CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES
−Removed: of Disclosure Controls and Procedures
−Removed: As of the end of the period covered by this report, our principal
−Removed: executive officer and principal financial officer evaluated the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures (as defined
−Removed: in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”)).
−Removed: on their evaluation of our disclosure controls and procedures, our principal executive officer and principal financial officer,
−Removed: with the participation of the Company’s management, concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures were not effective
−Removed: as of December 31, 2019, to ensure that information required to be disclosed by the Company in the reports that we file or submit
−Removed: under the Exchange Act is (a) recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the SEC’s
−Removed: rules and forms and (b) accumulated and communicated to management, including our principal executive officer and principal financial
−Removed: officer, as appropriate to allow for timely decisions regarding required disclosure.
−Removed: of Material Weakness
−Removed: has concluded that the Company’s disclosure controls and procedures were not effective as of December 31, 2019, due to the
−Removed: lack of segregation of duties and the failure to report disclosures on a timely basis.
−Removed: of Material Weakness
−Removed: has developed a plan for the Company to design a set of control procedures and the related required documentation thereof in order
−Removed: to address this material weakness.
−Removed: Until the Company has the proper staff in place, it likely will not be able to remediate its
−Removed: material weakness.
−Removed: Management’s
−Removed: Annual Report on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting
−Removed: is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control over financial reporting.
−Removed: Internal control over financial
−Removed: reporting is a process designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation
−Removed: of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles.
−Removed: A company’s internal
−Removed: control over financial reporting includes those policies and procedures that (i) pertain to the maintenance of records that, in
−Removed: reasonable detail, accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of the assets of the company;
−Removed: reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in accordance with
−Removed: generally accepted accounting principles, and that receipts and expenditures of the company are being made only in accordance
−Removed: with authorizations of management and directors of the company;
−Removed: and (iii) provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or
−Removed: timely detection of unauthorized acquisition, use or disposition of the company’s assets that could have a material effect
−Removed: on the financial statements.
−Removed: annual report does not include an attestation report of our independent registered public accounting firm regarding internal control
−Removed: over financial reporting.
−Removed: Management’s report was not subject to attestation by our independent registered public accounting
−Removed: firm pursuant to a provision under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act that grants a permanent exemption
−Removed: for non-accelerated filers from complying with Section 404(b) of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
−Removed: in Internal Control over Financial Reporting
−Removed: have been no other changes in our internal control over financial reporting identified in connection with the evaluation required
−Removed: by paragraph (d) of Rules 13a-15 or 15d-15 under the Exchange Act that occurred during the most recent fiscal quarter that have
−Removed: materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.
+Added: Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures
+Added: As of the end of the period covered by this report, our principal executive
+Added: officer and principal financial officer evaluated the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rules 13a-15(e)
+Added: and 15d-15(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”)).
+Added: Based on their evaluation of our
+Added: disclosure controls and procedures, our principal executive officer and principal financial officer concluded that our disclosure controls
+Added: and procedures were not effective as of December 31, 2020, to ensure that information required to be disclosed by the Company in the reports
+Added: that we file or submit under the Exchange Act is (a) recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in
+Added: the SEC’s rules and forms and (b) accumulated and communicated to management, including our principal executive officer and principal
+Added: financial officer, as appropriate to allow for timely decisions regarding required disclosure.
+Added: Description of Material Weakness
+Added: Management has concluded that the Company’s
+Added: disclosure controls and procedures were not effective as of December 31, 2020, due to the lack of segregation of duties and the
+Added: failure to report disclosures on a timely basis.
+Added: Remediation of Material Weakness
+Added: Management has developed a plan and related
+Added: timeline for the Company to design a set of control procedures and the related required documentation thereof in order to address
+Added: this material weakness.
+Added: However, its implementation was delayed as a decline in commodity prices caused the Company to pursue aggressive
+Added: cost cutting and de-staffing which has increasingly concentrated duties on the remaining staff.
+Added: Until the Company has the proper
+Added: staff in place, it likely will not be able to remediate its material weaknesses.
+Added: Management’s Annual Report on Internal Control Over
+Added: Financial Reporting
+Added: Management is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate
+Added: internal control over financial reporting.
+Added: Internal control over financial reporting is a process designed to provide reasonable
+Added: assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in
+Added: accordance with generally accepted accounting principles.
+Added: A company’s internal control over financial reporting includes
+Added: those policies and procedures that (i) pertain to the maintenance of records that, in reasonable detail, accurately and fairly
+Added: reflect the transactions and dispositions of the assets of the company;
+Added: (ii) provide reasonable assurance that transactions are
+Added: recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles,
+Added: and that receipts and expenditures of the company are being made only in accordance with authorizations of management and directors
+Added: of the company;
+Added: and (iii) provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition, use
+Added: or disposition of the company’s assets that could have a material effect on the financial statements.
+Added: This annual report does not include an attestation report of
+Added: our independent registered public accounting firm regarding internal control over financial reporting.
+Added: Management’s report
+Added: was not subject to attestation by our independent registered public accounting firm pursuant to a provision under the Dodd-Frank
+Added: Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act that grants a permanent exemption for non-accelerated filers from complying with
+Added: Section 404(b) of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
+Added: Changes in Internal Control over Financial Reporting
+Added: There have been no changes in our internal control over financial reporting
+Added: identified in connection with the evaluation required by paragraph (d) of Rules 13a-15 or 15d-15 under the Exchange Act that occurred
+Added: during the Company’s fourth fiscal quarter that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal
+Added: control over financial reporting.
OTHER INFORMATION
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George Glasier
−Removed: President, Chief Executive
−Removed: Officer and Director
+Added: President, Chief Executive Officer and Director
Chief Financial Officer
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Executive Officers
−Removed: George Glasier, J.D ., our Director, President
−Removed: and Chief Executive Officer, founded Western Uranium & Vanadium Corp.
+Added: George Glasier, J.D ., our Director, President and Chief
+Added: Executive Officer, founded Western Uranium & Vanadium Corp.
He has over thirty years’
−Removed: in the uranium industry in the United States, with extensive experience in sales and marketing;
−Removed: project development and permitting
−Removed: uranium processing facilities.
+Added: experience in the uranium industry
+Added: in the United States, with extensive experience in sales and marketing;
+Added: project development and permitting uranium processing facilities.
He is the founder of Energy Fuels Inc.
−Removed: (Volcanic Metals Exploration Inc.) and served as its Chief
−Removed: Executive Officer and President from January 2006 to March 2010.
−Removed: He was responsible for assembling a first-class management team,
−Removed: acquiring a portfolio of uranium projects, and leading the successful permitting process that culminated in the licensing of the
−Removed: Piñon Ridge uranium mill;
−Removed: planned for construction in Western Montrose County, Colorado.
−Removed: He began his career in the uranium
−Removed: industry in the late 1970’s with Energy Fuels Nuclear, which built and operated the White Mesa Mill near Blanding, Utah,
−Removed: becoming the largest uranium producer in the United States.
+Added: (Volcanic Metals Exploration Inc.) and served as its Chief Executive Officer and President from
+Added: January 2006 to March 2010.
+Added: He was responsible for assembling a first-class management team, acquiring a portfolio of uranium projects,
+Added: and leading the successful permitting process that culminated in the licensing of the Piñon Ridge uranium mill;
+Added: planned for construction
+Added: in Western Montrose County, Colorado.
+Added: He began his career in the uranium industry in the late 1970’s with Energy Fuels Nuclear,
+Added: which built and operated the White Mesa Mill near Blanding, Utah, becoming the largest uranium producer in the United States.
Robert Klein is Chief Financial Officer of Western
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Finance and had leading roles in reporting, corporate transactions, and Western’s public listings on the CSE and OTCQX.
−Removed: Klein was formerly the Chief Operating Officer of Cross River Group and began his association with Western on an Operating
−Removed: Partner basis after the formation of Western’s predecessor company, Pinon Ridge Mining, LLC.
+Added: Klein was formerly the Chief Operating Officer of Cross River Group and began his association with Western on an Operating Partner
+Added: basis after the formation of Western’s predecessor company, Pinon Ridge Mining, LLC.
Previously, Mr.
−Removed: Managing Director at Analytical Research, an alternative investments research firm.
−Removed: He has a broad financial background derived
−Removed: from senior operating and investment roles with asset managers and through Exeter Analytics, a consulting firm he founded.
−Removed: Klein was formerly the CFO of Five Points Capital, a hedge fund spin-out from Soros Fund Management.
−Removed: After having begun his career
−Removed: in public accounting, Mr.
+Added: Klein was a Managing Director
+Added: at Analytical Research, an alternative investments research firm.
+Added: He has a broad financial background derived from senior operating
+Added: and investment roles with asset managers and through Exeter Analytics, a consulting firm he founded.
+Added: Klein was formerly the
+Added: CFO of Five Points Capital, a hedge fund spin-out from Soros Fund Management.
+Added: After having begun his career in public accounting,
Klein worked for Lehman Brothers, an investment bank, and William E.
−Removed: Simon & Sons, a merchant bank
−Removed: and private investment firm.
+Added: Simon & Sons, a merchant bank and private investment
Rob holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation, received an M.B.A.
from the Robert H.
−Removed: School of Business at the University of Maryland and a B.S.
+Added: Smith School of Business at
+Added: the University of Maryland and a B.S.
in Accounting from George Mason University.
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and Chief Financial Officer of North Sound Capital LLC, a long/short equity hedge fund manager.
−Removed: North Sound launched with $15
−Removed: million in July of 2001 and reached $3 billion AUM and 65 employees within 5 years.
−Removed: Wilder was responsible for building and
−Removed: overseeing all aspects of the business ex-research.
−Removed: Wilder also co-founded Columbus Avenue Consulting, an independent
−Removed: fund administration business with 90 clients and $7 billion in AUA when it was subsequently sold in 2012.
−Removed: Wilder’s prior
−Removed: career included heading operations for C.
−Removed: Blair Asset Management, a $500 million long/short equity hedge fund, and serving as
−Removed: a Manager in audit of Deloitte & Touche (in their Cayman Islands and Toronto practices).
−Removed: Wilder received the Chartered
−Removed: Accountant (Canada) designation, holds the CFA designation, and received an MBA from the University of Toronto and a BA from the
−Removed: University of Western Ontario.
+Added: North Sound launched with $15 million
+Added: in July of 2001 and reached $3 billion AUM and 65 employees within 5 years.
+Added: Wilder was responsible for building and overseeing
+Added: all aspects of the business ex-research.
+Added: Wilder also co-founded Columbus Avenue Consulting, an independent fund administration
+Added: business with 90 clients and $7 billion in AUA when it was subsequently sold in 2012.
+Added: Wilder’s prior career included
+Added: heading operations for C.
+Added: Blair Asset Management, a $500 million long/short equity hedge fund, and serving as a Manager in audit
+Added: of Deloitte & Touche (in their Cayman Islands and Toronto practices).
+Added: Wilder received the Chartered Accountant (Canada)
+Added: designation, holds the CFA designation, and received an MBA from the University of Toronto and a BA from the University of Western
Bryan Murphy is Founder
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with any violation of Federal or State securities laws or Federal commodities laws, (2) engaging in any type of business practice,
−Removed: or (3) acting as a futures commission merchant, introducing broker, commodity trading advisor, commodity pool operator, floor
−Removed: broker, leverage transaction merchant, any other person regulated by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission or an associated
−Removed: person of any of the foregoing, or as an investment adviser, underwriter, broker or dealer in securities, or as an affiliated
−Removed: person, director or employee of an investment company, bank, savings and loan association or insurance company, or engaging in
−Removed: or continuing any conduct or practice in connection with such activity.
+Added: or (3) acting as a futures commission merchant, introducing broker, commodity trading advisor, commodity pool operator, floor broker,
+Added: leverage transaction merchant, any other person regulated by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission or an associated person of
+Added: any of the foregoing, or as an investment adviser, underwriter, broker or dealer in securities, or as an affiliated person, director
+Added: or employee of an investment company, bank, savings and loan association or insurance company, or engaging in or continuing any
+Added: conduct or practice in connection with such activity.
Family Relationships
−Removed: There are no family relationships
−Removed: among our directors and executive officers.
+Added: There are no family relationships among
+Added: our directors and executive officers.
Code of Ethics
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designated audit committee of the Board of Directors consisting of Andrew Wilder, George Glasier, and Bryan Murphy.
−Removed: Our audit committee is responsible
−Removed: for oversight of audits, corporate governance, board nominations, and executive compensation.
−Removed: The Board has determined that one
−Removed: of its members, Andrew Wilder, who has previously served as Western’s Chief Financial Officer, qualifies as an “audit
+Added: Our audit committee
+Added: is responsible for oversight of audits, corporate governance, board nominations, and executive compensation.
+Added: The Board has determined
+Added: that one of its members, Andrew Wilder, who has previously served as Western’s Chief Financial Officer, qualifies as an “audit
committee financial expert”.
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regarding compensation earned by our named executive officers:
−Removed: Principal Position
+Added: Name and Principal Position
George Glasier (1)
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Chief Financial Officer
−Removed: chose to decline his 2018 stock option grant, requesting instead that those options be reallocated to further incentivize
−Removed: other members of management.
−Removed: On September 24, 2018,
−Removed: Klein was granted an option to purchase 250,000 of our common shares at an exercise price of CAD $2.15 per share which
−Removed: expires five years from the date of issuance.
−Removed: This option is vested in thirds in equal installments on the date of grant,
−Removed: October 31, 2018 and March 31, 2019.
+Added: Glasier chose to decline his 2018 stock option grant, requesting instead that those options be reallocated to further incentivize other members of management.
+Added: On January 6, 2020, Mr.
+Added: Glasier was granted an option to purchase 125,000 of our common shares at an exercise price of CAD $1.03 per share which expires five years from the date of issuance.
+Added: This option vested in two installments:
+Added: two-thirds on the date of grant, and one-third on June 30, 2020.
+Added: On January 6, 2020, Mr.
+Added: Klein was granted an option to purchase 125,000 of our common shares at an exercise price of CAD $1.03 per share which expires five years from the date of issuance.
+Added: This option vested in two installments:
+Added: two-thirds on the date of grant, and one-third on June 30, 2020.
Employment Agreements
George Glasier
−Removed: On February 8, 2017, the Company entered into an employment
−Removed: agreement with George Glasier, its Chief Executive Officer.
−Removed: The employment agreement provides for an initial term of January 1,
−Removed: 2017 through December 31, 2018, with automatic annual renewals unless the Company or the Chief Executive Officer were to provide
−Removed: 90 days written notice of their desire to not renew the agreement.
+Added: On February 8, 2017, the Company entered into an employment agreement
+Added: with George Glasier, its Chief Executive Officer.
+Added: The employment agreement automatically renews each year unless either party provides
+Added: a 90-day advance written notice of their desire to not renew the agreement.
The employment agreement provides for a base salary of $180,000
per annum and a discretionary annual cash bonus to be determined by the Company’s Board of Directors.
−Removed: Pursuant to the employment
−Removed: agreement, if the Company terminates the employment agreement without cause, or if a change of control occurs, the Company is required
−Removed: to pay to the Chief Executive Officer a lump sum payment equal to two and one-half times his annual base salary.
−Removed: On May 30, 2019,
−Removed: the Company’s Board of Directors approved an addendum to Mr.
−Removed: Glasier’s employment agreement, increasing his annual
−Removed: salary from $180,000 to $220,000.
−Removed: On October 19, 2016, Robert Klein was appointed to serve as
−Removed: Chief Financial Officer of the Company.
−Removed: On November 13, 2017, the Company entered into an employment
−Removed: agreement with Mr.
−Removed: The agreement became effective as of October 1, 2017 and expires on September 30, 2018.
−Removed: The agreement
−Removed: has been mutually extended for subsequent annual terms.
−Removed: The agreement provides for compensation of $120,000 per annum and an annual
−Removed: bonus at the discretion of the Board of Directors.
−Removed: Pursuant to the employment agreement, once the Company raises a cumulative USD
−Removed: $1,000,000 subsequent to October 1, 2017, Mr.
−Removed: Klein’s annual base salary shall be increased.
−Removed: On July 27, 2018 this criterion
−Removed: Subsequently, Mr.
−Removed: Klein has received bonus payments of $30,000 for 2018 and 2019.
−Removed: If a change of control occurs wherein
−Removed: the consideration in such change of control is more than USD $2.00 per share, the Company is required to pay a lump sum to Mr.
−Removed: Klein in the amount of two and one-half times Mr.
−Removed: Klein’s annual salary.
−Removed: Other Employee Compensation
−Removed: On February 8, 2018, the Company granted options under the
−Removed: plan for the purchase of an aggregate of 100,000 common shares to a director.
−Removed: The options have an exercise price of CAD $1.00
−Removed: (US $0.73 as of December 31, 2018) and vest one half on the date of grant and one half on December 31, 2018.
−Removed: One half of the options
−Removed: expire on January 31, 2023 and the remaining options expire on December 31, 2023.
−Removed: On September 24, 2018, the Company granted options under the
−Removed: Plan for the purchase of an aggregate of 983,000 common shares to five individuals consisting of directors and officers of the
−Removed: The options have a five-year term, an exercise price of CAD $2.15 (USD $1.58), and vest equally in thirds commencing
−Removed: initially on the date of grant and thereafter on October 31, 2018, and March 31, 2019.
+Added: On May 30, 2019, the Board
+Added: of Directors approved an addendum to Mr.
+Added: Glasier’s employment agreement, increasing his annual salary from $180,000 to $220,000.
+Added: Pursuant to the employment agreement, if the Company terminates the employment agreement without cause, or if a change of control occurs,
+Added: the Company is required to pay to Mr.
+Added: Glasier a lump sum payment equal to two and one-half times his annual base salary.
+Added: On November 12, 2020, the Company entered into a new employment agreement
+Added: with its Chief Financial Officer, Robert Klein.
+Added: The agreement was effective as of October 1, 2020 and has an initial term that ends on
+Added: September 30, 2021.
