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statements, but the absence of these words does not mean that a statement is not forward-looking.
−Removed: The forward-looking statements contained or incorporated
−Removed: by reference in this quarterly report are based on our current expectations and beliefs concerning future developments and their potential
−Removed: effects on us and speak only as of the date of each such statement.
−Removed: There can be no assurance that future developments affecting us will
−Removed: be those that we have anticipated.
−Removed: These forward-looking statements involve a number of risks, uncertainties (some of which are beyond
−Removed: our control) or other assumptions that may cause actual results or performance to be materially different from those expressed or implied
−Removed: by these forward-looking statements.
−Removed: These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, those factors described in this Item
−Removed: 2 of Part I and Item 1A of Part II of this quarterly report.
−Removed: Should one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize, or should
−Removed: any of our assumptions prove incorrect, actual results may vary in material respects from those projected in these forward-looking statements.
−Removed: We undertake no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or
−Removed: otherwise, except as may be required under applicable securities laws.
+Added: The forward-looking statements contained
+Added: or incorporated by reference in this quarterly report are based on our current expectations and beliefs concerning future developments
+Added: and their potential effects on us and speak only as of the date of each such statement.
+Added: There can be no assurance that future developments
+Added: affecting us will be those that we have anticipated.
+Added: These forward-looking statements involve a number of risks, uncertainties (some of
+Added: which are beyond our control) or other assumptions that may cause actual results or performance to be materially different from those
+Added: expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements.
+Added: These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, those factors
+Added: described in this Item 2 of Part I and Item 1A of Part II of this quarterly report.
+Added: Should one or more of these risks or uncertainties
+Added: materialize, or should any of our assumptions prove incorrect, actual results may vary in material respects from those projected in these
+Added: forward-looking statements.
+Added: We undertake no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new
+Added: information, future events or otherwise, except as may be required under applicable securities laws.
The following discussion should be read in conjunction
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and Western became a United States reporting issuer.
−Removed: On June 30, 2023, Western re-qualified as a foreign private issuer
−Removed: as that term is defined in Rule 3b-4(c) promulgated under the Exchange Act.
−Removed: As a result, the Company may now utilize certain accommodations
−Removed: made to foreign private issuers, including (1) an exemption from complying with the Commission’s proxy rules, (2) an exemption from
−Removed: the Company’s insiders having to comply with the reporting and short-swing trading liability provisions of Section 16 under the
−Removed: Exchange Act, (3) the ability to make periodic filings with the Commission on the Form 20-F and Form 6-K foreign issuer forms, and (4)
−Removed: the ability to offer and sell unrestricted securities outside of the United States pursuant to Rule 903 of Regulation S.
−Removed: The Company plans
−Removed: to take advantage of these accommodations.
+Added: On June 30, 2023, Western re-qualified as a foreign
+Added: private issuer as that term is defined in Rule 3b-4(c) promulgated under the Exchange Act.
+Added: As a result, the Company may now utilize certain
+Added: accommodations made to foreign private issuers, including (1) an exemption from complying with the Commission’s proxy rules, (2)
+Added: an exemption from the Company’s insiders having to comply with the reporting and short-swing trading liability provisions of Section
+Added: 16 under the Exchange Act, (3) the ability to make periodic filings with the Commission on the Form 20-F and Form 6-K foreign issuer forms,
+Added: and (4) the ability to offer and sell unrestricted securities outside of the United States pursuant to Rule 903 of Regulation S.
+Added: plans to take advantage of these accommodations.
However, the Company currently has decided to voluntarily continue to file periodic reports
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as oil and/or gas are produced from the pooled unit containing these sixteen (16) wells.
−Removed: During the three months ended June 30, 2024 and
−Removed: 2023, we recognized aggregate revenue of $39,781 and $102,789, respectively, and for the six months ended June 30, 2024 and 2023, we recognized
−Removed: aggregate revenue of $94,054 and $268,764, respectively, under these oil and gas lease arrangements.
−Removed: Oil and gas royalties declined in
−Removed: the current quarter due to a maintenance shutdown of a wellpad, which contains a set of eight (8) wells from which the Company derives
+Added: During the three months ended September 30, 2024
+Added: and 2023, we recognized aggregate revenue of $52,981 and $89,144, respectively, and for the nine months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023,
+Added: we recognized aggregate revenue of $147,035 and $357,908, respectively, under these oil and gas lease arrangements.
+Added: For the three months
+Added: ended September 30, 2024, oil and gas royalties declined due to lower volumes attributable to production decline curves.
+Added: months ended September 30, 2024, the decline in oil and gas royalties was principally attributable to short-term well-pad maintenance
+Added: shutdowns of eight (8) wells during the second quarter and lower production volumes attributable to production decline curves.
Sunday Mine Complex Project Update
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Between January 25th and March 31st, the team drilled a total of 13,153 linear
−Removed: During the second quarter, the underground horizontal drilling program achieved 12,339 additional linear feet of drilling followed
−Removed: by probing of the holes and data collection.
−Removed: At the beginning of 2024, Western expanded the
−Removed: Sunday Mine Complex mining operations by deploying two alternating mining crews and two alternating drilling teams who operated seven
−Removed: In early January, a schedule of alternating weeks with seven workdays per week was implemented for the mining and drilling
−Removed: teams at the Sunday Mine Complex.
−Removed: By early July, mining operations transitioned back to a four workdays per week schedule to enhance coordination
−Removed: and efficiency for the next phase of the work program.
−Removed: The mining team encountered a previously
−Removed: unknown uranium mineral deposit while drifting to the Leonard & Clark deposit.
−Removed: Consequently, the Company has paused the drifting project
−Removed: and the mining team and the drilling team switched the locations from which they were working.
−Removed: station was relocated to this newly discovered uranium deposit in order to facilitate an assessment of its size.
−Removed: As this is a previously
−Removed: unexplored area, this discovery was not unexpected as our expectation is that we will encounter additional significant mineral deposits.
−Removed: The San Rafael Uranium Project, located in Emery
−Removed: County, Utah, is being developed as the Company's second production facility.
−Removed: Western submitted a Notice of Intent to the
−Removed: Bureau of Land Management (“BLM”) for which the BLM has given its approval for this mineral and groundwater exploration
−Removed: Following this approval, the Company submitted an exploration permit application to Utah’s Division of Oil, Gas & Mining.
−Removed: We anticipate receiving this last approval needed to commence the project within approximately 30 days.
−Removed: Following the completion of repairs
−Removed: to access roads, the phase 1 drilling program is set to begin in 2024.
−Removed: Initially, groundwater monitoring wells will be installed at five
−Removed: drilling locations, reaching depths of approximately 1,000 feet.
−Removed: During the borehole completion process, mineralization will also be assessed
−Removed: and confirmed against historical drill data.
+Added: During the second quarter, the underground horizontal drilling program achieved 12,339 additional linear feet, and in the third
+Added: quarter an additional 4,983 linear feet were achieved.
+Added: Also, during the third quarter, the operations
+Added: team moved to an area of the Sunday Mine where the last operator ceased production.
+Added: Existing underground workings were rehabilitated and
+Added: utilities were installed in a large stope area close to the former production face.
+Added: At the beginning of 2024, Western expanded the Sunday Mine Complex
+Added: mining operations by deploying two alternating mining crews and two alternating drilling teams who operated seven days a week.
