together with in-circuit mineralized material from previous conventional mine material processing, were recovered at the Mill, though tons and grade are not available because they cannot be tied to any specific source. (5) Includes uranium and TREO recovered from monazite processing. (6) The 1,000 pounds of the 162,000 pounds of U 3 O 8 packaged in 2022 is uranium recovered from monazite processing in 2021 and 2022. This amount does not include an additional approximately 1,000 pounds of U 3 O 8 recovered during 2021 and 2022, which was in process and not packaged as of December 31, 2022. All uranium recovered from monazite processing in 2021 was retained in process and not packaged in 2021. A portion of uranium recovered in 2021 was packaged in 2022, with the remainder held in process as at December 31, 2022. The uranium concentration of monazite is comparable to typical Colorado 63 Plateau conventional ores processed at the Mill on a regular basis. The relatively small quantities of uranium recovered from the monazite processed in 2021 and 2022 is a reflection of the low tonnage of monazite processed through the Mill during those years. (7) Uranium recovery commenced at the Nichols Ranch Project on April 17, 2014. Because the Nichols Ranch Project uses ISR instead of conventional extraction methods, grade and tons of mineralized material are inapplicable to it. (8) The Alta Mesa Project was sold by the Company on February 14, 2023. Mineral Extraction The following table shows the extraction history from 2019 to December 31, 2023 from the mineral properties currently owned by the Company: Project (1) 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 Nichols Ranch Pounds U 3 O 8 (000) 0.2 0.5 0.5 6 70 Notes: (1) All properties reported in this table were owned by the Company on December 31, 2023 and continue to be owned by the Company. Nichols Ranch was acquired by the Company in June 2015 as part of the Uranerz acquisition. Properties sold or otherwise disposed of are not included in this table. Uranium pounds recovered since 2021 are immaterial and correspond to pounds captured during standby. Summary of Mineral Reserves and Resources Daniel Kapostasy, a Professional Geologist licensed in Wyoming (PG-6778) and in Utah (10110615-2250), employed as the Company’s Vice President, Technical Services, is the Qualified Person responsible for the disclosure of scientific or technical information concerning mineral projects in this Annual Report. Except to the extent explicitly stated, the land tenure and permitting efforts disclosed in this Part I, Item 2 are not made in reliance on or with reference to any of the technical reports or the preliminary feasibility study referenced herein and attached hereto as Exhibits 96.1 through 96.7 and are the responsibility of Daniel Kapostasy in his capacity as a Qualified Person. The following tables show the Company’s estimate of Mineral Reserves and Mineral Resources as defined in S-K 1300 and NI 43-101 as of December 31, 2023. Both S-K 1300 and NI 43-101 require mineral companies to disclose Mineral Reserves and Mineral Resources using the subcategories of Proven Mineral Reserves, Probable Mineral Reserves, Measured Mineral Resources, Indicated Mineral Resources and Inferred Mineral Resources. The Company reports Mineral Resources exclusive of Mineral Reserves. Except as stated below, the Mineral Reserve and Mineral Resource information shown below, which was reviewed and approved by Daniel Kapostasy, one of the Company’s non-independent Qualified Persons, is as reported in the various Technical Report Summaries prepared in accordance with S-K 1300 and NI 43-101 (the “ Technical Report Summaries ”) by Qualified Persons employed by SLR International Corporation (“ SLR ”), Woods Process Services, Consultants in Hydrogeology, Gochnour & Associate, Inc. and BRS Inc. (“ BRS ”), none of which is affiliated with the Company or any other entity that has an ownership, royalty, or other interest in the relevant property that is the subject of the Technical Report Summary. See “ Material Properties .” Between December 31, 2022 and December 31, 2023, there were no changes to the Mineral Reserves or Mineral Resources. The Alta Mesa Project was sold on February 14, 2023, thus all Mineral Resources associated with that project have been removed from this disclosure along with the description of the Alta Mesa Project from the “ Material Properties” section of this Annual Report. Mineral Reserve Estimates - In Situ Uranium (1)(8)(9)(10)(11) Project Proven Mineral Reserves Probable Mineral Reserves Metallurgical Recovery Tons (000s) Grade (% eU 3 O 8 ) Pounds (000s eU 3 O 8 ) Tons (000s) Grade (% eU 3 O 8 ) Pounds (000s eU 3 O 8 ) Sheep Mountain (Congo Pit) (2) --- --- --- 3,498 0.132 9,248 91.9 % Sheep Mountain (Underground) (3) --- --- --- 3,955 0.115 9,117 91.9 % Pinyon Plain (4)(5)(6)(7) 7.8 0.33 50.8 126.7 0.60 1,517 96 % Total Mineral Reserves 50.8 19,882 64 Notes: (1) The Mineral Reserve estimates in this table comply with the requirements of both S-K 1300 and NI 43-101. (2) Mineral Reserves are estimated at a uranium grade x thickness (G.T.) cut-off grade of 0.10 G.T. (2 ft. of 0.05% eU 3 O 8 ) for the Congo Pit. (3) Mineral Reserves are estimated at a uranium grade x thickness (G.T.) cut-off grade of 0.45 G.T. (6 ft. of 0.075% eU 3 O 8 ) for Sheep Underground. (4) Underground Mineral Reserves were estimated by creating stope shapes. The stope shapes were created using a grade envelope of 0.15% U 3 O 8 , with a minimum mining width of 5 ft (including hanging wall and footwall dilution), on 10 ft vertical stope heights. and 0.45 G.T. (6 ft. of 0.075% eU 3 O 8 ) for Sheep Underground. (5) The breakeven cut-off grade is 0.30% U 3 O 8 . (6) A mining extraction factor of 95% was applied to the underground stopes, while underground development assumed a 100% mining extraction factor. (7) The density varies according to the block model. (8) Mineral Reserves are estimated using a long-term uranium price of $65 per pound U 3 O 8 for Sheep Mountain and a uranium price of $60 per pound for Pinyon Plain. The long-term uranium price for Sheep Mountain is based on supply and demand projections for the period 2021-2035. The uranium price for Pinyon Plain is based on anticipated spot prices from 2023-2035. (9) Numbers may not add due to rounding. (10) The Mineral Reserves are fully excluded from the total Mineral Resources shown below. (11) Mineral Reserves are 100% attributable to the Company. Mineral Resource Estimates – In Situ Uranium (1)(2)(3)(4)(10) Project Measured Mineral Resources Indicated Mineral Resources Measured + Indicated Inferred Mineral Resources Metallurgical Recovery Tons (000s) Grade (% eU 3 O 8 ) Pounds (000s eU 3 O 8 ) Tons (000s) Grade (% eU 3 O 8 ) Pounds (000s eU 3 O 8 ) Tons (000s) Grade (% eU 3 O 8 ) Pounds (000s eU 3 O 8 ) Tons (000s) Grade (% eU 3 O 8 ) Pounds (000s eU 3 O 8 ) ISR Properties Nichols Ranch (5) 11 0.187 41 2,924 0.106 6,142 2,935 0.106 6,183 614 0.097 1,176 71% (measured) 60.4% (indicated/inferred) ISR Subtotal 41 6,142 6,183 1,176 Conventional Properties Pinyon Plain (6)(7) --- --- --- 37 0.95 703 37 0.95 703 5 0.50 48 96 % Roca Honda 208 0.48 1,984 1,639 0.48 15,638 1,847 0.48 17,622 1,513 0.46 13,842 95 % Sheep Mountain (8) --- --- --- 4,210 0.11 9,570 4,210 0.11 9,570 --- --- --- 91.9 % Bullfrog --- --- --- 1,560 0.29 9,100 1,560 0.29 9,100 410 0.25 2,010 95 % La Sal (9) --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- 823 0.26 4,281 96 % Conventional Subtotal 1,984 35,011 36,995 20,181 Total Mineral Resources 2,025 41,153 43,178 21,357 Notes: (1) The Mineral Resource estimates in this table comply with the requirements of both S-K 1300 and NI 43-101. (2) Mineral Resources were estimated at various %eU 3 O 8 or G.T. cut-off grades. Nichols Ranch 0.02% U 3 O 8 (0.20 GT), Pinyon Plain 0.30% (Uranium Only) and 0.40% (Uranium + Copper) eqv. U 3 O 8 , Roca Honda 0.19% U 3 O 8 , Sheep Mountain 0.05% U 3 O 8 (0.10 GT Open Pit) and 0.05% U 3 O 8 (0.3 GT Underground), Bullfrog 0.165% U 3 O 8 (0.50 GT), and La Sal 0.17% U 3 O 8 . 