+Added: The agreement will automatically renew for successive annual terms unless either party provides a 90-day advance written
+Added: notice of their intention not to renew.
+Added: The Agreement provides for a base salary of $150,000 per year, the amount of which is subject
+Added: to review by the Board of Directors at least annually.
+Added: Under the agreement, Mr.
+Added: Klein is eligible to receive bonuses after the end of
+Added: each calendar year or earlier in the discretion of the Board, and a bonus will also be considered upon the closing of a strategic transaction
+Added: by the Company.
+Added: The agreement provides that Mr.
+Added: Klein is eligible to participate generally in any employee benefit plan of the Company
+Added: or its affiliates and to receive annual stock option grants under the Company’s incentive stock option plan in amounts to be determined
+Added: and approved by the Board.
Equity Awards Table
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Year-End for 2020
−Removed: Number of securities underlying
−Removed: unexercised options (#) exercisable
−Removed: Number of securities underlying
−Removed: unexercised options (#) unexercisable
−Removed: Option exercise price ($CAD)
−Removed: Option expiration date
+Added: Number of securities
+Added: underlying unexercised
+Added: options (#) exercisable
+Added: Number of securities
+Added: underlying unexercised
+Added: options (#) unexercisable
+Added: exercise price
George Glasier
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of the compensation for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2020 earned by each director who is not a named executive officer and
−Removed: who served on the Board during.
+Added: who served on the Board during the year.
+Added: Andrew Wilder (1)
Bryan Murphy (2)
−Removed: Wilder is paid a CAD $2,000 monthly fee for his services as a Director.
−Removed: During the year ended December 31, 2019, the Company
−Removed: incurred $18,480 in director fees for Mr.
+Added: Wilder is paid a CAD $2,000 monthly fee for his services
+Added: as a Director.
+Added: During the year ended December 31, 2020, the Company incurred $18,480 in director fees for Mr.
Wilder’s services.
−Removed: Murphy is paid a
−Removed: CAD $5,000 monthly fee for his services as Chairman and Director.
−Removed: During the year ended December 31, 2019, the Company
−Removed: incurred $46,200 in director fees for Mr.
−Removed: Murphy’s services.
+Added: Wilder was also granted an option to purchase 125,000 of
+Added: our common shares at an exercise price of CAD $1.03 per share which expires five years from the date of issuance with a grant date
+Added: fair value of $53,839.
+Added: The total options were fully vested on September 30, 2020.
+Added: Murphy is paid a CAD $5,000 monthly fee for his services
+Added: as Chairman and Director.
+Added: During the year ended December 31, 2020, the Company incurred $47,133 in director fees for Mr.
+Added: Murphy’s
+Added: Murphy was also granted an option to purchase 125,000 of
+Added: our common shares at an exercise price of CAD $1.03 per share which expires five years from the date of issuance with a grant date
+Added: fair value of $53,839.
+Added: The total options were fully vested on September 30, 2020.
SECURITY OWNERSHIP OF CERTAIN
BENEFICIAL OWNERS AND MANAGEMENT AND RELATED STOCKHOLDER MATTERS
−Removed: The following table sets forth information with respect to
−Removed: the beneficial ownership of our class of common shares as of April 14, 2020 by:
−Removed: or group of affiliated persons, known to us to beneficially own more than 5% of our outstanding common shares;
−Removed: our directors and executive officers;
−Removed: our directors and executive officers as a group.
+Added: The following table sets forth information with respect to the
+Added: beneficial ownership of our class of common shares as of April 15, 2021 by:
+Added: each person, or group of affiliated persons, known to us to beneficially own more than 5% of our outstanding common shares;
+Added: each of our directors and executive officers;
+Added: all of our directors and executive officers as a group.
The amounts and percentages of common shares beneficially owned
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of a security.
−Removed: A person is also deemed to be a beneficial owner of any securities of which that person has a right to acquire
−Removed: beneficial ownership within 60 days.
−Removed: Securities that can be so acquired are deemed to be outstanding for purposes of computing
−Removed: such person’s ownership percentage, but not for purposes of computing any other person’s percentage.
−Removed: Under these rules,
−Removed: more than one person may be deemed a beneficial owner of the same securities and a person may be deemed to be a beneficial owner
−Removed: of securities as to which such person has no economic interest.
+Added: A person is also deemed to be a beneficial owner of any securities of which that person has a right to acquire beneficial
+Added: ownership within 60 days.
+Added: Securities that can be so acquired are deemed to be outstanding for purposes of computing such person’s
+Added: ownership percentage, but not for purposes of computing any other person’s percentage.
+Added: Under these rules, more than one person
+Added: may be deemed a beneficial owner of the same securities and a person may be deemed to be a beneficial owner of securities as to
+Added: which such person has no economic interest.
Except as otherwise set forth in the footnotes to the table
−Removed: below, the address of persons listed below is c/o Western Uranium & Vanadium Corp., 330 Bay Street, Suite 1400, Toronto, Ontario,
−Removed: Canada M5H 2S8.
−Removed: Unless otherwise indicated in the footnotes, each of the beneficial owners listed has, to our knowledge, sole
−Removed: voting and investment power with respect to the indicated common shares.
+Added: below, the address of persons listed below is c/o Western Uranium & Vanadium Corp., 330 Bay Street, Suite 1400, Toronto,
+Added: Ontario, Canada M5H 2S8.
+Added: Unless otherwise indicated in the footnotes, each of the beneficial owners listed has, to our knowledge,
+Added: sole voting and investment power with respect to the indicated common shares.
Name of Beneficial Owner
+Added: Common Shares
Percentage of
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5% or Greater Stockholders
+Added: George Glasier (2)
Directors and Named Executive Officers
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All executive officers and directors as a group (4 persons)
−Removed: Based on 30,083,747 common shares outstanding
−Removed: on April 14, 2020 and, with respect to each individual holder, rights to acquire our common shares exercisable within 60 days
−Removed: of April 14, 2020.
+Added: Based on 36,458,747 common shares outstanding on April 15, 2021 and, with respect to each individual holder, rights to acquire our common shares exercisable within 60 days of April 15, 2021.
+Added: Consists of 4,783,333 common shares and 475,000 common shares issuable upon the exercise of stock options held by Mr.
+Added: Consists of 725,000 common shares issuable upon the exercise of stock options held by Mr.
Consists of 20,000 common shares and 675,000 common shares
issuable upon the exercise of stock options held by Mr.
−Removed: Consists of 683,333 common shares issuable upon
−Removed: the exercise of stock options held by Mr.
−Removed: Consists of 20,000 common shares and 633,333 common shares issuable
−Removed: upon the exercise of stock options held by Mr.
−Removed: Consists of 433,333 common shares issuable upon
−Removed: the exercise of stock options held by Mr.
+Added: Consists of 31,250 common shares, 31,250 common shares issuable upon the exercise of warrants, and 475,000 common shares issuable upon the exercise of stock options held by Mr.
Equity Compensation Plan Information
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changes to the Plan on September 12, 2015.
−Removed: The purpose of the Plan is to attract, retain
−Removed: and motivate directors, management, staff and consultants by providing them with the opportunity, through stock options, to acquire
−Removed: a proprietary interest in the Company and benefit from its growth.
+Added: The purpose of the Plan is to attract,
+Added: retain and motivate directors, management, staff and consultants by providing them with the opportunity, through stock options,
+Added: to acquire a proprietary interest in the Company and benefit from its growth.
At December 31, 2020, a total of 2,808,000
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The maximum term is five years.
−Removed: There are no specific vesting provisions under the
−Removed: Options are non-assignable and non-transferable except that stock options may be transferred to the spouse of an optionee
−Removed: or to the registered retirement savings plan or registered pension plan of an optionee.
−Removed: A stock option exercise price shall not be
−Removed: less than the most recent share issuance price.
+Added: There are no specific vesting provisions under the Plan.
+Added: Options are non-assignable and non-transferable except that stock options may be transferred to the spouse of an optionee or to
+Added: the registered retirement savings plan or registered pension plan of an optionee.
+Added: A stock option exercise price shall not
+Added: be less than the most recent share issuance price.
The maximum term is five years.
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the date of termination of such employment or service, as the case may be.
−Removed: In the case of an optionee’s death, any vested
−Removed: stock option of such optionee at the time of death may be exercised by his or her heirs or legatees or their liquidator during
−Removed: a period of one year following such optionee’s death.
+Added: In the case of an optionee’s death, any vested stock
+Added: option of such optionee at the time of death may be exercised by his or her heirs or legatees or their liquidator during a period
+Added: of one year following such optionee’s death.
The total number of common shares issuable
to any one person during a 12-month period may not exceed ten percent (10%) of the total number of common shares issued and outstanding.
−Removed: Options granted to consultants providing investor relations activities must vest over 12 months in stages of no more than 25%
−Removed: in any three-month period.
−Removed: Also, in any 12-month period, no options exercisable for more than 2% of the Company’s issued
−Removed: and outstanding shares may be awarded to consultants or employees conducting investor relations activities.
−Removed: The Plan provides
−Removed: that where options are cancelled or lapse under the Plan, the associated common shares become available again and new options
−Removed: may be granted in respect thereof in accordance with the provisions of the Plan.
−Removed: The Board may make any amendment to the Plan,
−Removed: without shareholder approval, except an increase in the number of common shares reserved for issue under the Plan or a reduction
+Added: Options granted to consultants providing investor relations activities must vest over 12 months in stages of no more than 25% in
+Added: any three-month period.
+Added: Also, in any 12-month period, no options exercisable for more than 2% of the Company’s issued and
+Added: outstanding shares may be awarded to consultants or employees conducting investor relations activities.
+Added: The Plan provides that
+Added: where options are cancelled or lapse under the Plan, the associated common shares become available again and new options may be
+Added: granted in respect thereof in accordance with the provisions of the Plan.
+Added: The Board may make any amendment to the
+Added: Plan, without shareholder approval, except an increase in the number of common shares reserved for issue under the Plan or a reduction
of an option exercise price.
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in writing of the Optionee.
−Removed: Equity Compensation
−Removed: Plan Information
+Added: Equity Compensation Plan Information
As of December 31, 2020
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Equity compensation plans approved by shareholders
−Removed: Equity compensation plans not
−Removed: approved by shareholders
+Added: Equity compensation plans not approved by shareholders
CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED
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Transactions with Related Persons
−Removed: Baobab Asset Management LLC, a US limited liability company
−Removed: owned by Russell Fryer who was then a director of the Company and later also became executive chairman of the Company, entered
−Removed: into a consulting contract with the Company effective April 1, 2017 to provide financial, advisory, and consulting services, including
−Removed: representing the Company to a variety of stakeholders for a three month term ending on June 30, 2017 which then continued on a
−Removed: month to month basis.
−Removed: The agreement provided for compensation of $15,000 per month and an annual bonus at the discretion of the
−Removed: Board of Directors.
−Removed: Professional fees for the year ended December 31, 2018 were $60,000, related to this agreement.
−Removed: As of December
−Removed: 31, 2019 and December 31, 2018, the Company had $0 and $0, respectively, included in accounts payable and accrued expenses payable
−Removed: to this entity.
−Removed: On January 29, 2018, the Company provided the requisite 90-day notification to terminate the consulting agreement,
−Removed: effective April 30, 2018, upon which date the agreement was terminated.
−Removed: On May 1, 2018, upon termination of the agreement, Mr.
−Removed: Fryer resigned his positions as director and as executive chairman.
Prior to the acquisition of Black Range, Mr.
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In connection with the transfer, Black Range issued 25 million shares of Black Range
−Removed: common shares to Seller and committed to pay AUD $500,000 (USD $351,099 as of December 31, 2019) to Seller within 60 days of the
+Added: common stock to Seller and committed to pay AUD $500,000 (USD $392,086 as of December 31, 2020) to Seller within 60 days of the
first commercial application of the kinetic separation technology.
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All other fees
−Removed: Consist of fees billed for professional
−Removed: services rendered for the audit of the consolidated financial statements and review of the quarterly interim consolidated financial
−Removed: These fees also include the review of registration statements and the delivery of consents in connection with registration
+Added: Consist of fees billed for
+Added: professional services rendered for the audit of the consolidated financial statements and review of the quarterly interim consolidated
+Added: financial statements.
+Added: These fees also include the review of registration statements and the delivery of consents in connection
+Added: with registration statements.
Audit-related fees.
−Removed: There were no fees billed
−Removed: by MNP for professional services rendered for audit-related services for the years ended December 31, 2019 and 2018.
−Removed: Consists of $9,022 in U.S.
−Removed: Canadian tax preparation fees and $1,009 in tax consulting fees.
+Added: There were no fees
+Added: billed by MNP for professional services rendered for audit-related services for the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019.
+Added: Consists of fees incurred for the Company’s U.S.
+Added: Canadian tax preparation fees and tax consulting fees.
All other fees.
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by MNP for professional services rendered for other compliance purposes for the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019.
−Removed: The Company’s Board of Directors has
−Removed: established pre-approval policies and procedures, pursuant to which the Board approved the foregoing audit and tax services provided
−Removed: by MNP in 2019 and 2018 consistent with the Board’s responsibility for engaging Western’s independent auditors.
−Removed: Board also considered whether the non-audit services rendered by our independent registered public accounting firm are compatible
+Added: The Company’s Board of Directors
+Added: has established pre-approval policies and procedures, pursuant to which the Board approved the foregoing audit and tax services
+Added: provided by MNP in 2020 and 2019 consistent with the Board’s responsibility for engaging Western’s independent auditors.
+Added: The Board also considered whether the non-audit services rendered by our independent registered public accounting firm are compatible
with an auditor maintaining independence.
−Removed: The Board has determined that the rendering of such services is compatible with MNP
−Removed: maintaining its independence.
+Added: The Board has determined that the rendering of such services is compatible with MNP maintaining
+Added: its independence.
+Added: PART IV –
+Added: OTHER INFORMATION
+Added: UNREGISTERED SALES OF EQUITY SECURITIES AND USE
+Added: The Company did not make any unregistered
+Added: sales of equity securities during the quarter ended December 31, 2020.
EXHIBITS, FINANCIAL STATEMENT
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statements are being filed as part of this Annual Report.
−Removed: Financial Statements of Western Uranium & Vanadium Corp.
+Added: Consolidated Financial Statements of Western Uranium & Vanadium Corp.
and Subsidiaries
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Consolidated Balance Sheets as of December 31, 2020 and 2019
−Removed: Consolidated Statements of Operations and Other Comprehensive Loss for the years ended December 31, 2019 and December 2018
+Added: Consolidated Statements of Operations and Other
+Added: Comprehensive Loss for the years ended December 31, 2020 and December 2019
Consolidated Statements of Shareholders’
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Share Exchange Agreement between Pinon Ridge Mining LLC, Homeland Uranium Inc., Homeland Uranium (Utah), et al., dated November 6, 2014.
−Removed: Merger Implementation Agreement between Black Range Minerals Limited and Western Uranium & Vanadium Corporation, dated March 20, 2015.
−Removed: Credit Facility between Western Uranium & Vanadium Corporation and Black Range Minerals Limited, dated March 20, 2015.
+Added: Merger Implementation Agreement between Black Range Minerals Limited and Western Uranium Corporation, dated March 20, 2015.
+Added: Credit Facility between Western Uranium Corporation and Black Range Minerals Limited, dated March 20, 2015.
Termination and Liquidation Agreement between Ablation Technologies LLC, Black Range Minerals Ablation Holdings Inc.
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Addendum to Employment Agreement between George Glasier and Western Uranium & Vanadium Corporation dated May 30, 2019
+Added: Employment Agreement, dated November 12, 2020, by and between Robert Klein and Western Uranium and Vanadium Corp.
List of Subsidiaries
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XBRL Instance Document.
−Removed: XBRL Taxonomy Extension
−Removed: Schema Document.
−Removed: XBRL Taxonomy Extension
−Removed: Calculation Linkbase Document.
−Removed: XBRL Taxonomy Extension
−Removed: Definition Linkbase Document.
−Removed: XBRL Taxonomy Extension
−Removed: Label Linkbase Document.
−Removed: XBRL Taxonomy Extension
−Removed: Presentation Linkbase Document.
+Added: XBRL Taxonomy Extension Schema Document.
+Added: XBRL Taxonomy Extension Calculation Linkbase Document.
+Added: XBRL Taxonomy Extension Definition Linkbase Document.
+Added: XBRL Taxonomy Extension Label Linkbase Document.
+Added: XBRL Taxonomy Extension Presentation Linkbase Document.
Schedules and exhibits omitted pursuant to Item 601(b)(2) of Regulation S-K.
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Previously filed as an exhibit to the Company’s Form 10-Q filed on August 14, 2019
+Added: Previously filed as an exhibit to the Company’s Form 10-Q filed on November 16, 2020
FORM 10-K SUMMARY
−Removed: Pursuant to the requirements of Section 13
−Removed: or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the
−Removed: undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.
−Removed: Western Uranium & Vanadium
+Added: Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934,
+Added: the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.
+Added: WESTERN URANIUM &VANADIUM CORP.
April 15, 2021
−Removed: George Glasier
+Added: /s/ George Glasier
George Glasier
−Removed: Chief Executive Officer, President and
−Removed: Director (Principal Executive Officer)
−Removed: to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, this report has been signed below by the following persons on behalf
−Removed: of the registrant and in the capacities and on the dates indicated.
+Added: Chief Executive Officer and President
+Added: Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934,
+Added: this report has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the registrant and in the capacities and on the dates indicated.
April 15, 2021
−Removed: George Glasier
+Added: /s/ George Glasier
George Glasier
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April 15, 2021
+Added: /s/ Robert Klein
Chief Financial Officer
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April 15, 2021
−Removed: Andrew Wilder
+Added: /s/ Bryan Murphy
+Added: April 15, 2021
+Added: /s/ Andrew Wilder
Andrew Wilder
+Added: WESTERN URANIUM & VANADIUM CORP.
+Added: AND SUBSIDIARIES
+Added: CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
+Added: FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2020
+Added: (Stated in USD)
of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
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Opinion on the Consolidated Financial Statements
−Removed: We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of
−Removed: Western Uranium & Vanadium Corp.
