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Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures
−Removed: As of the end of the period covered by this report,
−Removed: our principal executive officer and principal financial officer evaluated the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures
−Removed: (as defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”)).
−Removed: Based on their evaluation of our disclosure controls and procedures, our principal executive officer and principal financial officer concluded
−Removed: that our disclosure controls and procedures were not effective as of December 31, 2023, to ensure that information required to be disclosed
−Removed: by the Company in the reports that we file or submit under the Exchange Act is (a) recorded, processed, summarized and reported within
−Removed: the time periods specified in the SEC’s rules and forms and (b) accumulated and communicated to management, including our principal
−Removed: executive officer and principal financial officer, as appropriate to allow for timely decisions regarding required disclosure.
−Removed: Description of Material Weakness
−Removed: Management has concluded that the Company’s
−Removed: disclosure controls and procedures were not effective as of December 31, 2023, due to the failure to report disclosures on a timely basis.
−Removed: Remediation of Material Weakness
−Removed: Management has developed a plan and related timeline
−Removed: for the Company to design a set of control procedures and the related required documentation thereof in order to address this material
−Removed: However, its implementation was delayed as a decline in commodity prices caused the Company to pursue aggressive cost cutting
−Removed: and de-staffing which has increasingly concentrated duties on the remaining staff.
−Removed: Until the Company has the proper staff in place, it
−Removed: likely will not be able to remediate its material weaknesses.
−Removed: Management’s Annual Report on Internal
−Removed: Control Over Financial Reporting
−Removed: Management is responsible for establishing and
−Removed: maintaining adequate internal control over financial reporting.
−Removed: Internal control over financial reporting is a process designed to provide
−Removed: reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes
−Removed: in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles.
−Removed: A company’s internal control over financial reporting includes those
−Removed: policies and procedures that (i) pertain to the maintenance of records that, in reasonable detail, accurately and fairly reflect the transactions
−Removed: and dispositions of the assets of the company;
−Removed: (ii) provide reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit
−Removed: preparation of financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, and that receipts and expenditures of
−Removed: the company are being made only in accordance with authorizations of management and directors of the company;
−Removed: and (iii) provide reasonable
−Removed: assurance regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition, use or disposition of the company’s assets that
−Removed: could have a material effect on the financial statements.
−Removed: This annual report does not include an
−Removed: attestation report of our independent registered public accounting firm regarding internal control over financial reporting.
−Removed: Management’s report was not subject to attestation by our independent registered public accounting firm pursuant to a
−Removed: provision under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act that grants a permanent exemption for non-accelerated
−Removed: filers from complying with Section 404(b) of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
+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, 2024, 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: Management’s Annual Report on Internal Control Over Financial
+Added: Our management is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate
+Added: internal control over financial reporting.
+Added: Internal control over financial reporting is a process designed under the supervision and with
+Added: the participation of our management, including our chief executive officer and chief financial officer, to provide reasonable assurance
+Added: regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with
+Added: accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.
+Added: As of December 31, 2024, our management assessed the effectiveness
+Added: of our internal control over financial reporting using the criteria set forth by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway
+Added: Commission, or COSO, in Internal Control-Integrated Framework (2013).
+Added: Based on this assessment, management, under the supervision and
+Added: with the participation of our chief executive officer and chief financial officer, concluded that, as of December 31, 2024, our internal
+Added: control over financial reporting was not effective based on those criteria.
+Added: Based upon its assessment as of December 31, 2024,
+Added: management identified the following material weaknesses in its internal control over financial reporting, inclusive of the control weakness
+Added: related to disclosure controls and procedures:
+Added: lack of sufficient dedicated accounting personnel, resulting in delays around the timely collection of inputs and the preparation and
+Added: review of financial reporting, as well as the inability to provide for effective segregation of duties, and
+Added: lack of formal documentation of the design of the control environment and the related control processes and procedures.
+Added: Remediation Efforts to Address Material Weaknesses
+Added: We have identified and implemented, and continue to implement, certain
+Added: remediation efforts to improve the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting.
+Added: These remediation efforts are ongoing
+Added: and include the following measures to address the material weaknesses identified:
+Added: ● We have engaged additional accounting resources from our consultants.
+Added: additional resources have enabled us to improve the timeliness and initial recording of inputs as well as for the preparation of account
+Added: reconciliations.
+Added: ● We have engaged a new member of the management team into our cash disbursement
+Added: function, thus providing an improvement in segregating duties for incompatible roles.
+Added: ● We have implemented additional procedures in connection with our monthly
+Added: accounting closing process.
+Added: While we believe the steps taken to date will improve the effectiveness
+Added: of our internal control over financial reporting, we have not yet completed all of our planned remediation efforts.
+Added: Attestation Report
+Added: This annual report does not include an attestation
+Added: report of 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 Wall
+Added: Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act that grants a permanent exemption for non-accelerated filers from complying with Section 404(b)
+Added: of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
Changes in Internal Control over Financial Reporting
−Removed: There have been no changes in our internal control
−Removed: over financial reporting identified in connection with the evaluation required by paragraph (d) of Rules 13a-15 or 15d-15 under the Exchange
−Removed: Act that occurred during the Company’s fourth fiscal quarter that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially
−Removed: affect, our 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.
−Removed: DISCLOSURE REGARDING FOREIGN JURISDICTIONS
−Removed: THAT PREVENT INSPECTIONS.
+Added: REGARDING FOREIGN JURISDICTIONS THAT PREVENT INSPECTIONS.
DIRECTORS, EXECUTIVE OFFICERS AND CORPORATE
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Andrew Wilder
+Added: Michael Skutezky
+Added: Director (effective June 27, 2024)
Executive Officers
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Piñon Ridge uranium mill;
−Removed: planned for construction in Western Montrose County, Colorado.
−Removed: He began his career in the uranium industry
−Removed: in the late 1970’s with Energy Fuels Nuclear, which built and operated the White Mesa Mill near Blanding, Utah, becoming the largest
−Removed: uranium producer in the United States.
+Added: originally planned for construction in Western Montrose County, Colorado.
+Added: He began his career in the
+Added: uranium industry in the late 1970’s with Energy Fuels Nuclear, which built and operated the White Mesa Mill near Blanding, Utah,
+Added: becoming the largest uranium producer in the United States.
Robert Klein has served as Chief
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in Accounting from George Mason University.
−Removed: Michael Rutter has
−Removed: served as the Chief Operating Officer (“COO”) of Western Uranium & Vanadium since January 30, 2024.
−Removed: Rutter is in charge of Western's mining and milling operations;
+Added: Michael Rutter has served as the
+Added: Chief Operating Officer (“COO”) of Western Uranium & Vanadium since January 30, 2024.
+Added: Rutter is in charge
+Added: of Western’s mining and milling operations;
all operations teams report to Mr.
−Removed: staff, procures equipment and is responsible for the maintenance and scaling-up of activities at Western's resource properties.
−Removed: Beginning in 2016 and until he was appointed COO, Mr.
−Removed: Rutter served as Western’s Vice President of Operations, serving
−Removed: part-time until 2022 and then full-time since.
−Removed: In his role as Vice President of Operations, Mr.
−Removed: Rutter was in charge of overseeing
−Removed: resource properties and the advancement of Kinetic Separation.
−Removed: He was the project coordinator for the development of all of
−Removed: Western’s resource properties and spearheaded efforts at the Sunday Mine Complex, and certain reclamation projects.
−Removed: prior period from 2014 to 2016, Mr.
−Removed: Rutter provided services to Western as a consultant on a part-time basis.
−Removed: experience also included working for Veolia Nuclear Solutions Federal Services during 2014 through 2022, where Mr.
−Removed: Rutter oversaw
−Removed: electrical and mechanical operations at the Paradox Valley Unit of the Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Program and working for
−Removed: Energy Fuels Inc.
−Removed: from 2007 through 2014 as Maintenance and Operations Superintendent in uranium production in Utah, Colorado and
+Added: Rutter hires staff, procures equipment and
+Added: is responsible for the maintenance and scaling-up of activities at Western’s resource properties.
+Added: Beginning in 2016 and until he was appointed
+Added: Rutter served as Western’s Vice President of Operations, serving part-time until 2022 and then full-time since.
+Added: role as Vice President of Operations, Mr.
+Added: Rutter was in charge of overseeing resource properties and the advancement of Kinetic Separation.
+Added: He was the project coordinator for the development of all of Western’s resource properties and spearheaded efforts at the Sunday
+Added: Mine Complex, and certain reclamation projects.
+Added: During the prior period from 2014 to 2016, Mr.
+Added: Rutter provided services to Western as
+Added: a consultant on a part-time basis.
+Added: Rutter’s experience also included working for Veolia Nuclear Solutions Federal Services during
+Added: 2014 through 2022, where Mr.
+Added: Rutter oversaw electrical and mechanical operations at the Paradox Valley Unit of the Colorado River Basin
+Added: Salinity Control Program and working for Energy Fuels Inc.
+Added: from 2007 through 2014 as Maintenance and Operations Superintendent in uranium
+Added: production in Utah, Colorado and Arizona.
Non-Employee Directors
−Removed: Andrew Wilder serves
−Removed: as a Director and the Chairman of the Audit Committee for Western Uranium & Vanadium Corporation, positions he has held since 2014.
−Removed: He is the Founder and the Chief Executive Officer of Cross River Infrastructure Partners, a platform designed to accelerate global sustainability
−Removed: through the development and construction of infrastructure projects deploying transformative industrial technologies.
−Removed: Areas of focus include
−Removed: capturing and sequestering carbon emissions, generating green hydrogen and ammonia, generating clean power with advanced small modular
−Removed: nuclear reactors, and upcycling bio-waste into renewable natural gas.
−Removed: Wilder is also currently a Board Member for Bedford 2030, a
−Removed: community-based climate action non-profit organization for the Township of Bedford, New York.
−Removed: In 2011, prior to launching Cross River
−Removed: Infrastructure Partners, Mr.
−Removed: Wilder founded and managed the Cross River Group, an advisory business providing capital and business development
−Removed: services to alternative asset managers and institutions.
−Removed: Wilder co-founded and served as Chief Operating and Chief Financial
−Removed: Officer for North Sound Capital LLC, an equity hedge fund manager with $3 billion peak assets under management.
−Removed: Wilder’s prior
−Removed: career included serving as a Manager in the audit group of Deloitte.
−Removed: Wilder received the Chartered Accountant (Canada) designation,
−Removed: holds the CFA designation, and received an MBA from the University of Toronto and a BA from the University of Western Ontario.
+Added: Andrew Wilder serves as a Director and the Chairman of the Audit Committee for Western
+Added: Uranium & Vanadium Corporation, positions he has held since 2014, and as a member of the Governance, Nominating & Compensation
+Added: He is the Founder and the Chief Executive Officer of Cross River Infrastructure Partners, a platform designed to accelerate
+Added: global sustainability through the development and construction of infrastructure projects deploying transformative industrial technologies.
+Added: Areas of focus include capturing and sequestering carbon emissions, generating green hydrogen and ammonia, generating clean power with
+Added: advanced small modular nuclear reactors, and up cycling bio-waste into renewable natural gas.
+Added: Wilder is also currently a Board Member
+Added: for Bedford 2030, a community-based climate action non-profit organization for the Township of Bedford, New York.
+Added: In 2011, prior to launching
+Added: Cross River Infrastructure Partners, Mr.
+Added: Wilder founded and managed the Cross River Group, an advisory business providing capital and
+Added: business development services to alternative asset managers and institutions.
+Added: Wilder co-founded and served as Chief Operating
+Added: and Chief Financial Officer for North Sound Capital LLC, an equity hedge fund manager with $3 billion peak assets under management.
+Added: Wilder’s prior career included serving as a Manager in the audit group of Deloitte.
+Added: Wilder received the Chartered Accountant
+Added: (Canada) designation, holds the CFA designation, and received an MBA from the University of Toronto and a BA from the University of Western
+Added: Our board of directors believe that Mr.
+Added: Wilder’s extensive experience in financial management and in the energy industry
+Added: qualifies him to serve on our board of directors.
Bryan Murphy has
served as a Director of Western Uranium & Vanadium Corp.
−Removed: He is the founder of Magellan Limited, an advisory firm focusing
−Removed: on providing strategic, M&A, and financial advisory services and currently serves as CFO and Head of Finance for Biome Renewables
−Removed: Inc., an early stage renewable energy innovation and industrial design company.
+Added: since 2018 and serves on both the Audit Committee and the Governance,
+Added: Nominating & Compensation Committee.
+Added: He is the founder of Magellan Limited, an advisory firm focusing on providing strategic,
+Added: M&A, and financial advisory services and currently serves as CFO and Head of Finance for Biome Renewables Inc., an early stage
+Added: renewable energy innovation and industrial design company.
Formerly, Mr.
−Removed: Murphy was Co-Founder and Managing Partner
−Removed: of Quest Partners, a boutique investment bank that focuses on the provision of M&A, corporate finance, and business strategy services.
−Removed: In these capacities, Mr.
−Removed: Murphy has developed extensive international experience and relationships advising high-growth businesses across
−Removed: North America, Europe, and the Middle East.
+Added: Murphy was Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Quest
+Added: Partners, a boutique investment bank that focuses on the provision of M&A, corporate finance, and business strategy services.
+Added: these capacities, Mr.
+Added: Murphy has developed extensive international experience and relationships advising high-growth businesses
+Added: across North America, Europe, and the Middle East.
In the prior dozen years, Mr.
−Removed: Murphy held senior management roles at Canadian Tire Corporation
−Removed: overseeing divisions and business lines.
+Added: Murphy held senior management roles at Canadian
+Added: Tire Corporation overseeing divisions and business lines.
Additionally, Mr.
−Removed: Murphy was formerly a board member of Covenant House Toronto, one of Canada’s
−Removed: largest homeless youth agencies.
−Removed: Bryan has an Honours Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration majoring in Finance and an MBA with
−Removed: Distinction from the University of Western Ontario Richard Ivey School of Business.
−Removed: Bryan earned the ICD.D designation from the Rotman
−Removed: School of Management at the University of Toronto and the Institute of Corporate Directors.
+Added: Murphy was formerly a board member of Covenant House
+Added: Toronto, one of Canada’s largest homeless youth agencies.
+Added: Bryan has an Honours Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration
+Added: majoring in Finance and an MBA with Distinction from the University of Western Ontario Richard Ivey School of Business.
+Added: the ICD.D designation from the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto and the Institute of Corporate Directors.
+Added: Our board of directors believe that Mr.
+Added: Murphy’s extensive experience in strategic and other advisory and executive leadership
+Added: qualifies him to serve on our board of directors.
+Added: Michael Skutezky was elected to
+Added: the Board of Directors in June 2024 and serves as the Chairman of the Governance, Nominating & Compensation Committee and as a member
+Added: of the Audit Committee.
+Added: He brings over 40 years of experience as an officer, counsel, and director in the financial sector in Canada.
+Added: His career includes serving as Assistant General Counsel at Royal Bank of Canada, where he specialized in international and Canadian project
+Added: financing, and as Senior Vice President, Personal Trust at National Trust.
+Added: Currently, Mr.
+Added: Skutezky is the Chairman and sole shareholder
+Added: of Rhodes Capital Corporation, a firm that provides alternative financing solutions for small to mid-sized businesses and startups.
+Added: Company specializes in business financing strategies designed to enhance working capital and cash flow.
+Added: Since 2019, Mr.
+Added: Skutezky has served
+Added: as Secretary and Senior Legal Counsel for Voyager Metals Inc.
+Added: He has also been a Director of New Break Resources Ltd.
+Added: since April 2014,
+Added: where he previously held the role of Corporate Secretary until stepping down in October 2021.
+Added: However, he continues to serve as a Director.
+Added: Additionally, he has been a Director of Green Shift Commodities Ltd.
+Added: since June 2022.
+Added: Skutezky holds a B.A.
+Added: in Business from Bishop’s
+Added: University and an LL.B.
+Added: from Dalhousie Law School.
+Added: He is a member of the Canadian and International Bar Associations and a non-practicing
+Added: member of the Law Society of Ontario.
+Added: Our board of directors believe that Mr.
+Added: Skutezky’s extensive legal, financial and uranium
+Added: industry experience qualifies him to serve on our board of directors.
Involvement of Officers and Directors in
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A copy of the code of ethics will be sent, free of charge,
−Removed: to any person who sends a written request for a copy to Western Uranium & Vanadium Corp., 330 Bay Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
+Added: to any person who sends a written request for a copy to Western Uranium & Vanadium Corp., 5 Church Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Insider Trading Policy
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Audit Committee
−Removed: Western has established
−Removed: a separately designated audit committee of the board of directors (the “Board”) consisting of Andrew Wilder, George Glasier,
−Removed: and Bryan Murphy.
−Removed: Our audit committee is responsible for oversight of audits, corporate governance, board nominations, and executive compensation.
−Removed: The Board has determined that one of its members, Andrew Wilder, who has previously served as Western’s Chief Financial Officer,
−Removed: qualifies as an “audit committee financial expert”.
+Added: Western has established a separately designated audit committee of
+Added: the Board comprised of Andrew Wilder, Bryan Murphy, and Michael Skutezky.
+Added: Our audit committee is responsible for oversight of audits,
+Added: corporate governance, board nominations, and executive compensation.
+Added: The Board has determined that one of its members, Andrew Wilder,
+Added: who has previously served as Western’s Chief Financial Officer, qualifies as an “audit committee financial expert”.
We have also determined that Mr.
−Removed: Wilder and Mr.
−Removed: Murphy are independent
−Removed: directors as defined in Nasdaq Listing Rule 5605(a)(2).
+Added: Murphy, and Mr.
+Added: Skutezky are independent directors as defined in Nasdaq Listing Rule 5605(a)(2).
+Added: Governance, Nominating
+Added: & Compensation Committee
+Added: Western has established a separately designated Governance, Nominating
+Added: & Compensation Committee of the Board comprised of Michael Skutezky (Chair of the Governance, Nominating & Compensation Committee),
+Added: Andrew Wilder, and Bryan Murphy.
+Added: Our Governance, Nominating & Compensation Committee is responsible to assist the Board in fulfilling
+Added: its oversight responsibilities relating to establishing corporate governance policies, evaluating the effectiveness and independence of
+Added: the directors of the Company planning Board composition, overseeing director education, and developing a management continuity plan along
+Added: with a competitive compensation strategy to enhance the Company’s sustainable profitability and growth.
EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION
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by our named executive officers:
−Removed: Name and Principal Position
−Removed: Stock Awards ($)
−Removed: Option Awards ($)
−Removed: All Other Compensation ($)
+Added: Principal Position
George Glasier (1)
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Chief Financial Officer
+Added: Michael Rutter (3)
+Added: Chief Operating Officer
+Added: On November 24, 2024, Mr.
+Added: Glasier was granted a non-qualified option to purchase 200,000 of our common shares at an exercise price of $0.94 (CAD $1.32) per share which expires five years from each of the respective vesting dates.
+Added: This option will vest in three installments:
+Added: one-third on January 31, 2025, one-third on July 31, 2025 and one-third on January 31, 2026.
On December 20, 2023, Mr.
−Removed: Glasier was granted
−Removed: an incentive stock option to purchase 250,000 of our common shares at an exercise price of CAD $1.60 per share which expires five years
−Removed: from each of the respective vesting dates.
+Added: Glasier was granted a non-qualified option to purchase 250,000 of our common shares at an exercise price of $1.20 (CAD $1.60) per share which expires five years from each of the respective vesting dates.
This option will vest in three installments:
−Removed: one-third on January 31, 2024, one-third on July
−Removed: 31, 2024 and one-third on January 31, 2025.