65 (3) Mineral Resources were estimated using a long-term uranium price of $65/lb. The long-term uranium price for Sheep Mountain is based on supply and demand projections for the period 2021-2035. (4) Numbers may not add due to rounding. (5) The Nichols Ranch Project is comprised of four properties: Nichols Ranch, the Hank Property, the Jane Dough Property, and North Rolling Pin. The numbers shown represent Energy Fuels’ share of the Nichols Ranch Project, which is less than 100% due to a portion of the Jane Dough Property being held through the Arkose Mining Venture, in which the Company has an 81% interest. For more information, see “ The Nichols Ranch Project ,” below. (6) The name of the Canyon Project was changed to “Pinyon Plain Project” in 2020. (7) The Pinyon Plain Measured and Indicated Mineral Resources exclude the Proven and Probable Mineral Reserves calculated in accordance with S-K 1300 and NI 43-101 of 1,567,800 pounds of U 3 O 8 in 134,500 tons at a grade of 0.58%. (8) The Sheep Mountain Indicated Mineral Resource excludes the Probable Mineral Reserves calculated in accordance with S-K 1300 and NI 43-101 of 18,365,000 pounds of eU 3 O 8 in 7,453,000 tons at a grade of 0.123%. (9) The La Sal Project includes the Energy Queen, Redd Block, Beaver, and Pandora properties. (10) Except for Nichols Ranch (see note 5), Mineral Resources are 100% attributable to the Company. Mineral Resource Estimate – In Situ Vanadium (1)(2)(3)(4)(5)(6)(7)(8)(9) Measured Mineral Resources Indicated Mineral Resources Inferred Mineral Resources Metallurgical Recovery Tons (000) Grade % V 2 O 5 Pounds V 2 O 5 (000) Tons (000) Grade % V 2 O 5 Pounds V 2 O 5 (000) Tons (000) Grade % V 2 O 5 Pounds V 2 O 5 (000) La Sal (6) --- --- --- --- --- --- 823 1.08 % 17,746 75 % Total Mineral Resources (V 2 O 5 ) --- --- --- --- --- --- 823 --- 17,746 75 % Notes: (1) Both S-K 1300 and NI 43-101 definitions were followed for all Mineral Resource categories. (2) Mineral Resources were estimated at a %U 3 O 8 or G.T. cut-off grade of 0.17%. (3) The cut-off grade is calculated using a metal price of $65/lb. U 3 O 8 . The long-term uranium price is based on supply and demand projections for the period 2021-2035. (4) No minimum mining width was used in determining Mineral Resources. (5) Mineral Resources are based on a tonnage factor of 14.5ft 3 /ton (Bulk density 0.0690 ton /ft 3 or 2.21 t/m 3 ). (6) Mineral Resources are not Mineral Reserves and do not have demonstrated economic viability. (7) Total may not add due to rounding. (8) Mineral Resources are 100% attributable to the Company. (9) The La Sal Project includes the Energy Queen, Red Block, Beaver and Pandora properties. Mineral Resource Estimate – In Situ Copper (1)(2)(3)(4)(5)(6)(7)(8) Measured Mineral Resources Indicated Mineral Resources Inferred Mineral Resources Metallurgical Recovery Tons (000) Grade % Cu Pounds Cu (000) Tons (000) Grade % Cu Pounds Cu (000) Tons (000) Grade % Cu Pounds Cu (000) Pinyon Plain 6 9.6% 1,155 90 5.9% 10,553 4 6.5% 470 90 % Total Mineral Resources (Cu) 1,155 10,553 470 NA Notes: (1) The Mineral Resource estimates in this table comply with the requirements of both S-K 1300 and NI 43-101. (2) For the Main and Juniper zones of the Pinyon Plain Project, a 0.40% uranium equivalent cut-off grade (% U 3 O 8 Eq) was applied to account for both the copper and uranium mineralization. The %U 3 O 8 Eq grade term is not the same as the eU 3 O 8 % grade term with indicates probe rather than assay data listed elsewhere in this report. See the Pinyon Plain Project. (3) Mineral Resources are estimated using a long-term uranium price of $65 per pound and a Copper price of $4.00 per lb. These prices are based on independent, third-party, and market analysts’ average forecasts as of 2022, and the supply and demand projections are for the period 2023 to 2035. (4) A copper to U 3 O 8 conversion factor of 18.19 was used for converting copper grades to equivalent U 3 O 8 grades (U 3 O 8 Eq) for cut-off grade evaluation and reporting. (5) Numbers may not add due to rounding. 66 (6) For the Pinyon Plain Project, Mineral Resource tonnages of uranium and copper cannot be added as they overlap in the Main and Main-Lower Zones. (7) The name of the Canyon Project was changed to “Pinyon Plain Project” in 2020. (8) Mineral Resources are 100% attributable to the Company. 67 MATERIAL PROPERTIES The Nichols Ranch Project The following technical and scientific description of the Nichols Ranch Project is based in part on the report titled “ Technical Report on the Nichols Ranch Project, Johnson and Campbell Counties, Wyoming, USA ” dated February 22, 2022 and effective December 31, 2021, as amended February 8, 2023, and prepared by Grant A. Malensek, M.Eng., P. Eng., Mark B. Mathisen, C.P.G., Jeremy Scott Collyard, PMP, MMSA QP, each a Qualified Person employed by SLR, Jeffrey L. Woods, MMSA QP, a Qualified Person employed by Woods Process Services, and Phillip E. Brown, C.P.G., R.P.G., a Qualified Person employed by Consultants In Hydrogeology (the “ Nichols Ranch Technical Report Summary ”). The Nichols Ranch Technical Report Summary was prepared in accordance with S-K 1300 and also constitutes a PEA pursuant to NI 43-101. The Nichols Ranch Project does not have known “Mineral Reserves” and is therefore considered under SEC S-K 1300 definitions to be an exploration stage property, despite commercial uranium extraction activities occurring as recently as 2019 (with de minimis levels of extraction more recently). Property Description The Nichols Ranch Uranium Complex (the “ Complex ”) is an existing ISR mine with associated prospective ISR properties located in Campbell and Johnson Counties, in eastern Wyoming, USA in the Pumpkin Buttes Mining District of the Powder River Basin, 80 miles northeast of the city of Casper, Wyoming. The Complex is located approximately at latitude 43°42' North and longitude 106°01' West. The proposed Nichols Ranch Project will produce approximately 366 lb of U 3 O 8 annually. The Complex is an ISR project; it is not an underground or open pit project. 68 Excluding the Jane Dough area in which the Company owns an 81% interest, the Company owns a 100% interest in the remaining areas which comprise the Complex land holdings totaling 10,755 acres. The Complex is divided into two primary areas, the Nichols Ranch Mining Unit and the Satellite Properties. The Nichols Ranch Mining Unit includes the following: a. Nichols Ranch Area (approximately 1,120 acres) b. Jane Dough Area (approximately 3,680 acres) c. Hank Area (approximately 2,250 acres) Nichols Ranch and Jane Dough are contiguous, and the Hank area is located approximately six miles north of Nichols Ranch. The Company currently controls four additional properties (the Satellite Properties) which are known to have significant mineralization, but not currently included in the mine permit. These include: a. North Rolling Pin (NRP) Area (approximately 1,180 acres) b. West North Butte (WNB) Area (approximately 2,360 acres) c. East North Butte (ENB) Area (approximately 325 acres) d. Willow Creek (WC) Area (approximately 220 acres) 69 Ownership Except where noted in the individual sections below, all mineral rights associated with the Project including claims, surface use agreements, mineral leases, etc. were acquired through the acquisition of Uranerz in 2015. Annual land holding fees associated with the Projects for 2023 totaled $770,000. Details of property ownership are described below by project area. Nichols Ranch The permit boundary for the Nichols Ranch Area, located in Sections 7, 8, 17, and 18, T43N, R76W, encompasses 1,120.00 acres. Within the Nichols Ranch permit boundary, Energy Fuels Resources (USA) Inc. (“ EFR ”) has 38 unpatented lode-mining claims (totaling approximately 639 acres), two fee mineral leases and three Surface Use Agreements (“ SUAs ”). The claims and fee leases encompass approximately 920 acres. The mineral fee leases and SUAs have a 10-year primary term that has now been extended indefinitely due to the Project being in production. Provisions are set by the SUAs for reimbursement to the surface owner for damages resulting from operations. Claims do not have an expiration date, however, affidavits must be filed annually with the BLM and respective county recorder’s offices in order to maintain the claims’ validity. In addition, most of the unpatented lode claims are located on Stock Raising Homestead land where the U.S. government has issued a patent for the surface to an individual and reserved the minerals to the U.S. government subject to the location rights by claimants as set forth in the 1872 Mining Law. The Nichols Ranch lode mining claims are held by Uranerz, which is 100% owned by the Company. In Section 21, the northern portion of Section 28, eastern portion of Section 20, and northeast quarter of Section 29, unpatented lode mining claims have an overriding royalty interest burden of 6% or 8% depending on the sale price of uranium. In the southern portion of Section 32, 20 of the unpatented lode mining claims have an overriding royalty of 0.25% based on production. In the southern portion of Section 28 