−Removed: (the Company) as of December 31, 2019 and 2018, and the related consolidated statements of
+Added: We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of Western
+Added: Uranium & Vanadium Corp.
+Added: (the “Company”) as of December 31, 2020 and 2019, and the related consolidated statements of
operations and other comprehensive loss, changes in shareholders’
−Removed: equity, and cash flows for the years then ended, and the
−Removed: related notes (collectively referred to as the consolidated financial statements).
−Removed: In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements present fairly,
−Removed: in all material respects, the consolidated financial position of the Company as of December 31, 2019 and 2018, and the results
−Removed: of its consolidated operations and its consolidated cash flows for the years then ended, in conformity with accounting principles
−Removed: generally accepted in the United States of America.
+Added: equity, and cash flows for the years then ended, and the related
+Added: notes (collectively referred to as the consolidated financial statements).
+Added: In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements present fairly, in
+Added: all material respects, the consolidated financial position of the Company as of December 31, 2020 and 2019, and the results of its consolidated
+Added: operations and its consolidated cash flows for the years then ended, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the
+Added: United States of America.
Material Uncertainty Related to Going Concern
−Removed: The accompanying consolidated financial statements have been prepared
−Removed: assuming that the Company will continue as a going concern.
−Removed: As discussed in Note 2 to the consolidated financial statements, the
−Removed: Company has incurred continuing losses and negative cash flows from operations and is dependent upon future sources of equity or
−Removed: debt financing in order to fund its operations.
−Removed: These conditions raise substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue
−Removed: as a going concern.
−Removed: Management’s plans in regard to these matters are also described in Note 2.
−Removed: The consolidated financial
−Removed: statements do not include any adjustments that might result from the outcome of this uncertainty.
+Added: The accompanying consolidated financial statements have been prepared assuming
+Added: that the Company will continue as a going concern.
+Added: As discussed in Note 2 to the consolidated financial statements, the Company has incurred
+Added: continuing losses and negative cash flows from operations and is dependent upon future sources of equity or debt financing in order to
+Added: fund its operations.
+Added: These conditions raise substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern.
+Added: Management’s
+Added: plans in regard to these matters are also described in Note 2.
+Added: The consolidated financial statements do not include any adjustments that
+Added: might result from the outcome of this uncertainty.
Basis for Opinion
−Removed: These consolidated financial statements are the responsibility of
−Removed: the Company’s management.
−Removed: Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company’s consolidated financial statements
−Removed: based on our audits.
−Removed: We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States)
−Removed: (PCAOB) and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S.
−Removed: federal securities laws and
−Removed: the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.
−Removed: We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the
−Removed: Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the consolidated
−Removed: financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud.
−Removed: The Company is not required to have, nor
−Removed: were we engaged to perform, an audit of its internal control over financial reporting.
−Removed: As part of our audits, we are required to
−Removed: obtain an understanding of internal control over financial reporting but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness
−Removed: of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting.
+Added: These consolidated financial statements are the responsibility of the Company’s
+Added: Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company’s consolidated financial statements based on our audits.
+Added: We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (PCAOB) and are required
+Added: to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S.
+Added: federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations
+Added: of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.
+Added: We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB.
+Added: Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the consolidated financial statements
+Added: are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud.
+Added: The Company is not required to have, nor were we engaged to perform,
+Added: an audit of its internal control over financial reporting.
+Added: As part of our audits, we are required to obtain an understanding of internal
+Added: control over financial reporting but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Company’s internal
+Added: control over financial reporting.
Accordingly, we express no such opinion.
−Removed: Our audits included performing procedures to assess the risks of
−Removed: material misstatement of the consolidated financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond
−Removed: to those risks.
−Removed: Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the consolidated
−Removed: financial statements.
−Removed: Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management,
−Removed: as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the consolidated financial statements.
−Removed: We believe that our audits provide a reasonable
−Removed: basis for our opinion.
+Added: Our audits included performing procedures to assess the risks of material
+Added: misstatement of the consolidated financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those
+Added: Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the consolidated financial
+Added: Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as
+Added: evaluating the overall presentation of the consolidated financial statements.
+Added: We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for
Chartered Professional Accountants, Licensed Public Accountants
We have served as the Company’s auditor since 2015.
−Removed: Mississauga, Ontario
+Added: Mississauga, Canada
April 15, 2021
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AND SUBSIDIARIES
−Removed: CONSOLIDATED BALANCE
+Added: CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
(Stated in USD)
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Shareholders’
−Removed: Common shares, no par value, unlimited authorized shares, 30,084,053
−Removed: and 25,977,143 shares issued as of December 31, 2019 and 2018, respectively and 30,083,747 and 25,976,837 shares outstanding
−Removed: as of December 31, 2019 and 2018, respectively
−Removed: Treasury shares, 306 and 306 shares held in treasury
−Removed: as of December 31, 2019 and 2018, respectively
+Added: Common shares, no par value, unlimited authorized shares, 30,084,053 and 30,084,053 shares issued as of December 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019, respectively and 30,083,747 and 30,083,747 shares outstanding as of December 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019, respectively
+Added: Treasury shares, 306 and 306 shares held in treasury as of December 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019, respectively
Accumulated deficit
+Added: (11,087,459 )
Accumulated other comprehensive income
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AND SUBSIDIARIES
−Removed: CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS
−Removed: OF OPERATIONS AND OTHER COMPREHENSIVE LOSS
+Added: CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS AND OTHER COMPREHENSIVE LOSS
(Stated in USD)
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Operating loss
−Removed: Interest expense, net
−Removed: Other comprehensive income
−Removed: Foreign exchange gain
+Added: Accretion and interest
+Added: Warrant modification expense
+Added: Gain on forgiveness of debt
+Added: Other comprehensive (expense) income
+Added: Foreign exchange (loss) gain
Comprehensive loss
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AND SUBSIDIARIES
−Removed: CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS
−Removed: OF CHANGES IN SHAREHOLDERS’
+Added: CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CHANGES IN SHAREHOLDERS’
(Stated in USD)
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Treasury Shares
−Removed: Comprehensive
−Removed: Balance as of
−Removed: January 1, 2018
+Added: Other Comprehensive
+Added: Balance as of January 1, 2019
$ (6,584,342 )
−Removed: Private placement - May 4, 2018
−Removed: Private placement - July 27, 2018
−Removed: Private placement - August 9, 2018
−Removed: Issuance of 60,832 common shares in exchange of accounts payable
−Removed: Exercise of warrants
Stock based compensation - stock options
+Added: Private placement - April 16, 2019
+Added: Private placement - June 17, 2019
Foreign exchange gain
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Stock based compensation - stock options
−Removed: Private placement - April 16, 2019
−Removed: Private placement - June 17, 2019
−Removed: Foreign exchange gain
+Added: Warrant modification expense
+Added: Foreign Exchange (loss)
Balance as of December 31, 2020
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AND SUBSIDIARIES
−Removed: CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS
−Removed: OF CASH FLOWS
+Added: CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
(Stated in USD)
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Accretion of and additions to reclamation liability
−Removed: Amortization of debt discount on notes payable
+Added: Gain on forgiveness of debt
Stock based compensation
−Removed: Change in foreign exchange on marketable securities
+Added: Warrant modification expense
+Added: Change in marketable securities
Change in operating assets and liabilities:
Prepaid expenses and other current assets
−Removed: Accounts payable and accrued liabilities, net of shares issued for accounts payable
+Added: Accounts payable and accrued liabilities
Deferred revenue
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Cash Flows From Financing Activities
−Removed: Payment of EFHC Note
+Added: Proceeds from loan payable
Issuances of Common shares, net of offering costs
−Removed: Proceeds from the exercise of warrants
Net cash provided by financing activities
Effect of foreign exchange rate on cash
−Removed: Net increase in cash and restricted cash
+Added: Net decrease in cash and restricted cash
Cash and restricted cash - beginning
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Supplemental disclosure of cash flow information:
−Removed: Cash paid during the period for:
−Removed: Non-cash financing activities:
−Removed: Shares issued for accounts payable and accrued expenses
+Added: Cash paid during the year for:
The accompanying
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AND SUBSIDIARIES
−Removed: CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
+Added: NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(Stated in USD)
+Added: NOTE 1 –
Nature of operations
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September 16, 2015, Western completed its acquisition of Black Range Minerals Limited (“Black Range”).
−Removed: The Company has registered offices at 330 Bay Street, Suite
−Removed: 1400, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5H 2S8 and its common shares are listed on the CSE under the symbol “WUC.”
−Removed: 22, 2016, the Company’s common shares began trading on the OTC Pink Open Market, and on May 23, 2016, the Company’s
−Removed: common shares were approved for trading on the OTCQX Best Market.
−Removed: Its principal business activity is the acquisition and development
−Removed: of uranium and vanadium resource properties in the states of Utah and Colorado in the United States of America (“United States”).
−Removed: On June 28, 2016, the Company’s registration statement
−Removed: became effective and Western became a United States reporting issuer.
−Removed: Thereafter, the Company was approved for Depository Trust
−Removed: Company eligibility through the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation, which facilitates electronic book-entry delivery, settlement
−Removed: and depository services for shares in the United States.
−Removed: On June 29, 2018, the shareholders of the Company approved
−Removed: the name change of the Company from “Western Uranium Corporation”
−Removed: to “Western Uranium & Vanadium Corp.”
+Added: The Company’s registered office is
+Added: located at 330 Bay Street, Suite 1400, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5H 2S8 and its common shares are listed on the CSE under the
+Added: symbol “WUC.”
+Added: On April 22, 2016, the Company’s common shares began trading on the OTC Pink Open Market, and on
+Added: May 23, 2016, the Company’s common shares were approved for trading on the OTCQX Best Market.
+Added: Its principal business activity
+Added: is the acquisition and development of uranium and vanadium resource properties in the states of Utah and Colorado in the United
+Added: States of America (“United States”).
+Added: On June 28, 2016, the Company’s registration
+Added: statement became effective and Western became a United States reporting issuer.
+Added: Thereafter, the Company was approved for Depository
+Added: Trust Company eligibility through the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation, which facilitates electronic book-entry delivery,
+Added: settlement and depository services for shares in the United States.
+Added: On June 29, 2018, the shareholders of the
+Added: Company approved the name change of the Company from “Western Uranium Corporation”
+Added: to “Western Uranium &
+Added: Vanadium Corp.”
The name change became effective in Ontario, Canada on October 1, 2018;
−Removed: thereafter on October 4, 2018 Western’s shares started
−Removed: trading under the new name on the CSE and OTCQX and the Company announced the name change by news release.
+Added: thereafter on October 4, 2018 Western’s
+Added: shares started trading under the new name on the CSE and OTCQX and the Company announced the name change by news release.
Liquidity and going concern
−Removed: The Company has incurred continuing
−Removed: losses from its operations and negative operating cash flows from operations and as of December 31, 2019, the Company had an
−Removed: accumulated deficit of $8,694,569 and working capital of $1,678,747.
−Removed: Since inception, the Company has met its liquidity requirements
−Removed: principally through the issuance of notes and the sale of its common shares.
−Removed: The Company’s ability to continue its operations and to
−Removed: pay its obligations when they become due is contingent upon the Company obtaining additional financing.
−Removed: Management’s plans
−Removed: include seeking to procure additional funds through debt and equity financings, to secure regulatory approval to fully utilize
−Removed: its kinetic separation technology, formerly known as ablation, and to initiate the processing of ore to generate operating cash
+Added: The Company has incurred continuing losses
+Added: from its operations and negative operating cash flows from operations and as of December 31, 2020, the Company had an accumulated
+Added: deficit of $11,087,459 and working capital of $162,375.
+Added: Since inception, the Company has met its liquidity requirements principally
+Added: through the issuance of notes and the sale of its common shares.
+Added: On May 6, 2020, the Company obtained a Paycheck Protection Program loan
+Added: (the “PPP Loan”) of $73,116.
+Added: The loan had a fixed interest rate of 1%, required the Company to make seventeen (17) monthly
+Added: payments, after a deferral period, and had a maturity date of May 6, 2022.
+Added: On December 2, 2020, the Company received notice from the U.S.
+Added: Small Business Association that the entire PPP Loan balance and accrued interest was forgiven in full on such date.
+Added: The Company recorded
+Added: the loan forgiveness as other income in the Company’s consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive loss.
+Added: The Company’s ability to continue
+Added: its operations and to pay its obligations when they become due is contingent upon the Company obtaining additional financing.
+Added: Management’s
+Added: plans include seeking to procure additional funds through debt and equity financings, to secure regulatory approval to fully utilize
+Added: its kinetic separation technology and to initiate the processing of ore to generate operating cash flows.
There are no assurances that the Company
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results, or it may not be able to continue to fund its ongoing operations.
−Removed: These conditions raise substantial doubt about the
−Removed: Company’s ability to continue as a going concern to sustain operations for at least one year from the issuance of these
−Removed: consolidated financial statements.
−Removed: The accompanying consolidated financial statements do not include any adjustments that might
−Removed: result from the outcome of these uncertainties.
+Added: These conditions raise substantial doubt about the Company’s
+Added: ability to continue as a going concern to sustain operations for at least one year from the issuance of these consolidated financial
+Added: The accompanying consolidated financial statements do not include any adjustments that might result from the outcome
+Added: of these uncertainties.
WESTERN URANIUM & VANADIUM CORP.
AND SUBSIDIARIES
−Removed: CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
+Added: NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(Stated in USD)
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Basis of Presentation and Principles of Consolidation
−Removed: These consolidated financial statements are presented in United
−Removed: States dollars and have been prepared in accordance with United States generally accepted accounting principles (“U.S.
+Added: These consolidated financial statements
+Added: are presented in United States dollars and have been prepared in accordance with United States generally accepted accounting principles
GAAP”).
−Removed: The accompanying consolidated financial statements include
−Removed: the accounts of Western and its wholly-owned subsidiaries, Western Uranium Corp.
−Removed: (Utah), PRM, Black Range, Black Range Copper
−Removed: Inc., Ranger Resources Inc., Black Range Minerals Inc., Black Range Minerals Colorado LLC, Black Range Minerals Wyoming LLC, Haggerty
−Removed: Resources LLC, Ranger Alaska LLC, Black Range Minerals Utah LLC, Black Range Minerals Ablation Holdings Inc.
−Removed: and Black Range Development
−Removed: All significant inter-company transactions and balances have been eliminated upon consolidation.
−Removed: The Company has established the existence of mineralized materials
−Removed: for certain uranium projects.
−Removed: The Company has not established proven or probable reserves, as defined by the United States Securities
−Removed: and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) under Industry Guide 7, through the completion of a “final”
+Added: The accompanying consolidated financial
+Added: statements include the accounts of Western and its wholly-owned subsidiaries, Western Uranium Corp.
+Added: (Utah), PRM, Black Range, Black
+Added: Range Copper Inc., Ranger Resources Inc., Black Range Minerals Inc., Black Range Minerals Colorado LLC, Black Range Minerals Wyoming
+Added: LLC, Haggerty Resources LLC, Ranger Alaska LLC, Black Range Minerals Utah LLC, Black Range Minerals Ablation Holdings Inc.
+Added: Black Range Development Utah LLC.
+Added: All inter-company transactions and balances have been eliminated upon consolidation.
+Added: The Company has established the existence
+Added: of mineralized materials for certain uranium projects.
+Added: The Company has not established proven or probable reserves, as defined
+Added: by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) under Industry Guide 7, through the completion
+Added: of a “final”
or “bankable”
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In accordance with U.S.
−Removed: GAAP, expenditures relating to the
−Removed: acquisition of mineral rights are initially capitalized as incurred while exploration and pre-extraction expenditures are expensed
−Removed: as incurred until such time the Company exits the Exploration Stage by establishing proven or probable reserves.
+Added: GAAP, expenditures
+Added: relating to the acquisition of mineral rights are initially capitalized as incurred while exploration and pre-extraction expenditures
+Added: are expensed as incurred until such time the Company exits the Exploration Stage by establishing proven or probable reserves.
relating to exploration activities such as drill programs to search for additional mineralized materials are expensed as incurred.
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subsequent expenditures relating to mine development activities for that particular project are capitalized as incurred.
−Removed: Companies in the Production Stage as defined under Industry
−Removed: Guide 7, having established proven and probable reserves and exited the Exploration Stage, typically capitalize expenditures relating
−Removed: to ongoing development activities, with corresponding depletion calculated over proven and probable reserves using the units-of-production
−Removed: method and allocated to future reporting periods to inventory and, as that inventory is sold, to cost of goods sold.
−Removed: is in the Exploration Stage which has resulted in the Company reporting larger losses than if it had been in the Production Stage
−Removed: due to the expensing, instead of capitalizing, of expenditures relating to ongoing mill and mine development activities.
−Removed: Additionally,
−Removed: there would be no corresponding amortization allocated to future reporting periods of the Company since those costs would have
−Removed: been expensed previously, resulting in both lower inventory costs and cost of goods sold and results of operations with higher
−Removed: gross profits and lower losses than if the Company had been in the Production Stage.
−Removed: Any capitalized costs, such as expenditures
−Removed: relating to the acquisition of mineral rights, are depleted over the estimated extraction life using the straight-line method.
−Removed: As a result, the Company’s consolidated financial statements may not be directly comparable to the financial statements
−Removed: of companies in the Production Stage.
−Removed: Use of Estimates
−Removed: The preparation of these consolidated financial statements in
−Removed: conformity with U.S.
−Removed: GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amount of assets and liabilities
−Removed: at the date of the financial statements and revenues and expenses during the periods reported.
−Removed: By their nature, these estimates
−Removed: are subject to measurement uncertainty and the effects on the consolidated financial statements of changes in such estimates in
−Removed: future periods could be significant.
−Removed: Significant areas requiring management’s estimates and assumptions include determining
−Removed: the fair value of transactions involving common shares, assessment of the useful life and evaluation for impairment of Kinetic
−Removed: Separation intellectual property, valuation and impairment assessments on mineral properties and equipment, deferred contingent
−Removed: consideration, and the reclamation liability, valuation of stock-based compensation, and valuation of available-for-sale securities.
