−Removed: Related to Our Business
−Removed: business activities are subject to significant risks, including those described below.
−Removed: Every investor or potential investor in
−Removed: our securities should carefully consider these risks.
−Removed: If any of the described risks actually occurs, our business, financial position
−Removed: and results of operations could be materially adversely affected.
−Removed: Such risks are not the only ones we face and additional risks
−Removed: and uncertainties not presently known to us or that we currently deem immaterial may also affect our business.
+Added: Risks Related to Our Business
+Added: Our business activities are subject to significant risks, including
+Added: those described below.
+Added: Every investor or potential investor in our securities should carefully consider these risks.
+Added: the described risks actually occurs, our business, financial position and results of operations could be materially adversely affected.
+Added: Such risks are not the only ones we face and additional risks and uncertainties not presently known to us or that we currently
+Added: deem immaterial may also affect our business.
+Added: Our ability to become a successful operating mining company is
+Added: contingent on whether we can continue to access adequate operating capital and can ultimately mine our properties at a profit sufficient
+Added: to finance further mining activities and to acquire and finance additional reserves, all in spite of potentially significant fluctuations
+Added: in the market prices of uranium and vanadium.
The uranium/vanadium ore that we have mined remains stockpiled
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find other means of generating revenue other than uranium or vanadium sales, we may not be able to remain in business.
−Removed: Until we begin either uranium or vanadium sales, we have no way
−Removed: to generate cash inflows unless we monetize certain of our assets or obtain additional financing.
−Removed: We can provide no assurance that
−Removed: our properties will produce saleable production or that we will be able to continue to find, develop, acquire and finance additional
−Removed: If we cannot monetize certain existing assets, partner with another company that has cash resources, find other means
−Removed: of generating revenue other than uranium or vanadium production and/or access additional sources of private or public capital,
−Removed: we may not be able to remain in business and our stockholders may lose their entire investment.
−Removed: ability to function as an operating mining company will be dependent on our ability to mine our properties at a profit sufficient
−Removed: to finance further mining activities and for the acquisition and development of additional properties.
−Removed: The volatility of uranium
−Removed: prices makes long-range planning uncertain and raising capital difficult.
−Removed: ability to operate on a positive cash flow basis will be dependent on mining sufficient quantities of uranium or vanadium at a
−Removed: profit sufficient to finance our operations and for the acquisition and development of additional mining properties.
−Removed: will necessarily be dependent upon, and affected by, the long and short term market prices of uranium and vanadium, which are
−Removed: subject to significant fluctuation.
−Removed: Uranium prices have been and will continue to be affected by numerous factors beyond our control.
−Removed: These factors include the demand for nuclear power, political and economic conditions in uranium producing and consuming countries,
−Removed: uranium supply from secondary sources and uranium production levels and costs of production.
−Removed: A significant, sustained drop in
−Removed: uranium prices may make it impossible to operate our business at a level that will permit us to cover our fixed costs or to remain
−Removed: in operation.
−Removed: our future performance may be difficult since we have a limited financial and operating history, with significant negative cash
−Removed: flow and an accumulated deficit to date.
−Removed: Furthermore, there is no assurance that we will be successful in securing any form of
−Removed: additional financing in the future, therefore substantial doubt exists as to whether our cash resources and working capital will
−Removed: be sufficient to enable the Company to continue its operations over the next twelve months.
−Removed: Our long-term success will depend
−Removed: ultimately on our ability to achieve and maintain profitability and to develop positive cash flow from our mining activities.
−Removed: more fully described within this annual report, we acquired our first mineral properties in November of 2014.
−Removed: To date, we have
−Removed: been acquiring additional mineral properties and raising capital.
−Removed: We hold uranium projects in various stages of exploration in
−Removed: the States of Colorado and Utah.
−Removed: more fully described under “Liquidity and Capital Resources”
−Removed: “Management’s Discussion and Analysis
−Removed: of Financial Condition and Result of Operations”, we have a history of significant negative cash flow and net losses, with
−Removed: an accumulated deficit balance of $8.7 million and $6.6 million at December 31, 2019 and 2018, respectively.
−Removed: We have been reliant
−Removed: on equity financings from the sale of our common shares and on debt financing in order to fund our operations.
−Removed: We do not expect
−Removed: to achieve profitability or develop positive cash flow from operations in the near term.
−Removed: As a result of our limited financial
−Removed: and operating history, including our significant negative cash flow and net losses to date, it may be difficult to evaluate our
−Removed: future performance.
−Removed: December 31, 2019 and December 31, 2018, we had working capital of $1,678,747 and $597,669, respectively.
−Removed: The continuation of
−Removed: the Company as a going concern is dependent upon our ability to obtain adequate additional financing which we have successfully
−Removed: secured since inception.
−Removed: However, there is no assurance that we will be successful in securing any form of additional financing
−Removed: in the future, therefore substantial doubt exists as to whether our cash resources and working capital will be sufficient to enable
−Removed: the Company to continue its operations over the next twelve months.
−Removed: The consolidated financial statements for the two years ended December 31, 2019 and 2018 were prepared assuming that
−Removed: the Company would continue as a going concern.
−Removed: The accompanying consolidated financial statements have been prepared assuming
−Removed: that the Company will continue as a going concern.
−Removed: The Company has incurred continuing losses from operations and is dependent
−Removed: upon future sources of equity or debt financing in order to fund its operations.
−Removed: These conditions raise substantial doubt about
−Removed: the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern.
−Removed: The consolidated financial statements do not include any adjustments
−Removed: that might result from the outcome of this uncertainty.
−Removed: reliance on equity and debt financings is expected to continue for the foreseeable future, and their availability whenever such
−Removed: additional financing is required, will be dependent on many factors beyond our control including, but not limited to, the market
−Removed: price of uranium, the continuing public support of nuclear power as a viable source of electricity generation, the volatility
−Removed: in the global financial markets affecting our stock price and the status of the worldwide economy, any one of which may cause
−Removed: significant challenges in our ability to access additional financing, including access to the equity and credit markets.
−Removed: also be required to seek other forms of financing, such as asset divestitures or joint venture arrangements to continue advancing
−Removed: our uranium projects, which would depend entirely on finding a suitable third party willing to enter into such an arrangement,
−Removed: typically involving an assignment of a percentage interest in the mineral project.
−Removed: long-term success, including the recoverability of the carrying values of our assets and our ability to acquire additional uranium
−Removed: projects and continue with exploration and pre-extraction activities and mining activities on our existing uranium projects, will
−Removed: depend ultimately on our ability to achieve and maintain profitability and positive cash flow from our operations by establishing
−Removed: ore bodies that contain commercially recoverable uranium and to develop these into profitable mining activities.
−Removed: viability of our mining activities has many risks and uncertainties.
−Removed: These include, but are not limited to:
−Removed: (i) a significant,
−Removed: prolonged decrease in the market price of uranium;
−Removed: (ii) difficulty in marketing and/or selling uranium concentrates;
−Removed: (iii) significantly
−Removed: higher than expected capital costs to construct the mine and/or processing plant;
−Removed: (iv) significantly higher than expected extraction
+Added: Until we begin either uranium or vanadium sales, we have no
+Added: way to generate cash inflows unless we monetize certain of our assets or obtain additional financing.
+Added: We can provide no assurance
+Added: that our properties will produce saleable production or that we will be able to continue to find, develop, acquire and finance
+Added: additional reserves.
+Added: If we cannot monetize certain existing assets, partner with another company that has cash resources, find
+Added: other means of generating revenue other than uranium or vanadium production and/or access additional sources of private or public
+Added: capital, we may not be able to remain in business and our stockholders may lose their entire investment.
+Added: Our ability to function as an operating mining company will
+Added: be dependent on our ability to mine our properties at a profit sufficient to finance further mining activities and for the acquisition
+Added: and development of additional properties.
+Added: The volatility of uranium prices makes long-range planning uncertain and raising capital
+Added: Our ability to operate on a positive cash flow basis will be
+Added: dependent on mining sufficient quantities of uranium or vanadium at a profit sufficient to finance our operations and for the acquisition
+Added: and development of additional mining properties.
+Added: Any profit will necessarily be dependent upon, and affected by, the long and short
+Added: term market prices of uranium and vanadium, which are subject to significant fluctuation.
+Added: Uranium prices have been and will continue
+Added: to be affected by numerous factors beyond our control.
+Added: These factors include the demand for nuclear power, political and economic
+Added: conditions in uranium producing and consuming countries, uranium supply from secondary sources and uranium production levels and
+Added: costs of production.