−Removed: For the year ended December 31, 2023, Mr.
−Removed: Glasier received a reimbursement of $15,000 in
−Removed: lieu of participation in Western’s health plan, which was initiated in 2023.
−Removed: On February 10, 2022, Mr.
−Removed: Glasier was granted
−Removed: an incentive stock option to purchase 200,000 of our common shares at an exercise price of CAD $1.76 per share which expires five years
−Removed: from each of the respective vesting dates.
−Removed: This option vested in three installments:
−Removed: one-third on the date of grant, one-third on April
−Removed: 1, 2022 and one-third on July 1, 2022.
−Removed: On October 31, 2022, Mr.
−Removed: Glasier was granted an incentive stock option to purchase 300,000 of
−Removed: our common shares at an exercise price of CAD $1.60 per share which expires five years from each of the respective vesting dates.
−Removed: option vested in two installments:
−Removed: one-half on the date of grant and one-half on April 30, 2023.
+Added: one-third on January 31, 2024, one-third on July 31, 2024 and one-third on January 31, 2025.
+Added: For each of the years December 31, 2024 and 2023, Mr.
+Added: Glasier received a reimbursement of $15,000 in lieu of participation in Western’s health plan, which was initiated in 2023.
+Added: On November 24, 2024, Mr.
+Added: Klein was granted a non-qualified option
+Added: to purchase 200,000 of our common shares at an exercise price of $0.94 (CAD $1.32) per share which expires five years from each of the
+Added: respective vesting dates.
+Added: This option will vest in three installments:
+Added: one-third on January 31, 2025, one-third on July 31, 2025 and one-third
+Added: on January 31, 2026.
On December 20, 2023, Mr.
−Removed: Klein was granted an
−Removed: incentive stock option to purchase 250,000 of our common shares at an exercise price of CAD $1.60 per share which expires five years from
−Removed: each of the respective vesting dates.
+Added: Klein was granted a non-qualified option to purchase 250,000 of our common shares at an
+Added: exercise price of $1.20 (CAD $1.60) per share which expires five years from each of the respective vesting dates.
+Added: This option will vest
+Added: in three installments:
+Added: one-third on January 31, 2024, one-third on July 31, 2024 and one-third on January 31, 2025.
+Added: For each of the years
+Added: ended December 31, 2024 and 2023, Mr.
+Added: Klein received a reimbursement of $15,000 in lieu of participation in Western’s health plan,
+Added: which was initiated in 2023.
+Added: Rutter became an executive officer on January 30, 2024.
+Added: On November 24, 2024, Mr.
+Added: Rutter was granted a non-qualified option to purchase 175,000 of our common shares at an exercise price of $0.94 (CAD $1.32) per share which expires five years from each of the respective vesting dates.
This option will vest in three installments:
−Removed: one-third on January 31, 2024, one-third on July 31,
−Removed: 2024 and one-third on January 31, 2025.
−Removed: For the year ended December 31, 2023, Mr.
−Removed: Klein received a reimbursement of $15,000 in lieu of
−Removed: participation in Western’s health plan, which was initiated in 2023.
−Removed: On February 10, 2022, Mr.
−Removed: Klein was granted an incentive
−Removed: stock option to purchase 200,000 of our common shares at an exercise price of CAD $1.76 per share which expires five years from each of
−Removed: the respective vesting dates.
−Removed: This option vested in three installments:
−Removed: one-third on the date of grant, one-third on April 1, 2022 and
−Removed: one-third on July 1, 2022.
−Removed: On October 31, 2022, Mr.
−Removed: Klein was granted an incentive stock option to purchase 300,000 of our common shares
−Removed: at an exercise price of CAD $1.60 per share which expires five years from each of the respective vesting dates.
−Removed: This option vested in
−Removed: two installments:
−Removed: one-half on the date of grant and one-half on April 30, 2023.
+Added: one-third on January 31, 2025, one-third on July 31, 2025 and one-third on January 31, 2026.
Employment Agreements
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Glasier’s base salary from $220,000 to $250,000.
−Removed: Pursuant to the employment agreement, if the Company terminates
−Removed: the employment agreement without cause, or if a change of control occurs, the Company is required to pay to Mr.
−Removed: Glasier a lump sum payment
−Removed: equal to two and one-half times his annual base salary.
−Removed: On November 12, 2020, the Company entered into
−Removed: a new employment agreement with its Chief Financial Officer, Robert Klein.
−Removed: The agreement was effective as of October 1, 2020 and has an
−Removed: initial term that ends on September 30, 2021.
−Removed: The agreement will automatically renew for successive annual terms unless either party provides
−Removed: a 90-day advance written notice of their intention not to renew.
−Removed: The Agreement provides for a base salary of $150,000 per year, the amount
−Removed: of which is subject to review by the board of directors at least annually.
+Added: In January 2024, the Board approved an increase to Mr.
+Added: base salary from $250,000 to $300,000.
+Added: Pursuant to the employment agreement, if the Company terminates the employment agreement without
+Added: cause, or if a change of control occurs, the Company is required to pay to Mr.
+Added: Glasier a lump sum payment equal to two and one-half times
+Added: his annual base salary.
+Added: On November 12, 2020, the Company entered into a new employment agreement
+Added: with Robert Klein, its Chief Financial Officer.
+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.
Under the agreement, Mr.
−Removed: Klein is eligible to receive bonuses
−Removed: after the end of each calendar year or earlier in the discretion of the Board, and a bonus will also be considered upon the closing of
−Removed: a strategic transaction by the Company.
−Removed: The agreement provides that Mr.
−Removed: Klein is eligible to participate generally in any employee benefit
−Removed: plan of the Company or its affiliates and to receive annual stock option grants under the Company’s incentive stock option plan
−Removed: in amounts to be determined and approved by the Board.
+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: In January 2024, the Board approved an increase to Mr.
+Added: Klein’s base salary from $150,000 to $200,000.
+Added: The agreement
+Added: provides that Mr.
+Added: Klein is eligible to participate generally in any employee benefit plan of the Company or its affiliates and to receive
+Added: annual stock option grants under the Company’s incentive stock option plan in amounts to be determined and approved by the Board.
Outstanding Equity Awards Table
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Number of securities
−Removed: underlying unexercised
−Removed: options (#) exercisable
+Added: unexercised options
Number of securities
−Removed: underlying unexercised
−Removed: options (#) unexercisable
−Removed: exercise price
+Added: unexercised options
+Added: unexercisable
+Added: Option exercise
+Added: expiration date
George Glasier
+Added: Michael Rutter
Outstanding Stock Awards at Fiscal Year-End for 2024
5 unchanged sentences
Bryan Murphy (2)
+Added: Michael Skutezky (3)
During the year ended December 31, 2024, the Company incurred $43,823 in director fees for Mr.
Wilder’s services as a Director.
−Removed: On December 20, 2023, Mr.
−Removed: Wilder was granted an incentive stock option to purchase 250,000 of our common shares at an exercise price of CAD $1.60 per share which expires five years from each of the respective vesting dates.
+Added: On November 25, 2024, Mr.
+Added: Wilder was granted a non-qualified option to purchase 200,000 of our common shares at an exercise price of $0.94 (CAD $1.32) per share which expires five years from each of the respective vesting dates.
This option will vest in three installments:
one-third on January 31, 2025, one-third on July 31, 2025 and one-third on January 31, 2026.
+Added: During the year ended December 31, 2024, the Company incurred $79,231
+Added: in director fees for Mr.
+Added: Murphy’s services as a Director.
+Added: On November 25, 2024, Mr.
+Added: Murphy was granted a non-qualified option to
+Added: purchase 200,000 of our common shares at an exercise price of $0.94 (CAD $1.32) per share which expires five years from each of the respective
+Added: vesting dates.
+Added: This option will vest in three installments:
+Added: one-third on January 31, 2025, one-third on July 31, 2025 and one-third on
+Added: January 31, 2026.
+Added: Michael Skutezky was elected to the Board of Directors on June 27,
During the year ended December 31, 2024, the Company incurred $24,760 in director fees for Mr.
−Removed: Murphy’s services as Chairman and Director.
−Removed: On December 20, 2023, Mr.
−Removed: Murphy was granted an incentive stock option to purchase 250,000 of our common shares at an exercise price of CAD $1.60 per share which expires five years from each of the respective vesting dates.
+Added: Skutezky’s services as a Director.
+Added: On July 14, 2024, Mr.
+Added: Skutezky was granted a non-qualified option to purchase 100,000 of our common shares at an exercise price of $1.47
+Added: (CAD $2.00) per share which expires five years from each of the respective vesting dates.
+Added: These options will vest in two installments:
+Added: 50,000 on July 31, 2024 and 50,000 on January 31, 2025.
+Added: On November 25, 2024, Mr.
+Added: Skutezky was granted a non-qualified option to purchase
+Added: 200,000 of our common shares at an exercise price of $0.94 (CAD $1.32) per share which expires five years from each of the respective
+Added: vesting dates.
This option will vest in three installments:
−Removed: one-third on January 31, 2024, one-third on July 31, 2024 and one-third on January 31, 2025.
+Added: one-third on January 31, 2025, one-third on July 31, 2025 and one-third on
+Added: January 31, 2026.
SECURITY OWNERSHIP OF CERTAIN BENEFICIAL
OWNERS AND MANAGEMENT AND RELATED STOCKHOLDER MATTERS
−Removed: The following table sets forth information with
−Removed: respect to the beneficial ownership of our class of common shares as of April 15, 2024 by:
−Removed: each person, or group of affiliated persons, known to us to beneficially own more than 5% of our outstanding common shares;
−Removed: each of our directors and executive officers;
−Removed: all of our directors and executive officers as a group.
−Removed: The amounts and percentages of common shares
−Removed: beneficially owned are reported on the basis of regulations of the SEC governing the determination of beneficial ownership of
−Removed: The information relating to our 5% beneficial owners is based on information we received from such holders and information that is publicly available in Schedule 13Ds and Schedule 13Gs filed with the SEC.
−Removed: rules of the SEC, a person is deemed to be a “beneficial owner” of a security if that person has or shares voting power,
−Removed: which includes the power to vote or direct the voting of a security, or investment power, which includes the power to dispose of or
−Removed: to direct the disposition of a security.
−Removed: A person is also deemed to be a beneficial owner of any securities of which that person has
−Removed: a right to acquire beneficial ownership within 60 days.
−Removed: Securities that can be so acquired are deemed to be outstanding for
−Removed: purposes of computing such person's ownership percentage, but not for purposes of computing any other person's percentage.
−Removed: these rules, more than one person may be deemed a beneficial owner of the same securities and a person may be deemed to be a
−Removed: beneficial owner of securities as to which such person has no economic interest.
+Added: The following table sets forth information with respect to the beneficial
+Added: ownership of our class of common shares as of April 15, 2025 by:
+Added: person, or group of affiliated persons, known to us to beneficially own more than 5% of our outstanding common shares;
+Added: of our directors and executive officers;
+Added: of our directors and executive officers as a group.
+Added: The amounts and percentages of common shares beneficially
+Added: owned are reported on the basis of regulations of the SEC governing the determination of beneficial ownership of securities.
+Added: The information
+Added: relating to our 5% beneficial owners is based on information we received from such holders and information that is publicly available
+Added: in Schedule 13Ds and Schedule 13Gs filed with the SEC.
+Added: Under the rules of the SEC, a person is deemed to be a “beneficial owner”
+Added: of a security if that person has or shares voting power, which includes the power to vote or direct the voting of a security, or investment
+Added: power, which includes the power to dispose of or to direct the disposition of a security.
+Added: A person is also deemed to be a beneficial owner
+Added: of any securities of which that person has a right to acquire beneficial ownership within 60 days.
+Added: Securities that can be so acquired
+Added: are deemed to be outstanding for purposes of computing such person’s ownership percentage, but not for purposes of computing any
+Added: other person’s percentage.
+Added: Under these rules, more than one person may be deemed a beneficial owner of the same securities and a
+Added: person may be deemed to be a beneficial owner of securities as to which such person has no economic interest.
Except as otherwise set forth in the footnotes
−Removed: to the table below, the address of persons listed below is c/o Western Uranium & Vanadium Corp., 330 Bay Street, Suite 1400, Toronto,
−Removed: Ontario, 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: to the table below, the address of persons listed below is c/o Western Uranium & Vanadium Corp., 5 Church Street, Toronto, Ontario,
+Added: Canada M5E 1M2.
+Added: Unless otherwise indicated in the footnotes, each of the beneficial owners listed has, to our knowledge, sole voting and
+Added: investment power with respect to the indicated common shares.
+Added: Title of Class
Name of Beneficial Owner
−Removed: Percentage of
−Removed: Common Shares (1)
+Added: Percent of class (1)
5% or Greater Shareholders:
+Added: Common shares
George Glasier, CEO
−Removed: 5,635,868 (2)
+Added: Common shares
+Added: ALPS Advisors, Inc.
+Added: Common shares
MMCAP International Inc.
−Removed: 5,613,483 (3)
−Removed: Brooke Benenson
−Removed: 2,977,838 (4)
+Added: Common shares
+Added: Global X Management Company LLC
Directors and Named Executive Officers:
+Added: Common shares
George Glasier, CEO
−Removed: 5,635,868 (2)
+Added: Common shares
Robert Klein, CFO
+Added: Common shares
Michael Rutter, COO
+Added: Common shares
Andrew Wilder
+Added: Common shares
+Added: Common shares
+Added: Michael Skutezky
All executive officers and directors as a group (6 persons)
Based on 59,386,546 common shares outstanding on April 15, 2025 and, with respect to each individual holder, rights to acquire our common shares exercisable within 60 days of April 15, 2025.
−Removed: Consists of 4,810,869 common shares and 708,333 common shares issuable upon the exercise of stock options held by Mr.
−Removed: Also includes 116,666 common shares issuable upon the exercise of stock options held by Mr.
+Added: Consists of 4,810,869 common shares and 858,333 common shares issuable
+Added: upon the exercise of stock options held by Mr.
+Added: Also includes 166,666 common shares issuable upon the exercise of stock options
Glasier’s spouse, the beneficial ownership of which Mr.
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Consists of 6,871,000
−Removed: common shares and 967,917 common shares issuable upon the exercise of warrants beneficially owned by MMCAP International Inc.
−Removed: Consists of 2,977,838 outstanding
common shares.
+Added: The address for ALPS Advisors, Inc.
+Added: is 1290 Broadway, Suite 1000, Denver, Colorado 80203.
+Added: Consists of 2,702,666
+Added: common shares and 3,126,455 common shares issuable upon the exercise of warrants beneficially owned by MMCAP International Inc.
+Added: The address for MMCAP International Inc.
+Added: SPC is 161 Bay Street, TD
+Added: Canada Trust Tower Suite 2240, Toronto, Ontario, M5J 2S1, Canada.
+Added: Consists of 3,268,064 common shares.
+Added: The address for Global X Management Company LLC is 605 3rd Avenue,
+Added: 43rd Floor, New York, NY 10158
+Added: Consists of 45,842 common shares and 858,334 common shares issuable
+Added: upon the exercise of stock options held by Mr.
Consists of 13,321 common shares and 533,333 common shares issuable upon the exercise of stock options held by Mr.
−Removed: Consists of 4,143 common shares and 325,000 common
−Removed: shares issuable upon the exercise of stock options held by Mr.
−Removed: Consists of 708,333 common shares issuable upon the exercise of stock options held by Mr.
−Removed: Consists of 54,247 common shares beneficially owned directly, 62,500 common shares beneficially owned indirectly through Magellan Limited, and 666,667 common shares issuable upon the exercise of stock options held by Mr.
+Added: Consists of 11,118 common shares and 858,334 common shares issuable upon the exercise of stock options held by Mr.
+Added: Consists of 56,172 common shares owned directly, 62,500 common shares
+Added: beneficially owned indirectly through Magellan Limited, and 858,334 common shares issuable upon the exercise of stock options held by
+Added: Consists of 5,500 common shares owned directly, 3,787 common shares beneficially owned indirectly through Rhodes Capital Corporation, 6,787 common shares issuable upon the exercise of warrants beneficially owned indirectly through Rhodes Capital Corporation, and 166,666 common shares issuable upon the exercise of stock options held Mr.
Equity Compensation Plan Information
−Removed: The Company maintains an Incentive Stock Option
−Removed: Plan (the “Plan”) that permits the granting of stock options as incentive compensation.
−Removed: Shareholders of the Company approved
−Removed: the Plan on June 30, 2008 and amendments to the Plan on June 20, 2013.
−Removed: The board of directors approved additional changes to the Plan
−Removed: on September 12, 2015.
−Removed: On October 1, 2021, the Company further amended the Plan.
−Removed: On May 24, 2023, the Board of Directors approved and
−Removed: on June 29, 2023 the shareholders approved an amendment to the Plan.
+Added: The Company maintains the Plan that permits the
+Added: granting of stock options as incentive compensation.
+Added: Shareholders of the Company approved the Plan on June 30, 2008 and amendments to
+Added: the Plan on June 20, 2013.
+Added: The board of directors approved additional changes to the Plan on September 12, 2015.
+Added: On October 1, 2021, the
+Added: Company further amended the Plan.
+Added: On May 24, 2023, the Board of Directors approved and on June 29, 2023 the shareholders approved an amendment
The purpose of the Plan is to attract, retain
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securities to
−Removed: securities remaining available for future issuance
+Added: available for
Plan Category
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Equity compensation plans not approved by shareholders
−Removed: CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED TRANSACTIONS,
−Removed: AND DIRECTOR INDEPENDENCE
+Added: CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS
+Added: AND RELATED TRANSACTIONS, AND DIRECTOR INDEPENDENCE
Transactions with Related Persons
−Removed: The Company has transacted with related parties pursuant to service
−Removed: arrangements in the ordinary course of business, as follows:
+Added: The Company has transacted with related parties
+Added: pursuant to service arrangements in the ordinary course of business, as follows:
Prior to the acquisition of Black Range, Mr.
−Removed: George Glasier, the Company’s
−Removed: CEO, who is also a director of the Company (“Seller”), transferred his interest in a former joint venture with Ablation Technologies,
−Removed: LLC to Black Range.
−Removed: In connection with the transfer, Black Range issued 25 million shares of Black Range common stock to Seller and committed
−Removed: to pay AUD $500,000 (USD $340,650 as of December 31, 2023) to Seller within 60 days of the first commercial application of the Kinetic
−Removed: Separation technology.
−Removed: The Company assumed this contingent payment obligation in connection with the acquisition of Black Range.
−Removed: date of the acquisition of Black Range, this contingent obligation was determined to be probable.
−Removed: Since the deferred contingent consideration
−Removed: obligation is probable and the amount is estimable, the Company recorded the deferred contingent consideration as an assumed liability
−Removed: in the amount of $340,650 and $340,252 as of December 31, 2023 and 2022, respectively.
−Removed: The Company has multiple lease arrangements with Silver Hawk Ltd.,
−Removed: an entity which is owned by George Glasier and his wife Kathleen Glasier.
−Removed: These leases, which are all on a month-to-month basis, are for
−Removed: the rental of office, workshop, warehouse and employee housing facilities.
−Removed: The Company incurred rent expense of $71,700 and $55,198 in
−Removed: connection with these arrangements for the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022, respectively.
−Removed: During the year ended December 31, 2023, the Company purchased equipment
−Removed: from Silver Hawk Ltd.
+Added: Glasier, the Company’s CEO, who is also a director of the Company (“Seller”), transferred his interest in a former joint
+Added: venture with Ablation Technologies, LLC to Black Range.
