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(Stated in USD)
−Removed: September 30,
Current assets:
2 unchanged sentences
Prepaid expenses
−Removed: Marketable securities
Other current assets
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Accounts payable and accrued liabilities
−Removed: Reclamation liability, 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
1 unchanged sentence
Total liabilities
+Added: Commitments and Contingencies (Note 4)
Shareholders’ Equity
−Removed: Common shares, no par value, unlimited authorized shares, 55,223,419 and 50,002,395 shares issued as of September 30, 2024 and December 31, 2023, respectively, and 55,223,113 and 50,002,089 shares outstanding as of September 30, 2024 and December 31, 2023, respectively
−Removed: Treasury shares, 306 shares held in treasury as of September 30, 2024 and December 31, 2023
+Added: Common shares, no par value, unlimited authorized shares, 59,386,852 and 59,383,002 shares issued as of March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, respectively, and 59,386,546 and 59,382,696 shares outstanding as of March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, respectively
+Added: Treasury shares, 306 shares held in treasury as of March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024
Accumulated deficit
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Total liabilities and shareholders’ equity
+Added: The accompanying notes are
+Added: an integral part of these unaudited condensed interim consolidated financial statements.
WESTERN URANIUM & VANADIUM CORP.
AND SUBSIDIARIES
−Removed: INTERIM CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS AND OTHER COMPREHENSIVE LOSS
+Added: CONDENSED INTERIM CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS
+Added: AND OTHER COMPREHENSIVE LOSS
(Stated in USD)
For the Three Months Ended
−Removed: September 30,
−Removed: For the Nine Months Ended
−Removed: September 30,
Mining expenditures
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( 2,526,967 )
−Removed: ( 7,540,784 )
−Removed: ( 3,371,211 )
−Removed: Accretion and interest income, net
−Removed: Other income, net
−Removed: ( 2,241,170 )
−Removed: ( 1,060,042 )
+Added: Interest income, net
( 2,637,615 )
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$ ( 2,619,247 )
−Removed: $ ( 7,534,441 )
−Removed: $ ( 3,225,516 )
Net loss per share - basic and diluted
Weighted average shares outstanding - basic and diluted
+Added: The accompanying notes are
+Added: an integral part of these unaudited condensed interim consolidated financial statements.
WESTERN URANIUM & VANADIUM CORP.
AND SUBSIDIARIES
−Removed: CONDENSED INTERIM CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CHANGES IN
−Removed: SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY
+Added: CONDENSED INTERIM CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CHANGES IN SHAREHOLDERS’
(Stated in USD)
1 unchanged sentence
Treasury Shares
+Added: Accumulated Other
Comprehensive
1 unchanged sentence
$ ( 28,929,894 )
−Removed: Foreign currency translation adjustment
−Removed: Proceeds from the exercise of warrants
−Removed: Stock-based compensation - stock options
−Removed: Cashless exercise of stock options
$ ( 233,871 )
−Removed: ( 2,476,888 )
−Removed: Balance as of March 31, 2024
−Removed: $ ( 21,294,745 )
−Removed: $ ( 216,368 )
−Removed: Foreign currency translation adjustment
+Added: Cashless exercise of stock options
Stock based compensation - stock options
−Removed: ( 2,625,522 )
−Removed: ( 2,625,522 )
−Removed: Balance as of June 30, 2024
−Removed: $ ( 23,920,267 )
−Removed: $ ( 278,888 )
Foreign currency translation adjustment
−Removed: Stock-based compensation - stock options
( 2,637,615 )
( 2,637,615 )
−Removed: Balance as of September 30, 2024
+Added: Balance as of March 31, 2025
$ ( 31,567,509 )
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$ ( 18,817,857 )
−Removed: $ ( 261,132 )
−Removed: Foreign currency translation adjustment
−Removed: Stock-based compensation - stock options
−Removed: ( 1,103,531 )
−Removed: ( 1,103,531 )
−Removed: Balance as of March 31, 2023
−Removed: $ ( 14,978,794 )
−Removed: $ ( 254,818 )
−Removed: Foreign currency translation adjustment
+Added: Proceeds from the exercise of warrants
+Added: Cashless exercise of stock options
Stock based compensation - stock options
−Removed: ( 1,076,659 )
−Removed: ( 1,076,659 )
−Removed: Balance as of June 30, 2023
−Removed: $ ( 16,055,453 )
−Removed: $ ( 202,942 )
Foreign currency translation adjustment
−Removed: Proceeds from the exercise of warrants
( 2,476,888 )
( 2,476,888 )
−Removed: Balance as of September 30, 2023
+Added: Balance as of March 31, 2024
$ ( 21,294,745 )
$ ( 216,368 )
+Added: The accompanying notes are
+Added: an integral part of these unaudited condensed interim consolidated financial statements.