+Added: January, a schedule of alternating weeks with seven workdays per week was implemented for the mining and drilling teams at the Sunday
+Added: Mine Complex.
+Added: By early July, mining operations transitioned back to a four workdays per week schedule to enhance coordination and efficiency
+Added: during the summer months.
+Added: For the next phase of the work program, the mining team is transitioning back to the seven day work schedule
+Added: in November 2024.
+Added: The mining team encountered a previously unknown uranium mineral deposit
+Added: while drifting to the Leonard & Clark deposit.
+Added: Consequently, the Company has paused the drifting project and the mining team and the
+Added: drilling team switched the locations from which they were working.
+Added: The drilling station was relocated to this newly discovered uranium
+Added: deposit in order to facilitate an assessment of its size.
+Added: As this is a previously unexplored area, this discovery was not unexpected as
+Added: our expectation is that we will encounter additional significant mineral deposits.
+Added: Significant drilling, probing and data collection was
+Added: done in this area, and reporting will be completed under the supervision of Western’s new geologist, to be hired in the fourth quarter
+Added: The San Rafael Uranium Project, located in Emery County, Utah, is being
+Added: developed as the Company's second production facility.
+Added: During the second quarter 2024, Western submitted a Notice of Intent to the U.S.
+Added: Bureau of Land Management (“BLM”) that was approved for a mineral and groundwater exploration project.
+Added: the third quarter of 2024, Utah’s Division of Oil, Gas & Mining gave its approval of the exploration permit application and
+Added: the Company posted a $60,300 Financial Guarantee of reclamation costs with the BLM.
+Added: Following the completion of repairs to access roads,
+Added: the phase 1 drilling program is set to begin in 2024.
+Added: Initially, groundwater monitoring wells will be installed at five drilling locations,
+Added: reaching depths of approximately 1,000 feet.
+Added: During the borehole completion process, mineralization will also be assessed and confirmed
+Added: against historical drill data.
This project will provide the baseline data needed for permitting application submission.
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of the initial contribution, each party will own a 50% interest in the assets of the joint venture.
−Removed: During the six months ended June 30,
−Removed: 2024, approximately $178,549 in funding was provided to the JV, and this amount has been fully expensed to mining expenditures.
−Removed: Initial Contribution to fund the mining operations is likely to be satisfied during the third quarter of 2024.
−Removed: Thereafter, each party
−Removed: will own a 50% interest in the assets of the JV.
+Added: During the three and nine months ended
+Added: September 30, 2024, $55,643 and $234,192, respectively, in funding was provided to the JV, and this amount has been fully expensed to
+Added: mining expenditures.
+Added: The Company completed its earn-in during the third quarter of 2024, through payment of the initial contribution and
+Added: now owns a 50% interest in the assets of the JV.
These mines access shallow uranium deposits where mined material is available at depths
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Reclamation commenced immediately at the Topaz Mine and is to be completed within five years by March 2028.
−Removed: The Company has been working toward the
−Removed: completion of an updated Topaz Mine Plan of Operations since 2020.
−Removed: This is a separate federal requirement of the Bureau of Land
−Removed: Management (“BLM”) for the conduct of mining activities on the federal land at the Topaz Mine and is a prerequisite to
−Removed: re-permit the Topaz Mine with Colorado’s DRMS.
−Removed: An Environmental Assessment (“EA”) was prepared by an outside
−Removed: consultant to the BLM and submitted on June 24, 2024 for BLM’s internal review.
−Removed: On August 2, 2024, the BLM issued a letter
−Removed: advising that the Plan of Operations Environmental Assessment had been cancelled.
−Removed: A new federal law called the Fiscal Responsibility
−Removed: Act of 2023 was enacted that creates a one year time limit for BLM reviews.
−Removed: Under the transitional rules, the Topaz project was not
−Removed: eligible for an extension.
−Removed: However, the project can be resubmitted and be picked-up where it was left off.
−Removed: The re-scoping process
−Removed: will need to be repeated to start the one year time clock.
−Removed: At this time the Company has the ability to modify the Plan of Operations
−Removed: or proceed with the version previously submitted.
−Removed: Given this optionality, the Company is making a determination as to the best way
−Removed: to move forward.
−Removed: Uranium/Vanadium Buying Program
−Removed: Energy Fuels has announced that it expects to
−Removed: offer an ore buying program and that it plans to be able to schedule a milling run to begin in late 2024 or early 2025 at the White Mesa
−Removed: Mill, the only operational conventional uranium/vanadium mill in the United States.
−Removed: Western and Energy Fuels have had initial discussions
−Removed: regarding the delivery of mined material from the Sunday Mine Complex.
−Removed: If a mutually beneficial arrangement can be established, Western
−Removed: could pivot its current mining operations to begin deliveries of uranium/vanadium mined material in as little as 30 days at annualized
−Removed: quantities up to 250,000 pounds of uranium and 1,000,000 pounds of vanadium.
−Removed: The Company is currently awaiting a Letter of Intent from
−Removed: Energy Fuels to understand the terms of this ore buying program.
+Added: The Company has been working toward the completion of an updated Topaz
+Added: Mine Plan of Operations since 2020.
+Added: This is a separate federal requirement of the Bureau of Land Management (“BLM”) for the
+Added: conduct of mining activities on the federal land at the Topaz Mine and is a prerequisite to re-permit the Topaz Mine with Colorado’s
+Added: An Environmental Assessment (“EA”) was prepared by an outside consultant to the BLM and submitted on June 24, 2024 for
+Added: BLM’s internal review.
+Added: On August 2, 2024, the BLM issued a letter advising that the Plan of Operations Environmental Assessment
+Added: had been cancelled.
+Added: A new federal law called the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023 was enacted that creates a one year time limit for
+Added: Under the transitional rules, the Topaz project was not eligible for an extension.
+Added: However, the project can be resubmitted
+Added: and be picked up where it left off.
+Added: The re-scoping process will need to be repeated to start the one year time clock.
+Added: the Company has the ability to modify the Plan of Operations or proceed with the version previously submitted.
+Added: Given this optionality,
+Added: the Company is making a determination as to the best way to move forward.
+Added: Energy Fuels Ore Buying Program
+Added: Energy Fuels has announced that it expects to commence an ore buying
+Added: program from third-party miners in 2024 to increase its uranium production profile at the White Mesa Mill, currently, the only operational
+Added: conventional uranium/vanadium mill in the United States.
+Added: Western and Energy Fuels have had discussions regarding the delivery of mined
+Added: material from the Sunday Mine Complex.
+Added: The process can move forward once Energy Fuels makes available a final Ore Purchase Agreement with
+Added: the program terms.
+Added: If a mutually beneficial arrangement can be established, Western could pivot its current mining operations to begin
+Added: deliveries of mined material in as little as 30 days.
Utah Mineral Processing Plant
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state of Utah, there are numerous occurrences of cobalt which may be economical to mine, if a processing facility were available.
−Removed: The development of the Maverick Minerals Processing
−Removed: Plant in Green River, Utah, has advanced considerably.
−Removed: In the second quarter 2023, the land acquisition was completed and in the third
−Removed: quarter 2023 the project design and permitting activities commenced with the engagement of a full team of consulting firms, chosen for
−Removed: their expertise in engineering / mill design, permit preparation, environmental, hydrology, and air quality.