where North Jane is located, 14 fee mineral leases have royalties ranging from 2% to 10% depending on the sale price of uranium. In the western half of Section 29 two mineral leases have a royalty of 6% or 8% depending on the sale price of uranium. Surface owners have a set rate for reimbursement of any land taken out of service for mining activities and two of the Surface Owners could receive an extraction fee on production with a burden of 1% or 2% percent depending on the sale price of uranium. The unpatented lode mining claims will remain the property of EFR provided it adheres to the required filing and annual payment requirements with Campbell County and the BLM. The SUA’s will remain in force so long as the mining claims are maintained. Legal surveys of unpatented lode mining claims are not required and are not known to have been completed. All of the unpatented lode mining claims have annual filing requirements ($165 per claim) with the BLM, to be paid on or before September 1 of each year. Jane Dough The permit boundary for the Jane Dough area encompasses approximately 3,680 acres. Within the Jane Dough permit boundary, EFR controls 117 unpatented lode-mining claims, three SUAs and 16 fee mineral leases. The fee mineral leases and claims encompass approximately 3,121.43 acres. The fee mineral leases and SUAs have terms of 10 years. These leases have expiration dates ranging from 2027 to 2032. They can be extended indefinitely by establishing production on the lease. The SUAs have set provisions for reimbursement to the surface owner for damages resulting from Company operations. In the south half of Section 28, T43N, R76W, the Company controls 57.29% of the fee mineral estate under various fee mineral leases mentioned above. Portions of the Jane Dough Area were formerly held separately by EFR and the Arkose Project Joint Venture (“ JV ”). These holdings have been combined. The Company retains 100% of the mineral rights for the portion it originally held and 81% of the mineral rights for the Arkose Project JV portion of Jane Dough. Mineral Resources for Jane Dough reflect this partition of mineral ownership. The Jane Dough lode mining claims are held by Uranerz, which is 100% owned by the Company. In a single instance, in the south half of Section 28, T43N, R76W, the JV only controls 57.29% of a fee mineral lease. The partial ownership of the lease is split along the JV ownership agreement with the Company holding 81%. In the south portion of Section 32, twenty of the unpatented lode mining claims have an overriding royalty of 0.25% based on production. In the southern half of Section 28 and northern half of section 32, five fee mineral leases have royalties ranging from 2% to 10% depending on the sale price of uranium. In the west half of Section 29, two mineral leases have a royalty of 6% or 8% depending on the sale price of uranium. Surface owners have a set rate for reimbursement of any land taken out of service for mining activities and two of the Surface Owners could receive an extraction fee on production with a burden of 1% or 2%, depending on the sale price of uranium. 70 The unpatented lode mining claims will remain the property of EFR provided it adheres to required filing and annual payment requirements with Campbell County and the BLM. The SUAs will remain in force so long as the mining claims are maintained. Legal surveys of unpatented lode mining claims are not required and are not known to have been completed. All of the unpatented lode mining claims have annual filing requirements with the BLM, to be paid on or before September 1 of each year. Hank The Hank Area permit boundary encompasses approximately 2,250 acres. Within the permit boundary, the Company has 49 unpatented lode-mining claims (totaling approximately 968 acres), and one SUA covering approximately 1,392.58 acres. The Hank lode mining claims are held by Uranerz, which is 100% owned by the Company. The SUA is in effect as long as the unpatented lode-mining claims are maintained by annual payment. All claims were located or acquired by EFR and a portion of the claims were subject to a 6% to 8% royalty which has since been extinguished. Four claims may be subject to a 5% overriding royalty vested in Brown Land Company and its successors. The claims will remain the property of EFR provided they adhere to required filing and annual payment requirements with Campbell County and the BLM. All of the unpatented lode claims have annual filing requirements with the BLM, to be paid on or before September 1 of each year. The SUA will remain in force so long as the terms of the agreements are met. Legal surveys of unpatented claims are not required and are not known to have been completed. North Rolling Pin The North Rolling Pin (“ NRP ”) Area has 54 unpatented lode-mining claims (totaling approximately 1,018 acres) and one SUA. There are no mineral fee leases associated with the NRP Area. There is one SUA that will remain in force so long as the terms of the agreement are met. All of the unpatented lode mining claims have annual filing requirements with the BLM, to be paid on or before September 1 of each year. The claims area encompasses approximately 1,180 acres. The NRP lode mining claims are held by Uranerz, which is 100% owned by the Company. Lode mining claims in the North Rolling Pin area are not subject to royalties. There are no fee mineral leases. West North Butte The West North Butte (“ WNB ”) Area claims were acquired by Uranerz, which was acquired by the Company in 2015. WNB is held by 109 unpatented lode-mining claims totaling approximately 1,800 acres. There are no fee leases associated with West North Butte. There is one SUA that will remain in force provided the terms of the agreement are met. The WNB lode mining claims are held by Uranerz, which is 100% owned by the Company. East North Butte The East North Butte (“ ENB ”) Area claims were acquired by Uranerz. ENB is held by 16 unpatented lode-mining claims totaling approximately 304 acres. There are no fee leases associated with East North Butte. There is one SUA which will remain in force so long as the terms of the agreement are met. The ENB lode mining claims are held by Uranerz, which is 100% owned by the Company. None of the unpatented lode claims in the ENB Area are subject to a royalty. There are no fee mineral leases. Willow Creek The Willow Creek (“ WC ”) Area claims were acquired by Uranerz. WC is held by 11 unpatented lode-mining claims totaling approximately 191 acres. There are no fee leases associated with Willow Creek. There is one SUA that will remain in force so long as the terms of the agreement are met. The WC lode mining claims are held by Uranerz, which is 100% owned by the Company. The claims were acquired by Uranerz and none of the unpatented lode claims in the WC Area are subject to a royalty. There are no fee leases associated with Willow Creek. 71 Accessibility, Climate, Local Resources, Infrastructure and Physiography Nichols Ranch is located 80 miles northeast of Casper, Wyoming and accessible via two-wheel drive on existing county and/or private gravel and dirt roads by proceeding north approximately 10 mi from Wyoming Highway 387 on the IDT Road and approximately 12 mi northwest of the junction of Wyoming Highway 387 and Wyoming Highway 50. NRP is accessible via two-wheel drive on existing private gravel and dirt roads, many of which have been improved by coal bed methane (“ CBM ”) development. The approximate center of the NRP property is approximately nine miles north of Wyoming Highway 387. Some road development and improvements may be required at a later time to facilitate future development of wellfields or satellite facilities. WNB is accessible via two-wheel drive on existing county and/or private gravel and dirt roads. The approximate center of the Satellite Properties is roughly 8 mi to 11 mi west of Wyoming Highway 50, and the southern edge of the Satellite Properties is approximately 12 mi to 15 mi north of Wyoming Highway 387. Road development and improvements may be required at a later time to facilitate future development of wellfields and processing facilities. The north-northwest half of the WNB Area is located in an area of significant topographical relief and would likely require significant excavation to construct roads to potential wellfields or require the use of directional drilling to develop the resource. In the vicinity of the Complex, the climate is semi-arid and receives an annual precipitation of approximately 13 in., the majority of which falls from February to April as snow. Cold, wind, and snow/blizzards may occasionally