−Removed: Other areas requiring estimates include allocations of expenditures, depletion and amortization of mineral rights and properties.
−Removed: Actual results could differ from those estimates.
+Added: Companies in the Production Stage as defined
+Added: under Industry Guide 7, having established proven and probable reserves and exited the Exploration Stage, typically capitalize
+Added: expenditures relating to ongoing development activities, with corresponding depletion calculated over proven and probable reserves
+Added: using the units-of-production method and allocated to future reporting periods to inventory and, as that inventory is sold, to
+Added: cost of goods sold.
+Added: The Company is in the Exploration Stage which has resulted in the Company reporting larger losses than if it
+Added: had been in the Production Stage due to the expensing, instead of capitalizing, of expenditures relating to ongoing mine development
+Added: and extraction activities.
+Added: Additionally, there would be no corresponding amortization allocated to future reporting periods of
+Added: the Company since those costs would have been expensed previously, resulting in both lower inventory costs and cost of goods sold
+Added: and results of operations with higher gross profits and lower losses than if the Company had been in the Production Stage.
+Added: capitalized costs, such as expenditures relating to the acquisition of mineral rights, are depleted over the estimated extraction
+Added: life using the straight-line method.
+Added: As a result, the Company’s consolidated financial statements may not be directly comparable
+Added: to the financial statements of companies in the Production Stage.
WESTERN URANIUM & VANADIUM CORP.
AND SUBSIDIARIES
−Removed: CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
+Added: NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(Stated in USD)
SUMMARY OF Significant Accounting Policies, CONTINUED
+Added: Use of Estimates
+Added: The preparation of these consolidated financial
+Added: statements in conformity with U.S.
+Added: GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amount of
+Added: assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and revenues and expenses during the periods reported.
+Added: nature, these estimates are subject to measurement uncertainty and the effects on the consolidated financial statements of changes
+Added: in such estimates in future periods could be significant.
+Added: Significant areas requiring management’s estimates and assumptions
+Added: include determining the fair value of transactions involving common shares, assessment of the useful life and evaluation for impairment
+Added: of Kinetic Separation intellectual property, valuation and impairment assessments on mineral properties and equipment, deferred
+Added: contingent consideration, the reclamation liability, valuation of stock-based compensation, and valuation of available-for-sale
+Added: Other areas requiring estimates include allocations of expenditures, depletion and amortization of mineral rights and
+Added: Actual results could differ from those estimates.
Foreign Currency Translation
−Removed: The reporting currency of the Company, including its subsidiaries,
−Removed: is the United States dollar.
+Added: The reporting currency of the Company,
+Added: including its subsidiaries, is the United States dollar.
The financial statements of subsidiaries located outside of the U.S.
−Removed: are measured in their functional
−Removed: currency, which is the local currency.
−Removed: The functional currency of the parent (Western Uranium & Vanadium Corp.
−Removed: is the Canadian dollar.
−Removed: Monetary assets and liabilities of these subsidiaries are translated at the exchange rates at the balance
+Added: measured in their functional currency, which is the local currency.
+Added: The functional currency of the parent (Western Uranium &
+Added: Vanadium Corp.
+Added: (Ontario)) is the Canadian dollar.
+Added: Monetary assets and liabilities of these subsidiaries are translated at the exchange
+Added: rates at the balance sheet date.
Income and expense items are translated using average monthly exchange rates.
−Removed: Non-monetary assets are translated at
−Removed: their historical exchange rates.
−Removed: Translation adjustments are included in accumulated other comprehensive loss in the consolidated
−Removed: balance sheets.
+Added: Non-monetary assets
+Added: are translated at their historical exchange rates.
+Added: Translation adjustments are included in accumulated other comprehensive loss
+Added: in the consolidated balance sheets.
Segment Information
−Removed: The Company determines its reporting units in accordance with
−Removed: FASB ASC 280, “
+Added: The Company determines its reporting units
+Added: in accordance with FASB ASC 280, “
Segment Reporting ”
(“ASC 280”).
−Removed: The Company evaluates a reporting unit by first
−Removed: identifying its operating segments under ASC 280.
−Removed: The Company then evaluates each operating segment to determine if it includes
−Removed: one or more components that constitute a business.
−Removed: If there are components within an operating segment that meet the definition
−Removed: of a business, the Company evaluates those components to determine if they must be aggregated into one or more reporting units.
−Removed: If applicable, when determining if it is appropriate to aggregate different operating segments, the Company determines if the
−Removed: segments are economically similar and, if so, the operating segments are aggregated.
−Removed: The Company has one operating segment and
−Removed: reporting unit.
+Added: The Company evaluates a reporting
+Added: unit by first identifying its operating segments under ASC 280.
+Added: The Company then evaluates each operating segment to determine
+Added: if it includes one or more components that constitute a business.
+Added: If there are components within an operating segment that meet
+Added: the definition of a business, the Company evaluates those components to determine if they must be aggregated into one or more reporting
+Added: If applicable, when determining if it is appropriate to aggregate different operating segments, the Company determines if
+Added: the segments are economically similar and, if so, the operating segments are aggregated.
+Added: The Company has one operating segment
+Added: and reporting unit.
The Company operates in one reportable business segment;
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is presented and reviewed in the aggregate.
−Removed: Cash and Cash Equivalents
−Removed: The Company considers all highly-liquid instruments with an
−Removed: original maturity of three months or less at the time of issuance to be cash equivalents.
−Removed: As of December 31, 2019 and 2018, the
−Removed: Company had no cash equivalents.
+Added: The Company considers all highly-liquid
+Added: instruments with an original maturity of three months or less at the time of issuance to be cash equivalents.
+Added: As of December 31,
+Added: 2020 and 2019, the Company had no cash equivalents.
Marketable Securities
−Removed: The Company classifies its marketable securities as available-for-sale
−Removed: securities, which are carried at their fair value based on the quoted market prices of the securities with unrealized gains and
−Removed: losses reported as accumulated comprehensive income (loss), a separate component of shareholders’
−Removed: Realized gains
−Removed: and losses on available-for-sale securities are included in net earnings in the period earned or incurred.
+Added: The Company classifies its marketable securities
+Added: as available-for-sale securities, which are carried at their fair value based on the quoted market prices of the securities with
+Added: unrealized gains and losses reported as accumulated comprehensive income (loss), a separate component of shareholders’
+Added: Realized gains and losses on available-for-sale securities are included in net earnings in the period earned or incurred.
+Added: WESTERN URANIUM & VANADIUM CORP.
+Added: AND SUBSIDIARIES
+Added: NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
+Added: (Stated in USD)
+Added: SUMMARY OF Significant Accounting Policies, CONTINUED
Restricted Cash
−Removed: Certain cash balances are restricted as they relate to deposits
−Removed: with banks that have been assigned to state reclamation authorities in the United States to secure various reclamation guarantees
−Removed: with respect to mineral properties in Utah, Alaska and Colorado.
−Removed: As these funds are not available for general corporate purposes
−Removed: and secure the long term reclamation liability (see Note 4), they have been separately disclosed and classified as long-term for
−Removed: the majority of the Company’s mines.
−Removed: As of December 31, 2019, the Company has determined that the Van 4 Mine is now considered
−Removed: to be in reclamation.
−Removed: The Company recognized the Van 4 Mine’s reclamation liability and its restricted cash in full on the
−Removed: Company’s consolidated balance sheet as current.
+Added: Certain cash balances are restricted as
+Added: they relate to deposits with banks that have been assigned to state reclamation authorities in the United States to secure various
+Added: reclamation guarantees with respect to mineral properties in Utah, Wyoming and Colorado.
+Added: As these funds are not available for general
+Added: corporate purposes and secure the long term reclamation liability (see Note 4), they have been separately disclosed and classified
+Added: as long-term for the majority of the Company’s mines.
+Added: As of December 31, 2020 and 2019, the Company has determined that the
+Added: Van 4 Mine is now considered to be in reclamation.
+Added: The Company recognized the Van 4 Mine’s reclamation liability and its
+Added: restricted cash in full on the Company’s consolidated balance sheet as current.
Revenue Recognition
−Removed: The Company leases certain of its mineral properties for the
−Removed: exploration and production of oil and gas reserves.
+Added: The Company leases certain of its mineral properties for the exploration
+Added: and production of oil and gas reserves.
The Company accounts for lease revenue in accordance with ASC 842 “Leases”.
−Removed: Lease payments received in advance are deferred and recognized on a straight –
−Removed: line basis over the related lease term associated
−Removed: with the prepayment.
−Removed: Royalty payments are recognized as revenues when received.
+Added: payments received in advance are deferred and recognized on a straight –
+Added: line basis over the related lease term associated with
+Added: the prepayment.
+Added: Royalty payments will be recognized as revenues when received.
+Added: Fair Values of Financial Instruments
+Added: The carrying amounts of cash, restricted
+Added: cash, accounts payable, accrued liabilities, and loan payable approximate their fair value due to the short-term nature of these
+Added: Marketable securities are adjusted to fair value at each balance sheet date based on quoted prices which are considered
+Added: level 1 inputs.
+Added: The Company’s operations and financing activities are conducted primarily in United States dollars and as
+Added: a result, the Company is not subject to significant exposure to market risks from changes in foreign currency rates.
+Added: is exposed to credit risk through its cash and restricted cash, but mitigates this risk by keeping these deposits at major financial
+Added: institutions.
+Added: ASC 820 “Fair Value Measurements
+Added: and Disclosures”
+Added: provides the framework for measuring fair value.
+Added: That framework provides a fair value hierarchy that prioritizes
+Added: the inputs to valuation techniques used to measure fair value.
+Added: The hierarchy gives the highest priority to unadjusted quoted prices
+Added: in active markets for identical assets or liabilities (level 1 measurements) and the lowest priority to unobservable inputs (level
+Added: 3 measurements).
+Added: Fair value is defined as an exit price,
+Added: representing the amount that would be received upon the sale of an asset or payment to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction
+Added: between market participants.
+Added: Fair value is a market-based measurement that is determined based on assumptions that market participants
+Added: would use in pricing an asset or liability.
+Added: A three-tier fair value hierarchy is used to prioritize the inputs in measuring fair
+Added: value as follows:
+Added: Level 1 Quoted prices in active markets
+Added: for identical assets or liabilities.
+Added: Level 2 Quoted prices for similar assets
+Added: or liabilities in active markets, quoted prices for identical or similar assets or liabilities in markets that are not active,
+Added: or other inputs that are observable, either directly or indirectly.
+Added: Level 3 Significant unobservable inputs
+Added: that cannot be corroborated by market data.
WESTERN URANIUM & VANADIUM CORP.
AND SUBSIDIARIES
−Removed: CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
+Added: NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(Stated in USD)
SUMMARY OF Significant Accounting Policies, continued
−Removed: Fair Values of Financial Instruments
−Removed: The carrying amounts of cash, restricted cash, accounts payable,
−Removed: and accrued liabilities, approximate their fair value due to the short-term nature of these instruments.
−Removed: Marketable securities
−Removed: are adjusted to fair value at each balance sheet date based on quoted prices which are considered level 1 inputs.
−Removed: The reclamation
−Removed: deposits, which are reflected in restricted cash on the consolidated balance sheets, are deposits mainly invested in certificates
−Removed: of deposit at major financial institutions and their fair values were estimated to approximate their carrying values.
−Removed: The Company’s
−Removed: operations and financing activities are conducted primarily in United States dollars and as a result, the Company is not subject
−Removed: to significant exposure to market risks from changes in foreign currency rates.
−Removed: The Company is exposed to credit risk through
−Removed: its cash and restricted cash, but mitigates this risk by keeping these deposits at major financial institutions.
−Removed: ASC 820 “Fair Value Measurements and Disclosures”
−Removed: provides the framework for measuring fair value.
−Removed: That framework provides a fair value hierarchy that prioritizes the inputs to
−Removed: valuation techniques used to measure fair value.
−Removed: The hierarchy gives the highest priority to unadjusted quoted prices in active
−Removed: markets for identical assets or liabilities (level 1 measurements) and the lowest priority to unobservable inputs (level 3 measurements).
−Removed: Fair value is defined as an exit price, representing the amount
−Removed: that would be received upon the sale of an asset or payment to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants.
−Removed: Fair value is a market-based measurement that is determined based on assumptions that market participants would use in pricing
−Removed: an asset or liability.
−Removed: A three-tier fair value hierarchy is used to prioritize the inputs in measuring fair value as follows:
−Removed: Level 1 Quoted prices in active markets for identical assets
−Removed: or liabilities.
−Removed: Level 2 Quoted prices for similar assets or liabilities in
−Removed: active markets, quoted prices for identical or similar assets or liabilities in markets that are not active, or other inputs that
−Removed: are observable, either directly or indirectly.
−Removed: Level 3 Significant unobservable inputs that cannot be corroborated
−Removed: by market data.
−Removed: The fair value of the Company’s financial instruments
−Removed: are as follows:
−Removed: Liabilities in
+Added: Fair Values of Financial Instruments (continued)
+Added: The fair value of the Company’s financial
+Added: instruments are as follows:
+Added: Assets or Liabilities in
Marketable securities as of December 31, 2020
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Mineral Properties
−Removed: Acquisition costs of mineral properties are capitalized as
−Removed: incurred while exploration and pre-extraction expenditures are expensed as incurred until such time the Company exits the Exploration
−Removed: Stage by establishing proven or probable reserves, as defined by the SEC under Industry Guide 7, through the completion of a “final”
+Added: Acquisition costs of mineral properties
+Added: are capitalized as incurred while exploration and pre-extraction expenditures are expensed as incurred until such time the Company
+Added: exits the Exploration Stage by establishing proven or probable reserves, as defined by the SEC under Industry Guide 7, through
+Added: the completion of a “final”
or “bankable”
feasibility study.
−Removed: Expenditures relating to exploration activities are expensed as incurred and expenditures
−Removed: relating to pre-extraction activities are expensed as incurred until such time proven or probable reserves are established for
−Removed: that project, after which subsequent expenditures relating to development activities for that particular project are capitalized
−Removed: Where proven and probable reserves have been established, the
−Removed: project’s capitalized expenditures are depleted over proven and probable reserves upon commencement of production using
−Removed: the units-of-production method.
−Removed: Where proven and probable reserves have not been established, such capitalized expenditures are
−Removed: depleted over the estimated production life upon commencement of extraction using the straight-line method.
−Removed: The Company has not
−Removed: established proven or probable reserves for any of its projects.
−Removed: The carrying values of the mineral properties are assessed
−Removed: for impairment by management.
+Added: Expenditures relating to exploration activities
+Added: are expensed as incurred and expenditures relating to pre-extraction activities are expensed as incurred until such time proven
+Added: or probable reserves are established for that project, after which subsequent expenditures relating to development activities for
+Added: that particular project are capitalized as incurred.
+Added: Where proven and probable reserves have
+Added: been established, the project’s capitalized expenditures are depleted over proven and probable reserves upon commencement
+Added: of production using the units-of-production method.
+Added: Where proven and probable reserves have not been established, such capitalized
+Added: expenditures are depleted over the estimated production life upon commencement of extraction using the straight-line method.
+Added: Company has not established proven or probable reserves for any of its projects.
+Added: The carrying values of the mineral properties
+Added: are assessed for impairment by management.
+Added: Impairment of Long-Lived Assets
+Added: The Company reviews and evaluates its long-lived assets and kinetic separation
+Added: technology for impairment when events or changes in circumstances indicate that the related carrying amounts may not be recoverable.
+Added: is considered to exist if the total estimated future cash flows on an undiscounted basis are less than the carrying amount of the assets.
+Added: An impairment loss is measured and recorded based on discounted estimated future cash flows or upon an estimate of fair value that may
+Added: be received in an exchange transaction.
+Added: Future cash flows are estimated based on estimated quantities of recoverable minerals, expected
+Added: uranium (“U3O8”) prices (considering current and historical prices, trends and related factors), production levels, operating
+Added: costs of production and capital and restoration and reclamation costs, based upon the projected remaining future uranium production from
+Added: each project.
+Added: The Company’s long-lived assets (which include its mineral assets and Kinetic Separation intellectual property) were
+Added: acquired during the end of 2014 and in 2015 in arms-length transactions.
+Added: As of December 31, 2020, the Company evaluated the total estimated
+Added: future cash flows on an undiscounted basis for its mineral properties, equipment, and Kinetic Separation intellectual property and determined
+Added: that no impairment was deemed to exist.
+Added: Estimates and assumptions used to assess recoverability of the Company’s long-lived assets
+Added: and measure fair value of our uranium properties are subject to risk uncertainty.
+Added: Changes in these estimates and assumptions could result
+Added: in the impairment of its long-lived assets.
+Added: In estimating future cash flows, assets are grouped at the lowest level for which there are
+Added: identifiable cash flows that are largely independent of future cash flows from other asset groups.
WESTERN URANIUM & VANADIUM CORP.
AND SUBSIDIARIES
−Removed: CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
+Added: NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(Stated in USD)
SUMMARY OF Significant Accounting Policies, continued
−Removed: Impairment of Long-Lived Assets
−Removed: The Company reviews and evaluates its long-lived assets for
−Removed: impairment when events or changes in circumstances indicate that the related carrying amounts may not be recoverable.
−Removed: is considered to exist if the total estimated future cash flows on an undiscounted basis are less than the carrying amount of
−Removed: An impairment loss is measured and recorded based on discounted estimated future cash flows or upon an estimate of
−Removed: fair value that may be received in an exchange transaction.
−Removed: Future cash flows are estimated based on estimated quantities of recoverable
−Removed: minerals, expected uranium (“U3O8”) prices (considering current and historical prices, trends and related factors), production levels, operating
−Removed: costs of production and capital and restoration and reclamation costs, based upon the projected remaining future uranium production
−Removed: from each project.
−Removed: The Company’s long-lived assets (which include its mineral assets and Kinetic Separation intellectual
−Removed: property) were acquired during the end of 2014 and in 2015 in arms-length transactions.