+Added: A significant, sustained drop in uranium prices may make it impossible to operate our business at a level
+Added: that will permit us to cover our fixed costs or to remain in operation.
+Added: Evaluating our future performance may be difficult since
+Added: we have a limited financial and operating history, with significant negative cash flow and an accumulated deficit to date.
+Added: there is no assurance that we will be successful in securing any form of additional financing in the future, therefore substantial
+Added: doubt exists as to whether our cash resources and working capital will be sufficient to enable the Company to continue its operations
+Added: over the next twelve months.
+Added: Our long-term success will depend ultimately on our ability to achieve and maintain profitability
+Added: and to develop positive cash flow from our mining activities.
+Added: As more fully described within this annual report, we acquired
+Added: our first mineral properties in November of 2014.
+Added: To date, we have been acquiring additional mineral properties and raising capital.
+Added: We hold uranium projects in various stages of exploration in the States of Colorado and Utah.
+Added: As more fully described under “Liquidity and Capital Resources”
+Added: “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Result of Operations”, we have a
+Added: history of significant negative cash flow and net losses, with an accumulated deficit balance of $11.1 million and $8.7 million
+Added: at December 31, 2020 and 2019, respectively.
+Added: We have been reliant on equity financings from the sale of our common shares and on
+Added: debt financing in order to fund our operations.
+Added: We do not expect to achieve profitability or develop positive cash flow from operations
+Added: in the near term.
+Added: As a result of our limited financial and operating history, including our significant negative cash flow and
+Added: net losses to date, it may be difficult to evaluate our future performance.
+Added: At December 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019, we had working capital
+Added: of $162,375 and $1,678,747, respectively.
+Added: The continuation of the Company as a going concern is dependent upon our ability to obtain
+Added: adequate additional financing which we have successfully secured since inception.
+Added: However, there is no assurance that we will be
+Added: successful in securing any form of additional financing in the future, therefore substantial doubt exists as to whether our cash
+Added: resources and working capital will be sufficient to enable the Company to continue its operations over the next twelve months.
+Added: The consolidated financial statements for the two years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019 were prepared assuming that the Company
+Added: would continue as a going concern.
+Added: The accompanying consolidated financial statements have been prepared assuming that the Company
+Added: will continue as a going concern.
+Added: The Company has incurred continuing losses from operations and is dependent upon future sources
+Added: of equity or debt financing in order to fund its operations.
+Added: These conditions raise substantial doubt about the Company’s
+Added: ability to continue as a going concern.
+Added: The consolidated financial statements do not include any adjustments that might result
+Added: from the outcome of this uncertainty.
+Added: Our reliance on equity and debt financings is expected to continue
+Added: for the foreseeable future, and their availability whenever such additional financing is required, will be dependent on many factors
+Added: beyond our control including, but not limited to, the market price of uranium, the continuing public support of nuclear power as
+Added: a viable source of electricity generation, the volatility in the global financial markets affecting our stock price and the status
+Added: of the worldwide economy, any one of which may cause significant challenges in our ability to access additional financing, including
+Added: access to the equity and credit markets.
+Added: We may also be required to seek other forms of financing, such as asset divestitures or
+Added: joint venture arrangements to continue advancing our uranium projects, which would depend entirely on finding a suitable third
+Added: party willing to enter into such an arrangement, typically involving an assignment of a percentage interest in the mineral project.
+Added: Our long-term success, including the recoverability of the carrying
+Added: values of our assets and our ability to acquire additional uranium projects and continue with exploration and pre-extraction activities
+Added: and mining activities on our existing uranium projects, will depend ultimately on our ability to achieve and maintain profitability
+Added: and positive cash flow from our operations by establishing ore bodies that contain commercially recoverable uranium and to develop
+Added: these into profitable mining activities.
+Added: The economic viability of our mining activities has many risks and uncertainties.
+Added: include, but are not limited to:
+Added: (i) a significant, prolonged decrease in the market price of uranium;
+Added: (ii) difficulty in marketing
+Added: and/or selling uranium concentrates;
+Added: (iii) significantly higher than expected capital costs to construct the mine and/or processing
+Added: (iv) significantly higher than expected extraction costs;
(v) significantly lower than expected uranium extraction;
−Removed: (vi) significant delays, reductions or stoppages of uranium extraction
−Removed: and (vi) the introduction of significantly more stringent regulatory laws and regulations.
−Removed: Our mining activities may
−Removed: change as a result of any one or more of these risks and uncertainties and there is no assurance that any ore body that we extract
−Removed: mineralized materials from will result in achieving and maintaining profitability and developing positive cash flow.
−Removed: operations are capital intensive, and we will require significant additional financing to acquire additional uranium/vanadium
−Removed: projects, continue with our exploration and begin pre-extraction activities on our existing uranium/vanadium projects.
−Removed: operations are capital intensive and future capital expenditures are expected to be substantial.
−Removed: We will require significant additional
−Removed: financing to fund our operations, including acquiring additional uranium/vanadium projects, continuing with our exploration and
−Removed: beginning pre-extraction activities which include assaying, drilling, geological and geochemical analysis and mine construction
−Removed: In the absence of such additional financing, we would not be able to fund our operations, including continuing with our
−Removed: exploration and pre-extraction activities, which may result in delays, curtailment or abandonment of any one or all of our uranium
−Removed: Uranium/vanadium
−Removed: exploration and pre-extraction programs and mining activities are inherently subject to numerous significant risks and uncertainties,
−Removed: and actual results may differ significantly from expectations or anticipated amounts.
−Removed: Furthermore, exploration programs conducted
−Removed: on our uranium/vanadium projects may not result in the establishment of ore bodies that contain commercially recoverable uranium/vanadium.
+Added: significant delays, reductions or stoppages of uranium extraction activities;
+Added: and (vi) the introduction of significantly more stringent
+Added: regulatory laws and regulations.
+Added: Our mining activities may change as a result of any one or more of these risks and uncertainties
+Added: and there is no assurance that any ore body that we extract mineralized materials from will result in achieving and maintaining
+Added: profitability and developing positive cash flow.
+Added: Our operations are capital intensive, and we will require
+Added: significant additional financing to acquire additional uranium/vanadium projects, continue with our exploration and begin pre-extraction
+Added: activities on our existing uranium/vanadium projects.
+Added: Our operations are capital intensive and future capital expenditures
+Added: are expected to be substantial.
+Added: We will require significant additional financing to fund our operations, including acquiring additional
+Added: uranium/vanadium projects, continuing with our exploration and beginning pre-extraction activities which include assaying, drilling,
+Added: geological and geochemical analysis and mine construction costs.
+Added: In the absence of such additional financing, we would not be able
+Added: to fund our operations, including continuing with our exploration and pre-extraction activities, which may result in delays, curtailment
+Added: or abandonment of any one or all of our uranium projects.
+Added: Uranium/vanadium exploration and pre-extraction programs
+Added: and mining activities are inherently subject to numerous significant risks and uncertainties, and actual results may differ significantly
+Added: from expectations or anticipated amounts.
+Added: Furthermore, exploration programs conducted on our uranium/vanadium projects may not
+Added: result in the establishment of ore bodies that contain commercially recoverable uranium/vanadium.
Uranium/vanadium exploration and pre-extraction programs and
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monetary losses;
−Removed: in uranium/vanadium exploration is dependent on many factors, including, without limitation, the experience and capabilities of
−Removed: a company’s management, the availability of geological expertise and the availability of sufficient funds to conduct the
−Removed: exploration program.
−Removed: Even if an exploration program is successful and commercially recoverable uranium/vanadium is established,
−Removed: it may take a number of years from the initial phases of drilling and identification of the mineralization until extraction is
−Removed: possible, during which time the economic feasibility of extraction may change such that the uranium ceases to be economically
−Removed: Uranium/vanadium exploration is frequently non-productive due, for example, to poor exploration results or the inability
−Removed: to establish ore bodies that contain commercially recoverable uranium, in which case the uranium project may be abandoned and
−Removed: Furthermore, we will not be able to benefit from our exploration efforts and recover the expenditures that we incur
−Removed: on our exploration programs if we do not establish ore bodies that contain commercially recoverable uranium/vanadium and develop
−Removed: these uranium/vanadium projects into profitable mining activities, and there is no assurance that we will be successful in doing
−Removed: so for any of our uranium/vanadium projects.
−Removed: an ore body contains commercially recoverable uranium/vanadium depends on many factors including, without limitation:
−Removed: particular attributes, including material changes to those attributes, of the ore body such as size, grade, recovery rates and
−Removed: proximity to infrastructure;
−Removed: (ii) the market price of uranium, which may be volatile;
−Removed: and (iii) government regulations and regulatory
−Removed: requirements including, without limitation, those relating to environmental protection, permitting and land use, taxes, land tenure
−Removed: and transportation.