present challenges for winter exploration and construction work in this area however operations can take place year-round. The summer months are typically hot, dry, and clear, except for infrequent high-intensity, short-duration storm events. The Complex is located in Johnson and Campbell Counties. These counties are generally rural; according to the April 1, 2020 United States Census, there were 8,447 people living in Johnson County and 47,026 people living in Campbell County. Most of the workers at the Complex are from the local area and nearby communities such as Casper, Wyoming, approximately 80 mi southwest of the Complex. Casper is the county seat of Natrona County and, as of the 2020 census, has a population of 59,038. Casper has numerous industrial supply and service companies to support mining operations. EFR maintains an office in Casper to support its Wyoming mining operations. The Company has secured sufficient surface access rights for exploration and development of the Complex. The Nichols Ranch Mining Unit is a fully licensed, operable facility with sufficient sources of power, water, and waste disposal facilities for operations and aquifer restoration. The basic infrastructure (power, water, and transportation) necessary to support an ISR mining operation has been established at the Nichols Ranch Mining Unit and is located within reasonable proximity of all satellite properties within this report. Existing infrastructure is associated with local oil, gas, and CBM development. Non-potable water is and/or will be supplied by wells developed at or near the sites. Water extracted as part of ISR operations will be recycled for reinjection. Typical ISR mining operations also require a disposal well for limited quantities of fluids that cannot be returned to the production aquifers. Two deep disposal wells have been permitted and are operational at the Nichols Ranch ISR Plant. The proximity of the Complex to paved roads will facilitate transportation of equipment, supplies, personnel, and product to and from the properties. Although the population within 50 miles of the subject properties consists mainly of rural ranch residences, personnel required for exploration, construction, and operation are available in the nearby towns of Wright, Midwest, Edgerton, Gillette, Buffalo, and Casper, Wyoming. Power transmission lines are located on or near parts of the property. EFR has secured power from the local electrical service provider to accommodate all operational needs. Tailing storage areas, waste disposal areas, heap leach pad(s) are not part of the required infrastructure for the Complex, as ISR operations do not require these types of facilities. Waste disposal is accomplished via deep well injection. EFR has two such wells permitted and in operation at Nichols Ranch. The Complex is located within the Wyoming Basin physiographic province in the western portion of the Powder River Basin, within the Pumpkin Buttes Mining District. The Pumpkin Buttes are a series of small buttes rising up to nearly 6,000 feet above sea level (ft ASL) in elevation and approximately 1,000 ft above the surrounding plains. The rock capping the top of the buttes is the Oligocene age White River Formation erosional remnant, which is believed to have overlain the majority of the Powder River 72 Basin. The volcanic tuffs in the White River Formation have been cited as the source of uranium in the basin (Davis, 1969). Historic and current land use in the Pumpkin Buttes Mining District includes livestock grazing, mineral development, and oil and gas development. Vegetation and wildlife surveys of the Complex area were completed as part of the environmental baseline studies required for permitting and licensing. Vegetation communities consist primarily of sagebrush shrub-land and mixed grasslands, with limited juniper, greasewood, and wetland communities. The Complex area has the potential to provide habitat for mule deer, elk, pronghorn antelope, jackrabbit, cottontail rabbit, coyote, bobcat, mountain lion, red fox, badger, raccoon, skunk, chipmunk, rodents, songbirds, waterfowl, eagles, hawks, owls, sage grouse, chukar, wild turkey, Hungarian partridge, mourning dove, magpie, and crow. Most species are yearlong residents, however, some species such as elk, eagles, songbirds, and waterfowl are more abundant during migration periods. The Nichols Ranch Mining Unit is situated in a low-lying plain with elevations ranging from roughly 4,600 ft ASL to 4,900 ft ASL. There are two main ephemeral drainages at the site. Both are tributaries of Cottonwood Creek, which drains to the Cheyenne River. The NRP Area consists of sagebrush and native grasses, covering rolling hills, steep walled gullies, and ephemeral streams. Elevations range from approximately 4,800 ft ASL to 5,180 ft ASL. The WNB is located on the west flank of the North Pumpkin Butte. This area consists of sagebrush and native grasses, covering rolling hills, steep walled gullies, and flat-topped North Butte. Elevations range from approximately 4,900 ft ASL to 5,800 ft ASL, and generally slope from northeast to southwest. History The Complex was originally part of a large exploration area encompassing Townships 33 through 50 North of Ranges 69 through 79 West, on the Sixth Principal Meridian. In 1966, Mountain West Mines Inc. (“ MWM ”) – now Excalibur Industries) began a drilling exploration program in this area. In 1967, MWM entered into an agreement with Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company (“ CCI ”) for further exploration and option if suitable resources were found. CCI exercised its option in 1976 with plans to begin underground mining operations near North Butte, approximately six and a half miles northeast of Nichols Ranch. As economic conditions changed, and with the development of ISR mining technology, CCI’s interest in the area waned. By the late 1980s, it began selling select properties or allowing them to revert back to MWM. Uranerz acquired six uranium properties in the Powder River Basin from a third party in 2005, including the Complex. In June 2015, EFR acquired all of the outstanding shares of Uranerz. Under that transaction, EFR acquired the Nichols Ranch Project, the Hank Project, the Reno Creek Property, the West North Butte Property, the North Rolling Pin Property, and the Arkose Project JV (a joint venture of ISR mining properties held 81% by Uranerz and 19% by United Nuclear Corp.), uranium sales contracts, and other assets, as well as the shares of Uranerz, which holds those assets. In May 2018, EFR sold its non-core Reno Creek Property to Uranium Energy Corp. In August 2018, EFR acquired royalties on the Nichols Ranch Project, along with royalties on several operating, standby, and advanced-stage ISR projects in Wyoming owned and operated by Power Resources, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Cameco Corporation. The Nichols Ranch Mining Unit includes: (i) the Nichols Ranch Plant; (ii) the Nichols Ranch Wellfields; (iii) the Jane Dough Area; and (iv) the Hank Area, which includes the permitted but not constructed Hank Satellite Plant and the Hank Deposit. A portion of the Jane Dough Area is held through the Arkose Project JV, in which the EFR has an 81% interest. The North Rolling Pin Area is located within a large exploration area encompassing Townships 33 through 50 North of Ranges 69 through 79 West, on the Sixth Principal Meridian. In 1966, MWM (now Excalibur Industries) began a successful drilling exploration program in a portion of the larger area. In 1967, MWM entered into an agreement with CCI for further exploration and option if suitable resources were found. CCI exercised its option in 1976 with plans to begin underground mining operations in the vicinity of North Butte. Changing economic conditions and the development of ISR mining technology reportedly ended much of CCI’s interest in the area. In addition to CCI, other uranium exploration companies during the last forty years have controlled property either within or near the North Rolling Pin Property. These included Kerr McGee, Conoco, Texaco, American Nuclear, Tennessee Valley Authority, Rio Algom Mining Corporation (Rio Algom), and Uranerz. The mining claims and leases originally controlled by most of these companies were let go over the years due to market conditions. These property abandonments continued into 2004. In February 2007, Uranerz purchased the North Rolling Pin claims group from Robert Shook as part of a larger 138 Federal mining claims acquisition. Uranerz subsequently expanded the properties by staking additional claims in the immediate