+Added: In connection with the transfer, Black Range issued 25 million shares of Black
+Added: Range common stock to Seller and committed to pay $309,138 (AUD $500,000) to Seller within 60 days of the first commercial application
+Added: of the Kinetic Separation technology.
+Added: The Company assumed this contingent payment obligation in connection with the acquisition of Black
+Added: At the date of the acquisition of Black Range, this contingent obligation was determined to be probable.
+Added: Since the deferred contingent
+Added: consideration obligation is probable and the amount is estimable, the Company recorded the deferred contingent consideration as an assumed
+Added: liability in the amount of $309,138 and $340,650 as of December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively.
+Added: George Glasier, the President, CEO and a director of Western, and his
+Added: wife, Kathleen, owned 50% of the shares of PRC, and Andrew Wilder, a director of Western, indirectly owned 3% of the shares of PRC, and
+Added: so the transaction was considered a related party transaction.
+Added: The Company’s Board of Directors established an independent committee
+Added: of the Board comprised of directors who were not considered to have an interest in the transaction, and the independent committee oversaw
+Added: the negotiation and approved the entering into the agreement on behalf of the Company.
+Added: Of the total cash paid to the sellers, $414,584
+Added: was paid to George Glasier and $24,875 was paid to an affiliate of Andrew Wilder.
+Added: The Company has multiple lease arrangements with
+Added: Silver Hawk Ltd., an entity which is owned by George Glasier and his wife, Kathleen Glasier.
+Added: These leases, which are all on a month-to-month
+Added: basis, are for the rental of office, workshop, warehouse and employee housing facilities.
+Added: The Company incurred rent expense of $106,500
+Added: and $71,700 in connection with these arrangements for the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively.
The Company is obligated to pay Mr.
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2024 and 2023, respectively.
+Added: During the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023,
+Added: the Company purchased equipment from Silver Hawk Ltd.
+Added: for $9,000 and $25,800, respectively.
Director Independence
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three directors.
−Removed: Currently, Andrew Wilder and Bryan Murphy are independent directors based upon the tests for independence set forth in
−Removed: National Instrument 52-110 Audit Committees .
−Removed: SEC rules require a separate determination of
−Removed: independence of the Company’s directors based on the definition of independence of a U.S.
−Removed: national securities exchange or inter-dealer quotation
−Removed: system which has requirements that a majority of the board of directors be independent.
−Removed: Because the Company’s common shares are
−Removed: not currently listed on a national securities exchange, it currently uses the definition in Nasdaq Listing Rule 5605(a)(2) for determining
−Removed: director independence.
−Removed: Under that definition, Andrew Wilder and Bryan Murphy would be considered independent directors.
−Removed: Murphy would also be considered independent directors under Rule 5605(c)(2)’s provisions relating to audit committee composition.
−Removed: PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTANT
−Removed: FEES AND SERVICES
+Added: Currently, Andrew Wilder, Bryan Murphy and Michael Skutezky are independent directors based upon the tests for independence
+Added: set forth in National Instrument 52-110 Audit Committees .
+Added: SEC rules require a separate determination of independence of the Company’s
+Added: directors based on the definition of independence of a U.S.
+Added: national securities exchange or inter-dealer quotation system which has
+Added: requirements that a majority of the board of directors be independent.
+Added: Because the Company’s common shares are not currently listed
+Added: on a national securities exchange, we currently use the definition in Nasdaq Listing Rule 5605(a)(2) for determining director independence.
+Added: Under that definition, Andrew Wilder, Bryan Murphy and Michael Skutezky would be considered independent directors.
+Added: and Michael Skutezky would also be considered independent directors under Rule 5605(c)(2)’s provisions relating to audit committee
+Added: PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTANT FEES AND SERVICES
The following table sets forth the aggregate fees
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Audit-related fees:
−Removed: In 2023, MNP billed audit-related
−Removed: fees for preparation and review of an SEC Form S-1 filing and a comment letter.
−Removed: There were no fees billed by MNP for professional services
−Removed: rendered for audit-related services for the years ended December 31, 2023.
+Added: There were no fees billed
+Added: by MNP for professional services rendered for audit-related services for the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023.
Consists of fees incurred for the Company’s
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The Board has determined that the rendering of such services is compatible with MNP maintaining its independence.
−Removed: PART IV – OTHER INFORMATION
EXHIBITS AND FINANCIAL STATEMENT SCHEDULES
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statements are being filed as part of this Annual Report.
−Removed: Consolidated Financial Statements of Western Uranium & Vanadium Corp.
+Added: Financial Statements of Western Uranium & Vanadium Corp.
and Subsidiaries
−Removed: Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm (PCAOB ID:
−Removed: Consolidated Balance Sheets as of December 31, 2023 and 2022
−Removed: Consolidated Statements of Operations and Other Comprehensive Income (Loss) for the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022
−Removed: Consolidated Statements of Shareholders’ Equity for the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022
−Removed: Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022
−Removed: Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
+Added: of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm (Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (“PCAOB”) ID:
+Added: Consolidated Balance Sheets
+Added: as of December 31, 2024 and 2023
+Added: Consolidated Statements of
+Added: Operations and Other Comprehensive Income (Loss) for the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023
+Added: Consolidated Statements of
+Added: Shareholders’ Equity for the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023
+Added: Consolidated Statements of
+Added: Cash Flows for the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023
+Added: Notes to Consolidated Financial
(b) The following exhibits
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Employment Agreement, dated November 12, 2020, by and between Robert Klein and Western Uranium and Vanadium Corp.
+Added: The Code of Business Conduct and Ethics
Disclosure, confidentiality and Insider Trading Policy
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Previously filed as an exhibit to the Company’s Form 10-K filed on April 15, 2022
−Removed: Previously filed as an exhibit to the Company’s Form 10-K filed on April 17, 2023
Previously filed as an exhibit to the Company’s Proxy filed on May 31, 2023
FORM 10-K SUMMARY
−Removed: Pursuant to the requirements of Section 13 or
−Removed: 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.
+Added: Pursuant to the requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities
+Added: Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.
WESTERN URANIUM & VANADIUM CORP.
−Removed: April 16, 2024
−Removed: /s/ George Glasier
George Glasier
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April 15 , 2025
−Removed: /s/ Robert Klein
Chief Financial Officer
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on the dates indicated.
−Removed: April 16, 2024
−Removed: /s/ George Glasier
George Glasier
−Removed: Chief Executive Officer, President and
−Removed: Director (Principal Executive Officer)
+Added: George Glasier
+Added: Chief Executive Officer, President and Director
+Added: (Principal Executive Officer)
April 15 , 2025
−Removed: /s/ Robert Klein
−Removed: Chief Financial Officer
−Removed: (Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)
+Added: Chief Financial Officer (Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)
April 15 , 2025
−Removed: /s/ Bryan Murphy
April 15 , 2025
−Removed: /s/ Andrew Wilder
Andrew Wilder
−Removed: Uranium & Vanadium Corp.
+Added: April 15 , 2025
+Added: Michael Skutezky
+Added: Western Uranium & Vanadium Corp.
and Subsidiaries
−Removed: to Consolidated Financial Statements
+Added: Index to Consolidated Financial Statements
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm (PCAOB ID:
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Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for the Years Ended December 31, 2024 and 2023 F-6
−Removed: Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
+Added: Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements F-7
of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
−Removed: of Directors and Shareholders of Western Uranium & Vanadium Corp.
−Removed: on the Consolidated Financial Statements
+Added: To the Board of Directors and Shareholders of Western Uranium &
+Added: Vanadium Corp.
+Added: Opinion on the Consolidated Financial Statements
We have audited the accompanying consolidated
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the years in the two-year period ended December 31, 2024, and the related notes (collectively referred to as the consolidated financial
−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, 2023 and 2022, and the results of its
−Removed: consolidated operations and its consolidated cash flows for each of the years in the two-year period ended December 31, 2023, in conformity
−Removed: with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.
−Removed: Uncertainty Related to Going Concern
−Removed: accompanying consolidated financial statements have been prepared assuming that the Company will continue as a going concern.
−Removed: in Note 2 to the consolidated financial statements, the Company has incurred continuing losses and negative cash flows from operations
−Removed: and is dependent upon future sources of equity or debt financing in order to fund its operations.
−Removed: These conditions raise substantial
−Removed: doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern.
−Removed: Management’s plans in regard to these matters are also
−Removed: described in Note 2.
−Removed: The consolidated financial statements do not include any adjustments that might result from the outcome of this
−Removed: consolidated financial statements are the responsibility of the Company’s management.
−Removed: Our responsibility is to express an opinion
−Removed: on the Company’s consolidated financial statements based on our audits.
−Removed: We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public
−Removed: Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (PCAOB) and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance
−Removed: with the U.S.
−Removed: federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.
−Removed: conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB.
−Removed: Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain
−Removed: reasonable assurance about whether the consolidated financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud.
−Removed: The Company is not required to have, nor were we engaged to perform, an audit of its internal control over financial reporting.
−Removed: of our audits, we are required to obtain an understanding of internal control over financial reporting but not for the purpose of expressing
−Removed: an opinion on the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting.
+Added: In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements
+Added: present fairly, in all material respects, the consolidated financial position of the Company as of December 31, 2024 and 2023, and the
+Added: results of its consolidated operations and its consolidated cash flows for each of the years in the two-year period ended December 31,
+Added: 2024, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.
+Added: Material Uncertainty Related to Going Concern
+Added: The accompanying consolidated financial statements
+Added: have been prepared assuming that the Company will continue as a going concern.
+Added: As discussed in Note 2 to the consolidated financial statements,
+Added: the Company has incurred continuing losses and negative cash flows from operations and is dependent upon future sources of equity or debt
+Added: financing in order to fund its operations.
+Added: These conditions raise substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a
+Added: going concern.
+Added: Management’s plans in regard to these matters are also described in Note 2.
+Added: The consolidated financial statements
+Added: do not include any adjustments that might result from the outcome of this uncertainty.
+Added: Basis for Opinion
+Added: These consolidated financial statements are the
+Added: responsibility of the Company’s management.
+Added: Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company’s consolidated financial
+Added: statements based on our audits.
+Added: We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United
+Added: States) (PCAOB) and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S.
+Added: federal securities laws and
+Added: the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.
+Added: We conducted our audits in accordance with the
+Added: standards of the PCAOB.
+Added: Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the consolidated
+Added: financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud.
+Added: The Company is not required to have, nor were we
+Added: engaged to perform, an audit of its internal control over financial reporting.
+Added: As part of our audits, we are required to obtain an understanding
+Added: of internal control over financial reporting but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Company’s
+Added: internal control over financial reporting.
Accordingly, we express no such opinion.
−Removed: audits included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the consolidated financial statements, whether
−Removed: due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks.
−Removed: Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence
−Removed: regarding the amounts and disclosures in the consolidated financial statements.
−Removed: Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles
−Removed: used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the consolidated financial statements.
−Removed: We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.
+Added: Our audits included performing procedures to assess
+Added: the risks of material misstatement of the consolidated financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures
+Added: that respond to those risks.
+Added: Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the
+Added: consolidated financial statements.
+Added: Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by
+Added: management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the consolidated financial statements.
+Added: We believe that our audits provide
+Added: a reasonable basis for our opinion.
Chartered Professional Accountants
Licensed Public Accountants
−Removed: We have served
−Removed: as the Company’s auditor since 2015.
+Added: We have served as the Company’s auditor since 2015.
+Added: Mississauga, Canada
April 15, 2025
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Accounts payable and accrued liabilities
−Removed: Reclamation liability, current portion
−Removed: Deferred revenue, current portion
+Added: Asset retirement obligations, current portion
Total current liabilities
−Removed: Reclamation liability, net of current portion
+Added: Asset retirement obligations, net of current portion
Deferred tax liability
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AND SUBSIDIARIES
−Removed: CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS AND OTHER
−Removed: COMPREHENSIVE LOSS
+Added: CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS AND OTHER COMPREHENSIVE LOSS
(Stated in USD)
For the Years Ended
−Removed: Cost of revenues
Mining expenditures
5 unchanged sentences
( 10,334,777 )
−Removed: Accretion and interest (income) expense, net
−Removed: Other expense (income), net
( 5,095,900 )
−Removed: Other comprehensive loss
+Added: Interest income, net
+Added: Other expense, net
+Added: ( 10,112,037 )
+Added: ( 4,942,594 )
+Added: Other comprehensive (loss) income
Foreign currency translation adjustment
6 unchanged sentences
AND SUBSIDIARIES
−Removed: CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CHANGES IN SHAREHOLDERS'
+Added: CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CHANGES IN SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY
(Stated in USD)
4 unchanged sentences
$ ( 13,875,263 )
−Removed: Private placement - January 20, 2022, net of offering costs
+Added: $ ( 261,132 )
+Added: Private placement - December 12, 2023, net of offering costs
Proceeds from the exercise of warrants
2 unchanged sentences
Foreign currency translation adjustment
−Removed: Balance as of December 31, 2022
( 4,942,594 )
( 4,942,594 )
−Removed: Private placement - December 12, 2023, net of offering costs
+Added: Balance as of December 31, 2023
+Added: $ ( 18,817,857 )
+Added: Private placement - November 2024, net of offering costs
Proceeds from the exercise of warrants
6 unchanged sentences
$ ( 28,929,894 )
+Added: $ ( 233,871 )
WESTERN URANIUM & VANADIUM CORP.
2 unchanged sentences
(Stated in USD)
−Removed: For the Years Ended
−Removed: Cash Flows (Used In) Provided By Operating Activities:
+Added: For the Years Ended December 31,
+Added: Cash Flows Used In Operating Activities:
$ ( 10,112,037 )
$ ( 4,942,594 )
−Removed: Reconciliation of net loss to cash (used in) provided by operating activities:
+Added: Reconciliation of net loss to cash used in operating activities:
Loss on the sale of equipment
−Removed: Accretion of reclamation liability
+Added: Accretion of asset retirement obligations
Stock-based compensation
Change in marketable securities
−Removed: Change in operating assets and liabilities:
−Removed: Prepaid uranium concentrate inventory
+Added: Changes in operating assets and liabilities:
Prepaid expenses and other current assets
Accounts payable and accrued liabilities
−Removed: Subscription payable
−Removed: Reclamation liability
+Added: Asset retirement obligations
Deferred revenue
Contingent consideration
−Removed: Net cash (used in) provided by operating activities
+Added: Net cash used in operating activities
( 8,297,043 )
+Added: ( 4,089,495 )
Cash Flows Used In Investing Activities
2 unchanged sentences
( 2,404,440 )
+Added: Proceeds from sale of equipment
Net cash used in investing activities
7 unchanged sentences
Effect of foreign exchange rate on cash
−Removed: Net (decrease) increase in cash and cash equivalents and restricted cash
+Added: Net decrease in cash and cash equivalents and restricted cash
+Added: ( 3,673,405 )
Cash and cash equivalents and restricted cash - beginning
8 unchanged sentences
Notes received in exchange for equipment sold
−Removed: URANIUM & VANADIUM CORP.
+Added: WESTERN URANIUM & VANADIUM CORP.
AND SUBSIDIARIES
−Removed: TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
−Removed: of operations
−Removed: Uranium & Vanadium Corp.
−Removed: (“Western” or the “Company”) was incorporated in December 2006 under the Ontario
−Removed: Business Corporations Act.
−Removed: On November 20, 2014, the Company completed a listing process on the Canadian Securities Exchange (“CSE”).
−Removed: As part of that process, the Company acquired 100 % of the members’ interests of Pinon Ridge Mining LLC (“PRM”), a Delaware
−Removed: limited liability company.
−Removed: The transaction constituted a reverse takeover (“RTO”) of Western by PRM.
−Removed: Subsequent to obtaining
−Removed: appropriate shareholder approvals, the Company reconstituted its Board of Directors and senior management team.
−Removed: Western is a Canadian
−Removed: domestic issuer and Canadian reporting issuer.
−Removed: Company’s registered office is located at 330 Bay Street, Suite 1400, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5H 2S8, and its common shares
−Removed: are listed on the CSE under the symbol “WUC.” On April 22, 2016, the Company’s common shares began trading on the OTC
−Removed: Pink Open Market, and on May 23, 2016, the Company’s common shares were approved for trading on the OTCQX Best Market under the
−Removed: symbol “WSTRF”.
−Removed: The Company’s principal business activity is the acquisition and development of uranium and vanadium
−Removed: resource properties in the states of Utah and Colorado in the United States of America (“United States”).
−Removed: September 16, 2015, Western completed its acquisition of Black Range Minerals Limited (“Black Range”).
−Removed: Under United States
−Removed: Securities and Exchange Commission (“Commission”) rules, this transaction triggered the Company being deemed a United States
−Removed: domestic issuer and losing its foreign private issuer exemption.
−Removed: On April 29, 2016, the Company filed a Form 10 registration statement
−Removed: with the Commission after converting its basis of accounting from International Financial Reporting Standards (“IFRS”) to
−Removed: generally accepted accounting principles in the United States (“U.S.
−Removed: On June 28, 2016, the Company’s registration
−Removed: statement became effective and Western became a United States reporting issuer.
−Removed: June 30, 2023, Western re-qualified as a foreign private issuer as that term is defined in Rule 3b-4(c) promulgated under the Securities
−Removed: Exchange Act of 1934 (the “Exchange Act”).
−Removed: As a result, the Company may now utilize certain accommodations made to foreign
−Removed: private issuers, including (1) an exemption from complying with the Commission’s proxy rules, (2) an exemption from the Company’s
−Removed: insiders having to comply with the reporting and short-swing trading liability provisions of Section 16 under the Exchange Act, (3) the
−Removed: ability to make periodic filings with the Commission on the Form 20-F and Form 6-K foreign issuer forms, and (4) the ability to offer
−Removed: and sell unrestricted securities outside of the United States pursuant to Rule 903 of Regulation S.
−Removed: The Company plans to take advantage
−Removed: of these accommodations.
−Removed: However, the Company currently has decided to voluntarily continue to file periodic reports with the Commission
−Removed: using domestic issuer forms including filing annual reports on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q and current reports on Form
+Added: NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
+Added: (Stated in USD)
+Added: NOTE 1 – BUSINESS
+Added: Nature of Operations
+Added: Western Uranium & Vanadium Corp.
+Added: or the “Company”) was incorporated in December 2006 under the Ontario Business Corporations Act.
+Added: On November 20, 2014, the
+Added: Company completed a listing process on the Canadian Securities Exchange (“CSE”).
+Added: As part of that process, the Company acquired
+Added: 100 % of the members’ interests of Pinon Ridge Mining LLC (“PRM”), a Delaware limited liability company.
+Added: The transaction
+Added: constituted a reverse takeover (“RTO”) of Western by PRM.
+Added: Subsequent to obtaining appropriate shareholder approvals, the Company
+Added: reconstituted its Board of Directors and senior management team.
+Added: Western is a Canadian domestic issuer and Canadian reporting issuer.
+Added: The Company’s registered office is located
+Added: at 5 Church Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5E 1M2, and its common shares are listed on the CSE under the symbol “WUC.”
+Added: On April 22, 2016, the Company’s common shares began trading on the OTC Pink Open Market, and on May 23, 2016, the Company’s
+Added: common shares were approved for trading on the OTCQX Best Market under the symbol “WSTRF”.
+Added: The Company’s principal business
+Added: activity 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 September 16, 2015, Western completed its acquisition
+Added: of Black Range Minerals Limited (“Black Range”).
+Added: Under United States Securities and Exchange Commission (“Commission”)
+Added: rules, this transaction triggered the Company being deemed a United States domestic issuer and losing its foreign private issuer exemption.