−Removed: have established the existence of mineralized materials for uranium properties.
−Removed: We have not established proven or probable reserves,
−Removed: as defined by the SEC under Industry Guide 7, through the completion of a “final”
+Added: Success in uranium/vanadium exploration is dependent on many
+Added: factors, including, without limitation, the experience and capabilities of a company’s management, the availability of geological
+Added: expertise and the availability of sufficient funds to conduct the exploration program.
+Added: Even if an exploration program is successful
+Added: and commercially recoverable uranium/vanadium is established, it may take a number of years from the initial phases of drilling
+Added: and identification of the mineralization until extraction is possible, during which time the economic feasibility of extraction
+Added: may change such that the uranium ceases to be economically recoverable.
+Added: Uranium/vanadium exploration is frequently non-productive
+Added: due, for example, to poor exploration results or the inability to establish ore bodies that contain commercially recoverable uranium,
+Added: in which case the uranium project may be abandoned and written-off.
+Added: Furthermore, we will not be able to benefit from our exploration
+Added: efforts and recover the expenditures that we incur on our exploration programs if we do not establish ore bodies that contain commercially
+Added: recoverable uranium/vanadium and develop these uranium/vanadium projects into profitable mining activities, and there is no assurance
+Added: that we will be successful in doing so for any of our uranium/vanadium projects.
+Added: Whether an ore body contains commercially recoverable uranium/vanadium
+Added: depends on many factors including, without limitation:
+Added: (i) the particular attributes, including material changes to those attributes,
+Added: of the ore body such as size, grade, recovery rates and proximity to infrastructure;
+Added: (ii) the market price of uranium, which may
+Added: and (iii) government regulations and regulatory requirements including, without limitation, those relating to environmental
+Added: protection, permitting and land use, taxes, land tenure and transportation.
+Added: We have established the existence of mineralized materials for
+Added: uranium properties.
+Added: We have not established proven or probable reserves, as defined by the SEC under Industry Guide 7, through
+Added: the completion of a “final”
or “bankable”
−Removed: study for any of our uranium properties.
−Removed: Furthermore, we have no current plans to establish proven or probable reserves for any
−Removed: of our uranium properties as it doesn’t serve a business purpose at the present time.
−Removed: may not be able to realize anticipated benefits of the Kinetic Separation process due to uncertainties associated with that process.
−Removed: order to utilize Kinetic Separation to process uranium/vanadium bearing ore there are uncertainties that must be overcome which
−Removed: include the uncertainty as to the evolution of the regulatory framework and technological considerations.
−Removed: Either may cause delays
−Removed: in start-up, and/or increase costs, and may preclude the realization of the anticipated benefits of the Kinetic Separation process.
−Removed: Use of Kinetic Separation represents an additional processing step, requiring additional equipment, support, material handling
−Removed: and a potential increase in water usage requirements.
−Removed: do not insure against all of the risks we face in our operations.
−Removed: general, where coverage is available and not prohibitively expensive relative to the perceived risk, we will maintain insurance
−Removed: against such risk, subject to exclusions and limitations.
−Removed: We currently maintain insurance against certain risks including securities
−Removed: and general commercial liability claims and certain physical assets used in our operations, subject to exclusions and limitations;
−Removed: however, we do not maintain insurance to cover all of the potential risks and hazards associated with our operations.
−Removed: subject to liability for environmental, pollution or other hazards associated with our exploration, pre-extraction and extraction
−Removed: activities, which we may not be insured against, which may exceed the limits of our insurance coverage or which we may elect not
−Removed: to insure against because of high premiums or other reasons.
−Removed: Furthermore, we cannot provide assurance that any insurance coverage
−Removed: we currently have will continue to be available at reasonable premiums or that such insurance will adequately cover any resulting
−Removed: inability to obtain financial surety would threaten our ability to continue in business.
−Removed: financial surety requirements to comply with federal and state environmental and remediation requirements and to secure necessary
−Removed: licenses and approvals may increase significantly as future development and production occurs at certain of our sites in the United
−Removed: The amount of the financial surety for each producing property is subject to annual review and revision by regulators.
−Removed: We expect that the issuer of the financial surety instruments will require us to provide cash collateral for a significant amount
−Removed: of the face amount of the bond to secure the obligation.
−Removed: In the event we are not able to raise, secure or generate sufficient
−Removed: funds necessary to satisfy these requirements, we will be unable to develop our sites and bring them into production, which inability
−Removed: will have a material adverse impact on our business and may negatively affect our ability to continue to operate.
−Removed: that we may make from time to time could have an adverse impact on us.
−Removed: time to time, we examine opportunities to acquire additional mining assets and businesses.
−Removed: Any acquisition that we may choose
−Removed: to complete may be of a significant size, may change the scale of our business and operations, and may expose us to new geographic,
−Removed: political, operating, financial and geological risks.
−Removed: Our success in our acquisition activities depends on our ability to identify
−Removed: suitable acquisition candidates, negotiate acceptable terms for any such acquisition, and integrate the acquired operations successfully
−Removed: with those of our Company.
−Removed: Any acquisitions would be accompanied by risks which could have a material adverse effect on our business.
−Removed: For example, there may be a significant change in commodity prices after we have committed to complete the transaction and established
−Removed: the purchase price or exchange ratio;
+Added: feasibility study for any of our uranium properties.
+Added: we have no current plans to establish proven or probable reserves for any of our uranium properties as it doesn’t serve a
+Added: business purpose at the present time.
+Added: We may not be able to realize anticipated benefits of
+Added: the Kinetic Separation process due to uncertainties associated with that process.
+Added: In order to utilize Kinetic Separation to process uranium/vanadium
+Added: bearing ore there are uncertainties that must be overcome which include the uncertainty as to the evolution of the regulatory framework
+Added: and technological considerations.
+Added: Either may cause delays in start-up, and/or increase costs, and may preclude the realization
+Added: of the anticipated benefits of the Kinetic Separation process.
+Added: Use of Kinetic Separation represents an additional processing step,
+Added: requiring additional equipment, support, material handling and a potential increase in water usage requirements.
+Added: We do not insure against all of the risks we face in our
+Added: In general, where coverage is available and not prohibitively
+Added: expensive relative to the perceived risk, we will maintain insurance against such risk, subject to exclusions and limitations.
+Added: We currently maintain insurance against certain risks including securities and general commercial liability claims and certain
+Added: physical assets used in our operations, subject to exclusions and limitations;
+Added: however, we do not maintain insurance to cover all
+Added: of the potential risks and hazards associated with our operations.
+Added: We may be subject to liability for environmental, pollution
+Added: or other hazards associated with our exploration, pre-extraction and extraction activities, which we may not be insured against,
+Added: which may exceed the limits of our insurance coverage or which we may elect not to insure against because of high premiums or other
+Added: Furthermore, we cannot provide assurance that any insurance coverage we currently have will continue to be available at
+Added: reasonable premiums or that such insurance will adequately cover any resulting liability.
+Added: Our inability to obtain financial surety would threaten
+Added: our ability to continue in business.
+Added: Future financial surety requirements to comply with federal
+Added: and state environmental and remediation requirements and to secure necessary licenses and approvals may increase significantly
+Added: as future development and production occurs at certain of our sites in the United States.
+Added: The amount of the financial surety for
+Added: each producing property is subject to annual review and revision by regulators.
+Added: We expect that the issuer of the financial surety
+Added: instruments will require us to provide cash collateral for a significant amount of the face amount of the bond to secure the obligation.
+Added: In the event we are not able to raise, secure or generate sufficient funds necessary to satisfy these requirements, we will be
+Added: unable to develop our sites and bring them into production, which inability will have a material adverse impact on our business
+Added: and may negatively affect our ability to continue to operate.
+Added: Acquisitions that we may make from time to time could
+Added: have an adverse impact on us.
+Added: From time to time, we examine opportunities to acquire additional
+Added: mining assets and businesses.
+Added: Any acquisition that we may choose to complete may be of a significant size, may change the scale
+Added: of our business and operations, and may expose us to new geographic, political, operating, financial and geological risks.
+Added: success in our acquisition activities depends on our ability to identify suitable acquisition candidates, negotiate acceptable
+Added: terms for any such acquisition, and integrate the acquired operations successfully with those of our Company.
+Added: Any acquisitions
+Added: would be accompanied by risks which could have a material adverse effect on our business.