area. 73 The WNB, ENB, and Willow Creek Areas were originally part of a large exploration area encompassing Townships 33 through 50 North of Ranges 69 through 79 West, on the 6th principal meridian. In 1966, MWM (now Excalibur Industries) began a successful drilling exploration program in a portion of this area. In 1967, MWM entered into an agreement with CCI for further exploration and option if suitable resources were found. CCI exercised its option in 1976 with plans to begin underground mining operations in the vicinity of North Butte. Changing economic conditions and the development of ISR mining technology reportedly ended much of CCI’s interest in the area. In addition to CCI, other uranium exploration companies during the last forty years have controlled property either within or near the Satellite Properties. These included Kerr McGee, Conoco, Texaco, American Nuclear, Tennessee Valley Authority, and Uranerz U.S.A., Inc. Areva NC, via subsidiary Cogema Resources Inc. (Cogema), and Power Resources Inc. (a subsidiary of Cameco Corporation) have retained portions of their original land positions in the area. The mining claims and leases originally controlled by most of these companies were let go over the years due to market conditions. These property abandonments continued into 2004. WNB, ENB, and WC cover an area of land located on the west, east and south flank of North Butte in Campbell County, Wyoming. Detailed disclosure pertaining to the chain of title of the properties comprising these Areas is not known to the Authors or Uranerz representatives and is beyond the scope of this Technical Report. The following is a brief description of what is known about ownership history of these Areas. The locators of the claims acquired rights to the properties comprising the WNB Area in 1987. In January 2007, Uranerz completed an acquisition of an undivided one-hundred percent interest in the claims comprising the WNB Area. The locators of the claims acquired rights to the properties comprising the ENB Area in 1987. In January 2007, Uranerz completed an acquisition of an undivided 100% interest in the claims comprising the East North Butte Area. The locators of the claims acquired rights to the properties comprising the Willow Creek Area in the 1960s. In December 2005, Uranerz entered into an option agreement to acquire an undivided one-hundred percent interest in the claims comprising the Willow Creek Area. The terms of the option agreement were satisfied in 2007 and the transfer of the claims to Uranerz was completed. On October 15, 1951, J. D. Love discovered uranium mineralization in the Pumpkin Buttes districts in the Wasatch Formation on the south side of North Pumpkin Butte in the west-central portion of the Powder River Basin. The mineralization was one of eight areas recommended by the U.S. Geologic Survey (USGS) in April 1950 for investigation in the search for uranium bearing lignites and volcanic tuffs. In response to this recommendation, an airborne radiometric reconnaissance of most of these areas was undertaken by the USGS in October 1950. The uranium mineralization discovered by J. D. Love was near an aerial radiometric anomaly identified from this survey (Love, 1952). Exploration drilling was conducted in the Jane Dough Area, Section 21 and 28, T43N, R76W, between the late 1960s and late 1970s by CCI. Little interest was generated by the completion of 46 holes from this drilling. Between 1968 and 1980 CCI drilled 150 holes and installed 3 water wells on the Nichols Ranch and Jane Dough Areas. Texas Eastern Nuclear Inc. completed limited drilling and exploration on the property in 1985. In the early 1990s, Rio Algom also completed limited drilling in the area. In December 2005, Uranerz purchased the Nichols Ranch, Jane Dough, and Hank claims groups as part of a six-property agreement to option from Excalibur Industries. Uranerz then expanded the properties by staking additional claims in the immediate and surrounding areas. Uranerz began exploration drilling on the Nichols Ranch Area on July 11, 2006, and continued to June 6, 2015. A total of 1,098 holes (253 exploration holes, 105 monitor wells, and 740 production wells) were drilled during that time. A total of 51 exploration holes were drilled on the Hank Area in 2008. Uranerz received the Source Material License SUA-1597 in July of 2011. Nichols Ranch ISR operations began on April 15, 2014, after completion of a pre-operational inspection by the NRC Region IV office. There were two planned Production Areas (PA1 and PA2) in the Nichols Ranch Area. Five header houses and their respective wellfields were installed and in operation in June 2015, when EFR acquired Uranerz, in Production Area #1. Header house #6 was commissioned in November 2015. In 2016, the EFR completed drilling 12 delineation holes and drilling and casing of 86 extraction wells in Header Houses #7 and #8 in Production Area #1. Header House #7 was turned on in March 2016 and Header House #8 was turned on in June 2016. In Production Area #2, 133 extraction and injection wells were drilled and cased. Header House #9 was completed and turned on in March 2017. No drilling or other development activities have been performed since 2017. In January 2008, Uranerz entered into the JV, resulting in an 81% undivided interest in the mineral rights controlled by the JV. Uranerz commenced exploration on the Arkose Project in 2008. A total of 1,971 exploration holes were drilled on the Arkose Project JV from April 2008 to August 2012. A portion of the Arkose Project JV holdings were subsequently incorporated into the 74 Jane Dough portion of the Nichols Ranch Mining Unit and remain subject to the 81% ownership, as discussed in Section 4.0 of this Technical Report. Mining claims were first staked in the North Rolling Pin Area by MWM sometime before 1968. Exploration drilling was conducted in the North Rolling Pin Area Sections 11, 14 and 15, T43N, R76W, between 1968 and 1982 by CCI. A total of 476 exploration holes were drilled including 10 core holes. CCI was reported to be investigating the NRP Area for open pit mining potential but never carried those plans past the exploration phase. In 2008 and 2009, Uranerz drilled 18 exploration holes in Sections 11 and 14. This drilling was performed to evaluate the potential for mineralization below the zones explored by CCI and for confirmation of the previously identified mineralization in the F Sand. Between 1968 and 1985, CCI drilled approximately 380 exploratory holes within the West North Butte, East North Butte, and Willow Creek Areas. From 1983 to 1985, Texas Eastern Nuclear drilled approximately 12 exploratory holes in these Areas. From approximately 1990 to 1992, Rio Algom drilled approximately 5 exploratory holes. In 2006, Uranerz completed an acquisition of these Areas, and in 2007 and 2008, drilled approximately 127 exploratory holes. The Complex is an advanced stage project which is licensed to operate by the NRC and the WDEQ. Construction of the processing facility began in 2011. Plant construction and initial wellfield installation was completed in 2014 and operations were initiated in April 2014. Production of 1,265,805 pounds of uranium oxide has been reported from initiation of production through December 31, 2019, via ISR mining. Since 2019, the Nichols Ranch portion of the Complex has been on standby due to low uranium prices. Permitting and Licensing Energy Fuels has received all regulatory approvals necessary to conduct extraction and uranium processing activities at the Nichols Ranch Plant and Nichols Ranch Wellfield. In December 2010, Uranerz received its Permit to Mine for the Nichols Ranch Project from the WDEQ-LQD. In July 2011, Uranerz received a Source Material License from the NRC for the Nichols Ranch Plant and Nichols Ranch Wellfield, and construction of the Nichols Ranch Plant immediately began. Effective September 30, 2018, the State of Wyoming became an Agreement State under the Atomic Energy Act (as amended) for the regulation of uranium mills and uranium ISR facilities, and regulation of the Source Material License was transferred from the NRC to WDEQ-LQD. Both the state and federal agencies analyzed all environmental aspects of the Nichols Ranch Project including reclamation of the land surface following extraction operations and restoration of impacted ground water. Workplace safety and the safety of the public are also closely monitored by regulatory agencies. We have posted a reclamation bond with the regulatory agencies in an amount of $7.1 million (most recently approved on August 15, 2023) to cover the total