−Removed: As of December 31, 2019, the Company evaluated
−Removed: the total estimated future cash flows on an undiscounted basis for its mineral properties and Kinetic Separation intellectual
−Removed: property and determined that no impairment was deemed to exist.
−Removed: Estimates and assumptions used to assess recoverability of the
−Removed: Company’s long-lived assets and measure fair value of our uranium properties are subject to risk uncertainty.
−Removed: these estimates and assumptions could result in the impairment of its long-lived assets.
−Removed: In estimating future cash flows, assets
−Removed: are grouped at the lowest level for which there are identifiable cash flows that are largely independent of future cash flows
−Removed: from other asset groups.
−Removed: The Company utilizes an asset and liability approach for financial
−Removed: accounting and reporting for income taxes.
−Removed: The provision for income taxes is based upon income or loss after adjustment for those
−Removed: permanent items that are not considered in the determination of taxable income.
−Removed: Deferred income taxes represent the tax effects
−Removed: of differences between the financial reporting and tax basis of the Company’s assets and liabilities at the enacted tax
−Removed: rates in effect for the years in which the differences are expected to reverse.
−Removed: The Company evaluates the recoverability of deferred tax assets
−Removed: and establishes a valuation allowance when it is more likely than not that some portion or all the deferred tax assets will not
−Removed: Management makes judgments as to the interpretation of the tax laws that might be challenged upon an audit and cause
−Removed: changes to previous estimates of tax liability.
−Removed: In management’s opinion, adequate provisions for income taxes have been
−Removed: If actual taxable income by tax jurisdiction varies from estimates, additional allowances or reversals of reserves may be
−Removed: Tax benefits are recognized only for tax positions that are
−Removed: more likely than not to be sustained upon examination by tax authorities.
−Removed: The amount recognized is measured as the largest amount
−Removed: of benefit that is greater than 50 percent likely to be realized upon settlement.
−Removed: A liability for “unrecognized tax
−Removed: benefits”
+Added: The Company utilizes an asset and liability
+Added: approach for financial accounting and reporting for income taxes.
+Added: The provision for income taxes is based upon income or loss after
+Added: adjustment for those permanent items that are not considered in the determination of taxable income.
+Added: Deferred income taxes represent
+Added: the tax effects of differences between the financial reporting and tax basis of the Company’s assets and liabilities at the
+Added: enacted tax rates in effect for the years in which the differences are expected to reverse.
+Added: The Company evaluates the recoverability
+Added: of deferred tax assets and establishes a valuation allowance when it is more likely than not that some portion or all the deferred
+Added: tax assets will not be realized.
+Added: Management makes judgments as to the interpretation of the tax laws that might be challenged upon
+Added: an audit and cause changes to previous estimates of tax liability.
+Added: In management’s opinion, adequate provisions for income
+Added: taxes have been made.
+Added: If actual taxable income by tax jurisdiction varies from estimates, additional allowances or reversals of
+Added: reserves may be necessary.
+Added: Tax benefits are recognized only for tax
+Added: positions that are more likely than not to be sustained upon examination by tax authorities.
+Added: The amount recognized is measured
+Added: as the largest amount of benefit that is greater than 50 percent likely to be realized upon settlement.
+Added: A liability for “unrecognized
+Added: tax benefits”
is recorded for any tax benefits claimed in the Company’s tax returns that do not meet these recognition
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to be reported.
−Removed: The Company’s policy for recording interest and penalties
−Removed: associated with tax audits is to record such items as a component of general and administrative expense.
−Removed: There were no amounts
−Removed: accrued for penalties and interest for the years ended December 31, 2019 and 2018.
−Removed: The Company does not expect its uncertain tax
−Removed: position to change during the next twelve months.
−Removed: Management is currently unaware of any issues under review that could result
−Removed: in significant payments, accruals or material deviations from its position.
−Removed: The Company has identified its federal Canadian and United
−Removed: States tax returns and its state tax returns in Colorado and Utah as its “major”
−Removed: tax jurisdictions, and such returns
−Removed: for the years 2015 through 2019 remain subject to examination.
+Added: The Company’s policy for recording
+Added: interest and penalties associated with tax audits is to record such items as a component of general and administrative expense.
+Added: There were no amounts accrued for penalties and interest for the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019.
+Added: The Company does not expect
+Added: its uncertain tax position to change during the next twelve months.
+Added: Management is currently unaware of any issues under review
+Added: that could result in significant payments, accruals or material deviations from its position.
+Added: The Company has identified its federal
+Added: Canadian and United States tax returns and its state tax returns in Colorado and Utah as its “major”
+Added: tax jurisdictions,
+Added: and such returns for the years 2016 through 2020 remain subject to examination.
+Added: Restoration and Remediation Costs (Asset Retirement Obligations)
+Added: Various federal and state mining laws and
+Added: regulations require the Company to reclaim the surface areas and restore underground water quality for its mine projects to the
+Added: pre-existing mine area average quality after the completion of mining.
+Added: Future reclamation and remediation costs,
+Added: which include extraction equipment removal and environmental remediation, are accrued at the end of each period based on management’s
+Added: best estimate of the costs expected to be incurred for each project.
+Added: Such estimates are determined by the Company’s engineering
+Added: studies which consider the costs of future surface and groundwater activities, current regulations, actual expenses incurred, and
+Added: technology and industry standards.
+Added: In accordance with ASC 410, Asset Retirement
+Added: and Environmental Obligations, the Company capitalizes the measured fair value of asset retirement obligations to mineral properties.
+Added: The asset retirement obligations are accreted to an undiscounted value until the time at which they are expected to be settled.
+Added: The accretion expense is charged to earnings and the actual retirement costs are recorded against the asset retirement obligations
+Added: when incurred.
+Added: Any difference between the recorded asset retirement obligations and the actual retirement costs incurred will be
+Added: recorded as a gain or loss in the period of settlement.
+Added: At each reporting period, the Company reviews
+Added: the assumptions used to estimate the expected cash flows required to settle the asset retirement obligations, including changes
+Added: in estimated probabilities, amounts and timing of the settlement of the asset retirement obligations, as well as changes in the
+Added: legal obligation requirements at each of its mineral properties.
+Added: Changes in any one or more of these assumptions may cause revision
+Added: of asset retirement obligations for the corresponding assets.
WESTERN URANIUM & VANADIUM CORP.
AND SUBSIDIARIES
−Removed: CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
+Added: NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(Stated in USD)
SUMMARY OF Significant Accounting Policies, continued
−Removed: Restoration and Remediation Costs (Asset Retirement Obligations)
−Removed: Various federal and state mining laws and regulations require
−Removed: the Company to reclaim the surface areas and restore underground water quality for its mine projects to the pre-existing mine
−Removed: area average quality after the completion of mining.
−Removed: Future reclamation and remediation costs, which include extraction
−Removed: equipment removal and environmental remediation, are accrued at the end of each period based on management’s best estimate
−Removed: of the costs expected to be incurred for each project.
−Removed: Such estimates are determined by the Company’s engineering studies
−Removed: which consider the costs of future surface and groundwater activities, current regulations, actual expenses incurred, and technology
−Removed: and industry standards.
−Removed: In accordance with ASC 410, Asset Retirement and Environmental
−Removed: Obligations, the Company capitalizes the measured fair value of asset retirement obligations to mineral properties.
−Removed: retirement obligations are accreted to an undiscounted value until the time at which they are expected to be settled.
−Removed: The accretion
−Removed: expense is charged to earnings and the actual retirement costs are recorded against the asset retirement obligations when incurred.
−Removed: Any difference between the recorded asset retirement obligations and the actual retirement costs incurred will be recorded as
−Removed: a gain or loss in the period of settlement.
−Removed: At each reporting period, the Company reviews the assumptions
−Removed: used to estimate the expected cash flows required to settle the asset retirement obligations, including changes in estimated probabilities,
−Removed: amounts and timing of the settlement of the asset retirement obligations, as well as changes in the legal obligation requirements
−Removed: at each of its mineral properties.
−Removed: Changes in any one or more of these assumptions may cause revision of asset retirement obligations
−Removed: for the corresponding assets.
Deferred Financing Costs
−Removed: Deferred financing costs represent costs incurred in connection
−Removed: with the issuance of debt.
−Removed: Once the associated debt instrument is issued, these costs would be recorded as a debt discount and
−Removed: amortized to interest expense using the effective interest method over the term of the related debt instrument.
−Removed: Upon the abandonment
−Removed: of a pending financing transaction, the related deferred financing costs would be charged to general and administrative expense.
−Removed: The Company may also issue warrants or other equity instruments
−Removed: in connection with the issuance of debt instruments.
−Removed: The equity instruments are recorded at their relative fair market value on
−Removed: the date of issuance which results in a debt discount which is amortized to interest expense using the effective interest method.
+Added: Deferred financing costs represent costs
+Added: incurred in connection with the issuance of debt.
+Added: Once the associated debt instrument is issued, these costs would be recorded
+Added: as a debt discount and amortized to interest expense using the effective interest method over the term of the related debt instrument.
+Added: Upon the abandonment of a pending financing transaction, the related deferred financing costs would be charged to general and administrative
+Added: The Company may also issue warrants or
+Added: other equity instruments in connection with the issuance of debt instruments.
+Added: The equity instruments are recorded at their relative
+Added: fair market value on the date of issuance which results in a debt discount which is amortized to interest expense using the effective
+Added: interest method.
Stock-Based Compensation
−Removed: The Company follows ASC 718, Compensation - Stock Compensation,
−Removed: which addresses the accounting for stock-based payment transactions, requiring such transactions to be accounted for using the
−Removed: fair value method.
−Removed: Awards of shares for property or services are recorded at the more readily measurable of the fair value of
−Removed: the stock and the fair value of the service.
−Removed: The Company uses the Black-Scholes option-pricing model to determine the grant date
−Removed: fair value of stock-based awards under ASC 718.
−Removed: The fair value is charged to earnings depending on the terms and conditions of
−Removed: the award, and the nature of the relationship of the recipient of the award to the Company.
+Added: The Company follows ASC 718, Compensation
+Added: - Stock Compensation, which addresses the accounting for stock-based payment transactions, requiring such transactions to be accounted
+Added: for using the fair value method.
+Added: Awards of shares for property or services are recorded at the more readily measurable of the fair
+Added: value of the stock and the fair value of the service.
+Added: The Company uses the Black-Scholes option-pricing model to determine the
+Added: grant date fair value of stock-based awards under ASC 718.
+Added: The fair value is charged to earnings depending on the terms and conditions
+Added: of the award, and the nature of the relationship of the recipient of the award to the Company.
The Company records the grant date
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The Company estimates the expected forfeitures and updates the valuation accordingly.
−Removed: WESTERN URANIUM & VANADIUM CORP.
−Removed: AND SUBSIDIARIES
−Removed: CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
−Removed: (Stated in USD)
−Removed: SUMMARY OF Significant Accounting Policies, continued
+Added: In November 2019, the FASB issued ASU 2019-08, Compensation –
+Added: Stock Compensation (Topic 718) and Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Topic 606), which clarifies that an entity must measure and
+Added: classify share-based payment awards granted to a customer by applying the guidance in Topic 718.
+Added: ASU 2019-08 is effective for annual reporting
+Added: periods beginning after December 15, 2019, including interim reporting periods within those annual reporting periods.
+Added: The Company adopted
+Added: ASU 2019-08, and has determined that there was no material impacts on its consolidated financial statements.
+Added: Warrant Modification Expense
+Added: In accordance with ASC 718, a modification of the terms or conditions
+Added: of an equity award shall be treated as an exchange of the original award for a new award.
+Added: The incremental cost is measured as the excess
+Added: of the fair value of the modified award determined in accordance with ASC 718 over the fair value of the original award immediately before
+Added: its terms are modified, measured based on the share price and other pertinent factors.
+Added: The resulting difference is recorded as a warrant
+Added: modification expense.
+Added: See Note 8 for additional information.
Loss per Share
−Removed: Basic net loss per share is computed by dividing net loss by
−Removed: the weighted average number of common shares outstanding during the period.
−Removed: Diluted earnings per share is computed using the weighted
−Removed: average number of common shares and, if dilutive, potential common shares outstanding during the period.
−Removed: Potential common shares
−Removed: consist of the incremental common shares issuable upon the exercise of stock options and warrants (using the treasury stock method).
−Removed: The computation of diluted net loss per share for the years ended December 31, 2019 and 2018 excludes potentially dilutive securities.
−Removed: The computations of net loss per share for each period presented is the same for both basic and fully diluted.
−Removed: Potentially dilutive securities outlined in the table below
−Removed: have been excluded from the computation of diluted net loss per share because the effect of their inclusion would have been anti-dilutive.
−Removed: For the Years Ended
+Added: Basic net loss per share is computed by
+Added: dividing net loss by the weighted average number of common shares outstanding during the year.
+Added: Diluted earnings per share is computed
+Added: using the weighted average number of common shares and, if dilutive, potential common shares outstanding during the year.
+Added: common shares consist of the incremental common shares issuable upon the exercise of stock options and warrants (using the treasury
+Added: stock method).
+Added: The computation of diluted net loss per share for the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019 excludes potentially
+Added: dilutive securities.
+Added: The computations of net loss per share for each year presented is the same for both basic and fully diluted.
+Added: Potentially dilutive securities outlined
+Added: in the table below have been excluded from the computation of diluted net loss per share because the effect of their inclusion
+Added: would have been anti-dilutive.
Warrants to purchase common shares
1 unchanged sentence
Total potentially dilutive securities
−Removed: In July 2018, the FASB issued ASU 2018-10 Leases (Topic 842),
−Removed: Codification Improvements and ASU 2018-11 Leases (Topic 842), Targeted Improvements, to provide additional guidance for the adoption
−Removed: of Topic 842.
−Removed: ASU 2018-10 clarifies certain provisions and correct unintended applications of the guidance such as the application
−Removed: of implicit rate, lessee reassessment of lease classification, and certain transition adjustments that should be recognized to
−Removed: earnings rather than to stockholders’
+Added: In July 2018, the FASB issued ASU 2018-10 Leases (Topic 842), Codification
+Added: Improvements and ASU 2018-11 Leases (Topic 842), Targeted Improvements, to provide additional guidance for the adoption of Topic 842.
+Added: ASU 2018-10 clarifies certain provisions and correct unintended applications of the guidance such as the application of implicit rate,
+Added: lessee reassessment of lease classification, and certain transition adjustments that should be recognized to earnings rather than to stockholders’
(deficit) equity.
−Removed: ASU 2018-11 provides an alternative transition method and practical
−Removed: expedient for separating contract components for the adoption of Topic 842.
−Removed: In February 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-02 Leases
−Removed: (Topic 842) which requires an entity to recognize assets and liabilities arising from a lease for both financing and operating
−Removed: leases with terms greater than 12 months.
−Removed: ASU 2018-11, ASU 2018-10, and ASU 2016-02 (collectively, “the new lease standards”)
−Removed: are effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2018, with early adoption permitted.
−Removed: The Company adopted ASU 2018-10,
−Removed: and has determined that there are no material impacts to the consolidated financial statements.
+Added: ASU 2018-11 provides an alternative transition method and practical expedient for separating contract components for
+Added: the adoption of Topic 842.
+Added: In February 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-02 Leases (Topic 842) which requires an entity to recognize assets
+Added: and liabilities arising from a lease for both financing and operating leases with terms greater than 12 months.
+Added: ASU 2018-11, ASU 2018-10,
+Added: and ASU 2016-02 (collectively, “the new lease standards”) are effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2018,
+Added: with early adoption permitted.
+Added: The Company adopted ASU 2018-10, and has determined that there was no impact to the consolidated financial
+Added: WESTERN URANIUM & VANADIUM CORP.
+Added: AND SUBSIDIARIES
+Added: NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
+Added: (Stated in USD)
+Added: SUMMARY OF Significant Accounting Policies, continued
Recent Accounting Standards
−Removed: Management does not believe that any recently issued, but not
−Removed: yet effective accounting standards, when adopted, will have a material effect on the accompanying consolidated financial statements,
−Removed: other than those disclosed below.
+Added: Management does not believe that any recently
+Added: issued, but not yet effective accounting standards, when adopted, will have a material effect on the accompanying consolidated
+Added: financial statements.
+Added: The Company has adopted the recent accounting standards that are disclosed below.
In June 2016, the FASB issued ASU No.
−Removed: 2016-13, “Financial
−Removed: Instruments –
+Added: 2016-13, “Financial Instruments
Credit Losses (Topic 326):
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(“ASU 2016-13”).
−Removed: ASU 2016-13 replaces the incurred loss model with an expected loss model, which is referred to as the current expected credit
−Removed: loss (CECL) model.
−Removed: The CECL model is applicable to the measurement of credit losses on financial assets measured at amortized
−Removed: cost, including loan receivables, held-to-maturity debt securities, and reinsurance receivables.
−Removed: It also applies to off-balance
−Removed: sheet credit exposures not accounted for as insurance (such as loan commitments, standby letters of credit, financial guarantees,
−Removed: and other similar instruments) and net investments in leases recognized by a lessor.
−Removed: For public business entities that meet the
−Removed: definition of an SEC filer, the standard will be effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2019, including interim
−Removed: periods in those fiscal years.
−Removed: For debt securities with other-than-temporary impairment, the guidance will be applied prospectively.
−Removed: Existing purchased credit impaired (PCI) assets will be grandfathered and classified as purchased credit deteriorated (PCD) assets
−Removed: at the date of adoption.
−Removed: The asset will be grossed up for the allowance for expected credit losses for all PCD assets at the date
−Removed: of adoption and will continue to recognize the non-credit discount in interest income based on the yield of such assets as of
−Removed: the adoption date.
+Added: replaces the incurred loss model with an expected loss model, which is referred to as the current expected credit loss (CECL) model.
+Added: CECL model is applicable to the measurement of credit losses on financial assets measured at amortized cost, including loan receivables,
+Added: held-to-maturity debt securities, and reinsurance receivables.
+Added: It also applies to off-balance sheet credit exposures not accounted for
+Added: as insurance (such as loan commitments, standby letters of credit, financial guarantees, and other similar instruments) and net investments
+Added: in leases recognized by a lessor.