+Added: For example, there may be a significant
+Added: change in commodity prices after we have committed to complete the transaction and established the purchase price or exchange ratio;
a material ore body may prove to be below expectations;
−Removed: we may have difficulty integrating
−Removed: and assimilating the operations and personnel of any acquired companies, realizing anticipated synergies and maximizing the financial
−Removed: and strategic position of the combined enterprise, and maintaining uniform standards, policies and controls across the organization;
−Removed: the integration of the acquired business or assets may disrupt our ongoing business and our relationships with employees, customers,
−Removed: suppliers and contractors;
+Added: we may have difficulty integrating and assimilating the operations and
+Added: personnel of any acquired companies, realizing anticipated synergies and maximizing the financial and strategic position of the
+Added: combined enterprise, and maintaining uniform standards, policies and controls across the organization;
+Added: the integration of the acquired
+Added: business or assets may disrupt our ongoing business and our relationships with employees, customers, suppliers and contractors;
and the acquired business or assets may have unknown liabilities which may be significant.
−Removed: that we choose to raise debt capital to finance any such acquisition, our leverage will be increased.
−Removed: If we choose to use equity
−Removed: as consideration for such acquisition, existing shareholders may suffer dilution.
−Removed: Alternatively, we may choose to finance any
−Removed: such acquisition with our existing resources.
−Removed: There can be no assurance that we would be successful in overcoming these risks
−Removed: or any other problems encountered in connection with such acquisitions.
−Removed: uranium industry is subject to numerous stringent laws, regulations and standards, including environmental protection laws and
−Removed: If any changes occur that would make these laws, regulations and standards more stringent, it may require capital
−Removed: outlays in excess of those anticipated or cause substantial delays, which would have a material adverse effect on our operations.
−Removed: exploration and pre-extraction programs and mining activities are subject to numerous stringent laws, regulations and standards
−Removed: at the federal, state, and local levels governing permitting, pre-extraction, extraction, exports, taxes, labor standards, occupational
−Removed: health, waste disposal, protection and reclamation of the environment, protection of endangered and protected species, mine safety,
−Removed: hazardous substances and other matters.
−Removed: Our compliance with these requirements requires significant financial and personnel resources.
−Removed: laws, regulations, policies or current administrative practices of any government body, organization or regulatory agency in the
−Removed: United States or any other applicable jurisdiction, may change or be applied or interpreted in a manner which may also have a
−Removed: material adverse effect on our operations.
−Removed: The actions, policies or regulations, or changes thereto, of any government body or
−Removed: regulatory agency or special interest group, may also have a material adverse effect on our operations.
−Removed: exploration and pre-extraction programs and mining activities are subject to stringent environmental protection laws and regulations
−Removed: at the federal, state, and local levels.
−Removed: These laws and regulations, which include permitting and reclamation requirements, regulate
−Removed: emissions, water storage and discharges and disposal of hazardous wastes.
−Removed: Uranium mining activities are also subject to laws and
−Removed: regulations which seek to maintain health and safety standards by regulating the design and use of mining methods.
−Removed: Various permits
−Removed: from governmental and regulatory bodies are required for mining to commence or continue, and no assurance can be provided that
−Removed: required permits will be received in a timely manner.
−Removed: compliance costs including the posting of surety bonds associated with environmental protection laws and regulations and health
−Removed: and safety standards have been significant to date, and are expected to increase in scale and scope as we expand our operations
−Removed: in the future.
−Removed: Furthermore, environmental protection laws and regulations may become more stringent in the future, and compliance
−Removed: with such changes may require capital outlays in excess of those anticipated or cause substantial delays, which would have a material
+Added: In the event that we choose to raise
+Added: debt capital to finance any such acquisition, our leverage will be increased.
+Added: If we choose to use equity as consideration for such
+Added: acquisition, existing shareholders may suffer dilution.
+Added: Alternatively, we may choose to finance any such acquisition with our existing
+Added: There can be no assurance that we would be successful in overcoming these risks or any other problems encountered in
+Added: connection with such acquisitions.
+Added: The uranium industry is subject to numerous stringent
+Added: laws, regulations and standards, including environmental protection laws and regulations.
+Added: If any changes occur that would make
+Added: these laws, regulations and standards more stringent, it may require capital outlays in excess of those anticipated or cause substantial
+Added: delays, which would have a material adverse effect on our operations.
+Added: Uranium exploration and pre-extraction programs and mining activities
+Added: are subject to numerous stringent laws, regulations and standards at the federal, state, and local levels governing permitting,
+Added: pre-extraction, extraction, exports, taxes, labor standards, occupational health, waste disposal, protection and reclamation of
+Added: the environment, protection of endangered and protected species, mine safety, hazardous substances and other matters.
+Added: Our compliance
+Added: with these requirements requires significant financial and personnel resources.
+Added: The laws, regulations, policies or current administrative practices
+Added: of any government body, organization or regulatory agency in the United States or any other applicable jurisdiction, may change
+Added: or be applied or interpreted in a manner which may also have a material adverse effect on our operations.
+Added: The actions, policies
+Added: or regulations, or changes thereto, of any government body or regulatory agency or special interest group, may also have a material
adverse effect on our operations.
−Removed: the best of our knowledge, our operations are in compliance, in all material respects, with all applicable laws, regulations and
−Removed: We may not be able or may elect not to insure against the risk of liability for violations of such laws, regulations
−Removed: and standards, due to high insurance premiums or other reasons.
−Removed: Where coverage is available and not prohibitively expensive relative
−Removed: to the perceived risk, we will maintain insurance against such risk, subject to exclusions and limitations.
−Removed: However, we cannot
−Removed: provide any assurance that such insurance will continue to be available at reasonable premiums or that such insurance will be
−Removed: adequate to cover any resulting liability.
−Removed: may not be able to obtain, maintain or amend rights, authorizations, licenses, permits or consents required for our operations.
−Removed: exploration and mining activities are dependent upon the grant of appropriate rights, authorizations, licenses, permits and consents,
−Removed: as well as continuation and amendment of these rights, authorizations, licenses, permits and consents already granted, which may
−Removed: be granted for a defined period of time, or may not be granted or may be withdrawn or made subject to limitations.
−Removed: no assurance that all necessary rights, authorizations, licenses, permits and consents will be granted to us, or that authorizations,
−Removed: licenses, permits and consents already granted will not be withdrawn or made subject to limitations.
−Removed: and remediation costs for environmental liabilities may exceed the provisions we have made.
−Removed: resource companies are required to close their operations and rehabilitate the lands in accordance with a variety of environmental
−Removed: laws and regulations.
−Removed: Estimates of the total ultimate closure and rehabilitation costs for uranium operations are significant
−Removed: and based principally on current legal and regulatory requirements and closure plans that may change materially.
−Removed: Any underestimated
−Removed: or unanticipated rehabilitation costs could materially affect our financial position, results of operations and cash flows.
−Removed: Environmental
−Removed: liabilities are accrued when they become known, are probable and can be reasonably estimated.
−Removed: Whenever a previously unrecognized
−Removed: remediation liability becomes known, or a previously estimated reclamation cost is increased, the amount of that liability and
−Removed: additional cost will be recorded at that time and could materially reduce our consolidated net income in the related period.
−Removed: laws and regulations governing closure and remediation in a particular jurisdiction are subject to review at any time and may
−Removed: be amended to impose additional requirements and conditions which may cause our provisions for environmental liabilities to be
−Removed: underestimated and could materially affect our financial position or results of operations.
−Removed: nuclear incidents may have adverse effects on the nuclear and uranium industries.
−Removed: nuclear incident that occurred in Japan in March 2011 had significant and adverse effects on both the nuclear and uranium industries.
−Removed: If another nuclear incident were to occur, it may have further adverse effects for both industries.
−Removed: Public opinion of nuclear
−Removed: power as a source of electricity generation may be adversely affected, which may cause governments of certain countries to further
−Removed: increase regulation for the nuclear industry, reduce or abandon current reliance on nuclear power or reduce or abandon existing
−Removed: plans for nuclear power expansion.
−Removed: Any one of these occurrences has the potential to reduce current and/or future demand for nuclear
−Removed: power, resulting in lower demand for uranium and lower market prices for uranium, adversely affecting the Company’s operations
−Removed: and prospects.
−Removed: Furthermore, the growth of the nuclear and uranium industries is dependent on continuing and growing public support
−Removed: of nuclear power as a viable source of electricity generation.
−Removed: marketability of uranium concentrates will be affected by numerous factors beyond our control which may result in our inability
−Removed: to receive an adequate return on our invested capital.
−Removed: marketability of uranium concentrates extracted by us will be affected by numerous factors beyond our control.