estimated cost of reclamation by a third party as a requirement of the licenses. The various state and federal permits and licenses that were required and have been obtained for the Nichols Ranch Project, exclusive of the expansion to the Jane Dough Property, are summarized below: Primary Permits and Licenses for the Nichols Ranch Project (Nichols Ranch and Hank Units Only) Permit, License, or Approval Name Agency Status Source Material License NRC (2011); WDEQ-LQD (2018) Obtained Permit to Mine (UIC Permit) WDEQ-LQD Obtained Aquifer Exemption WDEQ-LQD; EPA Obtained Permit to Appropriate Groundwater WSEO Obtained Wellfield Authorization WDEQ-LQD Obtained Class I UIC Deep Disposal Well Permits WDEQ-WQD Obtained WYPDES WDEQ-WQD Obtained Plan of Operations (Hank Unit only) BLM Obtained Air Quality Permit WDEQ-AQD Obtained Notes: (1) NRC - Nuclear Regulatory Commission 75 (2) EPA - Environmental Protection Agency (3) UIC - Underground Injection Control (4) WDEQ-LQD - Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality Land Quality Division (5) WDEQ-WQD - Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality Water Quality Division (6) WDEQ-AQD - Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality Air Quality Division (7) WSEO - Wyoming State Engineer’s Office (8) WYPDES - Wyoming Pollutant Discharge Elimination System Under the licensed plan, the Nichols Ranch Plant has been built, and a satellite processing facility is licensed for the Hank Project. In 2017, the NRC approved a source material license amendment to add the Jane Dough Property to the existing license for the Nichols Ranch Project, and the WDEQ approved an amendment to our Permit to Mine to incorporate the Jane Dough Property. The Jane Dough Property is now fully licensed and permitted as part of the Nichols Ranch Project. The Jane Dough Property is adjacent to the Nichols Ranch Wellfield and is expected to share its infrastructure. Uranerz is now able to bring the Jane Dough Property into extraction operations before the Hank Project. Due to its close proximity, extracted solutions from the Jane Dough Property may be delivered directly to our Nichols Ranch Plant by pipeline, thus eliminating the need for a larger capital outlay to construct a satellite plant as is planned for the Hank Project. The Jane Dough Property includes the Doughstick, South Doughstick and North Jane properties. Additional wellfields may be added to the extraction operations plan as the Company continues to assess geological data. Geological Setting, Mineralization and Deposit The Complex is located in the Powder River Basin, which is a large structural and topographic depression sub-parallel to the trend of the Rocky Mountains. The Basin is bounded on the south by the Hartville Uplift and the Laramie Range, on the east by the Black Hills, and on the west by the Big Horn Mountains and the Casper Arch. The Miles City Arch in southeastern Montana forms the northern boundary of the Basin. The Powder River Basin is an asymmetrical syncline with its axis closely paralleling the western basin margin. During sedimentary deposition, the structural axis (the line of greatest material accumulation) shifted westward resulting in the Basin’s asymmetrical shape. Uranium mineralization at the Complex deposits is hosted by the Eocene Wasatch Formation. The Wasatch Formation was deposited in a multi-channel fluvial and flood plain environment. The climate at the time of deposition was wet tropical to subtropical with medium stream and river sediment load depositing most medium grained materials. The source of the sediments, as evidenced by abundant feldspar grains in the sandstones, was the nearby Laramie and Granite Mountains. Within the Complex, there is a repetitive transgressive/regressive sequence of sandstones separated by fine-grained horizons composed of siltstone, mudstone, carbonaceous shale, and poorly developed thin coal seams. The fine-grained materials were deposited in flood plain, shallow lake (lacustrine), and swamp environments. Ultimately, deposition of the Wasatch Formation was a function of stream bed load entering the basin and subsidence from within the basin. However, in the central part of the Powder River Basin, long periods of balanced stability occurred. During these periods the stream gradients were relatively low and allowed for development of broad (0.5 mi to 6.0 mi wide) meander belt systems, associated over-bank deposits, and finer grained materials in flood plains, swamps, and shallow bodies of water. Meander belts in the Wasatch Formation are generally 5 ft to 30 ft thick. The A Sand at Nichols Ranch Area is made up of three to four stacked meander belts and the F Sand at Hank Area has two to three stacked meander belts. Individual meander belt layers will rarely terminate at the same location twice. Meanders have been noted to frequently terminate in the interior of a belt system but are more likely to terminate somewhere closer to the edge of the meander stream valley. The net effect for fluvial sands is to generally thin away from the main axis of the meander belt system. The A Sand meander belt system at Nichols Ranch Area is approximately four miles wide. At Hank, the F Sand meander belt system is smaller than Nichols Ranch at approximately one and a half miles wide. At the North Rolling Pin Area, the mineralized sand horizon (F Sand) occurs within the Wasatch Formation at an approximate depth from surface ranging from 51 ft to 403 ft and averaging 282 ft to the top of the mineralization. Generally, the depth of mineralization decreases from the northeast to the southwest due mainly to topography along which the surface elevation decreases from approximately 5,180 ft to approximately 4,800 ft. The F Sand primarily consists of two stacked sand sets, termed the Upper and Lower F Sands that each average 20 ft to 25 ft thick. The mineralized sand horizons occur within the lower part of the Wasatch Formation, at an approximate depth from surface ranging from 482 ft to 1,012 ft at West North Butte, 540 ft to 660 ft at East North Butte, and 172 ft to 567 ft at Willow Creek. The host sands are primarily arkosic in composition, friable, and contain trace carbonaceous material and organic debris. There are local 76 sandy mudstone/siltstone intervals with the sandstones, and the sands may thicken or pinch-out in some locations. Mineral resources are located in the Eocene age Wasatch Formation in what is identified as the A, B, C and F host sand units of the WNB Area, the A and B host sands of the ENB Area and in the A and F host sand units of the WC Area. The uranium mineralization is composed of amorphous uranium oxide, sooty pitchblende, and coffinite, and is deposited in void spaces between detrital sand grains and within minor authigenic clays. The host sandstone is composed of quartz, feldspar, accessory biotite and muscovite mica, and locally occurring carbon fragments. Grain size ranges from very fine to very coarse sand but is medium grained overall. The sandstones are weakly to moderately cemented and friable. Pyrite and calcite are associated with the sands in the reduced facies. Hematite or limonite stain from pyrite are common oxidation products in the oxidized facies. Montmorillonite and kaolinite clays from oxidized feldspars are also present in the oxidized facies (Uranerz, 2010a). The uranium being extracted is hosted in a sandstone, roll front deposit at a depth ranging from 400 ft to 800 ft. Wyoming uranium deposits are typically sandstone roll front uranium deposits as defined in the “World Distribution of Uranium Deposits (UDEPO) with Uranium Deposit Classification” (IAEA, 2009). The key components in the formation of roll front type mineralization include: • A permeable host formation: ◦ Sandstone units of the Wasatch Formation. • A source of soluble uranium: ◦ Volcanic ash flows coincidental with Wasatch deposition containing elevated concentration of uranium is the probable source of uranium deposits for the Pumpkin Buttes Uranium District. • Oxidizing groundwaters to leach and transport the uranium: ◦ Groundwaters regionally tend to be oxidizing and slightly alkaline. • Adequate reductant within the host formation: ◦ Conditions resulting from periodic hydrogen sulfide (H 2 S gas) migrating along faults and subsequent iron sulfide (pyrite) precipitation created local reducing conditions. • Time sufficient to concentrate the uranium at the oxidation/reduction interface. ◦ Uranium precipitates from solution at the oxidation/reduction boundary (REDOX) as uraninite (UO 2 , Uranium oxide), which is dominant, or coffinite (USiO 4 , uranium