WESTERN URANIUM & VANADIUM CORP.
2 unchanged sentences
(Stated in USD)
−Removed: For the Nine Months Ended
−Removed: September 30,
+Added: For the Three Months Ended
Cash Flows Used In Operating Activities:
2 unchanged sentences
Reconciliation of net loss to cash used in operating activities:
−Removed: Loss on the sale of equipment
−Removed: Accretion of reclamation liability
+Added: Accretion of asset retirement obligations
Stock-based compensation
3 unchanged sentences
Accounts payable and accrued liabilities
−Removed: Reclamation Liability
−Removed: Deferred revenue
+Added: Asset retirement obligations
Contingent consideration
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Purchase of property, plant & equipment and mineral properties
−Removed: ( 1,182,935 )
−Removed: ( 1,874,183 )
−Removed: Proceeds from sale of equipment
Net cash used in investing activities
−Removed: ( 1,178,935 )
−Removed: ( 1,874,183 )
Cash Flows Provided By Financing Activities
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Effect of foreign exchange rate on cash
−Removed: Net increase (decrease) in cash and cash equivalents and restricted cash
−Removed: ( 2,509,634 )
+Added: Net decrease in cash and cash equivalents and restricted cash
( 2,359,229 )
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Cash paid during the period for:
+Added: The accompanying notes are
+Added: an integral part of these unaudited condensed interim consolidated financial statements.
WESTERN URANIUM & VANADIUM CORP.
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constituted a reverse takeover (“RTO”) of Western by PRM.
−Removed: Subsequent to obtaining appropriate shareholder approvals, the
−Removed: Company reconstituted its Board of Directors and senior management team.
−Removed: Western is a Canadian domestic issuer and Canadian reporting
+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.
The Company’s registered office is located
−Removed: at 330 Bay Street, Suite 1400, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5H 2S8, and its common shares are listed on the CSE under the symbol “WUC.”
+Added: at 5 Church Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5E 1M2, and its common shares are listed on the CSE under the symbol “WUC.”
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
common shares were approved for trading on the OTCQX Best Market under the symbol “WSTRF”.
−Removed: The Company’s principal
−Removed: business activity is the acquisition and development of uranium and vanadium resource properties in the states of Utah and Colorado in
−Removed: the United States of America (“United States”).
−Removed: On September 16, 2015, Western completed its
−Removed: acquisition of Black Range Minerals Limited (“Black Range”).
+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”).
Under United States Securities and Exchange Commission (“Commission”)
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reconfirmed its qualification as a foreign private issuer.
+Added: WESTERN URANIUM & VANADIUM CORP.
+Added: AND SUBSIDIARIES
+Added: NOTES TO THE CONDENSED INTERIM CONSOLIDATED
+Added: FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
+Added: (Stated in USD)
2 – Liquidity and going concern
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2022, the Company has incurred losses from its operations.
−Removed: During the three and nine months ended September 30, 2024, the Company
−Removed: generated a net loss of $ 2,241,170 and $ 7,343,580 , respectively.
−Removed: The Company expects to generate operating losses for the foreseeable
−Removed: future as it incurs expenses to bring its mineral processing facilities online and further expand mining operations.
−Removed: As of September
−Removed: 30, 2024, the Company had an accumulated deficit of $ 26,161,437 and working capital of $ 6,174,805 .
+Added: During the three months ended March 31, 2025, the Company generated a net loss
+Added: of $ 2,637,615 .
+Added: The Company expects to generate operating losses for the foreseeable future as it incurs expenses to bring its mineral
+Added: processing facilities online and further expands its mining operations.
+Added: As of March 31, 2025, the Company had an accumulated deficit of
+Added: $ 31,567,509 and working capital of $ 2,554,752 .