−Removed: Site evaluation work was
−Removed: undertaken and a preliminary plant and property site plan was compiled for the location of monitor wells, meteorological towers, buildings,
−Removed: processing circuits, tailings and evaporation ponds, roads/infrastructure and ore storage facilities.
−Removed: At a pre-application permitting
−Removed: meeting in November 2023, the Company and its consultants met onsite with local officials.
−Removed: During the first six months of 2024, additional
−Removed: progress has been made.
−Removed: The baseline data required for submission of the permitting application continues to be collected from the onsite
−Removed: meteorological towers.
+Added: The development of the Maverick Minerals Processing Plant in Green
+Added: River, Utah, has advanced considerably.
+Added: In the second quarter 2023, the land acquisition was completed and in the third quarter 2023 the
+Added: project design and permitting activities commenced with the engagement of a full team of consulting firms, chosen for their expertise
+Added: in engineering / mill design, permit preparation, environmental, hydrology, and air quality.
+Added: Site evaluation work was undertaken and a
+Added: preliminary plant and property site plan was compiled for the location of monitor wells, meteorological towers, buildings, processing
+Added: circuits, tailings and evaporation ponds, roads/infrastructure and ore storage facilities.
+Added: At a pre-application permitting meeting in
+Added: November 2023, the Company and its consultants met onsite with local officials.
+Added: During the first nine months of 2024, additional progress
+Added: has been made.
+Added: The baseline data required for submission of the permitting application continues to be collected from the onsite meteorological
A final plant and animal study was completed.
−Removed: This study confirmed the site is clear of endangered plant life that
−Removed: is only observable during the Spring growing season.
−Removed: Additional consulting commitments were made to advance the licensing and development
−Removed: with Precision Systems Engineering (PSE), a leading engineering, and design consulting firm headquartered in Sandy, Utah.
−Removed: Initially, PSE’s target was to release the preliminary engineering
−Removed: design and cost estimate in June 2024 for a 500 ton per day mill;
−Removed: this has been deferred until September 2024.
−Removed: Notably, several opportunities
−Removed: have recently become available to optimize the mill project for which additional time is needed.
−Removed: At this stage of development, we are
−Removed: continuing to analyze a range of scenarios to determine the most advantageous approach.
−Removed: Notably, we are exploring downsizing the mill
−Removed: size by modifying the application of Kinetic Separation.
−Removed: In addition to variable sizing and the application of Kinetic Separation, we
−Removed: intend to retain the modular build approach, and the potential to utilize multiple facility locations.
−Removed: The revised design parameters for
−Removed: the Maverick Minerals Processing Plant will continue to target annualized uranium production of 1 million pounds of yellowcake.
+Added: This study confirmed the site is clear of endangered plant life that is only observable
+Added: during the spring growing season.
+Added: Additional consulting commitments were made to advance the licensing and development with Precision
+Added: Systems Engineering (PSE), a leading engineering, and design consulting firm headquartered in Sandy, Utah.
+Added: Initially, PSE’s target
+Added: was to release the preliminary engineering design and cost estimate in June 2024 for a 500 ton per day mill;
+Added: this timing has been deferred
+Added: while Western reassesses its design and strategy now that it has purchased a previously licensed mill site in Colorado (please see Colorado
+Added: Mill Site Purchase, below).
+Added: At this stage of development, we are continuing to analyze a range
+Added: of scenarios to determine the most advantageous approach.
+Added: Notably, we are exploring downsizing the mill through the application of Kinetic
+Added: In addition to variable sizing and the application of Kinetic Separation, we intend to retain the modular build approach,
+Added: and the potential to utilize multiple facility locations.
+Added: Colorado Mill Site Purchase
+Added: On October 1, 2024, Western, through its wholly owned subsidiary, Western
+Added: Uranium Corporation, executed a binding Stock Purchase Agreement (the “PRC Agreement”) to purchase 100% of the shares of Pinon
+Added: Ridge Corporation, a Colorado corporation (“PRC”), from a private investor group and thereby acquire Pinion Ridge Resources
+Added: Corporation (“PRRC”), which is a wholly owned subsidiary of PRC.
+Added: PRRC owns an approximately 900-acre property located in Montrose
+Added: County, Colorado, where a uranium processing mill was previously licensed but never constructed.
+Added: While the mill was never constructed,
+Added: it was fully licensed and thus provides leverage from past expenditures unique to this specific site supporting the permitting process.
+Added: The acquisition becomes the second property package, that Western has acquired in addition to the Maverick Minerals Processing Plant site
+Added: in Utah, and is part of Western’s plans for developing and licensing one or more uranium and vanadium processing facilities to process
+Added: production from its resource properties in Colorado and Utah.
+Added: Pursuant to the PRC Agreement, the former PRC
+Added: shareholders were paid $829,167 for their PRC equity and shareholder loan repayments.
+Added: As of October 3, 2024, Western has completed all
+Added: such payments and the transaction has closed.
+Added: After closing, a creditor holding a security interest against PRRC was paid a total of $1,148,125
+Added: to pay off an outstanding promissory note.
+Added: Western also assumed certain PRC liabilities and obligations in the transaction, including
+Added: royalty obligations payable to an unrelated third party based upon the mineral volume processed through any mineral processing plant that
+Added: is located on the property.
+Added: The transaction will be accounted for as a purchase
+Added: George Glasier, the President, CEO and a director
+Added: of Western, and his wife Kathleen owned 50% of the shares of PRC, and Andrew Wilder, a director of Western, indirectly owned 3% of the
+Added: shares of PRC, and so the transaction was considered a related party transaction.
+Added: The Company’s Board of Directors established an
+Added: independent committee of the Board comprised of directors who were not considered to have an interest in the transaction, and the independent
+Added: committee oversaw the negotiation and approved the entering into the Agreement on behalf of the Company.
+Added: Of the total cash paid to the
+Added: sellers, approximately $414,000 was paid to George Glasier and approximately $24,000 was paid to an affiliate of Andrew Wilder.
+Added: The operations team has moved rapidly to deploy instruments for the
+Added: collection of water and air quality data.
+Added: This baseline testing is being completed to update existing site data as a critical input for
+Added: the permitting and licensing application.
Nuclear Fuel and Uranium Effect from the
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1042) in April 2024
−Removed: 2024 by the U.S.
Senate followed the U.S.
House of Representatives' passage of the bill in December 2023.
−Removed: Subsequently, on May 13, 2024,
−Removed: President Biden signed this legislation into law.
−Removed: The ban will now go into effect 90 days after its enactment and
−Removed: will be phased in under Department of Energy conditional waivers before becoming a complete ban on January 1, 2028.
−Removed: Importantly, the
−Removed: enactment of a Russian ban releases funding to support the American nuclear supply chain.
−Removed: This funding will be deployed by the DOE under
−Removed: a new program called the Low-Enriched Uranium (LEU) – Enrichment Acquisition.
−Removed: A Request for Proposal was disseminated in June,
−Removed: an Industry day was organized in July, and bids will be due in August.
−Removed: Through nuclear energy diplomacy, Russia’s control of the
−Removed: global nuclear fuel supply chain extends to many countries.