−Removed: These factors include
−Removed: macroeconomic factors, fluctuations in the market price of uranium, governmental regulations, land tenure and use, regulations
−Removed: concerning the importing and exporting of uranium and environmental protection regulations.
−Removed: The future effects of these factors
−Removed: cannot be accurately predicted, but any one or a combination of these factors may result in our inability to receive an adequate
−Removed: return on our invested capital.
−Removed: only significant market for uranium is nuclear power plants world-wide, and there are a limited number of customers.
−Removed: are dependent on a limited number of electric utilities that buy uranium for nuclear power plants.
−Removed: Because of the limited market
−Removed: for uranium, a reduction in purchases of newly produced uranium by electric utilities for any reason (such as plant closings)
−Removed: would adversely affect the viability of our business.
−Removed: price of alternative energy sources affects the demand for and price of uranium.
+Added: Uranium exploration and pre-extraction programs and mining activities
+Added: are subject to stringent environmental protection laws and regulations at the federal, state, and local levels.
+Added: These laws and
+Added: regulations, which include permitting and reclamation requirements, regulate emissions, water storage and discharges and disposal
+Added: of hazardous wastes.
+Added: Uranium mining activities are also subject to laws and regulations which seek to maintain health and safety
+Added: standards by regulating the design and use of mining methods.
+Added: Various permits from governmental and regulatory bodies are required
+Added: for mining to commence or continue, and no assurance can be provided that required permits will be received in a timely manner.
+Added: Our compliance costs including the posting of surety bonds associated
+Added: with environmental protection laws and regulations and health and safety standards have been significant to date, and are expected
+Added: to increase in scale and scope as we expand our operations in the future.
+Added: Furthermore, environmental protection laws and regulations
+Added: may become more stringent in the future, and compliance with such changes may require capital outlays in excess of those anticipated
+Added: or cause substantial delays, which would have a material adverse effect on our operations.
+Added: To the best of our knowledge, our operations are in compliance,
+Added: in all material respects, with all applicable laws, regulations and standards.
+Added: We may not be able or may elect not to insure against
+Added: the risk of liability for violations of such laws, regulations and standards, due to high insurance premiums or other reasons.
+Added: Where coverage is available and not prohibitively expensive relative to the perceived risk, we will maintain insurance against
+Added: such risk, subject to exclusions and limitations.
+Added: However, we cannot provide any assurance that such insurance will continue to
+Added: be available at reasonable premiums or that such insurance will be adequate to cover any resulting liability.
+Added: We may not be able to obtain, maintain or amend rights,
+Added: authorizations, licenses, permits or consents required for our operations.
+Added: Our exploration and mining activities are dependent upon the
+Added: grant of appropriate rights, authorizations, licenses, permits and consents, as well as continuation and amendment of these rights,
+Added: authorizations, licenses, permits and consents already granted, which may be granted for a defined period of time, or may not be
+Added: granted or may be withdrawn or made subject to limitations.
+Added: There can be no assurance that all necessary rights, authorizations,
+Added: licenses, permits and consents will be granted to us, or that authorizations, licenses, permits and consents already granted will
+Added: not be withdrawn or made subject to limitations.
+Added: Closure and remediation costs for environmental liabilities
+Added: may exceed the provisions we have made.
+Added: Natural resource companies are required to close their operations
+Added: and rehabilitate the lands in accordance with a variety of environmental laws and regulations.
+Added: Estimates of the total ultimate
+Added: closure and rehabilitation costs for uranium operations are significant and based principally on current legal and regulatory requirements
+Added: and closure plans that may change materially.
+Added: Any underestimated or unanticipated rehabilitation costs could materially affect
+Added: our financial position, results of operations and cash flows.
+Added: Environmental liabilities are accrued when they become known, are
+Added: probable and can be reasonably estimated.
+Added: Whenever a previously unrecognized remediation liability becomes known, or a previously
+Added: estimated reclamation cost is increased, the amount of that liability and additional cost will be recorded at that time and could
+Added: materially reduce our consolidated net income in the related period.
+Added: The laws and regulations governing closure and remediation in
+Added: a particular jurisdiction are subject to review at any time and may be amended to impose additional requirements and conditions
+Added: which may cause our provisions for environmental liabilities to be underestimated and could materially affect our financial position
+Added: or results of operations.
+Added: Major nuclear incidents may have adverse effects on the
+Added: nuclear and uranium industries.
+Added: The nuclear incident that occurred in Japan in March 2011 had
+Added: significant and adverse effects on both the nuclear and uranium industries.
+Added: If another nuclear incident were to occur, it may have
+Added: further adverse effects for both industries.
+Added: Public opinion of nuclear power as a source of electricity generation may be adversely
+Added: affected, which may cause governments of certain countries to further increase regulation for the nuclear industry, reduce or abandon
+Added: current reliance on nuclear power or reduce or abandon existing plans for nuclear power expansion.
+Added: Any one of these occurrences
+Added: has the potential to reduce current and/or future demand for nuclear power, resulting in lower demand for uranium and lower market
+Added: prices for uranium, adversely affecting the Company’s operations and prospects.
+Added: Furthermore, the growth of the nuclear and
+Added: uranium industries is dependent on continuing and growing public support of nuclear power as a viable source of electricity generation.
+Added: The marketability of uranium concentrates will be affected
+Added: by numerous factors beyond our control which may result in our inability to receive an adequate return on our invested capital.
+Added: The marketability of uranium concentrates extracted by us will
+Added: be affected by numerous factors beyond our control.
+Added: These factors include macroeconomic factors, fluctuations in the market price
+Added: of uranium, governmental regulations, land tenure and use, regulations concerning the importing and exporting of uranium and environmental
+Added: protection regulations.
+Added: The future effects of these factors cannot be accurately predicted, but any one or a combination of these
+Added: factors may result in our inability to receive an adequate return on our invested capital.
+Added: The only significant market for uranium is nuclear power
+Added: plants world-wide, and there are a limited number of customers.
+Added: We are dependent on a limited number of electric utilities that
+Added: buy uranium for nuclear power plants.
+Added: Because of the limited market for uranium, a reduction in purchases of newly produced uranium
+Added: by electric utilities for any reason (such as plant closings) would adversely affect the viability of our business.
+Added: The price of alternative energy sources affects the demand
+Added: for and price of uranium.
The attractiveness of uranium as an alternative fuel to generate
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sources are developed, the demand for uranium could decrease, which may result in a decrease in the price of uranium.
−Removed: title to our mineral property interests may be challenged.
−Removed: we have taken reasonable measures to ensure proper title to our interests in mineral properties and other assets, there is no
−Removed: guarantee that the title to any of such interests will not be challenged.
−Removed: No assurance can be given that we will be able to secure
−Removed: the grant or the renewal of existing mineral rights and tenures on terms satisfactory to us, or that governments in the jurisdictions
−Removed: in which we operate will not revoke or significantly alter such rights or tenures or that such rights or tenures will not be challenged
−Removed: or impugned by third parties, including local governments, aboriginal peoples or other claimants.
−Removed: Our mineral properties may be
−Removed: subject to prior unregistered agreements, transfers or claims, and title may be affected by, among other things, undetected defects.
−Removed: A successful challenge to the precise area and location of our claims could result in us being unable to operate on our properties
−Removed: as permitted or being unable to enforce our rights with respect to our properties.
−Removed: to the nature of our business, we may be subject to legal proceedings which may divert management’s time and attention from
−Removed: our business and result in substantial damage awards.
−Removed: to the nature of our business, we may be subject to numerous regulatory investigations, securities claims, civil claims, lawsuits
−Removed: and other proceedings in the ordinary course of our business.
−Removed: The outcome of these lawsuits is uncertain and subject to inherent
−Removed: uncertainties, and the actual costs to be incurred will depend upon many unknown factors.
−Removed: We may be forced to expend significant
−Removed: resources in the defense of these suits, and we may not prevail.
−Removed: Defending against these and other lawsuits in the future may
−Removed: not only require us to incur significant legal fees and expenses, but may become time-consuming for us and detract from our ability
−Removed: to fully focus our internal resources on our business activities.
−Removed: The results of any legal proceeding cannot be predicted with
−Removed: certainty due to the uncertainty inherent in litigation, the difficulty of predicting decisions of regulators, judges and juries
−Removed: and the possibility that decisions may be reversed on appeal.
−Removed: There can be no assurances that these matters will not have a material
−Removed: adverse effect on our business, financial position or operating results.
−Removed: from better-capitalized companies affects prices and our ability to acquire both properties and personnel.
−Removed: is global competition for uranium properties, capital, customers and the employment and retention of qualified personnel.