Since inception, the Company has met its liquidity
−Removed: requirements principally through the issuance of notes and the sale of its common shares.
−Removed: During the nine months ended September 30,
−Removed: 2024, the Company received $ 4,605,458 in proceeds from the exercise of its common share warrants.
−Removed: On December 12, 2023, the Company closed
−Removed: 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
−Removed: the private placement amounted to $ 5,324,988 (CAD $ 7,250,000 ) and net proceeds amounted to $ 4,836,867 (CAD $ 6,588,089 ).
−Removed: During the year
−Removed: ended December 31, 2023, the Company received $ 1,004,044 in proceeds from the exercise of its common share warrants.
+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.
The Company’s ability to continue its planned
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plans include seeking to procure additional funds through debt and equity financing, to secure regulatory approval to fully utilize its
−Removed: kinetic separation (“Kinetic Separation”) technology, and to initiate the processing of ore to generate operating cash flows.
−Removed: WESTERN URANIUM & VANADIUM CORP.
−Removed: AND SUBSIDIARIES
−Removed: NOTES TO THE CONDENSED INTERIM CONSOLIDATED
−Removed: FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
−Removed: (Stated in USD)
−Removed: 2 – Liquidity and going concern, continued
+Added: kinetic separation (“Kinetic Separation”) technology, and to initiate the processing of mineral resources to generate operating
There are no assurances that the Company will
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to meet its current operating costs.
−Removed: If the Company is unable to obtain sufficient amounts of additional capital, it may be required
−Removed: to reduce the scope of its planned product development, which could harm its financial condition and operating results, or it may not
−Removed: be able to continue to fund its ongoing operations.
+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.
These conditions raise substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue
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of these uncertainties.
+Added: WESTERN URANIUM & VANADIUM CORP.
+Added: AND SUBSIDIARIES
+Added: NOTES TO THE CONDENSED INTERIM CONSOLIDATED
+Added: FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
+Added: (Stated in USD)
NOTE 3 – SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES
+Added: The Company’s significant accounting policies
+Added: are disclosed in the audited consolidated financial statements and the notes thereto in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K
+Added: for the year ended December 31, 2024, filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”), on April
+Added: Except as reflected below, there were no changes to the Company’s significant accounting policies as described in the
+Added: Annual Report on Form 10-K.
+Added: Reflected in this note are updates to accounting policies, including the impact of the adoption of new policies.
Basis of Presentation and Principles of Consolidation
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SEC on April 15, 2025.
−Removed: The Company has voluntarily elected to file this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September
+Added: The Company has voluntarily elected to file this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31,
2025 notwithstanding its foreign private issuer status.
−Removed: Operating results for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2024
−Removed: are not necessarily indicative of the results that may be expected for any subsequent quarters or for the year ending December 31, 2024.
+Added: Operating results for the three months ended March 31, 2025 are not necessarily
+Added: indicative of the results that may be expected for any subsequent quarters or for the year ending December 31, 2025.
The accompanying condensed interim consolidated
−Removed: financial statements include the accounts of Western and its wholly-owned subsidiaries, Western Uranium Corporation (Utah), PRM, Black
−Removed: Range, Black Range Copper Inc., Ranger Resources Inc., Black Range Minerals Inc., Black Range Minerals Colorado LLC, Black Range Minerals
−Removed: Wyoming LLC, Haggerty Resources LLC, Ranger Alaska LLC, Black Range Minerals Utah LLC, Black Range Minerals Ablation Holdings Inc., Black
−Removed: Range Development Utah LLC and Maverick Strategic Minerals Corp.
−Removed: All inter-company transactions and balances have been eliminated upon
−Removed: consolidation.
−Removed: The Company reports operating and financial results
−Removed: in a single segment based on the consolidated information used by the chief operating decision maker (“CODM”) in evaluating
−Removed: the financial performance of its business and allocating resources.
−Removed: This single segment reflects the Company’s core business:
−Removed: critical minerals.
−Removed: As the Company has one reportable segment, net loss, total assets and working capital are equal to consolidated results.
−Removed: The Company has established the existence of
−Removed: mineralized materials for certain uranium projects.
−Removed: The Company has not established proven or probable reserves, as defined by the United
−Removed: States Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”), through the completion of a “final” or “bankable”
−Removed: feasibility study for any of its uranium projects.