−Removed: However, as the United States has the world’s largest civilian nuclear
−Removed: reactor fleet, it has now taken steps to reduce its reliance on state-sponsored Russian nuclear fuel.
−Removed: As of August 11, 2024, the Russian
−Removed: uranium ban has become effective and a waiver is required for U.S.
−Removed: parties to receive Russian uranium until January 1, 2028 when Russian
−Removed: material is fully banned.
−Removed: This is a very new development and will likely have some implications becoming public in
−Removed: the near-term.
+Added: Subsequently, on May 13, 2024, President
+Added: Biden signed this legislation into law.
+Added: The ban will now go into effect 90 days after its enactment and will be phased in under Department
+Added: of Energy conditional waivers before becoming a complete ban on January 1, 2028.
+Added: Importantly, the enactment of a Russian ban releases
+Added: funding to support the American nuclear supply chain.
+Added: This funding will be deployed by the DOE under a new program called the Low-Enriched
+Added: Uranium (LEU) – Enrichment Acquisition.
+Added: A Request for Proposal was disseminated in June, an Industry day was organized in July,
+Added: and bids will be due in August.
+Added: Through nuclear energy diplomacy, Russia’s control of the global nuclear fuel supply chain extends
+Added: to many countries.
+Added: However, as the United States has the world’s largest civilian nuclear reactor fleet, it has now taken steps
+Added: to reduce its reliance on state-sponsored Russian nuclear fuel.
+Added: As of August 11, 2024, the Russian uranium ban has become effective and
+Added: a waiver is required for U.S.
+Added: parties to receive Russian uranium until January 1, 2028 when Russian material is fully banned.
RUSSIAN RESPONSE TO URANIUM BAN:
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could be overridden by the Kremlin.
−Removed: This deadline has now passed and the Company is only aware of one partial waiver having been issued
−Removed: by the DOE, and believes that there are four or five waiver requests pending.
−Removed: Western is unaware of TENEX taking any further actions
−Removed: subsequent to its force majeure notices.
−Removed: On May 21, 2024, the DOE published their process and instructions for
−Removed: requesting a waiver.
−Removed: The waiver process does not appear restrictive and will likely allow most of the previously contracted Russian material
−Removed: into the United States prior to January 1, 2028.
−Removed: legislative intentions were to deprive Russia of the revenue associated with
−Removed: purchases of Russian nuclear fuel and counter Russia’s control of the global nuclear fuel cycle by flooding U.S.
−Removed: and international
−Removed: markets with state-supported Russian uranium and services.
−Removed: We continue to believe the shift away from Russia/Rosatom
−Removed: will be a major catalyst in the realignment of nuclear fuel markets which will benefit western producers.
−Removed: We anticipate this process will
−Removed: culminate in tremendous support for the U.S.
+Added: This deadline has now passed and the DOE is currently granting waivers to the ban.
+Added: Multiple waivers
+Added: have been partially or fully approved, however the details are not in the public domain.
+Added: The waiver process does not appear restrictive
+Added: and will likely allow the majority of previously contracted Russian material into the United States prior to January 1, 2028.
+Added: is unaware of TENEX taking any further actions subsequent to its force majeure notices.
+Added: On May 21, 2024, the DOE published their process
+Added: and instructions for requesting a waiver.
+Added: The waiver process does not appear restrictive and will likely allow most of the previously
+Added: contracted Russian material into the United States prior to January 1, 2028.
+Added: legislative intentions were to deprive Russia of
+Added: the revenue associated with U.S.
+Added: purchases of Russian nuclear fuel and counter Russia’s control of the global nuclear fuel cycle
+Added: by flooding U.S.
+Added: and international markets with state-supported Russian uranium and services.
+Added: We continue to believe the shift away from Russia/Rosatom will be a
+Added: major catalyst in the realignment of nuclear fuel markets which will benefit western producers.
+Added: We anticipate this process will culminate
+Added: in tremendous support for the U.S.
nuclear fuel industry.
−Removed: As a result, we have been and will continue to accelerate the advancement
+Added: As a result, we have been and will be continuing to accelerate the advancement
of our operational strategy in anticipation of increasing uranium price levels that will reward near-term scaled-up production.
Nuclear Fuel and Uranium Market Conditions
−Removed: During the first half of 2024, the spot uranium
−Removed: price decreased $6.75 from $91.00 to $84.25.
−Removed: However this follows an extremely strong period in the market where spot uranium prices have
−Removed: reacted to supply/demand constraints and geopolitical risks.
−Removed: Since July 2023, spot uranium increased from the approximately $50/lbs level
−Removed: to over $100/lbs in January 2024, before settling back into its current levels.
−Removed: The events of 2022 have set in motion uranium market and
−Removed: nuclear fuel opportunities for the next decade and beyond.
−Removed: There are positive catalysts across multiple levels of the nuclear fuel and
−Removed: uranium markets.
−Removed: Underlying fundamentals are the strongest in decades.
−Removed: This is attributable to multiple factors, including climate change,
−Removed: energy security, supply chain and energy scarcity initiatives.
−Removed: The supply/demand imbalance has flipped from a market with excess supply
−Removed: into a market with excess future demand.
−Removed: With the reduced availability of secondary supplies, utilities have begun adding multi-year contracts
−Removed: with mining companies for primary supply.
−Removed: The drivers expanding the demand for nuclear fuel include non-nuclear nations adding nuclear
−Removed: power generation, nuclear nations expanding fleets and/or extending lives of existing reactors, idled nuclear reactors being redeployed,
−Removed: the reversal of phase-outs and shutdowns, and the deployment of advanced reactors / SMRs.
−Removed: However, the challenge is in meeting increasing
−Removed: demand simultaneously with supply constraints from the world’s largest suppliers.
−Removed: We believe uranium equity prices will continue
−Removed: to strengthen and reflect the underlying positive fundamentals in the nuclear/uranium sector.
−Removed: Most notably during the quarter, multiple
−Removed: market analysts have flagged low availability of mobile secondary inventories.
−Removed: We believe the continued draw down of inventories to be
−Removed: a market catalyst of the recent uptick in uranium prices.
−Removed: Positive nuclear energy news has continued to highlight the global
−Removed: growth of future nuclear electricity generation which will drive increased nuclear fuel demand.
−Removed: In terms of future supply, utility contracting
−Removed: has continued into 2024, and some uranium mining companies are moving toward restarting production.
−Removed: However, due to the lead time needed
−Removed: for future uranium production, we are entering a phase where the supply-demand fundamentals are in a deep multi-year structural supply
−Removed: The future is not clear as we believe some miners with available near-term production are waiting for higher price levels and/or
−Removed: project funding before making full start-up commitments.
−Removed: Utilities are also deferring contracting to understand how regulations and geopolitics
−Removed: will modify their future access to Russian uranium, conversion and enrichment services.
+Added: During the first nine months of 2024, the spot uranium price decreased
+Added: $9.00 from $91.00 to $82.00.
+Added: Notably, the long-term price increased from $68.00 to $81.50 during a period of rising conversion and enrichment
+Added: services prices.
+Added: However this follows an extremely strong period in the market where spot uranium prices have reacted to supply/demand
+Added: constraints and geopolitical risks.
+Added: Since July 2023, spot uranium increased from the approximately $50/lbs.
+Added: level to over $100/lbs.