+Added: For public business entities that meet the definition of an SEC filer, the standard will be effective
+Added: for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2019, including interim periods in those fiscal years.
+Added: For debt securities with other-than-temporary
+Added: impairment, the guidance will be applied prospectively.
+Added: Existing purchased credit impaired (PCI) assets will be grandfathered and classified
+Added: as purchased credit deteriorated (PCD) assets at the date of adoption.
+Added: The asset will be grossed up for the allowance for expected credit
+Added: losses for all PCD assets at the date of adoption and will continue to recognize the non-credit discount in interest income based on the
+Added: yield of such assets as of the adoption date.
Subsequent changes in expected credit losses will be recorded through the allowance.
−Removed: For all other assets within
−Removed: the scope of CECL, a cumulative-effect adjustment will be recognized in retained earnings as of the beginning of the first reporting
−Removed: period in which the guidance is effective.
−Removed: The Company does not believe ASU 2016-13 will have a material effect on its consolidated
−Removed: financial statements.
+Added: all other assets within the scope of CECL, a cumulative-effect adjustment will be recognized in retained earnings as of the beginning
+Added: of the first reporting period in which the guidance is effective.
+Added: The standard became effective for the Company beginning January 1, 2021.
+Added: The adoption of this standard did not have a material impact on the Company’s results of operations, financial condition, cash flows,
+Added: and financial statement disclosure.
+Added: In December 2019, FASB issued ASU No.
+Added: 2019-12, Income Taxes (Topic
+Added: Simplifying the Accounting for Income Taxes.
+Added: ASU 2019-12 eliminated certain exceptions and changed guidance on other matters.
+Added: exceptions relate to the allocation of income taxes in separate company financial statements, tax accounting for equity method investments
+Added: and accounting for income taxes when the interim period year-to-date loss exceeds the anticipated full year loss.
+Added: Changes relate to the
+Added: accounting for franchise taxes that are income-based and non-income-based, determining if a step up in tax basis is part of a business
+Added: combination or if it is a separate transaction, when enacted tax law changes should be included in the annual effective tax rate computation,
+Added: and the allocation of taxes in separate company financial statements to a legal entity that is not subject to income tax.
+Added: The new standard
+Added: is effective for fiscal years, and interim periods within those fiscal years, beginning after December 15, 2020, with early adoption permitted.
+Added: The Company is currently evaluating the potential impact but does not believe there will be an impact of the adoption of this standard
+Added: on its results of operations, financial position and cash flows and related disclosures.
+Added: In June 2020, the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
+Added: in conjunction with FASB developed Technical Question and Answer (“TQA”) 3200.18, “Borrower Accounting for a Forgivable
+Added: Loan Received Under the Small Business Administration Paycheck Protection Program”, which is intended to provide clarification on
+Added: how to account for loans received from the Paycheck Protection Program (“PPP”).
+Added: TQA 3200.18 states that an entity may account
+Added: for PPP loans under ASC 470, “Debt”
+Added: or, if the entity is expected to meet PPP eligibility criteria and the PPP loan is expected
+Added: to be forgiven, the entity may account for the loans under International Accounting Standards (“IAS”) 20, “Accounting
+Added: for Government Grants and Disclosure of Government Assistance”.
+Added: The Company has accounted for PPP loan proceeds under ASC 470 as
+Added: allowed by TQA 3200.18.
WESTERN URANIUM & VANADIUM CORP.
AND SUBSIDIARIES
−Removed: CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
+Added: NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(Stated in USD)
−Removed: SUMMARY OF Significant Accounting Policies, continued
−Removed: Recent Accounting Standards, continued
−Removed: In November 2019, the FASB issued ASU 2019-08, Compensation
−Removed: Stock Compensation (Topic 718) and Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Topic 606), which clarifies that an entity must
−Removed: measure and classify share-based payment awards granted to a customer by applying the guidance in Topic 718.
−Removed: ASU 2019-08 is effective
−Removed: for annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2019, including interim reporting periods within those annual reporting
−Removed: The Company does not believe ASU 2019-08 will have a material effect on its consolidated financial statements.
−Removed: MINERAL ASSETS AND EQUIPMENT, AND Kinetic separation INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND OTHER PROPERTY
−Removed: The Company’s mining properties acquired on August 18,
−Removed: 2014 that the Company retains as of December 31, 2019 include:
−Removed: San Rafael Uranium Project located in Emery County, Utah;
−Removed: Sunday Mine Complex located in western San Miguel County, Colorado;
−Removed: The Van 4 Mine located in western Montrose County, Colorado;
−Removed: The Sage Mine project located in San Juan County, Utah, and San Miguel County, Colorado.
−Removed: These mining properties include leased
−Removed: land in the states of Colorado and Utah.
−Removed: None of these mining properties were operational at the date of acquisition.
−Removed: The Company’s mining properties acquired on September 16,
−Removed: 2015 that the Company retains as of December 31, 2019 include Hansen, North Hansen, High Park, and Hansen Picnic Tree, located
−Removed: in Fremont and Teller Counties, Colorado.
−Removed: The Company also acquired the Keota project located in Weld County, Wyoming and the Ferris
−Removed: Haggerty project located in Carbon County Wyoming.
−Removed: These mining assets include both owned and leased land in the states of Utah,
−Removed: Colorado and Wyoming.
−Removed: All of the mining assets represent properties which have previously been mined to different degrees for uranium.
−Removed: As the Company has not formally established proven or probable
−Removed: reserves on any of its properties, there is inherent uncertainty as to whether or not any mineralized material can be economically
−Removed: extracted as originally planned and anticipated.
−Removed: The Company’s mineral properties and equipment and kinetic
−Removed: separation intellectual property are:
+Added: 4 - MINERAL ASSETS equipment, and Kinetic separation INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND OTHER PROPERTY
+Added: The Company’s mining properties acquired on August 18, 2014 that the Company retains as of December 31, 2020 include:
+Added: Rafael Uranium Project located in Emery County, Utah;
+Added: The Sunday Mine Complex located in western San Miguel County, Colorado;
+Added: Van 4 Mine located in western Montrose County, Colorado;
+Added: The Sage Mine project located in San Juan County, Utah, and San Miguel
+Added: County, Colorado.
+Added: These mining properties include leased land in the states of Colorado and Utah.
+Added: None of these mining properties
+Added: were operational at the date of acquisition.
+Added: The Company’s mining properties acquired on September 16, 2015 that
+Added: the Company retains as of December 31, 2020 include Hansen, North Hansen, and Hansen Picnic Tree located in Fremont and Teller Counties,
+Added: The Company no longer holds any interest in Hansen and Hansen Picnic Tree, see Note 12 for additional information.
+Added: also acquired the Keota project located in Weld County, Colorado and the Ferris Haggerty project located in Carbon County Wyoming.
+Added: mining assets include both owned and leased land in the states of Utah, Colorado and Wyoming.
+Added: All of the mining assets represent properties
+Added: which have previously been mined to different degrees for uranium.
+Added: As the Company has not formally established
+Added: proven or probable reserves on any of its properties, there is inherent uncertainty as to whether or not any mineralized material
+Added: can be economically extracted as originally planned and anticipated.
+Added: The Company’s mineral properties
+Added: and equipment and kinetic separation intellectual property are:
As of December 31,
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Oil and Gas Lease and Easement
−Removed: On July 18, 2017, an oil and gas lease became effective with
−Removed: respect to minerals and mineral rights owned by the Company of approximately 160 surface acres of the Company’s property
−Removed: As consideration for entering into the lease, the Company received $120,000 during the third quarter of 2017.
−Removed: lease will be in force for an initial term of three years and may be extended by the lessee at 150% of the initial rate.
−Removed: has also agreed to pay the Company a royalty of 18.75% of the lessee’s revenue attributed to oil and gas produced, saved,
−Removed: and sold attributable to the net mineral interest.
−Removed: The Company is recognizing the initial payment incrementally over the term
−Removed: of the lease.
−Removed: On February 26, 2018, the Company entered into a further agreement
−Removed: with the same entity as the oil and gas lease to provide them with an easement to an additional part of the Company’s property
−Removed: solely for the purposes of transporting the oil and gas extracted via a pipeline.
−Removed: As consideration for the easement, the Company
−Removed: received $36,960 during the first quarter of 2018.
−Removed: The Company is recognizing this payment incrementally over the eight year term
−Removed: of the easement.
−Removed: During the years ended December 31, 2019 and 2018 the Company
−Removed: recognized aggregate revenue of $44,620 and $48,245, respectively, under these oil and gas lease arrangements.
−Removed: Right-of-way grant agreement
−Removed: On July 1, 2018, the Company entered into a right of way agreement
−Removed: with a third party, whereby, the Company has granted “right of way”
−Removed: access to a portion of its mineral properties in
−Removed: exchange for an upfront payment of $3,624.
−Removed: The Company is recognizing this payment incrementally over the term of the right-of-way
+Added: The Company entered into an oil and gas
+Added: lease that became effective with respect to minerals and mineral rights owned by the Company of approximately 160 surface acres
+Added: of the Company’s property in Colorado.
+Added: As consideration for entering into the lease, the lessee has agreed to pay the Company
+Added: a royalty of 18.75% of the lessee’s revenue attributed to oil and gas produced, saved, and sold attributable to the net mineral
+Added: The Company has also received cash payments from the lessee related to the easement that the Company is recognizing incrementally
+Added: over the eight year term of the easement.
+Added: On June 23, 2020, the same entity as discussed
+Added: above elected to extend the oil and gas lease easement for three additional years commencing on the date the lease would have previously
+Added: During the years ended December 31, 2020
+Added: and 2019 the Company recognized aggregate revenue of $54,620 and $44,620, respectively, under these oil and gas lease arrangements.
WESTERN URANIUM & VANADIUM CORP.
AND SUBSIDIARIES
−Removed: CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
+Added: NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(Stated in USD)
−Removed: NOTE 4 –
−Removed: MINERAL ASSETS AND EQUIPMENT, AND KINETIC
−Removed: SEPARATION INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND OTHER PROPERTY, CONTINUED
+Added: 4 - MINERAL ASSETS equipment, and Kinetic separation INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND OTHER PROPERTY, CONTINUED
Reclamation Liabilities
4 unchanged sentences
periodically by the applicable regulatory authorities.
−Removed: The reclamation liability represents the Company’s best estimate
−Removed: of the present value of future reclamation costs in connection with the mineral properties.
+Added: The reclamation liability represents the Company’s best estimate of
+Added: the present value of future reclamation costs in connection with the mineral properties.
The Company determined the gross reclamation
−Removed: liabilities of the mineral properties as of December 31, 2019 and December 31, 2018, to be approximately $897,662 and $889,030,
−Removed: respectively.
−Removed: The Company expects to begin incurring the reclamation liability after 2054 for all mines that are not in reclamation
−Removed: and accordingly, has discounted the gross liabilities over their remaining lives using a discount rate of 5.4% to net discounted
−Removed: aggregated values as of December 31, 2019 and December 31, 2018 of $294,228 and $224,645, respectively.
−Removed: The gross reclamation
−Removed: liabilities as of December 31, 2019 and December 31, 2018 are secured by certificates of deposit in the amount of $897,662 and
−Removed: $889,030, respectively.
−Removed: As described in further detail below, the Company’s Van 4 Mine has been put into reclamation.
−Removed: the Company recognized the reclamation liability in its entirety at December 31, 2019.
+Added: liabilities of the mineral properties as of December 31, 2020 and 2019, to be approximately $906,811 and $897,662, respectively.
+Added: On March 2, 2020, the Colorado Mined Land Reclamation Board (“MLRB”) issued an order vacating the Van 4 Temporary Cessation,
+Added: terminating mining operations and ordering commencement of final reclamation.
+Added: The Company has begun the reclamation of the Van
+Added: The reclamation cost is fully covered by the reclamation bonds posted upon acquisition of the property.
+Added: The Company adjusted
+Added: the fair value of its reclamation obligation for the Van 4 Mine.
+Added: The portion of the reclamation liability related to the Van 4
+Added: Mine, and its related restricted cash are included in current liabilities, and current assets, respectively, at a value of $75,057.
+Added: The Company expects to begin incurring the reclamation liability after 2054 for all mines that are not in reclamation and accordingly,
+Added: has discounted the gross liabilities over their remaining lives using a discount rate of 5.4% to net discounted aggregated values
+Added: as of December 31, 2020 and 2019 of $309,940 and $294,228, respectively.
+Added: The gross reclamation liabilities as of December 31, 2020
+Added: and 2019 are secured by financial warranties in the amount of $906,811 and $897,662, respectively.
Reclamation liability activity for the years ended December
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Ending Balance
+Added: WESTERN URANIUM & VANADIUM CORP.
+Added: AND SUBSIDIARIES
+Added: NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
+Added: (Stated in USD)
+Added: 4 - MINERAL ASSETS equipment, and Kinetic separation INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND OTHER PROPERTY, CONTINUED
Van 4 Mine Permitting Status
A prior owner of the Company’s Van
−Removed: 4 Mine had been granted a first Temporary Cessation from reclamation of the mine by the Colorado Mined Land Reclamation Board
−Removed: (“MLRB”) which was set to expire June 23, 2017.
−Removed: Prior to its expiration, PRM formally requested an extension through
−Removed: a second Temporary Cessation.
+Added: 4 Mine had been granted a first Temporary Cessation from reclamation of the mine by the Colorado Mined Land Reclamation Board (“MLRB”)
+Added: which was set to expire June 23, 2017.
+Added: Prior to its expiration, PRM formally requested an extension through a second Temporary
PRM subsequently participated in a public process which culminated in a hearing on July 26, 2017.
−Removed: Prior to the hearing, three non-profit organizations who pursue environmental and conservation objectives filed a brief objecting
−Removed: to the extension.
−Removed: The MLRB board members voted to grant a second five-year Temporary Cessation for the Van 4 Mine.
−Removed: the three objecting parties filed a lawsuit on September 18, 2017.
−Removed: The MLRB was named as the defendant and PRM was named as a
−Removed: party to the case due to the Colorado law requirement that any lawsuit filed after a hearing must include all of the parties in
−Removed: the proceeding.
−Removed: The plaintiff organizations are seeking for the court to set aside the board order granting a second five-year
−Removed: Temporary Cessation period to PRM for the Van 4 Mine.
−Removed: The Colorado state Attorney General was defending this action in the Denver
−Removed: Colorado District Court.
−Removed: On May 8, 2018, the Denver Colorado District Court ruled in favor, whereby the additional five-year temporary
−Removed: cessation period was granted.
−Removed: The Plaintiffs appealed this ruling to the Colorado Court of Appeals and on July 25, 2019 the ruling
−Removed: was reversed, whereby it was ruled the additional five-year temporary cessation period should not have been granted.
−Removed: Mined Land Reclamation Board (CMLRB) and the Colorado Attorney General decided that it would not make an additional appeal of
−Removed: The Judge has subsequently issued an instruction for the MLRB to issue an order revoking the permit and putting the
−Removed: Van 4 Mine into reclamation.
−Removed: On March 2, 2020, the MLRB issued an order vacating the Van 4 Temporary Cessation, terminating mining
−Removed: operations and ordering commencement of final reclamation.
−Removed: The Company has begun preparations for the reclamation of the Van 4
−Removed: The reclamation cost is fully covered by the reclamation bonds posted upon acquisition of the property.
+Added: Prior to the hearing,
+Added: three non-profit organizations who pursue environmental and conservation objectives filed a brief objecting to the extension.
+Added: MLRB board members voted to grant a second five-year Temporary Cessation for the Van 4 Mine.
+Added: Thereafter, the three objecting parties
+Added: filed a lawsuit on September 18, 2017.
+Added: The MLRB was named as the defendant and PRM was named as a party to the case due to the
+Added: Colorado law requirement that any lawsuit filed after a hearing must include all of the parties in the proceeding.
+Added: The plaintiff
+Added: organizations are seeking for the court to set aside the board order granting a second five-year Temporary Cessation period to
+Added: PRM for the Van 4 Mine.
+Added: The Colorado state Attorney General was defending this action in the Denver Colorado District Court.
+Added: May 8, 2018, the Denver Colorado District Court ruled in favor, whereby the additional five-year temporary cessation period was
+Added: The Plaintiffs appealed this ruling to the Colorado Court of Appeals and on July 25, 2019 the ruling was reversed, whereby
+Added: the additional five-year temporary cessation period should not have been granted.
+Added: Thereafter, the MLRB and the Colorado Attorney
+Added: General advised Western that it will not make an additional appeal of the ruling.
+Added: Further, the time period for an appeal has passed.
+Added: The Judge has subsequently issued an instruction for the MLRB to issue an order revoking the permit and putting the Van 4 Mine
+Added: into reclamation.
+Added: On January 22, 2020, the MLRB held a hearing and afterward on March 2, 2020, the MLRB issued an order vacating
+Added: the Van 4 Temporary Cessation, terminating mining operations and ordering commencement of final reclamation.
+Added: The Company has five
+Added: years to complete the reclamation of the Van 4 Mine.
+Added: The reclamation commenced in the spring of 2020 and is fully covered by the
+Added: reclamation bonds posted upon acquisition of the property.
Sunday Mine Complex Permitting Status
−Removed: On February 4, 2020, the
−Removed: Colorado DRMS sent a Notice of Hearing to Declare Termination of Mining Operations to Western for the Sunday Mine Complex.
−Removed: The issue is the application of an unchallenged Colorado Court of Appeals Opinion for a separate mine, with very different
−Removed: facts that is retroactively modifying DRMS rules and regulations.
−Removed: The Company maintains that it was timely in meeting
−Removed: existing rules and regulations.
−Removed: The formal hearing wa s scheduled to be held during the
−Removed: April 22-23, 2020 MLRB Board meeting, which has now been moved to the May 13-14, 2020 MLRB Board meeting due to the impacts
−Removed: of the COVID-19 virus.
+Added: On February 4, 2020, the Colorado DRMS sent a Notice of Hearing to Declare
+Added: Termination of Mining Operations related to the status of the mining permits issued by the state of Colorado for the Sunday Mine Complex.