−Removed: production and marketing of uranium, there are a number of producing entities, some of which are government controlled and all
−Removed: of which are significantly larger and better capitalized than we are.
−Removed: Many of these organizations also have substantially greater
−Removed: financial, technical, manufacturing and distribution resources than we have.
−Removed: future uranium production will also compete with uranium recovered from the de-enrichment of highly enriched uranium obtained
−Removed: from the dismantling of United States and Russian nuclear weapons and imports to the United States of uranium from the former
−Removed: Soviet Union and from the sale of uranium inventory held by the United States Department of Energy.
−Removed: In addition, there are numerous
−Removed: entities in the market that compete with us for properties and are attempting to become licensed to operate ISR and/or underground
−Removed: mining facilities.
−Removed: If we are unable to successfully compete for properties, capital, customers or employees or with alternative
−Removed: uranium sources, it could have a materially adverse effect on our results of operations.
−Removed: we have limited capital, inherent mining risks pose a significant threat to us compared with our larger competitors.
−Removed: we have limited capital we may be unable to withstand significant losses that can result from inherent risks associated with mining,
−Removed: including environmental hazards, industrial accidents, flooding, earthquake, interruptions due to weather conditions and other
−Removed: acts of nature which larger competitors could withstand.
−Removed: Such risks could result in damage to or destruction of our infrastructure
−Removed: and production facilities, as well as to adjacent properties, personal injury, environmental damage and processing and production
−Removed: delays, causing monetary losses and possible legal liability.
−Removed: Our business could be harmed if we lose the services of our key
−Removed: business and mineral exploration programs depend upon our ability to employ the services of geologists, engineers and other experts.
−Removed: In operating our business and in order to continue our programs, we compete for the services of professionals with other mineral
−Removed: exploration companies and businesses.
−Removed: In addition, several entities have expressed an interest in hiring certain of our employees.
−Removed: Our ability to maintain and expand our business and continue our exploration programs may be impaired if we are unable to continue
−Removed: to employ or engage those parties currently providing services and expertise to us or identify and engage other qualified personnel
−Removed: to do so in their place.
−Removed: To retain key employees, we may face increased compensation costs, including potential new stock incentive
−Removed: grants and there can be no assurance that the incentive measures we implement will be successful in helping us retain our key
−Removed: we fail to maintain proper and effective internal controls, our ability to produce accurate and timely consolidated financial
−Removed: statements could be impaired, which could harm our operating results, our ability to operate our business and investors’
−Removed: that we have adequate internal financial and accounting controls and procedures in place so that we can produce accurate consolidated
−Removed: financial statements on a timely basis is a costly and time-consuming effort that will need to be evaluated frequently.
−Removed: 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act requires public companies to conduct an annual review and evaluation of their internal controls.
−Removed: The Company is in the process of reviewing its internal control over financial reporting in the interest of complying with Section
−Removed: 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
−Removed: Our failure to maintain the effectiveness of our internal controls in accordance with the requirements
−Removed: of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act could have a material adverse effect on our business.
−Removed: We could lose investor confidence in the accuracy
−Removed: and completeness of our financial reports, which could have an adverse effect on the price of our common shares.
−Removed: Company may be subject to certain tax consequences in its business, which may increase the cost of doing business.
−Removed: Company may not be able to structure its acquisitions to result in tax-free treatment for the companies or their stockholders,
−Removed: which could deter third parties from entering into certain business combinations with the Company or result in being taxed on
−Removed: consideration received in a transaction.
−Removed: COVID-19 coronavirus could adversely impact our business, including our mine development plans.
−Removed: December 2019, a novel strain of coronavirus, COVID-19, was reported to have surfaced in Wuhan, China.
−Removed: Since then, the COVID-19
−Removed: coronavirus has spread to multiple countries, including the United States.
−Removed: As the COVID-19 coronavirus continues to spread
−Removed: in the United States, we may experience disruptions that could severely impact our business, including:
−Removed: of key mining activities due to limitations on travel, gathering, or business operations imposed or recommended by federal or
−Removed: state governments, employers and others.
−Removed: ● limitations
−Removed: in employee resources, including because of sickness of employees or their families or
−Removed: the desire of employees to avoid contact with large groups of people.
−Removed: delays in financial reporting and filings due to the impact of mitigation
−Removed: efforts on staff and service providers
−Removed: in local regulations as part of a response to the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak which may require us to change the ways in which
−Removed: mining is conducted, which may result in unexpected costs.
−Removed: delays in necessary interactions
−Removed: with regulators and other important agencies and contractors due to limitations in employee resources or new procedures due to
−Removed: limitations imposed by COVID-19.
+Added: The title to our mineral property interests may be challenged.
+Added: Although we have taken reasonable measures to ensure proper
+Added: title to our interests in mineral properties and other assets, there is no guarantee that the title to any of such interests will
+Added: not be challenged.
+Added: No assurance can be given that we will be able to secure the grant or the renewal of existing mineral rights
+Added: and tenures on terms satisfactory to us, or that governments in the jurisdictions in which we operate will not revoke or significantly
+Added: alter such rights or tenures or that such rights or tenures will not be challenged or impugned by third parties, including local
+Added: governments, aboriginal peoples or other claimants.
+Added: Our mineral properties may be subject to prior unregistered agreements, transfers
+Added: or claims, and title may be affected by, among other things, undetected defects.
+Added: A successful challenge to the precise area and
+Added: location of our claims could result in us being unable to operate on our properties as permitted or being unable to enforce our
+Added: rights with respect to our properties.
+Added: Due to the nature of our business, we may be subject to
+Added: legal proceedings which may divert management’s time and attention from our business and result in substantial damage awards.
+Added: Due to the nature of our business, we may be subject to numerous
+Added: regulatory investigations, securities claims, civil claims, lawsuits and other proceedings in the ordinary course of our business.
+Added: The outcome of these lawsuits is uncertain and subject to inherent uncertainties, and the actual costs to be incurred will depend
+Added: upon many unknown factors.
+Added: We may be forced to expend significant resources in the defense of these suits, and we may not prevail.
+Added: Defending against these and other lawsuits in the future may not only require us to incur significant legal fees and expenses,
+Added: but may become time-consuming for us and detract from our ability to fully focus our internal resources on our business activities.
+Added: The results of any legal proceeding cannot be predicted with certainty due to the uncertainty inherent in litigation, the difficulty
+Added: of predicting decisions of regulators, judges and juries and the possibility that decisions may be reversed on appeal.
+Added: be no assurances that these matters will not have a material adverse effect on our business, financial position or operating results.
+Added: Competition from better-capitalized companies affects
+Added: prices and our ability to acquire both properties and personnel.
+Added: There is global competition for uranium properties, capital,
+Added: customers and the employment and retention of qualified personnel.
+Added: In the production and marketing of uranium, there are a number
+Added: of producing entities, some of which are government controlled and all of which are significantly larger and better capitalized
+Added: Many of these organizations also have substantially greater financial, technical, manufacturing and distribution resources
+Added: than we have.
+Added: Our future uranium production will also compete with uranium
+Added: recovered from the de-enrichment of highly enriched uranium obtained from the dismantling of United States and Russian nuclear
+Added: weapons and imports to the United States of uranium from the former Soviet Union and from the sale of uranium inventory held by
+Added: the United States Department of Energy.
+Added: In addition, there are numerous entities in the market that compete with us for properties
+Added: and are attempting to become licensed to operate ISR and/or underground mining facilities.
+Added: If we are unable to successfully compete
+Added: for properties, capital, customers or employees or with alternative uranium sources, it could have a materially adverse effect
+Added: on our results of operations.
+Added: Because we have limited capital, inherent mining risks
+Added: pose a significant threat to us compared with our larger competitors.
+Added: Because we have limited capital we may be unable to withstand
+Added: significant losses that can result from inherent risks associated with mining, including environmental hazards, industrial accidents,
+Added: flooding, earthquake, interruptions due to weather conditions and other acts of nature which larger competitors could withstand.
+Added: Such risks could result in damage to or destruction of our infrastructure and production facilities, as well as to adjacent properties,
+Added: personal injury, environmental damage and processing and production delays, causing monetary losses and possible legal liability.
+Added: Our business could be harmed if we lose the services of our key personnel.
+Added: Our business and mineral exploration programs depend upon our
+Added: ability to employ the services of geologists, engineers and other experts.
+Added: In operating our business and in order to continue our
+Added: programs, we compete for the services of professionals with other mineral exploration companies and businesses.
+Added: In addition, several
+Added: entities have expressed an interest in hiring certain of our employees.