+Added: January 2024, before settling back into its current levels.
+Added: The events of 2022 have set in motion uranium market and nuclear fuel opportunities
+Added: for the next decade and beyond.
+Added: There are positive catalysts across multiple levels of the nuclear fuel and uranium markets.
+Added: fundamentals are the strongest in decades.
+Added: This is attributable to multiple factors, including climate change, energy security, supply
+Added: chain and energy scarcity initiatives.
+Added: The supply/demand imbalance has flipped from a market with excess supply into a market with excess
+Added: future demand.
+Added: With the reduced availability of secondary supplies, utilities have begun adding multi-year contracts with mining companies
+Added: for primary supply.
+Added: The drivers expanding the demand for nuclear fuel include non-nuclear nations adding nuclear power generation, nuclear
+Added: nations expanding fleets and/or extending lives of existing reactors, idled nuclear reactors being redeployed, the reversal of phase-outs
+Added: and shutdowns, and the deployment of advanced reactors / SMRs.
+Added: However, the challenge is in meeting increasing demand simultaneously with
+Added: supply constraints from the world’s largest suppliers.
+Added: We believe uranium equity prices will continue to strengthen and reflect
+Added: the underlying positive fundamentals in the nuclear/uranium sector.
+Added: Most notably during the quarter, multiple market analysts have flagged
+Added: low availability of mobile secondary inventories.
+Added: We believe the continued draw down of inventories to be a market catalyst of the recent
+Added: uptick in uranium prices.
+Added: Positive nuclear energy news has continued to
+Added: highlight the global growth of future nuclear electricity generation which will drive increased nuclear fuel demand.
+Added: In terms of future
+Added: supply, utility contracting has continued into 2024, and some uranium mining companies are moving toward restarting production.
+Added: due to the lead time needed for future uranium production, we are entering a phase where the supply-demand fundamentals are in a deep
+Added: multi-year structural supply deficit.
+Added: The future is not clear as we believe some miners with available near-term production are waiting
+Added: for higher price levels and/or project funding before making full start-up commitments.
+Added: Utilities are also deferring contracting to understand
+Added: how regulations and geopolitics will modify their future access to Russian uranium, conversion and enrichment services.
+Added: In the second quarter of 2024, investors began purchasing nuclear and
+Added: uranium equities as a means to create long exposure for their positive view on Artificial Intelligence (AI), due to the vast energy requirements
+Added: of data centers.
+Added: Recent transactions have been announced as tech giants Microsoft, Amazon, and Google have sought deals to source nuclear
+Added: power for their data centers from full scale reactors and SMRs.
+Added: Microsoft most prominently signed an agreement with Constellation Energy
+Added: to restart a Three Mile Island reactor in Pennsylvania and purchase 100% of the power generated for two decades.
Nuclear Fuel Supply Chain Concentration
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Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, both former Soviet Republics, citing the vast potential for further cooperation in regard to nuclear power.
−Removed: Military alliances are changing as the Junta has
−Removed: signed a new military agreement with Russia, and brought Russian military instructors into the country in April 2024.
−Removed: In addition to the
−Removed: French military evacuating/being expelled from Niger, the U.S.
+Added: Military alliances are changing as the Junta has signed a new military
+Added: agreement with Russia and has brought Russian military instructors into the country in April 2024.
+Added: In addition to the French military
+Added: evacuating/being expelled from Niger, the U.S.
military has agreed to depart the country.
−Removed: During May 2024 in a joint statement,
−Removed: Niger and the U.S.
+Added: During May 2024 in a joint statement, Niger
announced that no later than September 2024 all U.S.
−Removed: military troops will be withdrawn from Niger.
−Removed: Under pressure from
−Removed: the government of Niger, the U.S.
+Added: military troops would be withdrawn from Niger.
+Added: Under pressure from the
+Added: government of Niger, the U.S.
completed the final withdrawal of all military personnel on August 5, 2024.
−Removed: The Junta is now utilizing
−Removed: Russian military support as a replacement.
−Removed: This conflict is impacting future global uranium
−Removed: Several uranium mine development projects in the country continue to proceed despite the evacuation of many foreign nationals
−Removed: and difficulties receiving supplies.
−Removed: Re-establishing political stability is likely a prerequisite to these companies receiving the funding
−Removed: packages needed to cover the significant project development costs.
−Removed: Recently, the government of Niger has revoked operating permits from
−Removed: foreign uranium companies, including Orano in June 2024 and Goviex in July 2024.
+Added: The Junta is now utilizing Russian
+Added: military support as a replacement.
+Added: This conflict is impacting future global uranium supply.
+Added: Several uranium
+Added: mine development projects in the country continue to proceed despite the evacuation of many foreign nationals and difficulties receiving
+Added: Re-establishing political stability is likely a prerequisite to these companies receiving the funding packages needed to cover
+Added: the significant project development costs.
+Added: Recently, the government of Niger has revoked operating permits from foreign uranium companies,
+Added: including Orano in June 2024 and Goviex in July 2024.
+Added: Subsequently in October 2024, Orano suspended production at its last operating mine
+Added: This was due to the financial strain from a border closing, which has stranded stockpiled uranium.
+Added: Further, the government is
+Added: not responding to proposed export alternatives.
During October 2023, geopolitical instabilities spread further to the
Middle East after a Hamas attack on Israel triggered a counterattack by Israel on the Gaza Strip.
−Removed: This additional hot spot further increases
−Removed: volatility in the world and destabilizes the Middle East region that is highly influential on global energy prices.
+Added: The Israel-Hamas hostilities have escalated
+Added: over the Summer of 2024 and then spread to other countries in the Middle East.
+Added: This additional hot spot further increases volatility in
+Added: the world and destabilizes the Middle East region that is highly influential on global energy prices.
+Added: United States Presidential Election
+Added: On November 5, 2024, the United States held a highly contested Presidential
+Added: election between Republicans (Trump-Vance) and Democrats (Harris-Walz).
+Added: The Trump-Vance Republican ticket won, thus returning former-President
+Added: Donald Trump to a second Presidential term.
+Added: Also, Republicans appear to have assumed control of Congress by achieving majorities in both
+Added: the Senate and House of Representatives.
+Added: Nuclear energy currently enjoys bipartisan support, but each of these Presidential Administrations
+Added: has taken a different approach in their support.
+Added: Given the Republican wins in these elections, this is likely to lead to changes in the
+Added: approach to various issues that could affect the Company’s business but can’t be predicted with any certainty.
+Added: However, based upon available information, we speculate that Biden-Harris’ climate change and clean energy initiatives will be de-emphasized
+Added: in favor of Trump administration campaign themes involving energy independence and America first policies.
Results of Operations
The following table presents the Company’s
−Removed: financial results for the three and six months ended June 30, 2024 and 2023.
+Added: financial results for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023.
For the Three Months Ended
−Removed: For the Six Months Ended
+Added: September 30,
+Added: For the Nine Months Ended
+Added: September 30,
Mining expenditures
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$ (3,225,516 )
−Removed: Three Months Ended June 30, 2024 as Compared to the Three Months
−Removed: Ended June 30, 2023
+Added: Three Months Ended September 30, 2024 as Compared to the Three
+Added: Months Ended September 30, 2023
Our condensed consolidated net loss for the three
−Removed: months ended June 30, 2024 and 2023 was $2,625,522 and $1,076,659, respectively.