+Added: At issue is the application of an unchallenged Colorado Court of Appeals Opinion for a separate mine (Van 4) with very different facts
+Added: that are retroactively modifying DRMS rules and regulations.
+Added: The Company maintains that it was timely in meeting existing rules and regulations.
+Added: The hearing was scheduled to be held during several monthly MLRB Board meetings, but this matter has been delayed several times.
+Added: hearing was held during the MLRB Board monthly meeting on July 22, 2020.
+Added: At issue was the status of the five existing permits which comprise
+Added: the Sunday Mine Complex.
+Added: Due to COVID restrictions, the hearing took place utilizing a virtual-only format.
+Added: The Company prevailed in a
+Added: 3 to 1 decision which acknowledged that the work completed at the Sunday Mines under DRMS oversight was timely and sufficient for Western
+Added: to maintain these permits.
+Added: In a subsequent July 30, 2020 letter, the DRMS notified the Company that the status of the five permits (Sunday,
+Added: West Sunday, St.
+Added: Jude, Carnation, and Topaz) had been changed to Active status effective June 10, 2019, the original date on which the
+Added: change of the status was approved.
+Added: On August 23, 2020, the Company initiated a request for temporary cessation status for the Sunday Mine
+Added: Complex as the mines had not be restarted within a 180-day window due to the direct and indirect impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.
+Added: a permit hearing was scheduled for October 21, 2020 to determine temporary cessation status.
+Added: In a unanimous vote, the MLRB approved temporary
+Added: cessation status for each of the five Sunday Mine Complex permits (Sunday, West Sunday, St.
+Added: Jude, Carnation, and Topaz).
+Added: On October 9,
+Added: 2020, the MLRB issued a board order which finalized the findings of the July 22, 2020 permit hearing.
+Added: On November 10, 2020, the MLRB issued
+Added: a board order which finalized the findings of the October 21, 2020 permit hearing.
+Added: On November 6, 2020, the MLRB signed an order placing
+Added: the five Sunday Mine Complex mine permits into Temporary Cessation.
+Added: On November 12, 2020, a coalition of environmental groups filed a
+Added: complaint against the MLRB seeking a partial appeal of the July 22, 2020 decision by requesting termination of the Topaz Mine permit.
+Added: On December 15, 2020, the same coalition of environmental groups amended their complaint against the MLRB seeking a partial appeal of
+Added: the October 21, 2020 decision requesting termination of the Topaz Mine permit.
+Added: The Company has joined with the MLRB in defense of their
+Added: July 22, 2020 and October 21, 2020 decisions.
+Added: According to the judicial review timetable, an opening brief and answer brief will be filed
+Added: with the Denver District Court during second quarter 2021.
WESTERN URANIUM & VANADIUM CORP.
AND SUBSIDIARIES
−Removed: CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
+Added: NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(Stated in USD)
−Removed: NOTE 5 –
+Added: NOTE 5 - Accounts
Payable and Accrued Liabilities
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Total accounts payable and accrued liabilities
−Removed: NOTE 6 - COMMITMENTS
+Added: Note 6 –
+Added: Paycheck Protection Program Loan
+Added: On May 6, 2020, the Company obtained the PPP Loan of $73,116.
+Added: had a fixed interest rate of 1%, required the Company to make seventeen (17) monthly payments, after a seven months deferral period, and
+Added: had a maturity date of May 6, 2022.
+Added: The entirety of the loan principal was eligible for forgiveness to the extent that the proceeds are
+Added: utilized toward permissible expenditures within the initial period.
+Added: On December 2, 2020, the Company received notice from the U.S.
+Added: Business Association that the entire PPP Loan balance and accrued interest was forgiven in full on such date.
+Added: The Company recorded the
+Added: loan forgiveness as other income in the Company’s consolidated statement of operations and other comprehensive loss.
+Added: NOTE 7 –
+Added: COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES
Supply Contract
−Removed: On June 1, 2018, the Company signed a letter agreement with Battery
−Removed: Mineral Resource Nevada, Inc.
−Removed: (“BMR”) to form a joint venture for vanadium development at the Sage Mine.
−Removed: Subsequently,
−Removed: BMR provided notification of their desire to exercise the purchase option rather than pursue a joint venture.
−Removed: On September 18,
−Removed: 2018, Western announced that the parties were not able to reach an amended agreement and mutually agreed to discontinue the transaction.
−Removed: In December 2015, the Company signed a uranium concentrates supply
−Removed: agreement with a major U.S.
+Added: In December 2015, the Company signed a uranium concentrates supply agreement
+Added: with a major U.S.
utility company for delivery commencing in 2018 and continuing for a five year period through 2022.
−Removed: As the Company does not possess saleable uranium, a partial assignment agreement was put in place whereby the assignee accepted
−Removed: the Company’s right to the Year 1 delivery of 125,000 pounds of natural uranium concentrates.
−Removed: The Year 1 delivery was made
−Removed: during 2018 and the assignee was paid the full consideration under the agreement.
−Removed: The Company did not recognize any gain or loss
−Removed: on this transaction.
−Removed: In Year 2, a partial assignment agreement was put in place whereby the assignee accepted the Company’s
−Removed: right to the Year 2 delivery of 125,000 pounds of natural uranium concentrates.
−Removed: The Year 2 delivery was made during 2019 and the
−Removed: assignee was paid the full consideration under the agreement.
−Removed: The Company will not recognize any gain or loss on this transaction.
+Added: As the Company does
+Added: not possess saleable uranium, a partial assignment agreement was put in place whereby the assignee accepted the Company’s right
+Added: to the Year 1 delivery of 125,000 pounds of natural uranium concentrates.
+Added: The Year 1 delivery was made during 2018 and the assignee was
+Added: paid the full consideration under the agreement.
+Added: The Company did not recognize any gain or loss on this transaction.
+Added: In Year 2, a partial
+Added: assignment agreement was put in place whereby the assignee accepted the Company’s right to the Year 2 delivery of 125,000 pounds
+Added: of natural uranium concentrates.
+Added: The Year 2 delivery was made during 2019 and the assignee was paid the full consideration under the agreement.
+Added: The Company did not recognize any gain or loss on this transaction.
The Company and the U.S.
−Removed: utility customer mutually agreed to cancel the Year 3 delivery rather than pursue a partial assignment;
−Removed: there will be no delivery during 2020.
+Added: utility customer mutually agreed to cancel
+Added: the Year 3 delivery, rather than pursue a partial assignment;
+Added: there was no delivery during 2020.
+Added: See Note 15 for additional information
+Added: related to the Year 4 delivery.
+Added: Legal proceedings
+Added: On June 13, 2019, Black Range was sued
+Added: over the original Weld County Colorado deed language.
+Added: The lawsuit was filed in the Weld County District Court.
+Added: This deed was negotiated
+Added: prior to the Company acquiring Black Range in September 2015 by prior management and a bank representing the estate of the property
+Added: The plaintiff, the estate’s beneficiaries, assert that it was the intent that they would receive a production override
+Added: royalty for oil and gas production from the property, however this language was not included in the deed.
+Added: Western’s attorney
+Added: has filed a response with the court contesting this allegation.
+Added: This only involves royalties on oil and gas production on this
+Added: undeveloped property, thus there is no current economic impact.
+Added: Court procedure mandates that the parties participate in a mediation
+Added: process before bringing the matter before the court.
+Added: During the scheduling of the mediation process, the parties agreed to a settlement.
+Added: Western executed the Settlement Agreement on December 31, 2019 and the four plaintiffs executed in counterparts on various days
+Added: in January 2020.
+Added: The plaintiff was given a non-participating royalty interest of 1/8 th for all hydrocarbon and non-hydrocarbon
+Added: substances that are produced and sold from the Weld County property.
+Added: As the settlement only impacts future economics, the Company
+Added: will not recognize any gain or loss from this transaction.
WESTERN URANIUM & VANADIUM CORP.
AND SUBSIDIARIES
−Removed: CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
+Added: NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(Stated in USD)
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Authorized Capital
−Removed: The holders of the Company’s common shares are entitled to
−Removed: one vote per share.
−Removed: Holders of common shares are entitled to receive ratably such dividends, if any, as may be declared by the
−Removed: Board of Directors out of legally available funds.
−Removed: Upon the liquidation, dissolution, or winding up of the Company, holders of
−Removed: common shares are entitled to share ratably in all assets of the Company that are legally available for distribution.
−Removed: As of December
−Removed: 31, 2019 and December 31, 2018, an unlimited number of common shares were authorized for issuance.
−Removed: Shares Issued for Accounts Payable
−Removed: On May 4, 2018, the Company issued 60,832 shares of its common
−Removed: shares in exchange for approximately $32,251 of its accounts payable outstanding with certain creditors.
+Added: The holders of the Company’s common shares are entitled to one
+Added: vote per share.
+Added: Holders of common shares are entitled to receive ratably such dividends, if any, as may be declared by the Board of Directors
+Added: out of legally available funds.
+Added: Upon the liquidation, dissolution, or winding up of the Company, holders of common shares are entitled
+Added: to share ratably in all assets of the Company that are legally available for distribution.
+Added: As of December 31, 2020 and 2019, an unlimited
+Added: number of common shares were authorized for issuance.
Private Placement
−Removed: On May 4, 2018, the Company completed a private placement of
−Removed: 909,622 units at a price of CAD $0.68 (USD $0.53) per unit for gross proceeds of CAD $618,543 (USD $481,560).
−Removed: The Company paid
−Removed: USD $8,794 in offering costs and received net proceeds of USD $457,608.
−Removed: Each unit consisted of one common share and a warrant to
−Removed: purchase one-half of one common share.
−Removed: Each warrant is exercisable at a price of CAD $1.15 and expires two years from the date
−Removed: On July 27, 2018, the Company completed a private placement
−Removed: of 2,525,526 units at a price of CAD $0.68 (USD $0.52) per unit for gross proceeds of CAD $1,717,358 (USD $1,319,096).
−Removed: paid USD $46,886 in offering costs and received net proceeds of USD $1,272,210.
−Removed: Each unit consisted of one common share and a warrant
−Removed: to purchase one-half of one common share.
−Removed: Each warrant is exercisable at a price of CAD $1.15 and expires two years from the date
−Removed: On August 9, 2018, the Company completed a private placement
−Removed: of 1,907,088 units at a price of CAD $0.68 (USD $0.52) per unit for gross proceeds of CAD $1,296,820 (USD $1,000,000).
−Removed: paid USD $26,487 in offering costs and received net proceeds of USD $973,513.
−Removed: Each unit consisted of one common share and a warrant
−Removed: to purchase one-half of one common share.
−Removed: Each warrant is exercisable at a price of CAD $1.15 and expires two years from the date
−Removed: On April 16, 2019, the Company completed a private placement
−Removed: of 3,914,632 units at a price of CAD $0.98 (USD $0.73) per unit for gross proceeds of CAD $3,836,340 (USD $2,856,356).
−Removed: consisted of one common share and a warrant to purchase one-half of one common share.
−Removed: Each warrant is exercisable at a price of
−Removed: CAD $1.70 and expires three years from the date of issuance.
−Removed: On June 17, 2019, the Company completed a private placement
−Removed: of 192,278 units at a price of CAD $0.98 (USD $0.73) per unit for gross proceeds of CAD $188,432 (USD $140,555).
−Removed: Each unit consisted
−Removed: of one common share and a warrant to purchase one-half of one common share.
−Removed: Each warrant is exercisable at a price of CAD $1.70
−Removed: and expires three years from the date of issuance.
+Added: On April 16, 2019, the Company completed
+Added: a private placement of 3,914,632 units at a price of CAD $0.98 (USD $0.73) per unit for gross proceeds of CAD $3,836,340 (USD $2,856,356).
+Added: Each unit consisted of one common share and a warrant to purchase one-half of one common share.
+Added: Each warrant is exercisable at
+Added: a price of CAD $1.70 and expires three years from the date of issuance.
+Added: On June 17, 2019, the Company completed
+Added: a private placement of 192,278 units at a price of CAD $0.98 (USD $0.73) per unit for gross proceeds of CAD $188,432 (USD $140,555).
+Added: Each unit consisted of one common share and a warrant to purchase one-half of one common share.
+Added: Each warrant is exercisable at
+Added: a price of CAD $1.70 and expires three years from the date of issuance.
Incentive Stock Option Plan
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changes to the Plan on September 12, 2015.
−Removed: The purpose of the Plan is to attract, retain
−Removed: and motivate directors, management, staff and consultants by providing them with the opportunity, through stock options, to acquire
−Removed: a proprietary interest in the Company and benefit from its growth.
+Added: The purpose of the Plan is to attract,
+Added: retain and motivate directors, management, staff and consultants by providing them with the opportunity, through stock options,
+Added: to acquire a proprietary interest in the Company and benefit from its growth.
The Plan provides that the aggregate number
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the maximum number of stock options eligible for issue under the Plan was 3,008,375.
−Removed: On February 8, 2018, the Company granted options under the plan
−Removed: for the purchase of an aggregate of 100,000 common shares to a director.
−Removed: The options have an exercise price of CAD $1.00 (US $0.73
−Removed: as of December 31, 2018) and vest one half on the date of grant and one half on December 31, 2018.
−Removed: One half of the options expire
−Removed: on January 31, 2023 and the remaining options expire on December 31, 2023.
+Added: On January 6, 2020, the Company granted
+Added: options under the Plan for the purchase of an aggregate of 600,000 common shares to five individuals consisting of directors, officers,
+Added: and consultants of the Company.
+Added: The options have a five year term, an exercise price of CAD $1.03 (US $0.81 as of December 31,
+Added: 2020) and vest equally in thirds commencing initially on the date of grant and thereafter on January 31, 2020, and September 30,
WESTERN URANIUM & VANADIUM CORP.
AND SUBSIDIARIES
−Removed: CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
+Added: NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(Stated in USD)
−Removed: NOTE 7 - SHARE CAPITAL AND OTHER EQUITY
−Removed: INSTRUMENTS, CONTINUED
−Removed: On September 24, 2018, the Company granted options under the
−Removed: plan for the purchase of an aggregate of 983,000 common shares to several officers, directors, and consultants.
−Removed: The options have
−Removed: an exercise price of CAD $2.15 (US $1.58 as of December 31, 2018) and vest equally in three installments on the date of grant,
−Removed: on October 31, 2018, and on March 31, 2019.
−Removed: One third of the options expire on September 24, 2023, one third expire on October
−Removed: 31, 2023, and the remaining one third expire on March 31, 2024.
+Added: NOTE 8 - SHARE CAPITAL AND OTHER EQUITY INSTRUMENTS, CONTINUED
Stock Options
−Removed: Number of Shares
−Removed: Weighted Average Exercise Price
−Removed: Weighted Average Contractual Life
−Removed: Weighted Average Grant Date Fair Value
−Removed: Intrinsic Value
+Added: Exercise Price
+Added: Average Grant
+Added: Date Fair Value
Outstanding - January 1, 2020
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December 31, 2020
−Removed: Number of Shares
−Removed: Weighted Average Exercise Price (USD)
−Removed: Weighted Average Contractual Life
−Removed: Weighted Average Grant Date Fair
−Removed: Intrinsic Value
+Added: Exercise Price
+Added: Average Grant
+Added: Date Fair Value
Outstanding - January 1, 2019
Expired, forfeited, or cancelled
−Removed: Outstanding - December 31, 2018
−Removed: Exercisable - December 31, 2018
+Added: Outstanding –
+Added: December 31, 2019
+Added: Exercisable –
+Added: December 31, 2019
The Company’s stock based compensation
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December 31, 2020, the Company had $0 in unamortized stock option expense.
−Removed: The Company utilized the Black-Scholes option pricing
−Removed: model to determine the fair value of these stock options, using the assumptions as outlined below.
−Removed: September 24,
+Added: The Company utilized the Black-Scholes
+Added: option pricing model to determine the fair value of these stock options, using the assumptions as outlined below.
Exercise Price
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AND SUBSIDIARIES
−Removed: CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
+Added: NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(Stated in USD)
−Removed: NOTE 7 - SHARE CAPITAL AND OTHER EQUITY
−Removed: INSTRUMENTS, CONTINUED
−Removed: Number of Shares
−Removed: Weighted Average Exercise Price
−Removed: Weighted Average Contractual Life
−Removed: Intrinsic Value
+Added: NOTE 8 - SHARE CAPITAL AND OTHER EQUITY INSTRUMENTS, CONTINUED
+Added: Exercise Price
+Added: Contractual Life
Outstanding - January 1, 2019
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December 31, 2019
−Removed: Number of Shares
−Removed: Weighted Average Exercise Price (USD)
−Removed: Weighted Average Contractual Life
−Removed: Intrinsic Value
Outstanding - January 1, 2020
−Removed: Outstanding - December 31, 2018
−Removed: Exercisable - December 31, 2018
−Removed: 8 - Mining Expenditures
−Removed: For the years ended
−Removed: Contract Labor
+Added: Outstanding –
+Added: December 31, 2020
+Added: Exercisable –
+Added: December 31, 2020
+Added: Warrant Extension
+Added: On April 20, 2020, the Company announced
+Added: the extension by nine months of the common share purchase warrants (the “Warrants”) issued to investors in non-brokered
+Added: private placements that closed on May 4, June 30, and August 9, 2018 (the “2018 Private Placements”) and the amendment
+Added: of the trigger price in the acceleration clause of each Warrant.
+Added: A total of 2,671,116 Warrants were amended.
+Added: The warrant modification
+Added: expense amounted to $639,012.
+Added: The Company performed a Black-Scholes valuation
+Added: on the warrants both pre-modification and post-modification, using the assumptions below.
+Added: Exercise Price
+Added: of Warrants Modified
+Added: Weighted Average
+Added: Risk-Free Interest Rate
+Added: life (in years)
+Added: Each Warrant initially entitled the holder
+Added: to purchase one common share in the capital of the Company at a price of $1.15 CAD at any time prior to May 4, July 30, and August
+Added: 9, 2020, respectively.