−Removed: Exploration Stage and Mineral Properties
−Removed: In accordance with U.S.
−Removed: GAAP, expenditures relating to the acquisition
−Removed: of mineral rights are initially capitalized as incurred while exploration and pre-extraction expenditures are expensed as incurred until
−Removed: such time the Company exits the exploration stage by establishing proven or probable reserves.
−Removed: Expenditures relating to exploration activities,
−Removed: such as drill programs to search for additional mineralized materials, are expensed as incurred.
−Removed: Expenditures relating to pre-extraction
−Removed: activities, such as the construction of mine wellfields, ion exchange facilities, disposal wells, and mine development, are expensed as
−Removed: incurred until such time proven or probable reserves are established for that uranium project, after which subsequent expenditures relating
−Removed: to development activities for that particular project are capitalized as incurred.
−Removed: Expenditures relating to mining and production while
−Removed: the Company is in the exploration stage and while the mined material is stockpiled underground are expensed as incurred.
−Removed: WESTERN URANIUM & VANADIUM CORP.
−Removed: AND SUBSIDIARIES
−Removed: NOTES TO THE CONDENSED INTERIM CONSOLIDATED
−Removed: FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
−Removed: (Stated in USD)
−Removed: 3 – SUMMARY OF Significant Accounting Policies, CONTINUED
−Removed: Exploration Stage and Mineral Properties, continued
−Removed: Production stage issuers, as defined in subpart
−Removed: 1300 of Regulation S-K, having engaged in material extraction of established mineral reserves on at least one material property, typically
−Removed: capitalize expenditures relating to ongoing development activities, with corresponding depletion calculated over proven and probable
−Removed: reserves using the units-of-production method and allocated to future reporting periods to inventory and, as that inventory is sold,
−Removed: to cost of goods sold.
−Removed: The Company is an exploration stage issuer, which has resulted in the Company reporting larger losses than if
−Removed: it had been in the production stage due to the expensing, instead of capitalizing, of expenditures relating to ongoing mine development
−Removed: and extraction activities.
−Removed: Additionally, there would be no corresponding amortization allocated to future reporting periods of the Company
−Removed: since those costs would have been expensed previously, resulting in both lower inventory costs and cost of goods sold and results of
−Removed: 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
−Removed: to the acquisition of mineral rights, are depleted over the estimated extraction life using the straight-line method.
−Removed: As a result, the
−Removed: Company’s condensed interim consolidated financial statements may not be directly comparable to the financial statements of companies
−Removed: in the production stage.
−Removed: Western will not be eligible to become a production stage issuer, and will remain an exploration stage issuer,
−Removed: until such time as mineral reserves are established on at least one material property.
−Removed: Use of Estimates
−Removed: The preparation of these condensed interim consolidated
−Removed: financial statements in conformity with U.S.
−Removed: GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amount
−Removed: of assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and revenues and expenses during the periods reported.
−Removed: nature, these estimates are subject to measurement uncertainty, and the effects on the condensed interim consolidated financial statements
−Removed: of changes in such estimates in future periods could be significant.
−Removed: Significant areas requiring management’s estimates and assumptions
−Removed: include the determination of the fair value of transactions involving common shares, assessment of the useful life and evaluation for
−Removed: impairment of Kinetic Separation intellectual property, valuation and impairment assessments of mineral properties and equipment, valuation
−Removed: of deferred contingent consideration, valuation of the reclamation liability and valuation of stock-based compensation.
−Removed: Other areas requiring
−Removed: estimates include allocations of expenditures, depletion, and amortization of mineral rights and properties.
−Removed: Actual results could differ
−Removed: from those estimates.
−Removed: Foreign Currency Translation
−Removed: The reporting currency of the Company, including
−Removed: its subsidiaries, is the United States dollar.
−Removed: The financial statements of subsidiaries located outside of the U.S.
−Removed: are measured in their
−Removed: functional currency, which is the local currency.
−Removed: The functional currency of the parent (Western Uranium & Vanadium Corp.
−Removed: is the Canadian dollar.
−Removed: The functional currencies of the subsidiaries is the United States dollar.
−Removed: Monetary assets and liabilities of
−Removed: these subsidiaries are translated at the exchange rates at the balance sheet date.