+Added: On April 29, 2016, the Company filed a Form 10 registration statement with the Commission after converting its basis of accounting from
+Added: International Financial Reporting Standards (“IFRS”) to generally accepted accounting principles in the United States (“U.S.
+Added: On June 28, 2016, the Company’s registration statement became effective and Western became a United States reporting
+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 Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the “Exchange Act”).
+Added: As a result, the Company may now utilize certain accommodations made to foreign private issuers, including (1) an exemption from complying
+Added: with the Commission’s proxy rules, (2) an exemption from the Company’s insiders having to comply with the reporting and short-swing
+Added: trading liability provisions of Section 16 under the Exchange Act, (3) the ability to make periodic filings with the Commission on the
+Added: Form 20-F and Form 6-K foreign issuer forms, and (4) the ability to offer and sell unrestricted securities outside of the United States
+Added: pursuant to Rule 903 of Regulation S.
+Added: The Company intends to take advantage of these accommodations.
+Added: However, the Company currently has
+Added: decided to voluntarily continue to file periodic reports with the Commission using domestic issuer forms including filing annual reports
+Added: on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q and current reports on Form 8-K.
+Added: On the subsequent measurement date June 30, 2024, Western
+Added: reconfirmed its qualification as a foreign private issuer.
2 – Liquidity and going concern
−Removed: With the exception of the quarter ended June 30, 2022, the Company
−Removed: has incurred losses from its operations.
−Removed: During the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022, the Company generated a net loss of $ 4,942,594
−Removed: and $ 713,767 , respectively.
−Removed: The Company expects to generate operating losses for the foreseeable future as it incurs expenses to bring
−Removed: its mineral processing facility online and further expand mining operations.
−Removed: As of December 31, 2023 and 2022, the Company had an accumulated
−Removed: deficit of $ 18,817,857 and $ 13,875,263 , respectively, and working capital of $ 8,970,434 and $ 9,568,963 , respectively.
−Removed: inception, the Company has met its liquidity requirements principally through the issuance of notes and the sale of its common shares.
−Removed: On December 12, 2023, the Company closed a non-brokered private placement of 5,215,828 units at a price of CAD $ 1.39 per unit.
−Removed: The aggregate
−Removed: gross proceeds raised in the private placement amounted to CAD $ 7,250,000 (USD $ 4,836,867 in net proceeds).
−Removed: During the year ended December
−Removed: 31, 2023, the Company received $ 1,004,044 in proceeds from the exercise of its common share warrants.
−Removed: Company’s ability to continue its planned operations and to pay its obligations when they become due is contingent upon the Company
−Removed: obtaining additional financing.
−Removed: Management’s plans include seeking to procure additional funds through debt and equity financing,
−Removed: to secure regulatory approval to fully utilize its kinetic separation (“Kinetic Separation”) technology, and to initiate
−Removed: the processing of ore to generate operating cash flows.
−Removed: URANIUM & VANADIUM CORP.
+Added: With the exception of the quarter ended June 30,
+Added: 2022, the Company has incurred losses from its operations.
+Added: During the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023, the Company generated net
+Added: losses of $ 10,112,037 and $ 4,942,594 , respectively.
+Added: The Company expects to generate operating losses for the foreseeable future as it
+Added: incurs expenses to bring its mineral processing facilities online and further expands its mining operations.
+Added: As of December 31, 2024 and
+Added: 2023, the Company had an accumulated deficit of $ 28,929,894 and $ 18,817,857 , respectively, and working capital of $ 5,240,584 and $ 8,970,434 ,
+Added: respectively.
+Added: Since inception, the Company has met its liquidity
+Added: requirements principally through the issuance of notes, the sale of its common shares and from limited revenue sources.
+Added: During November
+Added: 2024, the Company closed a private placement of 4,142,906 units at a price of $ 0.94 (CAD $ 1.32 ) per unit.
+Added: The aggregate gross proceeds
+Added: raised in the private placement amounted to $ 3,897,166 (CAD $ 5,468,636 ) and proceeds net of issuance costs were $ 3,546,870 (CAD $ 4,975,966 ).
+Added: During year ended December 31, 2024, the Company received $ 4,605,458 (CAD $ 6,238,248 ) in proceeds from the exercise of common share warrants
+Added: to purchase 5,198,540 common shares.
+Added: On December 12, 2023, the Company closed a non-brokered private placement of 5,215,828 units at a
+Added: price of $ 1.02 (CAD $ 1.39 ) per unit.
+Added: The aggregate gross proceeds raised in the private placement amounted to $ 5,324,989 (CAD $ 7,250,000 )
+Added: and proceeds net of issuance costs amounted to $ 4,836,867 (CAD $ 6,588,089 ).
+Added: During the year ended December 31, 2023, the Company received
+Added: $ 1,004,044 (CAD $ 1,358,565 ) in proceeds from the exercise of common share warrants to purchase 1,165,450 common shares.
+Added: WESTERN URANIUM & VANADIUM CORP.
AND SUBSIDIARIES
−Removed: TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
+Added: NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
+Added: (Stated in USD)
2 – Liquidity and going concern, CONTINUED
−Removed: are no assurances that the Company will be able to raise capital on terms acceptable to the Company or at all, or that cash flows generated
−Removed: from its operations will be sufficient to meet its current operating costs.
−Removed: If the Company is unable to obtain sufficient amounts of
−Removed: additional capital, it may be required to reduce the scope of its planned product development, which could harm its financial condition
−Removed: and operating results, or it may not be able to continue to fund its ongoing operations.
−Removed: These conditions raise substantial doubt about
−Removed: the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern to sustain operations for at least one year from the issuance of these consolidated
−Removed: financial statements.
−Removed: The accompanying consolidated financial statements do not include any adjustments that might result from the outcome
−Removed: of these uncertainties.
+Added: The Company’s ability to continue its planned
+Added: operations and to pay its obligations when they become due is contingent upon the Company obtaining additional financing.
+Added: plans include seeking to procure additional funds through debt and equity financing, to secure regulatory approval to fully utilize its
+Added: kinetic separation (“Kinetic Separation”) technology, and to initiate the processing of mineral resources to generate operating
+Added: There are no assurances that the Company will
+Added: be able to raise capital on terms acceptable to the Company or at all, or that cash flows generated from its operations will be sufficient
+Added: to meet its current operating costs.
+Added: If the Company is unable to obtain sufficient amounts of additional capital, it may be required to
+Added: reduce the scope of its planned product development, which could harm its financial condition and operating results, or it may not be
+Added: able to continue to fund its ongoing operations.
+Added: These conditions raise substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue
+Added: as a going concern to sustain operations for at least one year from the issuance of these consolidated financial statements.
+Added: The accompanying
+Added: consolidated financial statements do not include any adjustments that might result from the outcome of these uncertainties.
NOTE 3 – SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES
−Removed: of Presentation and Principles of Consolidation
−Removed: consolidated financial statements are presented in United States dollars and have been prepared in accordance with United States Generally
−Removed: Accepted Accounting Principles (“U.S.
−Removed: accompanying consolidated financial statements include the accounts of Western and its wholly-owned subsidiaries, Western Uranium Corp.
−Removed: (Utah), PRM, Black Range, Black Range Copper Inc., Ranger Resources Inc., Black Range Minerals Inc., Black Range Minerals Colorado LLC,
−Removed: Black Range Minerals Wyoming LLC, Haggerty Resources LLC, Ranger Alaska LLC, Black Range Minerals Utah LLC, Black Range Minerals Ablation
−Removed: Holdings Inc., Black Range Development Utah LLC and Maverick Strategic Minerals Corp.
−Removed: All inter-company transactions and balances have
−Removed: been eliminated upon consolidation.
−Removed: Company has established the existence of mineralized materials for certain uranium projects.
−Removed: The Company has not established proven or
−Removed: probable reserves, as defined by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”), through the completion
−Removed: of a “final” or “bankable” feasibility study for any of its uranium projects.
−Removed: Stage and Mineral Properties
−Removed: accordance with U.S.
−Removed: GAAP, expenditures relating to the acquisition of mineral rights are initially capitalized as incurred while exploration
−Removed: and pre-extraction expenditures are expensed as incurred until such time the Company exits the exploration stage by establishing proven
−Removed: or probable reserves.
−Removed: Expenditures relating to exploration activities, such as drill programs to search for additional mineralized materials,
−Removed: are expensed as incurred.
−Removed: Expenditures relating to pre-extraction activities, such as the construction of mine wellfields, ion exchange
−Removed: facilities, disposal wells, and mine development, are expensed as incurred until such time proven or probable reserves are established
−Removed: for that uranium project, after which subsequent expenditures relating to development activities for that particular project are capitalized
−Removed: Expenditures relating to mining and ore production while the Company is in the exploration stage and while the ore is stockpiled
−Removed: underground are expensed as incurred.
−Removed: stage issuers, as defined in subpart 1300 of Regulation S-K, having engaged in material extraction of established mineral reserves on
−Removed: at least one material property, typically capitalize expenditures relating to ongoing development activities, with corresponding depletion
−Removed: calculated over proven and probable reserves using the units-of-production method and allocated to future reporting periods to inventory
−Removed: and, as that inventory is sold, to cost of goods sold.
−Removed: The Company is an exploration stage issuer, which has resulted in the Company
−Removed: reporting larger losses than if it had been in the production stage due to the expensing, instead of capitalizing, of expenditures relating
−Removed: to ongoing mine development and extraction activities.
−Removed: Additionally, there would be no corresponding amortization allocated to future
−Removed: reporting periods of the Company since those costs would have been expensed previously, resulting in both lower inventory costs and cost
−Removed: of goods sold and results of operations with higher gross profits and lower losses than if the Company had been in the production stage.
−Removed: Any capitalized costs, such as expenditures relating to the acquisition of mineral rights, are depleted over the estimated extraction
−Removed: life using the straight-line method.
−Removed: As a result, the Company’s consolidated financial statements may not be directly comparable
−Removed: to the financial statements of companies in the production stage.
−Removed: Western will not be eligible to become a production stage issuer, and
−Removed: will remain an exploration stage issuer, until such time as mineral reserves are established on at least one material property.
−Removed: URANIUM & VANADIUM CORP.
+Added: Basis of Presentation and Principles of Consolidation
+Added: These consolidated financial statements are presented
+Added: in United States dollars and have been prepared in accordance with United States Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (“U.S.
+Added: The accompanying consolidated financial statements
+Added: include the accounts of Western and its wholly-owned subsidiaries, Western Uranium Corporation (Utah) (“Western Utah”), PRM,
+Added: Black Range, Black Range Copper Inc., Ranger Resources Inc., Black Range Minerals Inc., Black Range Minerals Colorado LLC, Black Range
+Added: Minerals Wyoming LLC, Haggerty Resources LLC, Ranger Alaska LLC, Black Range Minerals Utah LLC, Black Range Minerals Ablation Holdings
+Added: Inc., Black Range Development Utah LLC, Maverick Strategic Minerals Corp (“Maverick”), Pinon Ridge Corp (“PRC”)
+Added: and Mustang Mineral Processing Inc (“Mustang”).
+Added: All inter-company transactions and balances have been eliminated upon consolidation.
+Added: The Company has established the existence of mineralized
+Added: materials for certain uranium projects.
+Added: The Company has not established proven or probable reserves, as defined by the United States Securities
+Added: and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”), through the completion of a “final” or “bankable” feasibility
+Added: study for any of its uranium projects.
+Added: Segment Information
+Added: In accordance with Financial Accounting Standards
+Added: Board (“FASB”) Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) 280, Segment Reporting , operating segments are
+Added: defined as components of an enterprise for which separate discrete information is available for evaluation by the chief operating decision
+Added: maker in deciding how to allocate resources and in assessing performance (the “CODM”).
+Added: For the Company, its CODM is its Chief
+Added: Executive Officer.
+Added: The Company views its operations and manages its business as one operating and reporting segment.
+Added: This single segment
+Added: reflects the Company’s core business, which is the production of uranium minerals.
+Added: The Company’s CODM regularly reviews the
+Added: segment net income (loss) that also is reported on the income statement as consolidated net income (loss).
+Added: The measure of segment assets
+Added: is reported on the balance sheet as total consolidated assets.
+Added: Exploration Stage and Mineral Properties
+Added: In accordance with U.S.
+Added: GAAP, expenditures relating
+Added: to the acquisition of mineral rights are initially capitalized as incurred while exploration and pre-extraction expenditures are expensed
+Added: as incurred until such time the Company exits the exploration stage by establishing proven or probable reserves.
+Added: Expenditures relating
+Added: to exploration activities, such as drill programs to search for additional mineralized materials, are expensed as incurred.
+Added: relating to pre-extraction activities, such as the construction of mine wellfields, ion exchange facilities, disposal wells, and mine
+Added: development, are expensed as incurred until such time proven or probable reserves are established for that uranium project, after which
+Added: subsequent expenditures relating to development activities for that particular project are capitalized as incurred.
+Added: Expenditures relating
+Added: to mining and production while the Company is in the exploration stage and while the mined material is stockpiled underground are expensed
+Added: WESTERN URANIUM & VANADIUM CORP.
AND SUBSIDIARIES
−Removed: TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
+Added: NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
+Added: (Stated in USD)
– SUMMARY OF Significant Accounting Policies, CONTINUED
+Added: Exploration Stage and Mineral Properties, continued
+Added: Production stage issuers, as defined in subpart
+Added: 1300 of Regulation S-K, having engaged in material extraction of established mineral reserves on at least one material property, typically
+Added: capitalize 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 cost of
+Added: The Company is an exploration stage issuer, which has resulted in the Company reporting larger losses than if it had been
+Added: in the production stage due to the expensing, instead of capitalizing, of expenditures relating to ongoing mine development and extraction
+Added: Additionally, there would be no corresponding amortization allocated to future reporting periods of the Company since those
+Added: costs would have been expensed previously, resulting in both lower inventory costs and cost of goods sold and results of operations with
+Added: higher gross profits and lower losses than if the Company had been in the production stage.
+Added: Any capitalized costs, such as expenditures relating
+Added: to the acquisition of mineral rights, are depleted over the estimated extraction life using the straight-line method.
+Added: As a result, the
+Added: Company’s consolidated financial statements may not be directly comparable to the financial statements of companies in the production
+Added: Western will not be eligible to become a production stage issuer, and will remain an exploration stage issuer, until such time
+Added: as mineral reserves are established on at least one material property.
+Added: Use of Estimates
The preparation of these consolidated financial
12 unchanged sentences
Actual results could differ from those estimates.
−Removed: Currency Translation
−Removed: reporting currency of the Company, including its subsidiaries, is the United States dollar.
−Removed: The financial statements of subsidiaries
−Removed: located outside of the U.S.
−Removed: are measured in their functional currency, which is the local currency.
−Removed: The functional currency of the parent
−Removed: (Western Uranium & Vanadium Corp.
−Removed: (Ontario)) is the Canadian dollar.
−Removed: The functional currency of the subsidiaries is the United States
−Removed: Monetary assets and liabilities of these subsidiaries are translated at the exchange rates at the balance sheet date.
−Removed: denominated in currencies other than the functional currency are recorded based on the exchange rates at the time of the transaction.
−Removed: Income and expense items are translated using average monthly exchange rates.
−Removed: Non-monetary assets are translated at their historical
−Removed: exchange rates.
−Removed: Translation adjustments are included in “Accumulated other comprehensive loss” in the consolidated balance
−Removed: Company identifies its operating segments in accordance with Accounting Standards Codification 280, Segment Reporting, or ASC 280.
−Removed: segments are defined as components of an enterprise about which separate discrete financial information is available for evaluation by
−Removed: the chief operating decision maker, or decision-making group, in deciding how to allocate resources and in assessing performance.
−Removed: Company’s chief operating decision maker, its Chief Executive Officer, manages the Company’s operations on a consolidated
−Removed: basis for the purposes of allocating resources.
−Removed: Accordingly, the Company has determined it operates and manages its business in a single
−Removed: reportable operating segment.
−Removed: and Cash Equivalents
+Added: Foreign Currency Translation
+Added: The reporting currency of the Company, including
+Added: its subsidiaries, is the United States dollar.
+Added: The financial statements of subsidiaries located outside of the U.S.
+Added: are measured in their
+Added: functional currency, which is the local currency.
+Added: The functional currency of the parent (Western Uranium & Vanadium Corp.
+Added: is the Canadian dollar.
+Added: The functional currencies of the subsidiaries is the United States dollar.
+Added: Monetary assets and liabilities of
+Added: these subsidiaries are translated at the exchange rates at the balance sheet date.
+Added: Transactions denominated in currencies other than the
+Added: functional currency are recorded based on the exchange rates at the time of the transaction.
+Added: Income and expense items are translated using
+Added: average monthly exchange rates.
+Added: Non-monetary assets are translated at their historical exchange rates.
+Added: Translation adjustments are included
+Added: in “Accumulated other comprehensive loss” in the consolidated balance sheets.
+Added: Cash and Cash Equivalents
The Company considers all highly-liquid instruments
2 unchanged sentences
31, 2024 and 2023.
−Removed: Company classifies its marketable securities as available-for-sale securities, which are carried at their fair value based on the quoted
−Removed: market prices of the securities with unrealized gains and losses reported as accumulated other comprehensive (loss) income, a separate
−Removed: component of shareholders’ equity.
−Removed: Realized gains and losses on available-for-sale securities are included in net earnings in the
−Removed: period earned or incurred.
−Removed: URANIUM & VANADIUM CORP.
+Added: Marketable Securities
+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 unrealized
+Added: gains and losses reported as accumulated other comprehensive (loss) income, a separate component of shareholders’ equity.
+Added: gains and losses on available-for-sale securities are included in net earnings in the period earned or incurred.
+Added: During the year ended
+Added: December 31, 2024, the Company’s sole marketable security was fully impaired and written off.
+Added: WESTERN URANIUM & VANADIUM CORP.
AND SUBSIDIARIES
−Removed: TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
+Added: NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
+Added: (Stated in USD)
– SUMMARY OF Significant Accounting Policies, CONTINUED
−Removed: cash balances are restricted as they relate to deposits with banks that have been assigned to state reclamation authorities in the United
−Removed: States to secure various reclamation guarantees with respect to mineral properties in Utah and Colorado.
−Removed: As these funds are not available
−Removed: for general corporate purposes and secure the long term reclamation liability (see Note 4), they have been separately disclosed and classified
−Removed: as long-term for the majority of the Company’s mines.
−Removed: As of December 31, 2023 and 2022, the Company has determined that the Van
−Removed: 4 Mine is now considered to be in reclamation.
−Removed: The Company recognized the Van 4 Mine’s reclamation liability and its restricted
−Removed: cash in full on the Company’s consolidated balance sheets as current.
−Removed: Plant & Equipment and Mineral Properties, Net
+Added: Restricted Cash
+Added: Certain cash balances are restricted as they relate
+Added: to deposits with banks that have been assigned to state reclamation authorities in the United States to secure various reclamation guarantees
+Added: with respect to mineral properties in Utah and Colorado.
+Added: As these funds are not available for general corporate purposes and secure the
+Added: long term asset retirement obligation (“ARO”) (see Note 4), they have been separately disclosed and classified as long-term
+Added: for the majority of the Company’s mines.
+Added: As of December 31, 2024 and 2023, the Company has determined that the Van 4 Mine is considered
+Added: to be in reclamation.
+Added: The Company reflects the Van 4 Mine’s asset retirement obligation and its restricted cash in full on the Company’s
+Added: consolidated balance sheets as current.
+Added: Property, Plant & Equipment and Mineral Properties, Net
Property, plant and equipment is stated at cost
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Depreciation is calculated using the straight-line method.