−Removed: The principal components of these year over year changes
−Removed: are discussed below.
+Added: months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023 was $2,241,170 and $1,060,042, respectively.
+Added: The principal components of these year over year
+Added: changes are discussed below.
Our comprehensive loss for the three months ended
−Removed: June 30, 2024 and 2023 was $2,688,042 and $1,024,783, respectively.
−Removed: Our revenue for the three months ended June 30,
+Added: September 30, 2024 and 2023 was $2,227,152 and $1,103,516, respectively.
+Added: Our revenue for the three months ended September
30, 2024 and 2023 was $52,981 and $89,144, respectively.
−Removed: The decrease in revenues of $63,008, or 61% was primarily related to lower production
−Removed: volumes from the oil and gas wells due to well maintenance shutdowns during the three months ended June 30, 2024 as compared to the three
−Removed: months ended June 30, 2023.
+Added: The decrease in revenues of $36,163, or 41% was primarily related to lower oil
+Added: and gas well volumes attributable to production decline curves during the three months ended September 30, 2024 as compared to the three
+Added: months ended September 30, 2023.
Mining Expenditures
Mining expenditures for the three months ended
−Removed: June 30, 2024 were $1,384,951 as compared to $656,545 for the three months ended June 30, 2023.
−Removed: The increase in mining expenditures of
−Removed: $728,406, or 111% was principally attributable to scaling up mining activities at the Company’s Sunday Mine Complex which involved
+Added: September 30, 2024 were $1,166,343 as compared to $730,854 for the three months ended September 30, 2023.
+Added: The increase in mining expenditures
+Added: of $435,489, or 60% was principally attributable to scaling up mining activities at the Company’s Sunday Mine Complex which involved
the hiring of additional mining personnel, increased mining services and supplies costs, and increased maintenance and depreciation costs
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Professional Fees
−Removed: Professional fees for the three months ended June
−Removed: 30, 2024 were $245,187 as compared to $171,834 for the three months ended June 30, 2023.
+Added: Professional fees for the three months ended September
+Added: 30, 2024 were $127,049 as compared to $44,382 for the three months ended September 30, 2023.
The increase in professional fees of $82,667,
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General and administrative expenses for the three
−Removed: months ended June 30, 2024 were $824,868 as compared to $405,754 for the three months ended June 30, 2023.
−Removed: The increase in general and
−Removed: administrative expense of $419,114, or 103% is primarily due to an increase in headcount and employee benefits, as well as an increase
−Removed: in non-cash stock-based compensation expense.
+Added: months ended September 30, 2024 were $813,403 as compared to $365,197 for the three months ended September 30, 2023.
+Added: The increase in general
+Added: and administrative expense of $448,206, or 123%, is primarily due to an increase in headcount and employee benefits, non-cash stock-based
+Added: compensation expense and insurance costs in connection with increased mining activities.
Consulting fees
−Removed: Consulting fees for the three months ended June
−Removed: 30, 2024 were $296,928 as compared to $0 for the three months ended June 30, 2023.
−Removed: The increase in consulting fees of $296,928 was due
−Removed: to consultant costs incurred to prepare the permitting application for the Maverick Minerals Processing Plant
+Added: Consulting fees for the three months ended September
+Added: 30, 2024 were $247,850 as compared to $48,251 for the three months ended September 30, 2023.
+Added: The increase in consulting fees of $199,599
+Added: was due to the increased costs incurred for the licensing and permitting of a mineral processing plant.
Accretion and interest income, net
Accretion and interest income, net for the three
−Removed: months ended June 30, 2024 was $86,631 as compared to $52,185 for the three months ended June 30, 2023.
−Removed: The increase in interest income,
−Removed: net of $34,446, or 66% was principally attributable to higher interest rates earned and larger invested cash balances during the three
−Removed: months ended June 30, 2024 as compared to the three months ended June 30, 2023.
+Added: months ended September 30, 2024 was $62,492 as compared to $39,498 for the three months ended September 30, 2023.
+Added: The increase in interest
+Added: income, net of $22,994 or 58% was principally attributable to higher interest rates earned and larger invested cash balances during the
+Added: three months ended September 30, 2024 as compared to the three months ended September 30, 2023.
Other income, net
−Removed: Other income, net for the three months ended June
−Removed: 30, 2024 was $0 as compared to $2,500 for the three months ended June 30, 2023.
−Removed: The change was principally attributable to a gain on the
−Removed: sale of used vehicles during the three months ended June 30, 2023.
+Added: Other income, net for the three months ended September
+Added: 30, 2024 was $1,998 as compared to $0 for the three months ended September 30, 2023.
+Added: The change was attributable to a loss on the sale
+Added: of a used vehicle during the three months ended September 30, 2024.
Foreign currency translation adjustment
Foreign currency translation adjustment for the
−Removed: three months ended June 30, 2024 was a loss of $62,520 as compared to a gain of $51,876 for the three months ended June 30, 2023.
−Removed: change in foreign exchange is primarily due to the strengthening of the USD against the CAD.
−Removed: Six Months Ended June 30, 2024 as Compared to the Six Months
−Removed: Ended June 30, 2023
−Removed: Our condensed consolidated net loss for the six
−Removed: months ended June 30, 2024 and 2023 was $5,102,410 and $2,180,190, respectively.
−Removed: The principal components of these year over year changes
−Removed: are discussed below.
−Removed: Our comprehensive loss for the six months ended
−Removed: June 30, 2024 and 2023 was $5,307,289 and $2,122,000, respectively.
−Removed: Our revenue for the six months ended June 30,
+Added: three months ended September 30, 2024 was a gain of $14,018 as compared to a loss of $43,474 for the three months ended September 30,
+Added: The change in foreign exchange is primarily due to the strengthening of the USD against the CAD.
+Added: Nine Months Ended September 30, 2024 as Compared to the Nine
+Added: Months Ended September 30, 2023
+Added: Our condensed consolidated net loss for the nine
+Added: months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023 was $7,343,580 and $3,240,232, respectively.
+Added: The principal components of these year over year
+Added: changes are discussed below.
+Added: Our comprehensive loss for the nine months ended
+Added: September 30, 2024 and 2023 was $7,534,441 and $3,225,516, respectively.
+Added: Our revenue for the nine months ended September
30, 2024 and 2023 was $147,035 and $357,908, respectively.
−Removed: The decrease in revenues of $174,710, or 65% was primarily related to lower production
−Removed: volumes from the oil and gas wells due to well maintenance shutdowns during the six months ended June 30, 2024 as compared to the three
−Removed: months ended June 30, 2023.
+Added: The decrease in revenues of $210,873, or 59% was primarily related to lower
+Added: production volumes from the oil and gas wells due to short-term well-pad maintenance shutdown in the second quarter and lower well performance
+Added: during the nine months ended September 30, 2024 as compared to the nine months ended September 30, 2023.
Mining Expenditures
−Removed: Mining expenditures for the six months ended June
−Removed: 30, 2024 were $2,693,830 as compared to $1,261,649 for the six months ended June 30, 2023.
+Added: Mining expenditures for the nine months ended September 30, 2024 were
+Added: $3,860,173 as compared to $1,992,503 for the nine months ended September 30, 2023.