+Added: Each of these dates has been extended by nine months from their respective expiration dates such that the
+Added: Warrants will now expire on February 4, April 30, and May 9, 2021, respectively.
+Added: Additionally, each Warrant originally contained
+Added: an acceleration clause that allowed the Company to accelerate the expiration date of the Warrant if the closing price of the Company’s
+Added: common shares was equal to or greater than $2.50 CAD for a period of five consecutive trading days.
+Added: The Company amended this clause
+Added: by lowering the trigger price from $2.50 CAD to $1.83 CAD.
WESTERN URANIUM & VANADIUM CORP.
AND SUBSIDIARIES
−Removed: CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
+Added: NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(Stated in USD)
−Removed: 9 - Related Party Transactions AND
−Removed: The Company has transacted with related parties pursuant to
−Removed: service arrangements in the ordinary course of business, as follows:
−Removed: Prior to the acquisition of Black Range, Mr.
−Removed: George Glasier,
−Removed: the Company’s CEO, who is also a director (“Seller”), transferred his interest in a former joint venture with
−Removed: Ablation Technologies, LLC to Black Range.
−Removed: In connection with the transfer, Black Range issued 25 million shares of Black Range
−Removed: common shares to Seller and committed to pay AUD $500,000 (USD $351,099 as of December 31, 2019) to Seller within 60 days of the
−Removed: first commercial application of the kinetic separation technology.
−Removed: Western assumed this contingent payment obligation in connection
−Removed: with the acquisition of Black Range.
−Removed: At the date of the acquisition of Black Range, this contingent obligation was determined to
−Removed: Since the deferred contingent consideration obligation is probable and the amount is estimable, the Company recorded
−Removed: the deferred contingent consideration as an assumed liability in the amount of $351,099 and $352,361 as of December 31, 2019 and
−Removed: December 31, 2018, respectively.
+Added: 9 - Mining Expenditures
+Added: For the Years Ended
+Added: 10 - Related Party Transactions AND BALANCES
+Added: The Company has transacted with related
+Added: parties pursuant to service arrangements in the ordinary course of business, as follows:
+Added: Prior to the acquisition of Black Range,
+Added: George Glasier, the Company’s CEO, who is also a director (“Seller”), transferred his interest in a former
+Added: joint venture with Ablation Technologies, LLC to Black Range.
+Added: In connection with the transfer, Black Range issued 25 million shares
+Added: of Black Range common stock to Seller and committed to pay AUD $500,000 (USD $392,086 as of December 31, 2020) to Seller within
+Added: 60 days of the first commercial application of the kinetic separation technology.
+Added: Western assumed this contingent payment obligation
+Added: in connection with the acquisition of Black Range.
+Added: At the date of the acquisition of Black Range, this contingent obligation was
+Added: determined to be probable.
+Added: Since the deferred contingent consideration obligation is probable and the amount is estimable, the
+Added: Company recorded the deferred contingent consideration as an assumed liability in the amount of $392,086 and $351,099 as of December
+Added: 31, 2020 and 2019, respectively.
The tax effects of temporary differences
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Property and equipment
−Removed: Deferred tax assets (liabilities), net
−Removed: $ (2,708,887 )
−Removed: $ (2,708,887 )
+Added: Deferred tax liabilities, net
The change in the Company’s valuation allowance is as
−Removed: For the Years Ended December 31,
+Added: For the Years Ended
Beginning of year
Increase (decrease) in valuation allowance
+Added: WESTERN URANIUM & VANADIUM CORP.
+Added: AND SUBSIDIARIES
+Added: NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
+Added: (Stated in USD)
+Added: Income Taxes, CONTINUED
A reconciliation of the provision for income
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for income taxes is as follows:
−Removed: URANIUM & VANADIUM CORP.
−Removed: AND SUBSIDIARIES
−Removed: TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
−Removed: Income Taxes, CONTINUED
For the Years Ended
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Valuation allowance
−Removed: Change in federal tax rate
−Removed: True-up of prior year deferred tax assets
Effective income tax rate
The Company has net operating loss carryovers of approximately $21,081,717
−Removed: $18,688,609 for federal and state income tax purposes and net operating loss carryovers of $10,887,091 for Canadian provincial
−Removed: tax purposes which begin to expire in 2026.
−Removed: The ultimate realization of the net operating loss is dependent upon future taxable
−Removed: income, if any, of the Company.
+Added: for federal and state income tax purposes and net operating loss carryovers of $11,458,182 for Canadian provincial tax purposes which
+Added: begin to expire in 2026.
+Added: The ultimate realization of the net operating loss is dependent upon future taxable income, if any, of the Company.
Based on losses from inception, the Company
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Internal Revenue Code (“IRC”)
−Removed: Section 382 imposes limitations on the use of net operating loss carryovers when the stock ownership of one or more 5% stockholders
−Removed: (stockholders owning 5% or more of the Company’s outstanding capital stock) has increased on a cumulative basis over a period
+Added: Section 382 imposes limitations on the use of net operating loss carryovers when the share ownership of one or more 5% shareholders
+Added: (shareholders owning 5% or more of the Company’s outstanding capital stock) has increased on a cumulative basis over a period
of three years by more than 50 percentage points.
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is a risk of an ownership change beyond the control of the Company that could trigger a limitation of the use of the loss carryover.
−Removed: The Company has analyzed the issuances of shares of common shares during the years ended December 31, 2019 and 2018 and does not
−Removed: believe such change of control occurred.
−Removed: If such ownership change under IRC section 382 had occurred, such change would substantially
−Removed: limit the Company’s ability in the future to utilize its net operating loss carryforwards.
+Added: The Company has analyzed the issuances of common shares during the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019 and does not believe
+Added: such change of control occurred.
+Added: If such ownership change under IRC section 382 had occurred, such change would substantially limit
+Added: the Company’s ability in the future to utilize its net operating loss carryforwards.
Option and exploration agreement
Hansen and Picnic Tree Loss of Property
−Removed: On September 16, 2015, in connection with the Company’s
−Removed: acquisition of Black Range, the Company assumed an option and exploration agreement (the “Option and Exploration Agreement”)
−Removed: with STB Minerals, LLC, a Colorado limited liability company (“STB”).
−Removed: The Option and Exploration Agreement gives the
−Removed: Company the right to purchase 51% of the mineral rights of specific areas of the Hansen and Picnic Tree deposits (for which the
−Removed: Company already holds 49% of the rights).
−Removed: If the Company were to exercise its option under the Option and Exploration Agreement,
−Removed: it would require the Company to (a) make a cash payment of $2,500,000 immediately upon exercise;
−Removed: (b) issue shares of common shares
−Removed: to STB amounting to a value of $3,750,000 immediately upon exercise;
−Removed: and (c) issue shares of common shares to STB amounting to
−Removed: a value of $3,750,000 on the date that is 180 days following exercise.
−Removed: The Option and Exploration Agreement was scheduled to expire
−Removed: by its terms (as extended) on July 28, 2019 if not exercised.
+Added: On September 16, 2015, in connection with
+Added: the Company’s acquisition of Black Range, the Company assumed an option and exploration agreement (the “Option and
+Added: Exploration Agreement”) with STB Minerals, LLC, a Colorado limited liability company (“STB”).
+Added: The Option and
+Added: Exploration Agreement gives the Company the right to purchase 51% of the mineral rights of specific areas of the Hansen and Picnic
+Added: Tree deposits (for which the Company already holds 49% of the rights).
+Added: If the Company were to exercise its option under the Option
+Added: and Exploration Agreement, it would require the Company to (a) make a cash payment of $2,500,000 immediately upon exercise;
+Added: issue common shares to STB amounting to a value of $3,750,000 immediately upon exercise;
+Added: and (c) issue common shares to STB amounting
+Added: to a value of $3,750,000 on the date that is 180 days following exercise.
+Added: The Option and Exploration Agreement was scheduled to
+Added: expire by its terms (as extended) on July 28, 2019 if not exercised.
Prior to July 28, 2019, the Company decided
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deposits, and thus the option has expired unexercised.
−Removed: Commitments and contiNgencies
−Removed: Legal Proceedings
−Removed: On June 13, 2019, Black Range was sued over
−Removed: the original Weld County Colorado deed language.
−Removed: The lawsuit was filed in the Weld County District Court.
−Removed: This deed was negotiated
−Removed: prior to the Company acquiring Black Range in September 2015 by prior management and a bank representing the estate of the property
−Removed: The plaintiff, the estate’s beneficiaries, assert that it was the intent that they would receive a production override
−Removed: royalty for oil and gas production from the property, however this language was not included in the deed.
−Removed: Western’s attorney
−Removed: has filed a response with the court contesting this allegation.
−Removed: This only involves royalties on oil and gas production on this
−Removed: undeveloped property, thus there is no current economic impact.
−Removed: Court procedure mandates that the parties participate in a mediation
−Removed: process before bringing the matter before the court.
−Removed: During the scheduling of the mediation process, the parties agreed to a settlement.
−Removed: The plaintiff was given a non-participating royalty interest of 1/8 th of 8/8 th ’s for all hydrocarbon
−Removed: and non-hydrocarbon substances that are produced and sold from the Weld County property.
−Removed: As the settlement only impacts future
−Removed: economics, the Company will not recognize any gain or loss from this transaction.
WESTERN URANIUM & VANADIUM CORP.
AND SUBSIDIARIES
−Removed: CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
+Added: NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(Stated in USD)
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FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS
−Removed: The Company’s financial
−Removed: instruments consist of cash, restricted cash, and accounts payable and accrued liabilities.
−Removed: The fair values of these
−Removed: financial instruments approximate their carrying values due to the short-term maturity of these instruments.
−Removed: Company’s financial instruments also incorporated marketable securities that are adjusted to fair value at each balance
−Removed: sheet date based on quoted prices which are considered level 1 inputs.
−Removed: The reclamation deposits, which are reflected in
−Removed: restricted cash on the consolidated balance sheets, are deposits mainly invested in certificates of deposit at major
−Removed: financial institutions and their fair values were estimated to approximate their carrying values.
−Removed: There were no transfers of
−Removed: financial instruments between Levels 1, 2, and 3 during the years ended December 31, 2019 and 2018.
+Added: The Company’s financial instruments
+Added: consist of cash, restricted cash, and accounts payable and accrued liabilities.
+Added: The fair values of these financial instruments
+Added: approximate their carrying values due to the short-term maturity of these instruments.
+Added: The Company’s financial instruments
+Added: also incorporated marketable securities that are adjusted to fair value at each balance sheet date based on quoted prices which
+Added: are considered level 1 inputs.
+Added: The reclamation deposits, which are reflected in restricted cash on the consolidated balance sheets,
+Added: are deposits mainly invested in certificates of deposit at major financial institutions and their fair values were estimated to
+Added: approximate their carrying values.
+Added: There were no transfers of financial instruments between Levels 1, 2, and 3 during the years
+Added: ended December 31, 2020 and 2019.
Foreign Currency Risk
−Removed: Foreign currency risk is the risk that changes in the rates of exchange
−Removed: on foreign currencies will impact the financial position or cash flows of the Company.
−Removed: The Company’s reporting currency is
−Removed: the United States Dollar.
+Added: Foreign currency risk is the risk that
+Added: changes in the rates of exchange on foreign currencies will impact the financial position or cash flows of the Company.
+Added: The Company’s
+Added: reporting currency is the United States Dollar.
The functional currency for Western Uranium & Vanadium Corp.
−Removed: standalone entity is the Canadian dollar.
−Removed: The Company is exposed to foreign currency risks in relation to certain any activity that is to be settled in Canadian funds.
−Removed: monitors its foreign currency exposure regularly to minimize the risk of an adverse impact on its cash flows.
+Added: standalone entity
+Added: is the Canadian dollar.
+Added: The Company is exposed to foreign currency risks in relation to certain activity that is to be settled
+Added: in Canadian funds.
+Added: Management monitors its foreign currency exposure regularly to minimize the risk of an adverse impact on
+Added: its cash flows.
Concentration of Credit Risk
Concentration of credit risk is the risk
−Removed: of loss in the event that certain counterparties are unable to fulfill its obligations to the Company.
−Removed: The Company limits its exposure
−Removed: to credit loss on its cash and restricted cash by placing its cash with high credit quality financial institutions.
−Removed: does not have any cash in excess of federally insured limits.
+Added: of loss in the event that certain counterparties are unable to fulfil their obligations to the Company.
+Added: The Company limits its
+Added: exposure to credit loss on its cash and restricted cash by placing its cash with high credit quality financial institutions.
Liquidity Risk
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the form of debt or equity, or achieving profitable operations in order to satisfy its liabilities as they come due.
+Added: As of December
+Added: 31, 2020, the Company had a working capital of $162,375 and cash on hand of $565,250.
Market risk is the risk that fluctuations
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The Company is exposed to market risk on the
−Removed: price of uranium & vanadium, which will determine its ability to build and achieve profitable operations, the amount of exploration
+Added: price of uranium and vanadium, which will determine its ability to build and achieve profitable operations, the amount of exploration
and development work that the Company will be able to perform, and the number of financing opportunities that will be available.
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to specific market price risks.
−Removed: Subsequent Events
−Removed: In December 2019, a novel strain of coronavirus, COVID-19,
−Removed: was reported to have surfaced in Wuhan, China.
−Removed: Since then, the COVID-19 coronavirus has spread to multiple countries, including
−Removed: the United States and Canada.
−Removed: As the COVID-19 coronavirus continues to spread in the United States and Canada, we may experience
−Removed: disruptions that could severely impact our business.
+Added: WESTERN URANIUM & VANADIUM CORP.
+Added: AND SUBSIDIARIES
+Added: NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
+Added: (Stated in USD)
+Added: In December 2019, a novel strain of coronavirus, COVID-19, was reported
+Added: to have surfaced in Wuhan, China.
+Added: Since then, the COVID-19 coronavirus has spread to multiple countries, including the United States.
+Added: As the COVID-19 coronavirus continues to spread in the United States, the Company may experience disruptions that could severely impact
The global outbreak of the COVID-19 coronavirus continues to rapidly evolve.
−Removed: The extent to which the COVID-19 coronavirus may impact our business will depend on future developments, which are highly uncertain
−Removed: and cannot be predicted with confidence, such as the ultimate geographic spread of the disease, the duration of the outbreak, travel
−Removed: restrictions and social distancing in the United States, Canada and other countries, business closures or business disruptions
−Removed: and the effectiveness of actions taken in the United States, Canada and other countries to contain and treat the disease.
−Removed: On January 6, 2020, the Company granted options under the Plan for
−Removed: the purchase of an aggregate of 600,000 common shares to five individuals consisting of directors, officers, and consultants of
−Removed: The options have a five year term, an exercise price of CAD $1.03 (US $0.79 as of December 31, 2019) and vest equally
−Removed: in thirds commencing initially on the date of grant and thereafter on January 31, 2020, and June 30, 2020.
−Removed: On February 4, 2020, the Colorado DRMS sent a Notice of Hearing
−Removed: to Declare Termination of Mining Operations to Western for the Sunday Mine Complex.
−Removed: At issue is the application of an unchallenged
−Removed: Colorado Court of Appeals Opinion for a separate mine, with very different facts that is retroactively modifying DRMS rules and
−Removed: The Company maintains that it was timely in meeting existing rules and regulations.
−Removed: The formal hearing was scheduled
−Removed: to be held during the April 22-23, 2020 MLRB Board meeting, which has now been moved to the May 13-14, 2020 MLRB Board meeting
−Removed: due to the impacts of the COVID-19 virus.
+Added: The extent to which the COVID-19 coronavirus
+Added: may impact the Company’s business will depend on future developments, which are highly uncertain and cannot be predicted with confidence,
+Added: such as the ultimate geographic spread of the disease, the duration of the outbreak, travel restrictions and social distancing in the
+Added: United States and other countries, business closures or business disruptions and the effectiveness of actions taken in the United States
+Added: to contain and treat the disease.
+Added: To date, COVID-19 has primarily caused Western delays in reporting, regulatory, and operations.
+Added: notably, the Company initiated a request for temporary cessation status for the Sunday Mine Complex as the mines had not been restarted
+Added: within the 180-day window due to the direct and indirect impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.
+Added: The Van 4 Mine reclamation process was also
+Added: delayed because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
+Added: The Company is monitoring COVID-19’s potential impact on the Company’s operations.
+Added: Subsequent events
+Added: On February 16, 2021, the Company closed on a non-brokered private
+Added: placement (the “Private Placement”) of 3,250,000 units (the “Units”) at a price of CAD $0.80 per Unit.
+Added: The aggregate
+Added: gross proceeds raised in this Private Placement amount to CAD $2,600,000.
+Added: Each Unit consists of one common share of Western (a “Share”)
+Added: plus one common share purchase warrant of Western (a “Warrant”).
+Added: Each warrant entitled the holder to purchase one Share at
+Added: a price of CAD $1.20 per Share for a period of three years following the closing date of the Private Placement.
+Added: A total of 3,250,000 Shares
+Added: and 3,250,000 Warrants were issued in the Private Placement.
+Added: On March 1, 2021, the Company closed on a non-brokered private placement
+Added: (the “Private Placement”) of 3,125,000 units (the “Units”) at a price of CAD $0.80 per Unit.
+Added: The aggregate gross
+Added: proceeds raised in this Private Placement amount to CAD $2,500,000.
+Added: Each Unit consists of one common share of Western (a “Share”)
+Added: plus one common share purchase warrant of Western (a “Warrant”).
+Added: Each warrant entitled the holder to purchase one Share at
+Added: a price of CAD $1.20 per Share for a period of three years following the closing date of the Private Placement.
+Added: A total of 3,125,000 Shares
+Added: and 3,125,000 Warrants were issued in the Private Placement.
+Added: On March 8, 2021, the Company entered into an agreement with a third party
+Added: to complete the 2021 (Year 4) uranium concentrate delivery, with reference to Note 7.
+Added: The Company agreed to pay $78,000 in April 2021
+Added: to the assignee for the assignee making the delivery in May 2021.
+Added: The Company did not recognize any gain or loss on this transaction.
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