−Removed: Company, from time to time, purchases prepaid uranium concentrate contracts for future delivery of uranium concentrate pursuant to supply
−Removed: The Company recognizes revenue upon the delivery of the uranium contract to the counterparty and charges to cost of revenues
−Removed: the purchase cost of the uranium concentrate contract upon such delivery.
−Removed: Company leases certain of its mineral properties for the exploration and production of oil and gas reserves.
−Removed: The Company accounts for
−Removed: lease revenue in accordance with the FASB ASC 842, Leases .
−Removed: Lease payments received in advance are deferred and recognized on a
−Removed: straight-line basis over the related lease term associated with the prepayment.
−Removed: Royalty payments are recognized as revenues based upon
−Removed: Values of Financial Instruments
+Added: Revenue Recognition
+Added: The Company leases certain of its mineral properties
+Added: for the exploration and production of oil and gas reserves.
+Added: The Company accounts for lease revenue in accordance with the FASB ASC 842,
+Added: Lease payments received in advance are deferred and recognized on a straight-line basis over the related lease term associated
+Added: with the prepayment.
+Added: Royalty receipts are recognized as revenues based upon production.
+Added: Fair Values of Financial Instruments
The carrying amounts of cash and cash equivalents,
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of these instruments.
−Removed: Marketable securities are adjusted to fair value at each balance sheet date based on quoted prices which are considered
+Added: Marketable securities were adjusted to fair value at each balance sheet date based on quoted prices which were considered
level 1 inputs.
−Removed: The Company’s operating and financing activities are conducted primarily in Canadian dollars, and as a result, the
−Removed: Company is subject to exposure to market risks from changes in foreign currency rates.
+Added: A portion of the Company’s operating and financing activities are conducted in Canadian dollars, and as a result,
+Added: the Company is subject to exposure to market risks from changes in foreign currency rates.
The carrying amount of restricted cash –
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its cash and restricted cash but mitigates this risk by keeping these deposits at major financial institutions.
−Removed: FASB ASC 820, Fair Value Measurements and Disclosures , provides the framework for measuring fair value.
−Removed: That framework provides
−Removed: a fair value hierarchy that prioritizes the inputs to valuation techniques used to measure fair value.
−Removed: The hierarchy gives the highest
−Removed: priority to unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities (level 1 measurements) and the lowest priority
−Removed: to unobservable inputs (level 3 measurements).
−Removed: URANIUM & VANADIUM CORP.
+Added: The FASB ASC 820, Fair Value Measurements and
+Added: Disclosures , provides the framework for measuring fair value.
+Added: That framework provides a fair value hierarchy that prioritizes the
+Added: inputs to valuation techniques used to measure fair value.
+Added: The hierarchy gives the highest priority to unadjusted quoted prices in active
+Added: markets for identical assets or liabilities (level 1 measurements) and the lowest priority to unobservable inputs (level 3 measurements).
+Added: WESTERN URANIUM & VANADIUM CORP.
AND SUBSIDIARIES
−Removed: TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
+Added: NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
+Added: (Stated in USD)
3 – SUMMARY OF Significant Accounting Policies, continued
−Removed: Values of Financial Instruments (continued )
−Removed: value is defined as an exit price, representing the amount that would be received upon the sale of an asset or payment to transfer a
−Removed: liability in an orderly transaction between market participants.
−Removed: Fair value is a market-based measurement that is determined based on
−Removed: assumptions that market participants would use in pricing an asset or liability.
−Removed: A three-tier fair value hierarchy is used to prioritize
−Removed: the inputs in measuring fair value as follows:
−Removed: 1 - Quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities.
−Removed: 2 - Quoted prices for similar assets or liabilities in active markets, quoted prices for identical or similar assets or liabilities in
−Removed: markets that are not active, or other inputs that are observable, either directly or indirectly.
−Removed: 3- Significant unobservable inputs that cannot be corroborated by market data and inputs that are derived principally from or corroborated
−Removed: by observable market data or correlation by other means.
−Removed: fair value of the Company’s financial instruments are as follows:
−Removed: Prices in Active Markets for Identical Assets or Liabilities (Level 1)
−Removed: Prices for Similar Assets or Liabilities in Active Markets (Level 2)
−Removed: Significant Unobservable Inputs
−Removed: Marketable securities as of
−Removed: December 31, 2023
+Added: Fair Values of Financial Instruments, continued
+Added: Fair value is defined as an exit price, representing
+Added: the amount that would be received upon the sale of an asset or payment to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market
+Added: participants.
+Added: Fair value is a market-based measurement that is determined based on assumptions that market participants would use in pricing
+Added: an asset or liability.
+Added: A three-tier fair value hierarchy is used to prioritize the inputs in measuring fair value as follows:
+Added: Level 1 - Quoted prices in active markets for
+Added: identical assets or liabilities.
+Added: Level 2 - Quoted prices for similar assets or
+Added: liabilities in active markets, quoted prices for identical or similar assets or liabilities in markets that are not active, or other inputs
+Added: that are observable, either directly or indirectly.
+Added: Level 3- Significant unobservable inputs that
+Added: cannot be corroborated by market data and inputs that are derived principally from or corroborated by observable market data or correlation
+Added: by other means.
+Added: The fair value of the Company’s financial
+Added: instruments are as follows (the Company had no marketable securities as of December 31, 2024):
+Added: Liabilities in
Marketable securities as of December 31, 2023
−Removed: of Long-Lived Assets
−Removed: Company reviews and evaluates its long-lived assets and Kinetic Separation technology for impairment when events or changes in circumstances
−Removed: indicate that the related carrying amounts may not be recoverable.
−Removed: Impairment is considered to exist if the total estimated future cash
−Removed: flows on an undiscounted basis are less than the carrying amount of the assets.
−Removed: An impairment loss is measured and recorded based on
−Removed: discounted estimated future cash flows or upon an estimate of fair value that may be received in an exchange transaction.
−Removed: flows are estimated based on estimated quantities of recoverable minerals, expected uranium prices (considering current and historical
−Removed: prices, trends, and related factors), production levels, operating costs of production, and capital, restoration and reclamation costs,
−Removed: based upon the projected remaining future uranium production from each project.
−Removed: The Company’s long-lived assets (which include
−Removed: its mineral assets and Kinetic Separation intellectual property) were acquired during the end of 2014 and in 2015 in arms-length transactions.
−Removed: As of December 31, 2023, the Company evaluated the total estimated future cash flows on an undiscounted basis for its mineral properties
−Removed: and Kinetic Separation intellectual property and determined that no impairment was deemed to exist.
−Removed: Estimates and assumptions used to
−Removed: assess recoverability of the Company’s long-lived assets and to measure fair value of the Company’s uranium properties are
−Removed: subject to risk uncertainty.
+Added: Impairment of Long-Lived Assets
+Added: The Company reviews and evaluates its long-lived
+Added: assets and Kinetic Separation technology for impairment when events or changes in circumstances indicate that the related carrying amounts
+Added: may not be recoverable.
+Added: Impairment is considered to exist if the total estimated future cash flows on an undiscounted basis are less than
+Added: the carrying amount of the assets.
+Added: An impairment loss is measured and recorded based on discounted estimated future cash flows or upon
+Added: an estimate of fair value that may be received in an exchange transaction.
+Added: Future cash flows are estimated based on estimated quantities
+Added: of recoverable minerals, expected uranium prices (considering current and historical prices, trends, and related factors), production
+Added: levels, operating costs of production, and capital, restoration and reclamation costs, based upon the projected remaining future uranium
+Added: production from each project.
+Added: The Company’s long-lived assets (which principally include its mineral assets and Kinetic Separation
+Added: intellectual property) were acquired during the end of 2014 and in 2015 in arms-length transactions.
+Added: During the year ended December 31,
+Added: 2024, the Company acquired a parcel of land upon which it intends to develop and construct a facility for the processing of mineral resources
+Added: (see Note 4).
+Added: As of December 31, 2024, the Company evaluated the total estimated future cash flows on an undiscounted basis for its mineral
+Added: properties and Kinetic Separation intellectual property and determined that no impairment was deemed to exist.
+Added: Estimates and assumptions
+Added: used to assess recoverability of the Company’s long-lived assets and to measure fair value of the Company’s uranium properties
+Added: are subject to risk uncertainty.
Changes in these estimates and assumptions could result in the impairment of the Company’s long-lived
−Removed: In estimating future cash flows, assets are grouped at the lowest level for which there are identifiable cash flows that are
−Removed: largely independent of future cash flows from other asset groups.
−Removed: URANIUM & VANADIUM CORP.
+Added: In estimating future cash flows, assets are grouped at the lowest level for which there are identifiable cash flows that are largely
+Added: independent of future cash flows from other asset groups.
+Added: WESTERN URANIUM & VANADIUM CORP.
AND SUBSIDIARIES
−Removed: TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
+Added: NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
+Added: (Stated in USD)
3 – SUMMARY OF Significant Accounting Policies, continued
−Removed: Company utilizes an asset and liability approach for financial accounting and reporting for income taxes.
−Removed: The provision for income taxes
−Removed: is based upon income or loss after adjustment for those permanent items that are not considered in the determination of taxable income.
−Removed: Deferred income taxes represent the tax effects of differences between the financial reporting and tax basis of the Company’s assets
−Removed: and liabilities at the enacted tax rates in effect for the years in which the differences are expected to reverse.
−Removed: Company evaluates the recoverability of deferred tax assets and establishes a valuation allowance when it is more likely than not that
−Removed: some portion or all of the deferred tax assets will not be realized.
−Removed: Management makes judgments as to the interpretation of the tax laws
−Removed: that might be challenged in an audit and cause changes to previous estimates of tax liability.
−Removed: In management’s opinion, adequate
−Removed: provisions for income taxes have been made.
−Removed: If actual taxable income by tax jurisdiction varies from estimates, additional allowances
−Removed: or reversals of reserves may be necessary.
−Removed: benefits are recognized only for tax positions that are more likely than not to be sustained upon examination by tax authorities.
−Removed: amount recognized is measured as the largest amount of benefit that is more than 50 percent likely to be realized upon settlement.
−Removed: A liability for unrecognized tax benefits is recorded for any tax benefits claimed in the Company’s tax returns that do not meet
−Removed: these recognition and measurement standards.
−Removed: As of December 31, 2023 and 2022, no liability for unrecognized tax benefits was required
−Removed: to be reported.
−Removed: Company’s policy for recording interest and penalties associated with tax audits is to record such items as a component of general
−Removed: and administrative expense.
−Removed: There were no amounts accrued for penalties and interest for the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022.
−Removed: The Company does not expect its uncertain tax position to change during the next twelve months.
−Removed: Management is currently unaware of any
−Removed: issues under review that could result in significant payments, accruals, or material deviations from its position.
−Removed: Company has identified its federal Canadian and United States tax jurisdictions and its state tax jurisdictions in Colorado and Utah
−Removed: as its “major” tax jurisdictions, and such returns for the years 2017 through 2022 remain subject to examination.
−Removed: and Remediation Costs (Asset Retirement Obligations)
−Removed: federal and state mining laws and regulations require the Company to reclaim the surface areas and restore underground water quality
−Removed: for its mine projects to the pre-existing mine area average quality after the completion of mining.
−Removed: reclamation and remediation costs, which include extraction equipment removal and environmental remediation, are accrued at the end of
−Removed: each period based on management’s best estimate of the costs expected to be incurred for each project.
+Added: The Company utilizes an asset and liability approach
+Added: for financial accounting and reporting for income taxes.
+Added: The provision for income taxes is based upon income or loss after adjustment
+Added: for those permanent items that are not considered in the determination of taxable income.
+Added: Deferred income taxes represent the tax effects
+Added: of differences between the financial reporting and tax basis of the Company’s assets and liabilities at the enacted tax rates in
+Added: effect for the years in which the differences are expected to reverse.
+Added: The Company evaluates the recoverability of deferred
+Added: tax assets and establishes a valuation allowance when it is more likely than not that some portion or all of the deferred tax assets will
+Added: not be realized.
+Added: Management makes judgments as to the interpretation of the tax laws that might be challenged in an audit and cause changes
+Added: to previous estimates of tax liability.
+Added: In management’s opinion, adequate provisions for income taxes have been made.
+Added: taxable income by tax jurisdiction varies from estimates, additional allowances or reversals of reserves may be necessary.
+Added: Tax benefits are recognized only for tax positions
+Added: that are more likely than not to be sustained upon examination by tax authorities.
+Added: The amount recognized is measured as the largest amount
+Added: of benefit that is more than 50 percent likely to be realized upon settlement.
+Added: A liability for unrecognized tax benefits is recorded
+Added: for any tax benefits claimed in the Company’s tax returns that do not meet these recognition and measurement standards.
+Added: As of December
+Added: 31, 2024 and 2023, no liability for unrecognized tax benefits was required to be reported.
+Added: The Company’s policy for recording interest
+Added: and penalties associated with tax audits is to record such items as a component of general and administrative expense.
+Added: There were no amounts
+Added: accrued for penalties and interest for the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023.
+Added: The Company does not expect its uncertain tax position
+Added: to change during the next twelve months.
+Added: Management is currently unaware of any issues under review that could result in significant payments,
+Added: accruals, or material deviations from its position.
+Added: The Company has identified its federal Canadian
+Added: and United States tax jurisdictions and its state tax jurisdictions in Colorado and Utah as its “major” tax jurisdictions,
+Added: and such returns for the years 2018 through 2023 remain subject to examination.
+Added: Asset Retirement Obligations
+Added: Various federal and state mining laws and regulations
+Added: require the Company to reclaim the surface areas and restore underground water quality for its mine projects to the pre-existing mine
+Added: area average quality after the completion of mining.
+Added: When an asset will require future reclamation
+Added: and remediation costs, which include extraction equipment removal and environmental remediation, an ARO is accrued at the end of each
+Added: period based on management’s best estimate of the costs expected to be incurred for each project.
Such estimates are determined
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actual expenses incurred, and technology and industry standards.
−Removed: accordance with the FASB ASC 410, Asset Retirement and Environmental Obligations , the Company capitalizes the measured fair value
−Removed: of asset retirement obligations to mineral properties.
−Removed: The asset retirement obligations are accreted to an undiscounted value until the
−Removed: time at which they are expected to be settled.
−Removed: The accretion expense is charged to earnings and the actual retirement costs are recorded
−Removed: against the asset retirement obligations when incurred.
−Removed: Any difference between the recorded asset retirement obligations and the actual
−Removed: retirement costs incurred will be recorded as a gain or loss in the period of settlement.
−Removed: each reporting period, the Company reviews the assumptions used to estimate the expected cash flows required to settle the asset retirement
−Removed: obligations, including changes in estimated probabilities, amounts and timing of the settlement of the asset retirement obligations,
−Removed: as well as changes in the legal obligation requirements at each of its mineral properties.
−Removed: Changes in any one or more of these assumptions
−Removed: may cause revision of asset retirement obligations for the corresponding assets.
−Removed: URANIUM & VANADIUM CORP.
+Added: WESTERN URANIUM & VANADIUM CORP.
AND SUBSIDIARIES
−Removed: TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
+Added: NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
+Added: (Stated in USD)
3 – SUMMARY OF Significant Accounting Policies, continued
−Removed: Company follows the FASB ASC 718, Compensation - Stock Compensation , which addresses the accounting for stock-based payment transactions,
−Removed: requiring such transactions to be accounted for using the fair value method.
−Removed: Awards of shares for property or services are recorded at
−Removed: the fair value of the stock or the fair value of the service, whichever is more readily measurable.
−Removed: The Company uses the Black-Scholes
−Removed: option-pricing model to determine the grant date fair value of stock-based awards under ASC 718.
−Removed: The fair value is charged to earnings
−Removed: depending on the terms and conditions of the award, and the nature of the relationship of the recipient of the award to the Company.
−Removed: The Company records the grant date fair value in line with the period over which it was earned.
−Removed: For employees and consultants, this is
−Removed: typically considered to be the vesting period of the award.
−Removed: loss per Share
−Removed: net loss per share is computed by dividing net loss by the weighted average number of common shares outstanding during the period.
−Removed: earnings per share is computed using the weighted average number of common shares and, if dilutive, potential common shares outstanding
−Removed: during the period.
−Removed: Potential common shares consist of the incremental common shares issuable upon the exercise of stock options and warrants
−Removed: (using the treasury stock method).
−Removed: The computation of net loss per share for each of the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022 is the
−Removed: same for both basic and fully diluted.
−Removed: dilutive securities outlined in the table below have been excluded from the computation of diluted net loss per share because the effect
−Removed: of their inclusion would have been anti-dilutive.
−Removed: the Years Ended
+Added: Asset Retirement Obligations, continued
+Added: In accordance with the FASB ASC 410, Asset Retirement and Environmental
+Added: Obligations , the Company capitalizes the measured fair value of asset retirement obligations to mineral properties.
+Added: The estimated
+Added: fair value of the asset retirement obligation is based on the current cost escalated at an inflation rate and discounted at a credit adjusted
+Added: risk-free rate.
+Added: The asset retirement obligations are accreted to an undiscounted value until the time at which they are expected to be
+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 recorded
+Added: 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 in estimated
+Added: probabilities, amounts and timing of the settlement of the asset retirement obligations, as well as changes in the legal obligation requirements
+Added: at each of its mineral properties.
+Added: Changes in any one or more of these assumptions may cause revision of asset retirement obligations
+Added: for the corresponding assets.
+Added: Stock-Based Compensation
+Added: The Company follows the FASB 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 fair value of the stock or the fair value
+Added: of the service, whichever is more readily measurable.
+Added: The Company uses the Black-Scholes option-pricing model to determine the grant date
+Added: fair value of stock-based awards.
+Added: The fair value is charged to earnings depending on the terms and conditions of the award, and the nature
+Added: of the relationship of the recipient of the award to the Company.
+Added: The Company expenses the grant date fair value over the period for which
+Added: it is expected to be earned.
+Added: For employees and consultants, this is typically considered to be the vesting period of the award.
+Added: Net Loss Per Share
+Added: Basic net loss per share is computed by dividing
+Added: net loss by the weighted average number of common shares outstanding during the period.
+Added: Diluted earnings per share is computed using the
+Added: weighted average number of common shares and, if dilutive, potential common shares outstanding during the period.
+Added: Potential common shares
+Added: consist of the incremental common shares issuable upon the exercise of stock options and warrants (using the treasury stock method).
+Added: computation of net loss per share for each of the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023 is the same for both basic and fully diluted.
+Added: Potentially dilutive securities outlined in the
+Added: table below have been excluded from the computation of diluted net loss per share because the effect of their inclusion would have been
+Added: anti-dilutive.
+Added: For the Years
+Added: Ended December 31,
Warrants to purchase common shares
−Removed: Options to purchase
−Removed: common shares
−Removed: potentially dilutive securities
−Removed: Accounting Standards
−Removed: does not believe that any recently issued, but not yet effective accounting standards, when adopted, will have a material effect on the
−Removed: accompanying consolidated financial statements.
−Removed: URANIUM & VANADIUM CORP.
+Added: Options to purchase common shares
+Added: Total potentially dilutive securities
+Added: Recently Adopted Accounting Pronouncements
+Added: In November 2023, the FASB issued Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”)
+Added: 2023-07 – Improvements to Reportable Segment Disclosures (“ASU 2023-07”) , which enhances the disclosures required
+Added: for reportable segments in annual and interim consolidated financial statements.
+Added: The standard is effective for fiscal years beginning
+Added: after December 15, 2023, and interim periods within fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2024.
+Added: The Company adopted ASU 2023-07 for
+Added: the year ended December 31, 2024 retrospectively to all periods presented in the consolidated financial statements.