The increase in mining expenditures of $1,867,670,
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Professional Fees
−Removed: Professional fees for the six months ended June
−Removed: 30, 2024 were $357,877 as compared to $258,930 for the six months ended June 30, 2023.
−Removed: The increase in professional fees of $98,947, or
−Removed: 38% was due to increased accounting and legal costs in connection with increased business and mining activities.
+Added: Professional fees for the nine months ended September
+Added: 30, 2024 were $484,926 as compared to $303,312 for the nine months ended September 30, 2023.
+Added: The increase in professional fees of $181,614,
+Added: or 60% was due to increased accounting and legal costs in connection with increased business and mining activities.
General and Administrative
−Removed: General and administrative expenses for the six
−Removed: months ended June 30, 2024 were $1,791,113 as compared to $1,019,119 for the six months ended June 30, 2023.
−Removed: The increase in general and
−Removed: administrative expense of $771,994, or 76% is primarily due to an increase in headcount and employee benefits, as well as an increase
−Removed: in non-cash stock-based compensation expense.
+Added: General and administrative expenses for the nine
+Added: months ended September 30, 2024 were $2,604,516 as compared to $1,384,316 for the nine months ended September 30, 2023.
+Added: The increase in
+Added: general and administrative expense of $1,220,200, or 88% is primarily due to an increase in headcount and employee benefits, non-cash
+Added: stock-based compensation expense and insurance costs in connection with increased mining activities.
Consulting fees
−Removed: Consulting fees for the six months ended June
−Removed: 30, 2024 were $490,354 as compared to $737 for the six months ended June 30, 2023.
−Removed: The increase in consulting fees of $489,617 was due
−Removed: to consultant costs incurred to prepare the permitting application for the Maverick Minerals Processing Plant.
+Added: Consulting fees for the nine months ended September
+Added: 30, 2024 were $738,204 as compared to $48,988 for the nine months ended September 30, 2023.
+Added: The increase in consulting fees of $689,216
+Added: was due to the increased costs incurred for the licensing and permitting of a mineral processing plant.
Accretion and interest income, net
−Removed: Accretion and interest income, net for the six
−Removed: months ended June 30, 2024 was $136,710 as compared to $87,481 for the six months ended June 30, 2023.
−Removed: The increase in interest income,
−Removed: net of $49,229, or 56% was principally attributable to higher interest rates earned and larger invested cash balances during the six months
−Removed: ended June 30, 2024 as compared to the six months ended June 30, 2023.
+Added: Accretion and interest income, net for the nine
+Added: months ended September 30, 2024 was $199,202 as compared to $126,979 for the nine months ended September 30, 2023.
+Added: The increase in interest
+Added: income, net of $72,223, or 57% was principally attributable to higher interest rates earned and larger invested cash balances during the
+Added: nine months ended September 30, 2024 as compared to the nine months ended September 30, 2023.
Other income, net
−Removed: Other income, net for the six months ended June
−Removed: 30, 2024 was $0 as compared to $4,000 for the six months ended June 30, 2023.
−Removed: The change was principally attributable to a gain on the
−Removed: sale of used vehicles during the three months ended June 30, 2023.
+Added: Other income, net for the nine months ended September
+Added: 30, 2024 was a loss of $1,998 as compared to a gain of $4,000 for the nine months ended September 30, 2023.
+Added: The change was principally
+Added: attributable to a gain on the sale of a used vehicles during the nine months ended September 30, 2023 compared to a loss on the sale of
+Added: a used vehicle during the nine months ended September 30, 2024.
Foreign currency translation adjustment
Foreign currency translation adjustment for the
−Removed: six months ended June 30, 2024 was a loss of $204,879 as compared to a gain of $58,190 for the six months ended June 30, 2023.
−Removed: in foreign exchange is primarily due to the strengthening of the USD against the CAD.
+Added: nine months ended September 30, 2024 was a loss of $190,861 as compared to a gain of $14,716 for the nine months ended September 30, 2023.
+Added: The change in foreign exchange is primarily due to the weakening of the USD against the CAD.
Liquidity and Capital Resources
Our cash and cash equivalents and restricted cash
−Removed: balance as of June 30, 2024 was $9,567,976.
+Added: balance as of September 30, 2024 was $7,459,395.
Our cash position is highly dependent on our ability to raise capital through the issuance
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Net cash used in operating activities was $5,762,812
−Removed: for the six months ended June 30, 2024, as compared with $1,425,369 for the six months ended June 30, 2023.
+Added: for the nine months ended September 30, 2024, as compared with $2,563,287 for the nine months ended September 30, 2023.
The increase of
−Removed: in cash used in operating activities was principally driven by an increase in net loss of $2,922,220, offset by an increase of $393,750
−Removed: in stock-based compensation.
+Added: $3,199,525 in cash used in operating activities was principally driven by an increase in net loss of $4,103,348, offset by an increase
+Added: of $542,788 in stock-based compensation and an increase of $269,925 in depreciation.
Net cash used in investing activities
Net cash used in investing activities was $1,178,935
−Removed: for the six months ended June 30, 2024, as compared with $1,718,751 for the six months ended June 30, 2023.
−Removed: The decrease in cash used
−Removed: in investing activities of $688,740 was principally due to reduced purchases of mining equipment and vehicles in the current period, as
−Removed: compared to a greater level of purchases of equipment for the initial scale up of mining capacity during the six months ended June 30,
+Added: for the nine months ended September 30, 2024, as compared with $1,874,183 for the nine months ended September 30, 2023.
+Added: The decrease in
+Added: cash used in investing activities of $695,248 was principally due to elevated purchases of equipment in the 2023 period in connection
+Added: initial mining mobilization related to the Sunday Mine Complex.
Net cash provided by financing activities
Net cash provided by financing activities for
−Removed: the six months ended June 30, 2024 and 2023 were $4,605,458 and $0, respectively.
−Removed: The increase in cash provided by financing activities
−Removed: of $4,605,458 was due to proceeds of $4,605,458 from the exercise of warrants during the six months ended June 30, 2024.
+Added: the nine months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023 were $4,605,458 and $551,629, respectively.
+Added: The increase in cash provided by financing
+Added: activities of $4,053,829 was due to proceeds of $4,605,458 from the exercise of warrants during the nine months ended September 30, 2024.
Reclamation Liability
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The reclamation liability represents our best estimate of the present value of future reclamation costs in connection with the mineral
−Removed: We determined the gross reclamation liabilities of the mineral properties to be $751,517 and $751,444, as of June 30, 2024
−Removed: and December 31, 2023, respectively.
−Removed: The portion of the reclamation liability related to the Van 4 Mine, which is in reclamation as of
−Removed: June 30, 2024, and its related restricted cash are included in current liabilities and current assets, respectively, at a value of $75,075.
−Removed: During the six months ended June 30, 2024, the Company’s internal mining operations team has been performing the reclamation work,
−Removed: and the State of Colorado has not yet reduced the reclamation liability amount.
−Removed: The Company expects to begin incurring the reclamation
−Removed: liability after 2054 for all mines that are not in reclamation and accordingly, has discounted the gross liabilities over their remaining
−Removed: lives using a discount rate of 5.4%.
−Removed: The net discounted aggregated values as of June 30, 2024 and December 31, 2023 were $247,592 and
−Removed: $241,562, respectively.