−Removed: Transactions denominated in currencies other than
−Removed: the functional currency are recorded based on the exchange rates at the time of the transaction.
−Removed: Income and expense items are translated
−Removed: using average monthly exchange rates.
−Removed: Non-monetary assets are translated at their historical exchange rates.
−Removed: Translation adjustments
−Removed: are included in “Accumulated other comprehensive loss” in the condensed interim consolidated balance sheets.
−Removed: Segment Information
−Removed: The Company identifies its operating segments
−Removed: in accordance with Accounting Standards Codification 280, Segment Reporting, or ASC 280.
−Removed: Operating segments are defined as components
−Removed: of an enterprise about which separate discrete financial information is available for evaluation by the chief operating decision maker,
−Removed: or decision-making group, in deciding how to allocate resources and in assessing performance.
−Removed: The Company’s chief operating decision
−Removed: maker, its Chief Executive Officer, manages the Company’s operations on a consolidated basis for the purposes of allocating resources.
−Removed: Accordingly, the Company has determined it operates and manages its business in a single reportable operating segment.
−Removed: WESTERN URANIUM & VANADIUM CORP.
−Removed: AND SUBSIDIARIES
−Removed: NOTES TO THE CONDENSED INTERIM CONSOLIDATED
−Removed: FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
−Removed: (Stated in USD)
−Removed: 3 – SUMMARY OF Significant Accounting Policies, CONTINUED
−Removed: Cash and Cash Equivalents
−Removed: The Company considers all highly-liquid instruments
−Removed: with an original maturity of three months or less at the time of issuance to be cash equivalents.
−Removed: There were no cash equivalents at September
−Removed: 30, 2024 and December 31, 2023.
−Removed: Marketable Securities
−Removed: The Company classifies its marketable securities
−Removed: as available-for-sale securities, which are carried at their fair value based on the quoted market prices of the securities with unrealized
−Removed: gains and losses reported as accumulated other comprehensive (loss) income, a separate component of shareholders’ equity.
−Removed: gains and losses on available-for-sale securities are included in net earnings in the period earned or incurred.
−Removed: Effective September
−Removed: 30, 2024 the Company’s sole marketable security was fully impaired and written off.
−Removed: Restricted Cash
−Removed: Certain cash balances are restricted as they
−Removed: relate to deposits with banks that have been assigned to state reclamation authorities in the United States to secure various reclamation
−Removed: guarantees with respect to mineral properties in Utah and Colorado.
−Removed: As these funds are not available for general corporate purposes and
−Removed: secure the long term reclamation liability (see Note 4), they have been separately disclosed and classified as long-term for the majority
−Removed: of the Company’s mines.
−Removed: As of September 30, 2024 and December 31, 2023, the Company has determined that the Van 4 Mine is considered
−Removed: to be in reclamation.
−Removed: The Company recognized the Van 4 Mine’s reclamation liability and its restricted cash in full on the Company’s
−Removed: condensed interim consolidated balance sheets as current.
−Removed: Property, Plant & Equipment and Mineral Properties, Net
−Removed: Property, plant and equipment is stated at cost
−Removed: less accumulated depreciation.
−Removed: Depreciation is calculated using the straight-line method.
−Removed: Revenue Recognition
−Removed: The Company leases certain of its mineral properties
−Removed: for the exploration and production of oil and gas reserves.
−Removed: The Company accounts for lease revenue in accordance with the Financial Accounting
−Removed: Standards Board (“FASB”) ASC 842, Leases .
−Removed: Lease payments received in advance are deferred and recognized on a straight-line
−Removed: basis over the related lease term associated with the prepayment.
−Removed: Royalty payments are recognized as revenues based upon production.
−Removed: Fair Values of Financial Instruments
−Removed: The carrying amounts of cash and cash equivalents,
−Removed: restricted cash – current portion, accounts payable and accrued liabilities approximate their fair value due to the short-term
−Removed: nature of these instruments.
−Removed: Marketable securities are adjusted to fair value at each balance sheet date based on quoted prices which
−Removed: are considered level 1 inputs.
−Removed: The Company’s operating and financing activities are conducted primarily in Canadian dollars, and
−Removed: as a result, the Company is subject to exposure to market risks from changes in foreign currency rates.