silicate). ◦ The geohydrologic regime of the region has been stable over millions of years with groundwater movement controlled primarily by high-permeability channels within the predominantly sandstone formations of the Tertiary. Data Verification The primary assay data used to calculate the Mineral Resource estimate for the Complex is downhole radiometric log data. Calibration data for both natural gamma and prompt fission neutron (“ PFN ”) geophysical logging units are available for both historical and recent drilling. When drilling is active, both the natural gamma and PFN logging trucks are calibrated at least every three months. Natural gamma calibration is performed at DOE standard calibration facilities located in Casper, Wyoming. Commercial logging services for both natural gamma and PFN logging are calibrated at the DOE standard facilities located in Casper, Wyoming, and/or Grand Junction, Colorado. Only natural gamma logs were used for Resource estimation as assay data could lead to an over or under estimation of Mineral Resources due to disequilibrium. Positive disequilibrium occurs when the uranium present has not had enough time to decay and produce daughter isotopes, which are what are actually measured during a natural gamma assay. Under positive disequilibrium a natural gamma assay would indicate lower amounts of uranium than what is present. Negative disequilibrium occurs when uranium has had enough time to decay to produce the daughter radioisotopes but was remobilized and removed from the deposit. This would lead to measuring more uranium than is present. The use of a PFN logging unit, which directly measures uranium content, would remove this risk. The disequilibrium factor applied to the Mineral Resource is 1.0. Mineral Resource Estimates Mineral Resources have been estimated using the GT (Grade x Thickness) contour method for each of the mineral sandstone horizons or units identified across the deposits (1, A, B, C, F, G and H). The uranium resource can generally be defined by existing drilling information which is of sufficient density and continuity to identify a meandering discontinuous mineralized trend. The grade and mineralized zone thickness were obtained from historical and recent drilling. The GT contour method is well suited for estimating tonnage and average grades of relatively planar mineralized bodies. It is a smoothing technique that allows the geologist to apply judgment regarding the variability of the mineralization within the plane of the mineralized body. This technique is particularly effective in generating a realistic landscape of metal values along the plane of 77 the mineralized body and limiting the effect of local high values. The technique is best applied to estimate tonnage and average grade of relatively planar bodies, i.e., where the two dimensions of the mineralized body are much greater than the third dimension (Agnerian and Roscoe, 2001). For these types of deposits, the contour method can provide a clear view of the “mineralization landscape” with “peaks and valleys” along the plane of the mineralization. Due to the two-dimensional nature of the contour method, data from drillhole intersections means the reported averaged assay grade is across the entire thickness of the mineralized body being considered. If necessary, the average intersection value is diluted to a specified minimum thickness. The rationale for all Mineral Resource estimation methods is that there is continuity of mineralization from one sample point to another, whether they are drillhole pierce points, underground workings, surface trenches, or wellfields. When a mineral deposit has been tested by many drillholes, the estimate of tonnage and average grade by all conventional methods will likely be similar. When a deposit has been tested by a relatively few widely spaced or irregularly spaced drillholes, however, the estimates by various methods may vary greatly and a few high-grade or wide intercepts may have a large influence on the average grade or tonnage of the deposit. The contour method can be effective in reducing the influence of high-grade or wide intersections as well as the effects of widely spaced, irregularly spaced, or clustered drillholes. This is particularly the case for roll front uranium deposits. It can also be applied to estimate Mineral Reserves by deleting certain portions of the Mineral Resources estimated by the same method, such as clipping the edges of the contoured area, deleting certain parts of the tonnage estimate as pillars and sills and/or applying economic factors to the Mineral Resources. The Mineral Resource estimates were calculated using GT contours with a minimum grade cut-off of 0.02% eU 3 O 8 and a minimum mineralization thickness of 1.0 feet. The GT values of the subject sand intervals for each hole were plotted on a drillhole map and contour lines were drawn along the mineralization trend using ArcGIS software. The contour map was developed from the calculated GTs for various GT ranges. The areas within the GT contour boundaries, up to certain distances from the drillhole and to certain maximum areas of influence, were used for calculating estimates for resources. All resources were limited to the extent of the 0.2 GT boundaries. The contained pounds of uranium were calculated using the following formula: Mineral Resource, pounds = (Area, ft 2 ) x (GT, %-ft) x (20 lb) x (DEF) / (RD, ft 3 /ton) • Area (ft 2 ) = Area of influence in square feet (measured from contour interval) • GT (percent x feet) = Material grade in percent times feet thickness of mineralization (GT multiplied by 20 lb to convert from short tons to pounds as 1% of a short ton equals 20 lb) • DEF (1.00) = Disequilibrium factor (1.00) • RD (15.5) = Rock density (15.5 ft 3 /ton) Tonnage was calculated based on grade, pounds and a tonnage conversion factor for a given GT contour area. Details regarding the Mineral Resource estimate disclosed herein can be found in Section 14.0, Mineral Resource Estimates of the Nichols Ranch Technical Report Summary. The table below sets out the Mineral Resources estimates for the Nichols Ranch Project as of December 31, 2023. These estimates are derived from the Nichols Ranch Technical Report Summary, which estimated the Mineral Resources as of December 31, 2021. Daniel Kapostasy, the Company’s non-independent Qualified Person, reviewed and confirmed that the Mineral Resources estimates set forth in the Nichols Ranch Technical Report Summary remained accurate as of December 31, 2023. 78 Nichols Ranch Remaining Mineral Resources – In Situ Uranium (1)(2)(3)(4)(5)(6) Classification Project Area Cut-off (ft-%) (2)(8) Tons (000s) Grade (%U 3 O 8 ) Contained Metal (000s lb U 3 O 8 ) EFR Basis (%) EFR Metal (000s lb U 3 O 8 ) Metallurgical Recovery (9) Measured Mineral Resources (M) Nichols Ranch 0.2 11 0.187 41 100 41 71 % Jane Dough 0.2 --- --- --- --- --- 71 % Hank 0.2 --- --- --- --- --- 71 % North Rolling Pin 0.2 --- --- --- --- --- 71 % West North Butte 0.2 --- --- --- --- --- 71 % Total Measured 11 0.187 41 100 41 Indicated Mineral Resources (I) Nichols Ranch 0.2 359 0.166 1,190 100 1,190 60.4 % Jane Dough 0.2 1,892 0.112 4,237 81 3,432 60.4 % Hank 0.2 450 0.095 855 100 855 60.4 % North Rolling Pin 0.2 582 0.057 665 100 665 60.4 % Total Indicated 0.2 3,283 0.106 6,947 88.4 6,142 Total Measured + Indicated (M+I) 0.2 3,294 0.106 6,988 88.5 6,183 Inferred Mineral Resources (I) Nichols Ranch 0.2 --- --- --- --- --- 60.4 % Jane Dough 0.2 188 0.112 420 81 340 60.4 % Hank 0.2 423 0.095 803 100 803 60.4 % North Rolling Pin 0.2 39 0.042 33 100 33 60.4 % Total Inferred 0.2 650 0.097 1,256 93.6 1,176 Notes: (1) SEC S-K definitions were followed for all Mineral Resource categories. These definitions are also consistent with CIM (2014) definitions in NI 43-101. (2) The cut-off grade is calculated using a metal price of $65/lb. U 3 O 8 . The long-term uranium price is based on supply and demand projections for the period 2021-2035. (3) Mineral Resources are based on a tonnage factory of 15.0 ft 3 /ton (Bulk density 0.0667 ton/ft 3 or 2.13 t/m 3 ). (4) Mineral Resources that are not Mineral Reserves do not have demonstrated economic viability. (5) Numbers may not add due to rounding. (6) Mineral Resources are 100% attributable to EFR for Nichols Ranch, Hank, and North Rolling Pin. (7) Mineral Resources are 81% attributable to EFR and 19% attributable to United Nuclear Corp. in parts of Jane Dough. (8) Cut-off grade is a GT cut-off or %U 3 O 8 x thickness (ft). (9) Metallurgical recoveries for ISR operations represent the percent recovery (71%) for under pattern Mineral Resources. Measured Mineral Resources are 100% under pattern. Indicated and Inferred Mineral Resources assume 85% under pattern and 71% recovery totaling 60.4% overall recovery of the Mineral Resource. Present Condition of the Property Current Status of Wellfields All the currently planned and permitted wellfields are in Production Areas #1 and #2 of the Nichols Ranch Wellfield. The Nichols Ranch Wellfield is expected to have a total of 13 header-houses, with Production Area #1 comprising header-houses 1 through 8, and Production Area #2 comprising header-houses 9 through 13. Each of the two planned Nichols Ranch Wellfield Production Areas will include a number of injection wells, recovery wells, monitoring wells, header houses and associated piping and power supply. Header houses will be located within the Production Areas and will distribute recovered fluids from recovery wells to trunk lines, and injection fluids from the processing facility through the trunk lines to injection wells. 