−Removed: The gross reclamation liabilities as of June 30, 2024 and December 31, 2023 are secured by financial warranties
−Removed: in the amount of $751,517 and $751,444, respectively.
+Added: In connection with our San Rafael Mine, during the three months ended September 30, 2024, we incurred an additional gross
+Added: and discounted reclamation liability of $61,403 and $12,154, respectively.
+Added: We determined the gross reclamation liabilities of the mineral
+Added: properties to be $812,027 and $751,444, as of September 30, 2024 and December 31, 2023, respectively.
+Added: The portion of the reclamation liability
+Added: related to the Van 4 Mine, which is in reclamation as of September 30, 2024, and its related restricted cash are included in current liabilities
+Added: and current assets, respectively, at a value of $75,075.
+Added: During the nine months ended September 30, 2024, our internal mining operations
+Added: team has been performing the Van 4 Mine reclamation work, and the State of Colorado has not yet reduced the reclamation liability amount.
+Added: We expect to begin incurring the reclamation liability after 2054 for all mines that are not in reclamation and accordingly, have discounted
+Added: the gross liabilities over their remaining lives using a discount rate of 5.4%.
+Added: The net discounted aggregated values as of September 30,
+Added: 2024 and December 31, 2023 were $262,880 and $241,562, respectively.
+Added: The gross reclamation liabilities as of September 30, 2024 and December
+Added: 31, 2023 are secured by financial warranties in the amount of $812,027 and $751,444, respectively.
Oil and Gas Lease and Easement
We entered into an oil and gas lease that became
−Removed: effective with respect to minerals and mineral rights owned by us of approximately 160 surface acres of our property in Colorado.
+Added: effective with respect to minerals and mineral rights owned by us on approximately 160 surface acres of our property in Colorado.
As consideration
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2022, the operator completed a second set of eight (8) wells which commenced oil and gas production by August 2022.
−Removed: Monthly royalty payments
−Removed: are ongoing on the sixteen (16) wells.
+Added: All sixteen (16) wells
+Added: remain in production and monthly royalty payments will be ongoing in perpetuity as long as oil and/or gas are produced from the pooled
+Added: unit containing these sixteen (16) wells.
Under the oil and gas lease and easement arrangements,
−Removed: during the three months ended June 30, 2024 and 2023, we recognized aggregate revenue of $39,781 and $102,789, respectively, and for the
−Removed: six months ended June 30, 2024 and 2023, the Company recognized aggregate revenue of $94,054 and $268,764, respectively, under these oil
−Removed: and gas lease arrangements
+Added: during the three months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023, we recognized aggregate revenue of $52,981 and $89,144, respectively, and for
+Added: the nine months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023, the Company recognized aggregate revenue of $147,035 and $357,908, respectively, under
+Added: these oil and gas lease arrangements
Related Party Transactions
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consideration obligation is probable and the amount is estimable, we recorded the deferred contingent consideration as an assumed liability
−Removed: in the amount of $334,650 and $340,650 as of June 30, 2024 and December 31, 2023, respectively.
+Added: in the amount of $346,820 and $340,650 as of September 30, 2024 and December 31, 2023, respectively.
+Added: On October 1, 2024, Western, through its wholly
+Added: owned subsidiary, Western Uranium Corporation (“WUC”), executed a binding Stock Purchase Agreement (the “PRC Agreement”)
+Added: to purchase 100% of the shares of Pinon Ridge Corporation, a Colorado corporation (“PRC”), from a private investor group and
+Added: thereby acquire an approximately 900-acre property located in Montrose County, Colorado, where a uranium processing plant was previously
+Added: licensed but never constructed.
+Added: George Glasier, the President, CEO and a director of Western, and his wife Kathleen owned 50% of the shares
+Added: of PRC, and Andrew Wilder, a director of Western, indirectly owned 3% of the shares of PRC.
+Added: Therefore, this transaction constitutes a
+Added: related party transaction.
+Added: The Company’s Board of Directors established an independent committee of the Board, comprised of directors
+Added: who are not considered to have an interest in the transaction.
+Added: The independent committee of the Board has overseen the negotiation and
+Added: approved the entering into the Agreement on behalf of the Corporation.
+Added: Of the total cash paid to the sellers, approximately $414,000 was
+Added: paid to George Glasier and approximately $24,000 was paid to an affiliate of Andrew Wilder.
We have multiple lease arrangements with Silver
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We incurred rent expense of $26,325 and $17,925 in
−Removed: connection with these arrangements for the three months ended June 30, 2024 and 2023, respectively.
+Added: connection with these arrangements for the three months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023, respectively.
We incurred rent expense of $76,175
−Removed: and $35,850 in connection with these arrangements for the six months ended June 30, 2024 and 2023, respectively.
+Added: and $53,775 in connection with these arrangements for the nine months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023, respectively.
We are obligated to pay Mr.
Glasier for reimbursable
−Removed: expenses in the amount of $19,656 and $50,010, included within accounts payable and accrued liabilities, as of June 30, 2024 and December
−Removed: 31, 2023, respectively.
−Removed: During the three months ended June 30, 2024, we
−Removed: purchased approximately $9,000 of mining related equipment from Silver Hawk Ltd.
+Added: expenses in the amount of $23,832 and $50,010, included within accounts payable and accrued liabilities, as of September 30, 2024 and
+Added: December 31, 2023, respectively.
+Added: During the nine months ended September 30, 2024
+Added: and 2023, the Company purchased approximately $9,000 and $25,800 of mining related equipment from Silver Hawk Ltd, respectively.
Going Concern
With the exception of the quarter ended June 30,
−Removed: 2022, we had incurred losses from our operations and as of June 30, 2024, had an accumulated deficit of $23,920,267 and working capital
+Added: 2022, we had incurred losses from our operations and as of September 30, 2024, had an accumulated deficit of $26,161,437 and working capital
of $6,174,805.
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principally through the issuance of notes, the sale of our common shares and from limited revenue sources.
−Removed: During the six months ended
−Removed: June 30, 2024, we received $4,605,458 in proceeds from the exercise of our common share warrants.
−Removed: On December 12, 2023, we closed a non-brokered
−Removed: private placement of 5,215,828 units at a price of CAD $1.39 per unit.
−Removed: The aggregate gross proceeds raised in the private placement amounted
−Removed: to CAD $7,250,000 (USD $4,836,867 in net proceeds).
−Removed: During the year ended December 31, 2023, we received $1,004,044 in proceeds from the
−Removed: exercise of our common share warrants.
+Added: During the nine months ended
+Added: September 30, 2024, we received $4,605,458 in proceeds from the exercise of our common share warrants.
+Added: On December 12, 2023, we closed
+Added: a non-brokered private placement of 5,215,828 units at a price of CAD $1.39 per unit.
+Added: The aggregate gross proceeds raised in the private
+Added: placement amounted to CAD $7,250,000 (USD $4,836,867 in net proceeds).
+Added: During the year ended December 31, 2023, we received $1,004,044
+Added: in proceeds from the exercise of our common share warrants.
Our ability to continue our operations and to
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Off Balance Sheet Arrangements
−Removed: As of June 30, 2024, there were no off-balance
+Added: As of September 30, 2024, there were no off-balance
sheet transactions.
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