−Removed: The carrying amount of restricted
−Removed: cash – net of current portion, approximates fair value as the accounts earn interest at market rates.
−Removed: The Company is exposed to
−Removed: credit risk through its cash and restricted cash but mitigates this risk by keeping these deposits at major financial institutions.
−Removed: The FASB ASC 820, Fair Value Measurements
−Removed: and Disclosures , provides the framework for measuring fair value.
−Removed: That framework provides a fair value hierarchy that prioritizes
−Removed: the inputs to valuation techniques used to measure fair value.
−Removed: The hierarchy gives the highest priority to unadjusted quoted prices in
−Removed: active markets for identical assets or liabilities (level 1 measurements) and the lowest priority to unobservable inputs (level 3 measurements).
−Removed: WESTERN URANIUM & VANADIUM CORP.
−Removed: AND SUBSIDIARIES
−Removed: NOTES TO THE CONDENSED INTERIM CONSOLIDATED
−Removed: FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
−Removed: (Stated in USD)
−Removed: 3 – SUMMARY OF Significant Accounting Policies, continued
−Removed: Fair Values of Financial Instruments, continued
−Removed: Fair value is defined as an exit price, representing
−Removed: the amount that would be received upon the sale of an asset or payment to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market
−Removed: participants.
−Removed: Fair value is a market-based measurement that is determined based on assumptions that market participants would use in
−Removed: pricing an asset or liability.
−Removed: A three-tier fair value hierarchy is used to prioritize the inputs in measuring fair value as follows:
−Removed: Level 1 - Quoted prices in active markets for
−Removed: identical assets or liabilities.
−Removed: Level 2 - Quoted prices for similar assets or
−Removed: liabilities in active markets, quoted prices for identical or similar assets or liabilities in markets that are not active, or other
−Removed: inputs that are observable, either directly or indirectly.
−Removed: Level 3- Significant unobservable inputs that
−Removed: cannot be corroborated by market data and inputs that are derived principally from or corroborated by observable market data or correlation
−Removed: by other means.
−Removed: The fair value of the Company’s financial
−Removed: instruments are as follows (the Company had no marketable securities as of September 30, 2024):
−Removed: Quoted Prices in
−Removed: Active Markets for
−Removed: Identical Assets or
−Removed: Quoted Prices for Similar
−Removed: Assets or Liabilities in
−Removed: Active Markets
−Removed: Marketable securities as of December 31, 2023
−Removed: Stock-Based Compensation
−Removed: The Company follows the FASB ASC 718, Compensation
−Removed: - Stock Compensation , which addresses the accounting for stock-based payment transactions, requiring such transactions to be accounted
−Removed: for using the fair value method.
−Removed: Awards of shares for property or services are recorded at the fair value of the stock or the fair value
−Removed: of the service, whichever is more readily measurable.
−Removed: The Company uses the Black-Scholes option-pricing model to determine the grant
−Removed: date fair value of stock-based awards under ASC 718.
−Removed: The fair value is charged to earnings depending on the terms and conditions of the
−Removed: 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
−Removed: in line with the period over which it was earned.
−Removed: For employees and consultants, this is typically considered to be the vesting period
−Removed: of the award.
+Added: financial statements include the accounts of Western and its wholly-owned subsidiaries, Western Uranium Corporation (Utah) (“Western
+Added: Utah”), PRM, Black Range, Black Range Copper Inc., Ranger Resources Inc., Black Range Minerals Inc., Black Range Minerals Colorado
+Added: LLC, Black Range Minerals Wyoming LLC, Haggerty Resources LLC, Ranger Alaska LLC, Black Range Minerals Utah LLC, Black Range Minerals
+Added: Ablation Holdings Inc., Black Range Development Utah LLC, Maverick Strategic Minerals Corp (“Maverick”), Pinon Ridge Corporation
+Added: (“PRC”) and Mustang Mineral Processing Inc.
+Added: All inter-company transactions and balances have been
+Added: 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 SEC, through the
+Added: completion of a “final” or “bankable” feasibility study for any of its uranium projects.
WESTERN URANIUM & VANADIUM CORP.
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net loss by the weighted average number of common shares outstanding during the period.
−Removed: Diluted earnings per share is computed using
−Removed: the weighted average number of common shares and, if dilutive, potential common shares outstanding during the period.