+Added: The adoption of this
+Added: ASU had no impact on reportable segments identified and had no effect on the Company’s consolidated financial position, results
+Added: of operations, or cash flows.
+Added: Additional required disclosure has been included within this Note 3, under subsection Segment Information.
+Added: WESTERN URANIUM & VANADIUM CORP.
AND SUBSIDIARIES
−Removed: TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
+Added: NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
+Added: (Stated in USD)
+Added: 3 – SUMMARY OF Significant Accounting Policies, continued
+Added: Recent Accounting Standards Not Yet Adopted
+Added: In December 2023, the FASB issued ASU 2023-09
+Added: – Improvements to Income Tax Disclosures , which enhances the transparency and decision usefulness of income tax disclosures.
+Added: The standard is effective for public companies for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2024.
+Added: Early adoption is available.
+Added: Company is still evaluating the full extent of the potential impact of the adoption of ASU 2023-09, but believes it will not have a material
+Added: impact on its consolidated financial statements and disclosures.
+Added: In November 2024, the FASB issued ASU 2024-03,
+Added: – Income Statement—Reporting Comprehensive Income—Expense Disaggregation Disclosures
+Added: Disaggregation of Income Statement Expenses (“ASU 2024-03”).
+Added: This ASU requires disclosures about specific types of expenses included in the expense captions presented on the face of the statement
+Added: of operation as well as disclosures about selling expenses.
+Added: The standard is effective for annual reporting periods beginning after December
+Added: 15, 2026 and interim reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2027.
+Added: The requirements will be applied prospectively with the option
+Added: for retrospective application.
+Added: Early adoption is permitted.
+Added: The Company will evaluate the full extent of the potential impact of
+Added: the adoption of ASU 2024-03, but believes it will not have a material impact on its consolidated financial statements and disclosures.
4 – Property, plant & equipment and mineral properties, net AND Kinetic separation INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
−Removed: The Company’s mining properties acquired
−Removed: on August 18, 2014 that the Company retains as of December 31, 2023 include:
−Removed: The San Rafael Uranium Project located in Emery County, Utah;
−Removed: The Sunday Mine Complex located in western San Miguel County, Colorado;
−Removed: The Van 4 Mine located in western Montrose County, Colorado;
−Removed: Sage Mine located in San Juan County, Utah, and San Miguel County, Colorado.
−Removed: These mining properties include leased land in the states
−Removed: of Colorado and Utah.
−Removed: None of these mining properties were operational at the date of acquisition.
−Removed: The Company’s mining properties acquired
−Removed: on September 16, 2015 that the Company retains as of December 31, 2023 include Hansen, North Hansen and Hansen Picnic Tree located in
−Removed: Fremont and Teller Counties, Colorado.
−Removed: The Company also acquired the Keota project located in Weld County, Colorado and the Ferris Haggerty
−Removed: project located in Carbon County, Wyoming.
−Removed: These mining assets include both owned and leased land in the states of Utah, Colorado, and
−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 reserves
−Removed: on any of its properties, there is inherent uncertainty as to whether or not any mineralized material can be economically extracted as
−Removed: originally planned and anticipated.
−Removed: Company’s property, plant & equipment and mineral properties, net and kinetic separation intellectual property are:
−Removed: As of December 31,
+Added: The Company’s property, plant & equipment
+Added: and mineral properties, net and kinetic separation intellectual property are:
+Added: Estimated As of December 31,
Useful Lives 2024 2023
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Vehicles 5 years 1,094,297 549,703
+Added: Plant facilities 5 - 10 years 207,490 -
+Added: Software 5 years 9,120 -
Construction in progress N/A 36,343 312,384
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Kinetic separation intellectual property $ 9,488,051 $ 9,488,051
−Removed: plant & equipment and mineral properties, net
+Added: The Company’s mining properties acquired on August 18, 2014 that
+Added: the Company retains as of December 31, 2024 include:
+Added: The San Rafael Uranium Project located in Emery County, Utah;
+Added: The Sunday Mine Complex
+Added: located in western San Miguel County, Colorado;
+Added: The Van 4 Mine located in western Montrose County, Colorado;
+Added: The Sage Mine located in
+Added: San Juan County, Utah, and San Miguel County, Colorado.
+Added: These mining properties include leased land in the states of Colorado and Utah.
+Added: The Company is obligated to remit a 1.0 % royalty based upon the market value of uranium recovered from these mining properties.
+Added: these mining properties were operational at the date of acquisition.
+Added: The Company’s mining properties acquired
+Added: on September 16, 2015 that the Company retains as of December 31, 2024 include:
+Added: Hansen, North Hansen and Hansen Picnic Tree located in
+Added: Fremont and Teller Counties, Colorado.
+Added: The Company also acquired the Keota project located in Weld County, Colorado and the Ferris Haggerty
+Added: project located in Carbon County, Wyoming.
+Added: These mining assets include both owned and leased land in the states of Utah, Colorado, and
+Added: All of the mining assets represent properties which have previously been mined, to different degrees, for uranium.
+Added: As the Company has not formally established proven
+Added: or probable reserves on any of its properties, there is inherent uncertainty as to whether or not any mineralized material can be economically
+Added: extracted as originally planned and anticipated.
+Added: WESTERN URANIUM & VANADIUM CORP.
+Added: AND SUBSIDIARIES
+Added: NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
+Added: (Stated in USD)
+Added: 4 – Property, plant & equipment and mineral properties, net AND Kinetic separation INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY,
During the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023, Western made purchases
−Removed: of $ 2,404,440 and $ 1,045,638 , which principally consisted of mining equipment and vehicles, to increase mining capacity and land for the
−Removed: mineral processing facility.
−Removed: During the year ended December 31, 2023, depreciation expense was $ 262,832 , which was included in mining
−Removed: expenditures on the Company’s consolidated statements of operations and other comprehensive loss.
−Removed: During the year ended December
−Removed: 31, 2022, depreciation expense was $ 26,877 , which was included in general and administrative expenses on the Company’s consolidated
−Removed: statements of operations and other comprehensive loss.
−Removed: and Gas Lease and Easement
+Added: of $ 3,395,888 and $ 2,404,440 , to increase the Company’s mining and processing capacities.
+Added: During the years ended December 31, 2024
+Added: and 2023, depreciation expense was $ 613,610 and $ 262,832 , respectively, which was included in mining expenditures on the Company’s
+Added: consolidated statements of operations and other comprehensive loss.
+Added: Mustang Mineral Mill Site
+Added: On October 1, 2024, Western, through its wholly owned subsidiary, Western
+Added: Utah, executed a binding stock purchase agreement (the “PRC Agreement”) to purchase 100 % of the shares of PRC from a private
+Added: investor group and thereby acquire Mustang, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of PRC.
+Added: Mustang owns an 880 -acre property located in Montrose
+Added: County, Colorado, where a uranium processing mill was previously licensed but never constructed.
+Added: The acquisition becomes the second property
+Added: that Western has acquired, in addition to the Maverick site in Utah.
+Added: It also becomes part of Western’s plans for developing and
+Added: licensing one or more uranium and vanadium processing facilities to process production from its resource properties in Colorado and Utah.
+Added: The Company assumed an obligation to an unrelated third party to remit
+Added: a royalty based on the volume of minerals processed through any mineral processing plant located on the property.
+Added: This transaction was
+Added: accounted for as the purchase of an asset.
+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 PRC Agreement on behalf of the Company.
+Added: The purchase price consisted of the following
+Added: Cash paid to sellers, of which $ 414,584 was paid to George and Kathy Glasier and $ 24,875 was paid to an affiliate of Andrew Wilder
+Added: Cash paid to retire the principal and interest on the loan the seller had assumed
+Added: The purchase price was allocated as shown below:
+Added: Accrued expenses
+Added: WESTERN URANIUM & VANADIUM CORP.
+Added: AND SUBSIDIARIES
+Added: NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
+Added: (Stated in USD)
+Added: 4 – Property, plant & equipment and mineral properties, net AND Kinetic separation INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY,
+Added: Oil and Gas Lease and Easement
In 2017, the Company entered into an oil and gas
−Removed: lease that became effective with respect to minerals and mineral rights owned by the Company of approximately 160 surface acres of the
+Added: lease that became effective with respect to minerals and mineral rights owned by the Company on approximately 160 surface acres of the
Company’s property in Colorado.
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term of the easement.
−Removed: June 23, 2020, the operator elected to extend the oil and gas lease easement for three additional years through July 2023.
−Removed: This was done
−Removed: to provide additional time in order to complete well construction and commence oil and gas production.
−Removed: During 2021, the operator completed
−Removed: a first set of eight (8) wells which commenced oil and gas production by August 2021.
−Removed: During 2022, the operator completed a second set
−Removed: of eight (8) wells which commenced oil and gas production by August 2022.
−Removed: All sixteen (16) wells remain in production and monthly royalty
−Removed: payments will be ongoing in perpetuity as long as oil and/or gas are produced from the pooled unit containing these sixteen (16) wells.
−Removed: the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022 the Company recognized aggregate revenue of $ 431,065 and $ 635,363 , respectively, under these
−Removed: oil and gas lease arrangements.
−Removed: URANIUM & VANADIUM CORP.
−Removed: AND SUBSIDIARIES
−Removed: TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
−Removed: 4 - PROPERTY, PLANT & EQUIPMENT AND MINERAL PROPERTIES, NET AND KINETIC SEPARATION INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, continued
+Added: On June 23, 2020, the operator elected to extend
+Added: the oil and gas lease easement for three additional years through July 2023.
+Added: This was done to provide additional time in order to complete
+Added: well construction and commence oil and gas production.
+Added: During 2021, the operator completed a first set of eight (8) wells which commenced
+Added: oil and gas production by August 2021.
+Added: During 2022, the operator completed a second set of eight (8) wells which commenced oil and gas
+Added: production by August 2022.
+Added: All sixteen (16) wells remain in production and monthly royalty payments will be ongoing in perpetuity as long
+Added: as oil and/or gas are produced from the pooled unit containing these sixteen (16) wells.
+Added: During the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023,
+Added: the Company recognized aggregate revenue of $ 183,803 and $ 431,065 , respectively, under these oil and gas lease arrangements.
+Added: Asset Retirement Obligations
The Company’s mines are subject to certain
−Removed: asset retirement obligations, which the Company has recorded as reclamation liabilities.
−Removed: The reclamation liabilities of the United States
−Removed: mines are subject to legal and regulatory requirements, and estimates of the costs of reclamation are reviewed periodically by the applicable
−Removed: regulatory authorities.
−Removed: The reclamation liability represents the Company’s best estimate of the present value of future reclamation
−Removed: costs in connection with the mineral properties.
−Removed: The Company determined the gross reclamation liabilities of the mineral properties to
−Removed: be $ 751,444 and $ 751,405 as of December 31, 2023 and 2022, respectively.
−Removed: The portion of the reclamation liability related to the Van 4
−Removed: Mine, which is in reclamation as of December 31, 2023, and its related restricted cash are included in current liabilities and current
−Removed: assets, respectively, at a value of $ 75,057 .
−Removed: During the year ended December 31, 2023, the Company’s internal mining operations team
−Removed: has been performing the reclamation work, and the State of Colorado has not yet reduced the reclamation liability amount.
−Removed: expects to begin incurring the reclamation liability after 2054 for all mines that are not in reclamation and accordingly, has discounted
−Removed: the gross liabilities over their remaining lives using a discount rate of 5.4 %.
−Removed: The net discounted aggregated values as of December 31,
−Removed: 2023 and 2022 were $ 241,562 and $ 225,219 , respectively.
−Removed: The gross reclamation liabilities as of December 31, 2023 and 2022 are secured
−Removed: by financial warranties in the amount of $751,444 and $751,405, respectively.
−Removed: liability activity for the years December 31, 2023 and 2022 consists of:
−Removed: the Years Ended
−Removed: Beginning balance at January
−Removed: Adjustment to reclamation liability
−Removed: Ending Balance at December 31
−Removed: Reclamation liability,
−Removed: current portion
−Removed: Reclamation liability,
−Removed: net of current portion
−Removed: URANIUM & VANADIUM CORP.
+Added: AROs, which the Company has recorded as liabilities.
+Added: The AROs of the United States mines are subject to legal and regulatory requirements,
+Added: and estimates of the costs of asset retirement obligations are reviewed periodically by the applicable regulatory authorities.
+Added: represents the Company’s best estimate of the present value of future costs in connection with the mineral properties.
+Added: During the year ended December 31, 2024, in connection
+Added: with the Company’s San Rafael Mine and Sunday Mine Complex, the Company incurred additional gross and discounted asset retirement
+Added: obligations of $ 412,534 and $ 80,508 , respectively.
+Added: The Company determined the aggregate gross AROs of the mineral properties to be $ 1,163,978
+Added: and $ 751,444 as of December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively.
+Added: The portion of the asset retirement obligations related to the Van 4 Mine,
+Added: which is in reclamation as of December 31, 2024, and its related restricted cash are included in current liabilities and current assets,
+Added: respectively, at a value of $ 75,057 .
+Added: During the year ended December 31, 2024, the Company’s internal mining operations team has
+Added: been performing the Van 4 Mine reclamation work, and the State of Colorado has not yet reduced the associated asset retirement obligation
+Added: The Company’s asset retirement obligations are subject to legal
+Added: and regulatory requirements.
+Added: Estimates of the costs of reclamation are reviewed periodically by the Company and the applicable regulatory
+Added: The asset retirement obligations represent the Company’s estimate of the present value of future reclamation costs,
+Added: discounted using a credit adjusted risk-free interest rates of 5.4 % for the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023.
+Added: The net discounted
+Added: aggregated values as of December 31, 2024 and 2023 were $ 410,098 and $ 316,619 , respectively.
+Added: On September 17, 2024 and March 13, 2025,
+Added: the Company remitted $ 61,403 and $ 351,131 , respectively in connection with the aforementioned 2024 incremental AROs.
+Added: Financial warranties
+Added: to secure AROs as of December 31, 2024 and 2023 were $ 812,993 and $ 751,444 , respectively.
+Added: WESTERN URANIUM & VANADIUM CORP.
AND SUBSIDIARIES
−Removed: TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
−Removed: 4 - PROPERTY, PLANT & EQUIPMENT AND MINERAL PROPERTIES, NET AND KINETIC SEPARATION INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, continued
−Removed: Mine Complex Permitting Status
−Removed: On February 4, 2020, the Colorado Division of Reclamation, Mining and
−Removed: Safety (the “DRMS”) sent a Notice of Hearing to Declare Termination of Mining Operations related to the status of the mining
−Removed: permits issued by the state of Colorado for the Sunday Mine Complex.
−Removed: At issue was the application of an unchallenged Colorado Court of
−Removed: Appeals Opinion for a separate mine (Van 4) with very different facts that are retroactively modifying DRMS rules and regulations.
−Removed: Company maintains that it was timely in meeting existing rules and regulations.
−Removed: The hearing was scheduled to be held during several monthly
−Removed: Colorado Mined Land Reclamation Board (the “MLRB”) Board meetings, but this matter was delayed several times.
−Removed: The permit hearing
−Removed: was held during the MLRB Board monthly meeting on July 22, 2020.
−Removed: At issue was the status of the five existing permits which comprise the
−Removed: Sunday Mine Complex.
−Removed: Due to COVID-19 restrictions, the hearing took place utilizing a virtual-only format.
−Removed: The Company prevailed in a
−Removed: 3 to 1 decision which acknowledged that the work completed at the Sunday Mine Complex under DRMS oversight was timely and sufficient for
−Removed: Western to maintain these permits.
−Removed: In a subsequent July 30, 2020 letter, the DRMS notified the Company that the status of the five permits
−Removed: (Sunday, West Sunday, St.
−Removed: Jude, Carnation, and Topaz) had been changed to “Active” status effective June 10, 2019, the original
−Removed: date on which the change of the status was approved.
−Removed: On August 23, 2020, the Company initiated a request for Temporary Cessation status
−Removed: for the Sunday Mine Complex as the mines had not been restarted within a 180-day window due to the direct and indirect impacts of the
−Removed: COVID-19 pandemic.
−Removed: Accordingly, a permit hearing was scheduled for October 21, 2020 to determine Temporary Cessation status.
−Removed: In a unanimous
−Removed: vote, the MLRB approved Temporary Cessation status for each of the five Sunday Mine Complex permits (Sunday, West Sunday, St.
−Removed: Jude, Carnation,
−Removed: On October 9, 2020, the MLRB issued a board order which finalized the findings of the July 22, 2020 permit hearing.
−Removed: 10, 2020, the MLRB issued a board order which finalized the findings of the October 21, 2020 permit hearing.
−Removed: On November 6, 2020, the
−Removed: MLRB signed an order placing the five Sunday Mine Complex mine permits into Temporary Cessation.
−Removed: On November 12, 2020, a coalition of
−Removed: environmental groups (the “Plaintiffs”) filed a complaint against the MLRB seeking a partial appeal of the July 22, 2020 decision
−Removed: by requesting termination of the Topaz Mine permit.
−Removed: On December 15, 2020, the same coalition of environmental groups amended their complaint
−Removed: against the MLRB seeking a partial appeal of the October 21, 2020 decision requesting termination of the Topaz Mine permit.
−Removed: has joined with the MLRB in defense of their July 22, 2020 and October 21, 2020 decisions.
−Removed: On May 5, 2021, the Plaintiffs in the Topaz
−Removed: Appeal filed an opening brief with the Denver District Court seeking to overturn the July 22, 2020 and October 21, 2020 MLRB permit hearing
−Removed: decisions on the Topaz Mine permit.
−Removed: The MLRB and the Company were to respond with an answer brief within 35 days on or before June 9,
−Removed: 2021, but instead sought a settlement.
−Removed: The judicial review process was delayed as extensions were put in place until August 20, 2021.
−Removed: A settlement was not reached, and the MLRB and the Company submitted answer briefs on August 20, 2021.
−Removed: The Plaintiff submitted a reply
−Removed: brief on September 10, 2021.
−Removed: On March 1, 2022, the Denver District Court reversed the MLRB’s orders regarding the Topaz Mine and
−Removed: remanded the case back to MLRB for further proceedings consistent with its order.
−Removed: The Company and the MLRB had until April 19, 2022 to
−Removed: appeal the Denver District Court’s ruling.
−Removed: Neither the Company nor the MLRB appealed the Denver District Court ruling.
−Removed: on March 20, 2023, the MLRB issued a board order for the Company to commence final reclamation, which upon completion will terminate mining
−Removed: operations at the Topaz Mine.
−Removed: Reclamation is to commence immediately at the Topaz Mine and is to be completed within five years by March
−Removed: The Company is currently working toward the completion of an updated Topaz Mine Plan of Operations which is a separate federal requirement
−Removed: of the BLM for the conduct of mining activities on the federal land at the Topaz Mine and needed to re-permit the Topaz Mine with Colorado’s
−Removed: The review of Western’s most recent submission continues to be delayed due to staff turnover at the BLM.
−Removed: URANIUM & VANADIUM CORP.
+Added: NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
+Added: (Stated in USD)
+Added: NOTE 4 – PROPERTY, PLANT &
+Added: EQUIPMENT AND MINERAL PROPERTIES, NET AND KINETIC SEPARATION INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, CONTINUED
+Added: Asset Retirement Obligations, continued
+Added: Asset retirement obligation activity consists of:
+Added: For the Years Ended
+Added: Beginning balance as of January 1
+Added: Adjustment to asset retirement obligations
+Added: Ending balance as of December 31
+Added: Asset retirement obligations, current portion
+Added: Asset retirement obligations, net of current portion
+Added: Topaz Mine Permitting Status
+Added: Upon an order from the Mined Land Reclamation Board (“MLRB”)
+Added: in March 2023, the Topaz Mine was put into reclamation which is scheduled to be completed by March 2028.