79 The first five header houses and their respective wellfields in Production Area #1 at the Nichols Ranch Wellfield were installed and extracting uranium at the time the Company acquired Uranerz in June 2015. Header house #6 was commissioned in November 2015. Uranerz placed the 7th and 8th header-houses online in March and July 2016, respectively, thereby completing development of Production Area #1. In February 2017 Uranerz completed construction on the 9th header-house, marking the beginning of development in Production Area #2. Uranium recovery operations from Production Area #2 commenced in March of 2017. Currently, Production Area #1 is in restoration and Production Area #2 is on standby. In order for Nichols Ranch to engage in future uranium production, the Company will need to incur capital expenditures to develop additional wellfields. Nichols Ranch Plant In 2014, construction of the Nichols Ranch Plant was completed. The Nichols Ranch Plant is licensed to produce up to two million pounds of uranium per year through three major processing solution circuits: (i) a recovery and extraction circuit; (ii) an elution circuit; and (iii) a yellowcake production circuit. The Nichols Ranch Plant is currently constructed and operated with the recovery and extraction circuit and the elution circuit installed. The Company retains the ability to construct and operate a yellowcake drying and packaging circuit at the Nichols Ranch Plant at a later date if desired. Uranerz is still processing uranium-bearing wellfield solutions from Production Areas #1 and #2 of the Nichols Ranch Wellfield for de minimis recoveries of uranium. When not on standby, yellowcake slurry, produced at the Nichols Ranch Plant, is shipped by truck from the Nichols Ranch Project to the White Mesa Mill where it is dried and packaged in drums as uranium concentrate product. Prior to the completion of the elution circuit in February 2016, loaded resin was transported by truck to a third-party facility for elution, drying and packaging, under a toll processing arrangement. The Nichols Ranch Plant was acquired by the Company on June 18, 2015 through the acquisition of Uranerz. As of December 31, 2023, the total net book value attributable to the Nichols Ranch Plant on the Company’s consolidated financial statements was $7.2 million. The total net book value attributable to the North Rolling Pin and WNB properties was $10.2 million. The Company’s Planned Work Production at Nichols Ranch is currently on standby and restoration, pending market conditions improving sufficiently to resume production. In order for Nichols Ranch to engage in future uranium production, the Company will need to incur capital expenditures to develop additional wellfields, as all existing wellfields are now depleted. While production at the Nichols Ranch Project is currently being maintained on standby, in 2024 the Company is undertaking exploration drilling around the Collins Draw and Arkose portions of its larger land holdings around the Nichols Ranch Complex to expand the resources at the Nichols Ranch Project and to conduct delineation drilling in PA2 in order to plan out future wellfields to be ready for potential recommencement of production in late 2024 or in 2025. 80 The White Mesa Mill General The White Mesa Mill is a fully licensed uranium, vanadium and REE processing facility located in southeastern Utah, approximately six miles south of the city of Blanding, Utah. The Mill offices are located at 37°32’3.749” north latitude and 109°30’10.297” west longitude. It is within trucking distance of the Company’s conventional properties in Utah, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico, including the Pinyon Plain Project, the Roca Honda Project, the Bullfrog Project, the La Sal Project and the Whirlwind Project. The Mill is the only fully operational and licensed conventional uranium mill in the U.S. It is capable of functioning independently of off-site support except for commercial power from Rocky Mountain Power and as-needed supplemental water supply from the City of Blanding, Utah, and the San Juan Water Conservancy District. The Mill is a uranium, vanadium and REE processing and recovery facility. It is not an underground or open pit project. The Mill is licensed to process an average of 2,000 tons of ore per day and to extract over 8.0 million pounds of U 3 O 8 per year. In addition to the conventional circuit, the Mill has a separate vanadium by-product recovery circuit, and is constructing a separate REE oxide separation circuit. In addition to the Mill processing equipment, which includes the grinding and leaching circuits, CCD (liquid–solid separation), solvent extraction, and precipitation and drying circuits, the Mill has several days of reagent storage for sulfuric acid, hydrochloric acid, ammonia, salt, soda ash, caustic soda, ammonium sulfate, flocculants, kerosene, amines, and liquefied natural gas. The onsite infrastructure also includes a stockpile area capable of storing up to 450,000 tons of mineralized material, and existing tailings capacity of approximately 2.5 million tons of solids. In addition, the Mill has approximately 90 acres of evaporation capacity. 81 Synthetic lined cells are used to contain tailings and solutions for evaporation. The Company operates two tailings cells and one or more evaporation ponds during normal operations. As each tailings cell is filled, the water is drawn off and pumped to an evaporation pond and the tailings solids are allowed to dry. As each tailings cell reaches final capacity, reclamation begins with the placement of interim cover over the tailings. Additional cells are excavated, and the overburden is used to reclaim previous cells. In this way, there is an ongoing reclamation process. When in full operation, the Mill employs approximately 150 people, which is reduced to approximately 110 people when the vanadium circuit is not being operated. Alternate Feed Materials The Mill License (defined below) also gives the Company the right to process other uranium-bearing materials known as Alternate Feed Materials pursuant to an Alternate Feed Guidance published by the NRC. Alternate Feed Materials are uranium-bearing materials, other than natural or native ore, usually classified as waste products by the generators of the materials, which can be recycled by the Mill for the recovery of U 3 O 8 . The Mill License does not permit the processing of uranium-bearing materials that have undergone enrichment. Requiring a routine amendment to the Mill License for each different Alternate Feed Material, the Company can process these uranium-bearing materials and recover uranium, in some cases at a fraction of the cost of processing conventionally mined material. In other cases, the generators of the Alternate Feed Materials are willing to pay a recycling fee to the Company to process these materials to recover uranium and then dispose of the remaining by-product in the Mill’s licensed tailings cells, rather than directly disposing of the materials at a disposal site. By working with the Company and taking the recycling approach, the suppliers of Alternate Feed Materials can significantly reduce their remediation costs, as there are only a limited number of disposal sites for such materials in the U.S. Alternate Feed Materials are particularly attractive to Energy Fuels because they carry no associated mining costs. Throughout its history, the Mill has received 18 license amendments, authorizing it to process 22 different Alternate Feed Materials. Of these amendments, twelve have involved the processing of feeds provided by nuclear f