−Removed: Potential common
−Removed: shares consist of the incremental common shares issuable upon the exercise of stock options and warrants (using the treasury stock method).
−Removed: The computation of net loss per share for each of the three and nine months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023 is the same for both basic
−Removed: and fully diluted.
+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 three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024 is the same for both basic and fully diluted.
Potentially dilutive securities outlined in the
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For the Three Months
−Removed: Ended September 30,
−Removed: For the Nine Months
−Removed: Ended September 30,
Warrants to purchase common shares
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Total potentially dilutive securities
−Removed: Recent Accounting Standards
−Removed: In November 2023, the FASB issued Accounting
−Removed: Standard Update (“ASU”) 2023-07, “Segment Reporting (Topic 280):
−Removed: Improvements to Reportable Segment Disclosures.”
−Removed: This ASU requires annual and interim disclosures about significant segment expenses that are regularly provided to the CODM and included
−Removed: within each reported measure of segment profit or loss as well as the amount and composition of other segment items.
−Removed: The standard is
−Removed: effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2023, and interim periods within fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2024.
−Removed: The Company is still evaluating the full extent of the potential impact of the adoption of ASU 2023-09, but believes it will not have
−Removed: a material impact on its condensed interim consolidated financial statements and disclosures.
−Removed: In December 2023, the FASB issued ASU 2023-09
−Removed: – Improvements to Income Tax Disclosures, which enhances the transparency and decision usefulness of income tax disclosures.
−Removed: standard is effective for public companies for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2024.
−Removed: Early adoption is available.
−Removed: 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
−Removed: impact on its condensed interim consolidated financial statements and disclosures.
+Added: Recently Adopted Accounting Pronouncements
+Added: In December 2023, the Financial Accounting Standards
+Added: Board (the “FASB”) issued Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) 2023-09 – Improvements to Income Tax Disclosures ,
+Added: which enhances the transparency and decision usefulness of income tax disclosures.
+Added: The standard is effective for public companies for
+Added: annual periods beginning after December 15, 2024.
+Added: The Company adopted this standard as of January 1, 2025, which will result in additional
+Added: disclosures in the notes to the Company’s consolidated financial statements.
+Added: Recent Accounting Standards Not Yet Adopted
+Added: In November 2024, the FASB issued ASU 2024-03,
+Added: – Income Statement—Reporting Comprehensive Income—Expense Disaggregation Disclosures
+Added: (Subtopic 220-40) :
+Added: Disaggregation of Income Statement Expenses (“ASU 2024-03”).
+Added: This ASU requires disclosures about specific
+Added: types of expenses included in the expense captions presented on the face of the statement of operation as well as disclosures about selling
+Added: The standard is effective for annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2026 and interim reporting periods beginning
+Added: after December 15, 2027.
+Added: The requirements will be applied prospectively with the option for retrospective application.
+Added: Early adoption
+Added: is permitted.
+Added: The Company will evaluate the full extent of the potential impact of the adoption of ASU 2024-03, but believes it
+Added: will not have a material impact on its condensed interim consolidated financial statements and disclosures.
WESTERN URANIUM & VANADIUM CORP.
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4 – Property, plant & equipment and mineral properties, net AND Kinetic separation INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
−Removed: The Company’s mining properties acquired on August 18, 2014 that the Company retains as of September 30, 2024 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: The Sage Mine located in San Juan County, Utah, and San Miguel County, Colorado.
−Removed: These mining properties include leased land in the states of Colorado and Utah.
−Removed: None of these mining properties were operational at the
−Removed: date of acquisition.
−Removed: The Company’s mining properties acquired
−Removed: on September 16, 2015 that the Company retains as of September 30, 2024 include:
−Removed: Hansen, North Hansen and Hansen Picnic Tree located
−Removed: in Fremont and Teller Counties, Colorado.
−Removed: The Company also acquired the Keota project located in Weld County, Colorado and the Ferris
−Removed: Haggerty project located in Carbon County, Wyoming.
−Removed: These mining assets include both owned and leased land in the states of Utah, Colorado,
−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
−Removed: or probable reserves on any of its properties, there is inherent uncertainty as to whether or not any mineralized material can be economically
−Removed: extracted as originally planned and anticipated.