+Added: The Company has been working
+Added: toward the completion of an updated Topaz Mine Plan of Operations (“Topaz Mine Plan”), which is a separate federal requirement
+Added: Bureau of Land Management (“BLM”) for the conduct of mining activities on the federal land at the Topaz Mine.
+Added: This is a prerequisite to re-permit the Topaz Mine with Colorado’s DRMS.
+Added: In connection with the Topaz Mine Plan, an environmental
+Added: assessment was prepared by an outside consultant and submitted to the BLM on June 24, 2024.
+Added: The BLM issued a letter to the Company on
+Added: August 2, 2024 advising that the application for the Topaz Mine Plan had run past its allowed evaluation period and was cancelled.
+Added: to the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023, each permitting project has a one year time limit for the BLM to complete a review.
+Added: transitional rules, the Topaz project was not eligible for an extension due to its duration.
+Added: However, the project can be resubmitted and
+Added: be picked up where it was left off.
+Added: The re-scoping process will need to be repeated to start the one year time clock.
+Added: Consultants have
+Added: completed new work toward gathering additional inputs for the BLM resubmission, but have not yet restarted the BLM clock by making an
+Added: amended submission.
+Added: San Rafael Permitting Status
+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 BLM
+Added: that was approved for a mineral and groundwater exploration project.
+Added: During the third quarter of 2024, Utah’s Division of Oil, Gas
+Added: & Mining gave its approval of the exploration permit application and the Company posted a $ 61,403 Financial Guarantee of reclamation
+Added: costs with the BLM.
+Added: Following the completion of repairs to access roads, the phase 1 drilling program is eligible to begin.
+Added: groundwater monitoring wells will be installed at five drilling locations, reaching depths of approximately 1,000 feet.
+Added: During the borehole
+Added: completion process, mineralization will also be assessed and confirmed against historical drill data.
+Added: This project will provide the baseline
+Added: data needed for permitting application submission.
+Added: Kinetic Separation Intellectual Property
+Added: The Kinetic Separation intellectual property was
+Added: acquired in Western’s acquisition of Black Range on September 16, 2015.
+Added: Previously Black Range acquired its Kinetic Separation assets
+Added: in the dissolution of a joint venture on March 17, 2015, through the acquisition of all the assets of the joint venture and received a
+Added: 25-year license to utilize all of the patented and unpatented technology owned by the joint venture.
+Added: The technology license agreement
+Added: for patents and unpatented technology became effective as of March 17, 2015, for a period of 25 years, until March 16, 2040.
+Added: no remaining license fee obligations, and there are no future royalties due under the agreement.
+Added: The Company has the right to sub-license
+Added: the technology to third parties.
+Added: The Company may not sell or assign the Kinetic Separation license;
+Added: however, the license could be transferred
+Added: in the case of a sale of the Company.
+Added: The Company has developed improvements to Kinetic Separation during the term of the license agreement
+Added: and retains ownership of, and may obtain patent protection on, any such improvements developed by the Company.
+Added: WESTERN URANIUM & VANADIUM CORP.
AND SUBSIDIARIES
−Removed: TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
−Removed: 4 - PROPERTY, PLANT & EQUIPMENT AND MINERAL PROPERTIES, NET AND KINETIC SEPARATION INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, continued
−Removed: Separation Intellectual Property
−Removed: Kinetic Separation intellectual property was acquired in Western’s acquisition of Black Range on September 16, 2015.
−Removed: Black Range acquired its Kinetic Separation assets in the dissolution of a joint venture on March 17, 2015, through the acquisition of
−Removed: all the assets of the joint venture and received a 25-year license to utilize all of the patented and unpatented technology owned by
−Removed: the joint venture.
−Removed: The technology license agreement for patents and unpatented technology became effective as of March 17, 2015, for
−Removed: a period of 25 years, until March 16, 2040.
−Removed: There are no remaining license fee obligations, and there are no future royalties due under
−Removed: the agreement.
−Removed: The Company has the right to sub-license the technology to third parties.
−Removed: The Company may not sell or assign the Kinetic
−Removed: Separation license;
−Removed: however, the license could be transferred in the case of a sale of the Company.
−Removed: The Company has developed improvements
−Removed: to Kinetic Separation during the term of the license agreement and retains ownership of, and may obtain patent protection on, any such
−Removed: improvements developed by the Company.
−Removed: Kinetic Separation patent was filed on September 13, 2012 and granted on February 14, 2014 by the United States Patent Office.
−Removed: is effective for a period of 20 years until September 13, 2032.
+Added: NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
+Added: (Stated in USD)
+Added: 4 – PROPERTY, PLANT & EQUIPMENT AND MINERAL PROPERTIES, NET AND KINETIC SEPARATION INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY,
+Added: Kinetic Separation Intellectual Property, continued
+Added: The Kinetic Separation patent was filed on September
+Added: 13, 2012 and granted on February 14, 2014 by the United States Patent Office.
+Added: The patent is effective for a period of 20 years until September
This patent is supported by two provisional patent applications.
−Removed: provisional patent applications expired after one year but were incorporated in the U.S.
−Removed: Patent by reference and claimed benefit prior
−Removed: to their expirations.
−Removed: The status of the patent and two provisional patent applications has not changed subsequent to the 2014 patent
−Removed: The Company has the continued right to use any patented portion of the Kinetic Separation technology that enters the public domain
−Removed: subsequent to the patent expiration.
−Removed: Company anticipates Kinetic Separation will improve the efficiency of the mining and processing of the sandstone-hosted ore from Western’s
−Removed: conventional mines through the separation of waste from mineral bearing-ore, potentially reducing transportation, mill processing, and
−Removed: mill tailings costs.
−Removed: Kinetic Separation is not currently in use or being applied at any Company mines.
−Removed: The Company views Kinetic Separation
−Removed: as a cost saving technology, which it will seek to incorporate into ore production subsequent to commencing scaled production levels.
−Removed: There are also alternative applications, which the Company has explored.
+Added: The provisional patent applications expired after one year
+Added: but were incorporated in the U.S.
+Added: Patent by reference and claimed benefit prior to their expirations.
+Added: The status of the patent and two
+Added: provisional patent applications has not changed subsequent to the 2014 patent grant.
+Added: The Company has the continued right to use any patented
+Added: portion of the Kinetic Separation technology that enters the public domain subsequent to the patent expiration.
+Added: The Company anticipates Kinetic Separation will
+Added: improve the efficiency of the mining and processing of the sandstone-hosted mined material from Western’s conventional mines through
+Added: the separation of waste from mineral bearing-ore, potentially reducing transportation, mill processing, and mill tailings costs.
+Added: Separation is not currently in use or being applied at any Company mines.
+Added: The Company views Kinetic Separation as a cost saving technology,
+Added: which it will seek to incorporate subsequent to commencing scaled production levels.
+Added: There are also alternative applications, which the
+Added: Company has explored.
Accounts Payable and Accrued Liabilities
−Removed: payable and accrued liabilities consisted of:
−Removed: of December 31,
+Added: payable and accrued liabilities consist of:
+Added: As of December 31,
Trade accounts payable
Accrued liabilities
−Removed: accounts payable and accrued liabilities
−Removed: URANIUM & VANADIUM CORP.
−Removed: AND SUBSIDIARIES
−Removed: TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
−Removed: 6 – COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES
−Removed: December 2015, the Company signed a uranium concentrates supply agreement with a major United States utility company for delivery commencing
−Removed: in 2018 and continuing for a five-year period through 2022.
−Removed: On March 8, 2021, the Company entered into an agreement with a third party
−Removed: to complete the Year 4 (2021) uranium concentrate delivery.
−Removed: The Company paid $ 78,000 in April 2021 to the assignee for which the assignee
−Removed: made the delivery in May 2021.
−Removed: In April 2022, in satisfaction of the Year 5 delivery under its supply contract, the Company delivered
−Removed: 125,000 lbs of uranium concentrate from its prepaid uranium concentrate inventory.
−Removed: Accordingly, during the year ended December 31, 2022,
−Removed: the Company recorded revenue of $ 7,223,609 (at a price of approximately $ 57 per pound) and cost of revenue of $ 4,044,083 , related to
−Removed: the delivery of the uranium.
−Removed: In May 2022, the Company received the cash proceeds from this sale.
−Removed: Acquisition of Physical Uranium
−Removed: May 2021, the Company executed a binding agreement to purchase 125,000 pounds of natural uranium concentrate at approximately $ 32 per
−Removed: In December 2021, the Company paid $ 4,044,083 , in connection with its full prepayment of the purchase price for 125,000 pounds
−Removed: of natural uranium concentrate.
−Removed: This uranium concentrate was subsequently delivered under the terms of the aforementioned uranium concentrates
−Removed: supply agreement in April 2022.
−Removed: 7 – SHARE CAPITAL AND OTHER EQUITY INSTRUMENTS
−Removed: holders of the Company’s common shares are entitled to one vote per share.
−Removed: Holders of common shares are entitled to ratably receive
−Removed: such dividends, if any, as may be declared by the board of directors, out of legally available funds.
−Removed: Upon the liquidation, dissolution,
−Removed: or winding down of the Company, holders of common shares are entitled to share ratably in all assets of the Company that are legally
−Removed: available for distribution.
−Removed: As of December 31, 2023 and 2022, an unlimited number of common shares were authorized for issuance.
−Removed: On January 20, 2022, the Company closed a non-brokered
−Removed: private placement of 2,495,575 units at a price of CAD $ 1.60 per unit.
+Added: Total accounts payable and accrued liabilities
+Added: NOTE 6 – SHARE CAPITAL AND OTHER EQUITY
+Added: Authorized Capital
+Added: The holders of the Company’s common shares
+Added: are entitled to one vote per share.
+Added: Holders of common shares are entitled to ratably receive such dividends, if any, as may be declared
+Added: by the board of directors, out of legally available funds.
+Added: Upon the liquidation, dissolution, or winding down of the Company, holders
+Added: of common shares are entitled to share ratably in all assets of the Company that are legally available for distribution.
+Added: As of December
+Added: 31, 2024 and 2023, an unlimited number of common shares were authorized for issuance.
+Added: Private Placements
+Added: On November 20, 2024, the Company closed a private
+Added: placement of 4,142,906 units at a price of $ 0.94 (CAD $ 1.32 ) per unit.
The aggregate gross proceeds raised in the private placement amounted
−Removed: to CAD $ 3,992,920 (USD $ 3,134,417 as of December 31, 2022).
−Removed: Issuance costs, consisting principally of commissions and legal fees, were
−Removed: CAD $ 153,247 (USD $ 122,539 as of December 31, 2022).
−Removed: Each unit consisted of one common share plus one common share purchase warrant.
−Removed: Each warrant entitled the holder to purchase one common share at a price of CAD $ 2.50 per common share for a period of three years following
−Removed: the closing date of the private placement.
−Removed: A total of 2,495,575 common shares and warrants to purchase 2,495,575 common shares were issued
−Removed: to investors and warrants to purchase 98,985 common shares were issued to broker dealers in connection with the private placement.
+Added: to $ 3,897,166 (CAD $ 5,468,636 ) and proceeds net of issuance costs were $ 3,546,870 (CAD $ 4,975,966 ).
+Added: Each unit is comprised of one common
+Added: share of Western and one common share purchase warrant.
+Added: Each warrant is exercisable into one common share at a price of $ 1.27 (CAD $ 1.78 )
+Added: per share for a period of four years following the closing date of the private placement.
On December 12, 2023, the Company closed a non-brokered
private placement of 5,215,828 units at a price of $ 1.02 (CAD $ 1.39 ) per unit.
−Removed: The aggregate gross proceeds raised in the private placement amounted
−Removed: to CAD $ 7,250,000 (USD $ 5,324,989 as of December 31, 2023).
−Removed: Issuance costs, consisting principally of commissions and legal fees, were
−Removed: CAD $ 661,912 (USD $ 488,122 as of December 31, 2023).
−Removed: Each unit consisted of one common share plus one half of one warrant.
−Removed: is exercisable into one share at a price of CAD $ 1.88 per common share for a period of four years following the closing date of the private
−Removed: A total of 5,215,828 common shares and warrants to purchase 2,607,913 common shares were issued to investors in connection
−Removed: with the private placement.
−Removed: URANIUM & VANADIUM CORP.
+Added: The aggregate gross proceeds raised in the private placement
+Added: amounted to $ 5,324,989 (CAD $ 7,250,000 ) and proceeds net of issuance costs amounted to $ 4,836,867 (CAD $ 6,588,089 ).
+Added: Each unit consisted
+Added: of one common share plus one half of one warrant.
+Added: Each warrant is exercisable into one share at a price of $ 1.38 (CAD $ 1.88 ) per common
+Added: share for a period of four years following the closing date of the private placement.
+Added: A total of 5,215,828 common shares and warrants
+Added: to purchase 2,607,913 common shares were issued to investors in connection with the private placement.
+Added: Warrant Exercises
+Added: During the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023,
+Added: an aggregate of 5,198,540 and 1,165,450 warrants were exercised for total proceeds of $ 4,605,458 (CAD $ 6,238,248 ) and $ 1,004,044 (CAD
+Added: $ 1,358,565 ), respectively.
+Added: WESTERN URANIUM & VANADIUM CORP.
AND SUBSIDIARIES
−Removed: TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
−Removed: – SHARE CAPITAL AND OTHER EQUITY INSTRUMENTS, CONTINUED
−Removed: the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022, an aggregate of 1,165,450 and 2,020,351 warrants were exercised for total proceeds of $ 1,004,044
−Removed: and $ 2,620,395 , respectively.
−Removed: Stock Option Plan
+Added: NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
+Added: (Stated in USD)
+Added: NOTE 6 – SHARE CAPITAL AND OTHER EQUITY INSTRUMENTS,
+Added: Warrant Modification
+Added: On November 28, 2024, The Company’s Board approved amendments
+Added: to extend the term and reduce the exercise price of 2,868,541 previously issued common share purchase warrants.
+Added: These warrants, originally
+Added: issued during December 2021 and January 2022, had initial exercise prices of $ 1.94 (CAD $ 2.50 ) and $ 2.00 (CAD $ 2.50 ) per share, respectively,
+Added: and were set to expire three years post-issuance.
+Added: Effective November 28, 2024, the term was extended to January 20, 2026, a date that
+Added: is less than five years since the original date of issuance.
+Added: Effective February 27, 2025 the exercise price was reduced to $ 1.39 (CAD
+Added: $ 2.00 ), the date upon which the Canadian Securities Exchange (CSE) accepted the warrant repricing and the amended Form 13 filing was approved
+Added: During the year ended December 31, 2024, the Company recorded an incremental fair value of $ 184,308 arising from the extension
+Added: On February 27, 2025, the Company recorded an incremental fair value of $ 104,840 for the modification of the exercise price.
+Added: The cost of the warrant modifications was accounted for as a cost of raising capital.
+Added: This modification was granted to facilitate the
+Added: raising of additional equity capital by extending the exercise period and lowering the exercise price, thereby providing warrant investors
+Added: with more time and incentive to exercise their warrants.
+Added: Incentive Stock Option Plan
The Company maintains an Incentive Stock Option
Plan (the “Plan”) that permits the granting of stock options as incentive compensation.
−Removed: purpose of the Plan is to attract, retain, and motivate directors, management, staff, and consultants by providing them with the opportunity,
−Removed: through stock options, to acquire a proprietary interest in the Company and benefit from its growth.
+Added: The purpose of the Plan is to attract, retain,
+Added: and motivate directors, management, staff, and consultants by providing them with the opportunity, through stock options, to acquire a
+Added: proprietary interest in the Company and benefit from its growth.
The Plan provides that the aggregate number of
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31, 2024, there remain 214,933 stock options available to be issued under the Plan.
−Removed: May 24, 2023, the Company adopted and on June 29, 2023, the shareholders approved a shareholder rights plan, which is designed to ensure
−Removed: the fair treatment of shareholders in connection with any take-over bid for the Company and to provide the Board of Directors and shareholders
−Removed: with sufficient time to fully consider any unsolicited takeover bid (the “Shareholder Rights Plan”).
−Removed: The Shareholder Rights
−Removed: Plan also provides the Board of Directors with time to pursue, if appropriate, other alternatives to maximize shareholder value in the
−Removed: event of a takeover bid.
−Removed: to the terms of the Shareholder Rights Plan subject to a triggering event as defined in the Shareholder Rights Plan and as determined
−Removed: by the Board of Directors, rights (the “Rights”) will be issued to holders of Common Shares at a rate of one Right for each
−Removed: Share outstanding.
−Removed: On February 10, 2022, the Company granted options under the Plan for
−Removed: the purchase of an aggregate of 900,000 common shares to five individuals consisting of directors and officers of the Company.
−Removed: have a five year term, an exercise price of CAD $ 1.76 (US $ 1.39 as of December 31, 2023) and vest equally in thirds commencing initially
−Removed: on the date of grant and thereafter on April 1, 2022, and July 1, 2022.
−Removed: On October 31, 2022, the Board of Directors granted
+Added: Shareholder Rights Plan
+Added: On May 24, 2023, the Company adopted and on June
+Added: 29, 2023, the shareholders approved a shareholder rights plan, which is designed to ensure the fair treatment of shareholders in connection
+Added: with any take-over bid for the Company and to provide the Board of Directors and shareholders with sufficient time to fully consider any
+Added: unsolicited takeover bid (the “Shareholder Rights Plan”).
+Added: The Shareholder Rights Plan also provides the Board of Directors
+Added: with time to pursue, if appropriate, other alternatives to maximize shareholder value in the event of a takeover bid.
+Added: Pursuant to the terms of the Shareholder Rights
+Added: Plan subject to a triggering event as defined in the Shareholder Rights Plan and as determined by the Board of Directors, rights (the
+Added: “Rights”) will be issued to holders of Common Shares at a rate of one Right for each Share outstanding.
+Added: Stock Options
+Added: On December 20, 2023, the Board of Directors granted
options under the Plan for the purchase of an aggregate of 1,525,000 common shares to individuals consisting of directors and officers
of the Company.
−Removed: Each of these options have a five year term, an exercise price of CAD $ 1.60 (US $ 1.17 as of December 31, 2023) and vest
−Removed: equally in two installments beginning on the date of grant and thereafter on April 30, 2023.
−Removed: December 20, 2023, the Board of Directors granted options under the Plan for the purchase of an aggregate of 1,525,000 common shares
−Removed: to individuals consisting of directors and officers of the Company.
−Removed: Each of these options have a term which ends five years from the
−Removed: vesting date, an exercise price of CAD $ 1.60 (US $ 1.20 as of December 31, 2023) and vest equally in thirds on January 31, 2024, July
−Removed: 31, 2024 and January 31, 2025.
−Removed: URANIUM & VANADIUM CORP.
+Added: Each of these options have a term which ends five years from the vesting date, an exercise price of $ 1.20 (CAD $ 1.60 as
+Added: of December 31, 2023) and vest equally in thirds on January 31, 2024, July 31, 2024 and January 31, 2025.
+Added: On July 14, 2024, the Board of Directors granted
+Added: an option under the Plan for the purchase of an aggregate of 100,000 common shares to a director of the Company.
+Added: This option has a term
+Added: which ends five years from the vesting date, an exercise price of $ 1.47 (CAD $ 2.00 as of July 14, 2024) and vests one half on each of
+Added: July 31, 2024 and January 31, 2025.
+Added: On November 24, 2024, the Board of Directors granted
+Added: options under the Plan for the purchase of an aggregate of 1,375,000 common shares to individuals consisting of directors and officers
+Added: of the Company.