+Added: Our ability to maintain and expand our business and continue
+Added: our exploration programs may be impaired if we are unable to continue to employ or engage those parties currently providing services
+Added: and expertise to us or identify and engage other qualified personnel to do so in their place.
+Added: To retain key employees, we may face
+Added: increased compensation costs, including potential new stock incentive grants and there can be no assurance that the incentive measures
+Added: we implement will be successful in helping us retain our key personnel.
+Added: If we fail to maintain proper and effective internal controls,
+Added: our ability to produce accurate and timely consolidated financial statements could be impaired, which could harm our operating
+Added: results, our ability to operate our business and investors’
+Added: Ensuring that we have adequate internal financial and accounting
+Added: controls and procedures in place so that we can produce accurate consolidated financial statements on a timely basis is a costly
+Added: and time-consuming effort that will need to be evaluated frequently.
+Added: Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act requires public companies
+Added: to conduct an annual review and evaluation of their internal controls.
+Added: The Company is in the process of reviewing its internal
+Added: control over financial reporting in the interest of complying with Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
+Added: Our failure to maintain
+Added: the effectiveness of our internal controls in accordance with the requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act could have a material
+Added: adverse effect on our business.
+Added: We could lose investor confidence in the accuracy and completeness of our financial reports, which
+Added: could have an adverse effect on the price of our common shares.
+Added: The Company may be subject to certain tax consequences
+Added: in its business, which may increase the cost of doing business.
+Added: The Company may not be able to structure its acquisitions to
+Added: result in tax-free treatment for the companies or their stockholders, which could deter third parties from entering into certain
+Added: business combinations with the Company or result in being taxed on consideration received in a transaction.
+Added: The COVID-19 coronavirus could adversely impact our business,
+Added: including our mine development plans.
+Added: In December 2019, a novel strain of coronavirus, COVID-19, was
+Added: reported to have surfaced in Wuhan, China.
+Added: Since then, the COVID-19 coronavirus has spread to multiple countries, including the
+Added: United States.
+Added: As the COVID-19 coronavirus continues to spread in the United States, we may experience disruptions that could
+Added: severely impact our business, including:
+Added: ● interruption of key mining activities due to limitations on travel, gathering, or business operations
+Added: imposed or recommended by federal or state governments, employers and others.
+Added: ● limitations in employee resources, including because of sickness of employees or their families
+Added: or the desire of employees to avoid contact with large groups of people.
+Added: ● delays in financial reporting and filings due to the impact of mitigation efforts on staff and
+Added: service providers
+Added: ● changes in local regulations as part of a response to the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak which may
+Added: require us to change the ways in which mining is conducted, which may result in unexpected costs.
+Added: ● delays in necessary interactions with regulators and other important agencies and contractors due
+Added: to limitations in employee resources or new procedures due to limitations imposed by COVID-19.
● reduction in the global demand for uranium and vanadium due to reduced production levels in the
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as the COVID-19 crisis is ongoing and the dynamic of the mine closure/spot price relationship may change.
−Removed: global outbreak of the COVID-19 coronavirus continues to rapidly evolve.
−Removed: The extent to which the COVID-19 coronavirus may impact
−Removed: our business will depend on future developments, which are highly uncertain and cannot be predicted with confidence, such as the
−Removed: ultimate geographic spread of the disease, the duration of the outbreak, travel restrictions and social distancing in the United
−Removed: States and other countries, business closures or business disruptions and the effectiveness of actions taken in the United States
−Removed: and other countries to contain and treat the disease.
−Removed: Related to Our Stock
−Removed: we are unable to raise additional capital, our business may fail and stockholders may lose their entire investment.
−Removed: had $2,084,782 and $909,865 in cash at December 31, 2019 and December 31, 2018, respectively.
−Removed: There can be no assurance that we
−Removed: will be able to obtain additional capital after we exhaust our current cash.
−Removed: To the extent that we raise additional capital through
−Removed: the sale of equity or convertible debt securities, the issuance of such securities would likely result in substantial dilution
−Removed: to existing stockholders.
−Removed: If we borrow money, we will have to pay interest and may also have to agree to restrictions that limit
−Removed: our operating flexibility.
−Removed: additional capital is not available in sufficient amounts or on a timely basis, we will experience liquidity problems, and we
−Removed: could face the need to significantly curtail current operations, change our planned business strategies and pursue other remedial
−Removed: Any curtailment of business operations would have a material negative effect on operating results, the value of our
−Removed: outstanding stock is likely to fall, and our business may fail, causing our stockholders to lose their entire investment.
−Removed: could be diluted if we were to use common shares to raise capital.
−Removed: may need to seek additional capital to carry our business plan.
−Removed: This financing could involve one or more types of securities including
−Removed: common shares, convertible debt or warrants to acquire common shares.
−Removed: These securities could be issued at or below the then prevailing
−Removed: market price for our common shares.
−Removed: Any issuance of additional common shares could be dilutive to existing stockholders and could
−Removed: adversely affect the market price of our common shares.
−Removed: Company’s common shares may be traded infrequently and in low volumes, which may negatively affect the ability to sell
−Removed: Company’s common shares may trade infrequently and in low volumes on both the CSE and OTCQX, meaning that the number of
−Removed: persons interested in purchasing our common shares at or near bid prices at any given time may be relatively small or non-existent.
−Removed: This situation may be attributable to a number of factors, including the fact that we are a small company that is relatively unknown
−Removed: to stock analysts, stock brokers, institutional investors and others in the investment community who can generate or influence
−Removed: sales volume, and that even if we came to the attention of such institutionally oriented persons, they tend to be risk-averse
−Removed: in this environment and would be reluctant to follow an early stage company such as ours or purchase or recommend the purchase
−Removed: of our shares until such time as we became more advanced and viable.
−Removed: As a consequence, there may be periods of several days or
−Removed: more when trading activity in the Company’s shares is minimal or non-existent, as compared to a seasoned issuer which has
−Removed: a large and steady volume of trading activity that will generally support continuous sales without an adverse effect on share
−Removed: The Company cannot give you any assurance that a broader or more active public trading market for our common shares
−Removed: will develop or be sustained.
−Removed: Due to these conditions, we can give you no assurance that you will be able to sell your shares
−Removed: at or near bid prices or at all if you need money or otherwise desire to liquidate your shares.
−Removed: Further, institutional and other
−Removed: investors may have investment guidelines that restrict or prohibit investing in securities traded in the over-the-counter market.
−Removed: These factors may have an adverse impact on the trading and price of our securities, and could result in the loss by investors
−Removed: of all or part of their investment.
−Removed: Company’s common share price may be volatile.
−Removed: future trading price of the Company’s common shares may be volatile and may fluctuate substantially.
−Removed: The price of the common
−Removed: shares may be higher or lower than the price you pay for your shares, depending on many factors, some of which are beyond the
−Removed: Company’s control and may not be directly related to its operating performance.
+Added: The global outbreak of the COVID-19 coronavirus continues to
+Added: rapidly evolve.
+Added: The extent to which the COVID-19 coronavirus may impact our business will depend on future developments, which
+Added: are highly uncertain and cannot be predicted with confidence, such as the ultimate geographic spread of the disease, the duration
+Added: of the outbreak, travel restrictions and social distancing in the United States and other countries, business closures or business
+Added: disruptions and the effectiveness of actions taken in the United States and other countries to contain and treat the disease.
+Added: Risks Related to Our Stock
+Added: If we are unable to raise additional capital, our business
+Added: may fail and stockholders may lose their entire investment.
+Added: We had $565,250 and $2,084,782 in cash at December 31, 2020
+Added: and December 31, 2019, respectively.
+Added: There can be no assurance that we will be able to obtain additional capital after we exhaust
+Added: our current cash.
+Added: To the extent that we raise additional capital through the sale of equity or convertible debt securities, the
+Added: issuance of such securities would likely result in substantial dilution to existing stockholders.
+Added: If we borrow money, we will have
+Added: to pay interest and may also have to agree to restrictions that limit our operating flexibility.
+Added: If additional capital is not available in sufficient amounts
+Added: or on a timely basis, we will experience liquidity problems, and we could face the need to significantly curtail current operations,
+Added: change our planned business strategies and pursue other remedial measures.
+Added: Any curtailment of business operations would have a
+Added: material negative effect on operating results, the value of our outstanding stock is likely to fall, and our business may fail,
+Added: causing our stockholders to lose their entire investment.
+Added: Shareholders could be diluted if we were to use common
+Added: shares to raise capital.
+Added: We may need to seek additional capital to carry our business
+Added: This financing could involve one or more types of securities including common shares, convertible debt or warrants to acquire
+Added: common shares.
+Added: These securities could be issued at or below the then prevailing market price for our common shares.
+Added: of additional common shares could be dilutive to existing stockholders and could adversely affect the market price of our common
+Added: The Company’s common shares may be traded infrequently
+Added: and in low volumes, which may negatively affect the ability to sell shares.
+Added: The Company’s common shares may trade infrequently and
+Added: in low volumes on both the CSE and OTCQX, meaning that the number of persons interested in purchasing our common shares at or near
+Added: bid prices at any given time may be relatively small or non-existent.
+Added: This situation may be attributable to a number of factors,
+Added: including the fact that we are a small company that is relatively unknown to stock analysts, stock brokers, institutional investors
+Added: and others in the investment community who can generate or influence sales volume, and that even if we came to the attention of
+Added: such institutionally oriented persons, they tend to be risk-averse in this environment and would be reluctant to follow an early
+Added: stage company such as ours or purchase or recommend the purchase of our shares until such time as we became more advanced and viable.
+Added: As a consequence, there may be periods of several days or more when trading activity in the Company’s shares is minimal or
+Added: non-existent, as compared to a seasoned issuer which has a large and steady volume of trading activity that will generally support
+Added: continuous sales without an adverse effect on share price.
+Added: The Company cannot give you any assurance that a broader or more
+Added: active public trading market for our common shares will develop or be sustained.
+Added: Due to these conditions, we can give you
+Added: no assurance that you will be able to sell your shares at or near bid prices or at all if you need money or otherwise desire to
+Added: liquidate your shares.
+Added: Further, institutional and other investors may have investment guidelines that restrict or prohibit
+Added: investing in securities traded in the over-the-counter market.
+Added: These factors may have an adverse impact on the trading and
+Added: price of our securities, and could result in the loss by investors of all or part of their investment.
+Added: The Company’s common share price may be volatile.
+Added: The future trading price of the Company’s common shares
+Added: may be volatile and may fluctuate substantially.
+Added: The price of the common shares may be higher or lower than the price you pay for
+Added: your shares, depending on many factors, some of which are beyond the Company’s control and may not be directly related to
+Added: its operating performance.
These factors include the following:
−Removed: and volume fluctuations in the overall stock market from time to time;
−Removed: ● significant
−Removed: volatility in the market price and trading volume of securities of mineral exploration
−Removed: and mining companies;
−Removed: in government regulations or regulatory policies with respect to mineral exploration
−Removed: and mining companies or in the status of our regulatory approvals;
−Removed: or anticipated changes in earnings or fluctuations in operating results;
−Removed: ● announcements
−Removed: by us or by our competitors of acquisitions or of new products, commercial relationships
−Removed: or capital commitments;
−Removed: to our operations or those of other contractors critical to our operations;
−Removed: emergence of new competitors;
−Removed: ● commencement
−Removed: of, or our involvement in, litigation;
−Removed: issuances of our common shares or the incurrence of additional debt;
−Removed: of new or different accounting standards;
−Removed: economic conditions and trends and slow or negative growth of related markets;
−Removed: of a major funding source;
−Removed: of key personnel.
−Removed: to the continued potential volatility of its stock price, the Company may be the target of securities litigation in the future.
−Removed: Securities litigation could result in substantial costs and divert management’s attention and resources from the business.
−Removed: sale of shares by our directors and officers may adversely affect the market price for our shares.
−Removed: of significant amounts of common shares held by our officers and directors, or the prospect of these sales, could adversely affect
−Removed: the market price of our common shares.
−Removed: Management’s stock ownership may discourage a potential acquirer from making a tender
−Removed: offer or otherwise attempting to obtain control of us, which in turn could reduce our stock price or prevent our stockholders
−Removed: from realizing a premium over our stock price.
−Removed: have never paid or declared any dividends on our common shares.
−Removed: have never paid or declared any dividends on our common shares or preferred stock.
−Removed: Likewise, we do not anticipate paying, in the
−Removed: near future, dividends or distributions on our common shares.
−Removed: Any future dividends on common shares will be declared at the discretion
−Removed: of our board of directors and will depend, among other things, on our earnings, our financial requirements for future operations
−Removed: and growth, and other facts as we may then deem appropriate.
−Removed: Chief Executive Officer is one of our largest stockholders, and as a result he can exert control over us and have actual or potential
−Removed: interests that may diverge from yours.
−Removed: Glasier, our CEO, beneficially owns, in the aggregate, about 17.4% of our common shares.
+Added: price and volume fluctuations in the overall stock market from time to time;
+Added: significant volatility in the market price and trading volume of securities of mineral exploration and mining companies;
+Added: changes in government regulations or regulatory policies with respect to mineral exploration and mining companies or in the status of our regulatory approvals;
+Added: actual or anticipated changes in earnings or fluctuations in operating results;
+Added: announcements by us or by our competitors of acquisitions or of new products, commercial relationships or capital commitments;
+Added: disruption to our operations or those of other contractors critical to our operations;
+Added: the emergence of new competitors;
+Added: commencement of, or our involvement in, litigation;
+Added: dilutive issuances of our common shares or the incurrence of additional debt;
+Added: adoption of new or different accounting standards;
+Added: general economic conditions and trends and slow or negative growth of related markets;
+Added: loss of a major funding source;
+Added: departures of key personnel.
+Added: Due to the continued potential volatility of its stock price,
+Added: the Company may be the target of securities litigation in the future.
+Added: Securities litigation could result in substantial costs and
+Added: divert management’s attention and resources from the business.
+Added: The sale of shares by our directors and officers may adversely
+Added: affect the market price for our shares.
+Added: Sales of significant amounts of common shares held by our officers
+Added: and directors, or the prospect of these sales, could adversely affect the market price of our common shares.
+Added: Management’s
+Added: stock ownership may discourage a potential acquirer from making a tender offer or otherwise attempting to obtain control of us,
+Added: which in turn could reduce our stock price or prevent our stockholders from realizing a premium over our stock price.
+Added: We have never paid or declared any dividends on our common
+Added: We have never paid or declared any dividends on our common shares
+Added: or preferred stock.
+Added: Likewise, we do not anticipate paying, in the near future, dividends or distributions on our common shares.
+Added: Any future dividends on common shares will be declared at the discretion of our board of directors and will depend, among other
+Added: things, on our earnings, our financial requirements for future operations and growth, and other facts as we may then deem appropriate.
+Added: Our Chief Executive Officer is one of our largest stockholders,
+Added: and as a result he can exert control over us and have actual or potential interests that may diverge from yours.
+Added: George Glasier, our CEO, beneficially owns, in the aggregate, about
+Added: 14.2% of our common shares.
As a result, Mr.
−Removed: Glasier might be able
−Removed: to influence many matters requiring stockholder approval, including the election of directors and approval of mergers and other
−Removed: significant corporate transactions.
−Removed: This concentration of ownership may have the effect of delaying, preventing or deterring a
−Removed: change in control, and could deprive our stockholders of an opportunity to receive a premium for their common shares as part of
−Removed: a sale of our company and may affect the market price of our stock.
−Removed: Glasier may have interests that diverge from those of other holders of our common shares.
+Added: Glasier might be able to influence many matters requiring stockholder approval, including
+Added: the election of directors and approval of mergers and other significant corporate transactions.
+Added: This concentration of ownership may have
+Added: the effect of delaying, preventing or deterring a change in control, and could deprive our stockholders of an opportunity to receive a
+Added: premium for their common shares as part of a sale of our company and may affect the market price of our stock.
+Added: Furthermore, Mr.
+Added: Glasier may have interests that diverge from
+Added: those of other holders of our common shares.
As a result, Mr.
−Removed: Glasier may vote
−Removed: the shares he owns or controls or otherwise cause us to take actions that may conflict with your best interests as a stockholder,
−Removed: which could adversely affect our results of operations and the trading price of our common shares.
+Added: Glasier may vote the shares he owns or controls or otherwise cause
+Added: us to take actions that may conflict with your best interests as a stockholder, which could adversely affect our results of operations
+Added: and the trading price of our common shares.
Through this control, Mr.
−Removed: can control our management, affairs and all matters requiring stockholder approval, including the approval of significant corporate
−Removed: transactions, a sale of our company, decisions about our capital structure and the composition of our Board of Directors.
−Removed: UNRESOLVED STAFF COMMENTS
+Added: Glasier can control our management, affairs and all matters
+Added: requiring stockholder approval, including the approval of significant corporate transactions, a sale of our company, decisions
+Added: about our capital structure and the composition of our Board of Directors.
+Added: UNRESOLVED STAFF
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