+Added: Each of these options have a term which ends five years from the vesting date, an exercise price of $ 0.94 (CAD $ 1.32 as
+Added: of November 29, 2024) and vest equally in thirds on January 31, 2025, July 31, 2025 and January 31, 2026.
+Added: During the year ended December 31, 2023, the Company
+Added: issued 18,246 common shares pursuant to the cashless exercise of an option to purchase 50,000 common shares with an exercise
+Added: price of $ 0.75 (CAD $ 1.00 as of December 31, 2023).
+Added: During the year ended December 31, 2024, the Company issued 39,161
+Added: common shares pursuant to the cashless exercise of an option to purchase 166,664 common shares with an exercise price $ 0.79 (CAD $ 1.03 ).
+Added: WESTERN URANIUM & VANADIUM CORP.
AND SUBSIDIARIES
−Removed: TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
−Removed: 7 – SHARE CAPITAL AND OTHER EQUITY INSTRUMENTS, CONTINUED
−Removed: Options, (continued)
−Removed: the year ended December 31, 2022, the Company issued 13,517 shares of common stock pursuant to the cashless exercise of an
−Removed: option to purchase 50,000 shares of common stock with an exercise price of CAD $ 1.00 (USD $ 0.74 as of December 31, 2022).
−Removed: the year ended December 31, 2023, the Company issued 18,246 shares of common stock pursuant to the cashless exercise of an
−Removed: option to purchase 50,000 shares of common stock with an exercise price of CAD $ 1.00 (USD $ 0.75 as of December 31, 2023).
−Removed: Company utilized the Black-Scholes option pricing model to determine the fair value of these stock options, using the assumptions as
−Removed: outlined below:
−Removed: the years ended
+Added: NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
+Added: (Stated in USD)
+Added: NOTE 6 – SHARE CAPITAL AND OTHER EQUITY INSTRUMENTS,
+Added: Stock Options, continued
+Added: The Company utilized the Black-Scholes option
+Added: pricing model to determine the fair value of this grant, using the assumptions as outlined below:
+Added: For the years ended
CAD $ 1.29 – $ 2.00
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90.9 % - 96.1 %
−Removed: 103.3 % - 108.4 %
Weighted Average Risk-Free Interest Rate
−Removed: 1.61 % - 4.45 %
Expected life (in years)
−Removed: Exercise Price
+Added: Shares Weighted
+Added: Exercise Price Weighted
Contractual Life
+Added: (Years) Intrinsic
Outstanding – January 1, 2024 4,917,666 $ 1.22 3.85 $ 214,875
+Added: Granted 1,475,000 0.98
+Added: Forfeited and expired ( 502,666 ) 1.50
+Added: Exercised ( 166,664 ) 0.79
Outstanding – December 31, 2024 5,723,336 $ 1.14 3.80 $ -
Exercisable – December 31, 2024 3,823,328 $ 1.20 2.98 $ -
−Removed: weighted average grant date fair value per share was $ 0.72 for each of the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022.
−Removed: Company’s stock-based compensation expense related to stock options for the year ended December 31, 2023 was $ 429,429 , of which
−Removed: $ 78,874 and $ 350,555 was included in mining expenditures and general and administrative expenses, respectively, on the Company’s
−Removed: consolidated statements of operations and other comprehensive loss.
−Removed: The Company’s stock-based compensation expense related to stock
−Removed: options for the year ended December 31, 2022 was $ 1,566,520 , which was included in general and administrative expenses on the Company’s
−Removed: consolidated statements of operations and other comprehensive loss.
−Removed: As of December 31, 2023 and 2022, the Company had $ 975,101 and $ 364,095
−Removed: of unamortized stock option expense, respectively.
−Removed: URANIUM & VANADIUM CORP.
−Removed: AND SUBSIDIARIES
−Removed: TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
−Removed: 7 – SHARE CAPITAL AND OTHER EQUITY INSTRUMENTS, CONTINUED
−Removed: Exercise Price
−Removed: Contractual Life
+Added: The Company’s stock-based compensation expense (net of the effect
+Added: of forfeitures) related to stock options for the year ended December 31, 2024 was $ 1,142,541 of which $ 251,557 and $ 890,984 was included
+Added: in mining expenditures and general and administrative expenses, respectively, on the Company’s consolidated statements of operations
+Added: and other comprehensive loss.
+Added: The Company’s stock-based compensation expense related to stock options for the year ended December
+Added: 31, 2023 was $ 429,429 , of which $ 78,874 and $ 350,555 was included in mining expenditures and general and administrative expenses, respectively,
+Added: on the Company’s consolidated statements of operations and other comprehensive loss.
+Added: As of December 31, 2024, there was approximately
+Added: $ 597,448 of unrecognized share-based compensation for unvested stock options, which is expected to be recognized over a weighted average
+Added: period of 0.44 years.
+Added: Shares Weighted
+Added: Price Weighted
+Added: (Years) Intrinsic
Outstanding – January 1, 2024 10,804,539 $ 1.30 1.31 $ 1,576,511
−Removed: ( 1,165,450 )
+Added: Issued 4,142,906 1.27
+Added: Exercised ( 5,198,540 ) 0.95
Expired/Forfeited ( 30,560 ) 1.06
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Exercisable – December 31, 2024 9,718,345 $ 1.52 2.76 $ -
+Added: WESTERN URANIUM & VANADIUM CORP.
+Added: AND SUBSIDIARIES
+Added: NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
+Added: (Stated in USD)
7 – Mining Expenditures
−Removed: the Years Ended
+Added: For the Years Ended
Labor and related benefits
+Added: Total mining expenses
+Added: Joint Venture
+Added: During February 2024, PRM entered into a joint venture agreement with
+Added: Rimrock Exploration and Development Inc.
+Added: (“Rimrock”) to explore, develop and mine (the “Mining Operations”) certain
+Added: uranium and vanadium permitted mines and mining claims located in Colorado and owned by Rimrock (the “JV”).
+Added: Pursuant to the
+Added: terms of the JV, Rimrock contributed certain assets into the JV and PRM contributed $ 200,000 (the “Initial Contribution”)
+Added: to be used to fund the Mining Operations.
+Added: Thereafter, each party will own a 50 % interest in the assets of the JV.
+Added: During the initial phase
+Added: of the JV, Rimrock will be the operator and the permits and licenses for the operator will remain in the name of Rimrock.
+Added: The JV intends
+Added: to sell the mined material to the Company under terms to be determined.
+Added: During the term of the JV, PRM will pay the costs of the Mining
+Added: Operations and will be entitled to recover 50 % of such costs subsequent to the contribution of the full amount of the Initial Contribution.
+Added: The JV will fund the recovery payments to be made to PRM from the proceeds of the sale of mined material.
+Added: During the year ended December
+Added: 31, 2024, PRM funded an aggregate of $ 235,210 (inclusive of funding the Initial Contribution) to the JV, which was expensed to mining
+Added: expenditures within the consolidated statements of operations and other comprehensive loss and reflected within mining cost in the table
+Added: The Company has completed its earn-in through the Initial Contribution and now owns a 50 % interest in the assets of the JV.
8 – Related Party Transactions AND BALANCES
−Removed: Company has transacted with related parties pursuant to service arrangements in the ordinary course of business, as follows:
−Removed: to the acquisition of Black Range, Mr.
−Removed: George Glasier, the Company’s CEO, who is also a director of the Company (“Seller”),
−Removed: transferred his interest in a former joint venture with Ablation Technologies, LLC to Black Range.
−Removed: In connection with the transfer, Black
−Removed: Range issued 25 million shares of Black Range common stock to Seller and committed to pay AUD $500,000 (USD $340,650 as of December 31,
−Removed: 2023) to Seller within 60 days of the first commercial application of the Kinetic Separation technology.
−Removed: The Company assumed this contingent
−Removed: payment obligation in connection with the acquisition of Black Range.
−Removed: At the date of the acquisition of Black Range, this contingent
−Removed: obligation was determined to be probable.
−Removed: Since the deferred contingent consideration obligation is probable and the amount is estimable,
−Removed: the Company recorded the deferred contingent consideration as an assumed liability in the amount of $ 340,650 and $ 340,252 as of December
−Removed: 31, 2023 and 2022, respectively.
−Removed: Company has multiple lease arrangements with Silver Hawk Ltd., an entity which is owned by George Glasier and his wife Kathleen Glasier.
−Removed: These leases, which are all on a month-to-month basis, are for the rental of office, workshop, warehouse and employee housing facilities.
−Removed: The Company incurred rent expense of $ 71,700 and $ 55,198 in connection with these arrangements for the years ended December 31, 2023
−Removed: and 2022, respectively.
−Removed: the year ended December 31, 2023, the Company purchased equipment from Silver Hawk Ltd.
−Removed: for $ 25,800 .
+Added: The Company has transacted with related parties
+Added: pursuant to service arrangements in the ordinary course of business, as follows:
+Added: Prior to the acquisition of Black Range, Mr.
+Added: Glasier, the Company’s CEO, who is also a director of the Company (“Seller”), transferred his interest in a former joint
+Added: venture with Ablation Technologies, LLC to Black Range.
+Added: In connection with the transfer, Black Range issued 25 million shares of Black
+Added: Range common stock to Seller and committed to pay $ 309,138 (AUD $ 500,000 ) to Seller within 60 days of the first commercial application
+Added: of the Kinetic Separation technology.
+Added: The Company assumed this contingent payment obligation in connection with the acquisition of Black
+Added: At the date of the acquisition of Black Range, this contingent obligation was determined to be probable.
+Added: Since the deferred contingent
+Added: consideration obligation is probable and the amount is estimable, the Company recorded the deferred contingent consideration as an assumed
+Added: liability in the amount of $ 309,138 and $ 340,650 as of December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively.
+Added: The Company has multiple lease arrangements with
+Added: Silver Hawk Ltd., an entity which is owned by George Glasier and his wife Kathleen Glasier.
+Added: These leases, which are all on a month-to-month
+Added: basis, are for the rental of office, workshop, warehouse and employee housing facilities.
+Added: The Company incurred rent expense of $ 106,500
+Added: and $ 71,700 in connection with these arrangements for the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively.
The Company is obligated to pay Mr.
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2024 and 2023, respectively.
−Removed: URANIUM & VANADIUM CORP.
+Added: During the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023,
+Added: the Company purchased approximately $ 9,000 and $ 25,800 of mining related equipment from Silver Hawk Ltd, respectively.
+Added: See Note 4 – Property, Plant & Equipment
+Added: and Mineral Properties, Net and Kinetic Separation Intellectual Property.
+Added: WESTERN URANIUM & VANADIUM CORP.
AND SUBSIDIARIES
−Removed: TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
+Added: NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
+Added: (Stated in USD)
9 – Income Taxes
−Removed: tax effects of temporary differences that give rise to significant portions of the deferred tax assets and deferred tax liabilities are
+Added: The tax effects of temporary differences that
+Added: give rise to significant portions of the deferred tax assets and deferred tax liabilities are as follows:
As of December 31,
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Marketable securities
−Removed: Accrued expenses
Amortization capitalized cost
+Added: Stock-based compensation
Unrealized foreign exchange
Accretion expense
+Added: Charitable contributions
Deferred tax assets, gross
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$ ( 2,708,887 )
−Removed: in the Company’s valuation allowance is as follows:
+Added: The change in the Company’s valuation allowance is as follows:
For the Years Ended
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Increase in valuation allowance
−Removed: URANIUM & VANADIUM CORP.
−Removed: AND SUBSIDIARIES
−Removed: TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
−Removed: 10 – Income Taxes, CONTINUED
−Removed: reconciliation of the provision for income taxes with the amounts computed by applying the statutory federal income tax rate to income
−Removed: from operations before the provision for income taxes is as follows:
+Added: A reconciliation of the provision for income taxes
+Added: with the amounts computed by applying the statutory federal income tax rate to income from operations before the provision for income
+Added: taxes is as follows:
For the Years Ended
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Effective income tax rate
+Added: WESTERN URANIUM & VANADIUM CORP.
+Added: AND SUBSIDIARIES
+Added: NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
+Added: (Stated in USD)
+Added: 9 – Income Taxes, Continued
The Company has net operating loss carryovers of approximately $ 26,092,449
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loss carryforwards in the future.
−Removed: – FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS
−Removed: The Company’s financial instruments consist of cash and cash
−Removed: equivalents, restricted cash – current, accounts payable and accrued liabilities.
−Removed: The fair values of these financial instruments
−Removed: approximate their carrying values due to the short-term maturity of these instruments.
−Removed: The Company’s financial instruments also
−Removed: incorporate marketable securities that are adjusted to fair value at each balance sheet date based on quoted prices which are considered
+Added: NOTE 10 – FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS
+Added: The Company’s financial instruments consist
+Added: of cash and cash equivalents, restricted cash - current, accounts payable and accrued liabilities.
+Added: The fair values of these financial
+Added: instruments approximate their carrying values due to the short-term maturity of these instruments.
+Added: The Company’s financial instruments
+Added: also incorporate marketable securities that are adjusted to fair value at each balance sheet date based on quoted prices which are considered
level 1 inputs.
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2024 and 2023.
−Removed: Currency Risk
−Removed: currency risk is the risk that changes in the rates of exchange on foreign currencies will impact the financial position or cash flows
−Removed: of the Company.
−Removed: The Company’s reporting currency is the United States dollar.
−Removed: The functional currency for Western standalone entity
−Removed: is the Canadian dollar.
−Removed: The Company is exposed to foreign currency risks in relation to certain activity that is to be settled in Canadian
−Removed: Management monitors its foreign currency exposure regularly to minimize the risk of an adverse impact on its cash flows.
−Removed: URANIUM & VANADIUM CORP.
+Added: Foreign Currency Risk
+Added: Foreign currency risk is the risk that changes
+Added: in the rates of exchange on foreign currencies will impact the financial position or cash flows of the Company.
+Added: The Company’s reporting
+Added: currency is the United States dollar.
+Added: The functional currency for Western standalone entity is the Canadian dollar.
+Added: The Company is exposed
+Added: to foreign currency risks in relation to certain activity that is to be settled in Canadian funds.
+Added: Management monitors its foreign
+Added: currency exposure regularly to minimize the risk of an adverse impact on its cash flows.
+Added: WESTERN URANIUM & VANADIUM CORP.
AND SUBSIDIARIES
−Removed: TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
+Added: NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
+Added: (Stated in USD)
10 – FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS, CONTINUED
−Removed: Concentration
−Removed: of Credit Risk
−Removed: Concentration
−Removed: of credit risk is the risk of loss in the event that certain counterparties are unable to fulfil their obligations to the Company.
−Removed: Company limits its exposure to credit loss on its cash and restricted cash by placing its cash with high credit quality financial institutions.
−Removed: risk is the risk that the Company’s consolidated cash flows from operations will not be sufficient for the Company to continue
−Removed: operating and discharge is liabilities.
−Removed: The Company is exposed to liquidity risk as its continued operation is dependent upon its ability
−Removed: to obtain financing, either in the form of debt or equity, or achieve profitable operations in order to satisfy its liabilities as they
−Removed: As of December 31, 2023, the Company had working capital of $ 8,970,434 and cash and cash equivalents of $ 9,217,585 .
−Removed: risk is the risk that fluctuations in the market prices of minerals will impact the Company’s future cash flows.
−Removed: The Company is
−Removed: exposed to market risk on the price of uranium and vanadium, which will determine its ability to build and achieve profitable operations,
−Removed: the amount of exploration and development work that the Company will be able to perform, and the number of financing opportunities that
−Removed: will be available.
−Removed: Management believes that it would be premature at this point to enter into any hedging or forward contracts to mitigate
−Removed: its exposure to specific market price risks.
−Removed: – SUBSEQUENT EVENTS
−Removed: the first quarter of 2024, warrants were exercised for the purchase of 5,198,540 shares of common stock with total proceeds of CAD $ 6,238,248 .
−Removed: Joint Venture
−Removed: During February 2024, PRM entered into a joint venture agreement with
−Removed: Rimrock Exploration and Development Inc.
−Removed: (“Rimrock”) to explore, develop and mine (the “Mining Operations”) certain
−Removed: uranium and vanadium permitted mines and mining claims located in Colorado and owned by Rimrock (the “JV”).
−Removed: Pursuant to the
−Removed: terms of the JV, Rimrock will contribute all assets into the JV and PRM will contribute $ 200,000 (the “Initial Contribution”)
−Removed: to be used to fund the Mining Operations.
−Removed: Thereafter, each party will own a 50 % interest in all assets of the JV.
−Removed: During the initial phase
−Removed: of the JV, Rimrock will be the operator and the permits and licenses for the operator will remain in the name of Rimrock.
−Removed: The JV intends
−Removed: to sell the mined material to the Company under terms to be determined.
−Removed: During the term of the JV, PRM will pay the costs of the Mining
−Removed: Operations and will be entitled to recover 50 % of such costs subsequent to the contribution of the full amount of the Initial Contribution.
−Removed: The JV will fund the recovery payments to be made to PRM from the proceeds of the sale of mined material.
−Removed: On February 20, 2024 and April
−Removed: 11, 2024, PRM funded $ 50,000 and $ 53,931 , respectively, of the Initial Contribution.
+Added: Concentration of Credit Risk
+Added: Concentration of credit risk is the risk of loss
+Added: in the event that certain counterparties are unable to fulfil their obligations to the Company.
+Added: The Company limits its exposure to credit
+Added: loss on its cash and restricted cash by placing its cash with high credit quality financial institutions.
+Added: Liquidity Risk
+Added: Liquidity risk is the risk that the Company’s
+Added: consolidated cash flows from operations will not be sufficient for the Company to continue operating and discharge is liabilities.
+Added: Company is exposed to liquidity risk as its continued operation is dependent upon its ability to obtain financing, either in the form
+Added: of debt or equity, or achieve profitable operations in order to satisfy its liabilities as they come due.
+Added: As of December 31, 2024, the
+Added: Company had working capital of $ 5,240,584 and cash and cash equivalents of $ 5,482,631 .
+Added: Market risk is the risk that fluctuations in the
+Added: market prices of minerals will impact the Company’s future cash flows.
+Added: The Company is exposed to market risk on the price of uranium
+Added: and vanadium, which will determine its ability to build and achieve profitable operations, the amount of exploration and development work
+Added: that the Company will be able to perform, and the number of financing opportunities that will be available.
+Added: Management believes that it
+Added: would be premature at this point to enter into any hedging or forward contracts to mitigate its exposure to specific market price risks.
+Added: 11 – Subsequent event
+Added: Ore Purchase Agreement
+Added: On April 8, 2025, PRM entered into an Ore Purchase
+Added: Agreement (the “Ore Purchase Agreement”) with subsidiaries of Energy Fuels Inc.
+Added: (“Purchaser”).
+Added: The Ore Purchase
+Added: Agreement is for a one year period and provides for the delivery of up to 25,000 short tons of uranium bearing ore to the White Mesa Mill
+Added: in Blanding, Utah.
+Added: PRM shall make deliveries at its own cost and the purchase price per ton will be based upon the average grade of uranium
+Added: of each lot, and other qualifying conditions.
+Added: Within 30 days after each lot is closed, Purchaser shall pay to PRM an 85 % provisional payment
+Added: calculated based upon the sampled grade and an agreed upon pricing schedule.
+Added: Within 30 days after each lot is fed to processing, the Purchaser
+Added: shall pay to PRM a final settlement payment calculated based upon the assayed grade and the agreed upon pricing schedule, net of a royalty,
+Added: pursuant to a previously existing royalty agreement with the Purchaser.
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