The Company’s property, plant & equipment
and mineral properties, net and kinetic separation intellectual property are:
−Removed: Useful Lives As of
−Removed: September 30,
+Added: As of December 31,
Mineral properties N/A $ 11,688,841 $ 11,688,841
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Vehicles 5 years 1,094,297 1,094,297
+Added: Plant facilities 5 - 10 years 281,959 207,490
Software 5 years 9,120 9,120
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Kinetic separation intellectual property $ 9,488,051 $ 9,488,051
+Added: The Company’s mining properties acquired
+Added: on August 18, 2014 that the Company retains as of March 31, 2025 include:
+Added: The San Rafael Uranium Project located in Emery County, Utah;
+Added: The Sunday Mine Complex located in western San Miguel County, Colorado;
+Added: The Van 4 Mine located in western Montrose County, Colorado;
+Added: Sage Mine located in San Juan County, Utah, and San Miguel County, Colorado.
+Added: These mining properties include leased land in the states
+Added: 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
+Added: None of 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 March 31, 2025 include:
+Added: Hansen, North Hansen and Hansen Picnic Tree located in Fremont
+Added: and Teller Counties, Colorado.
+Added: The Company also acquired the Keota project located in Weld County, Colorado and the Ferris Haggerty project
+Added: located in Carbon County, Wyoming.
+Added: These mining assets include both owned and leased land in the states of Utah, Colorado, and Wyoming.
+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: During the three months ended March 31, 2025 and
+Added: 2024, Western made purchases of $ 166,507 and $ 403,369 , to increase the Company’s mining and processing capacities.
+Added: During the three
+Added: months ended March 31, 2025, depreciation expense was $ 196,383 , of which $ 195,976 was included in mining expenditures and $ 407 was included
+Added: in general and administrative on the Company’s condensed interim consolidated statements of operations and other comprehensive loss.
+Added: During the three months ended March 31, 2024, depreciation expense was $ 113,319 , which was included in mining expenditures on the Company’s
+Added: condensed interim consolidated statements of operations and other comprehensive loss.
WESTERN URANIUM & VANADIUM CORP.
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4 – Property, plant & equipment and mineral properties, net AND Kinetic separation INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, continued
−Removed: Property, plant & equipment and mineral
−Removed: properties, net
−Removed: During the nine months ended September 30,
−Removed: 2024 and 2023, Western made purchases of $ 1,182,935 and $ 1,874,183 , which principally consisted of mining equipment and vehicles to
−Removed: increase mining capacity.
−Removed: For the three months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023, depreciation expense was $ 168,782 and $ 65,886 , and
−Removed: for the nine months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023, depreciation expense was $ 433,148 and $ 163,223 , respectively, which was
−Removed: included in mining expenditures on the Company’s condensed interim consolidated statements of operations and other
−Removed: comprehensive loss.
Oil and Gas Lease and Easement
−Removed: In 2017, the Company entered into an oil and
−Removed: gas lease that became effective with respect to minerals and mineral rights owned by the Company on approximately 160 surface acres of
−Removed: the Company’s property in Colorado.
+Added: In 2017, the Company entered into an oil and gas
+Added: lease that became effective with respect to minerals and mineral rights owned by the Company on approximately 160 surface acres of the
+Added: Company’s property in Colorado.
As consideration for entering into the lease, the lessee has agreed to pay the Company a royalty
from the lessee’s revenue attributed to oil and gas produced, saved, and sold attributable to the net mineral interest.
−Removed: has also received cash payments from the lessee related to the easement that the Company is recognizing incrementally over the eight
−Removed: year term of the easement.
−Removed: On June 23, 2020, the operator elected to extend
−Removed: the oil and gas lease easement for three additional years through July 2023.
−Removed: This was done to provide additional time in order to complete
−Removed: well construction and commence oil and gas production.
−Removed: During 2021, the operator completed a first set of eight (8) wells which commenced
−Removed: oil and gas production by August 2021.
−Removed: During 2022, the operator completed a second set of eight (8) wells which commenced oil and gas
−Removed: production by August 2022.
−Removed: All sixteen (16) wells remain in production and monthly royalty payments will be ongoing in perpetuity as
−Removed: long as oil and/or gas are produced from the pooled unit containing these sixteen (16) wells.
−Removed: For the three months ended September 30, 2024
−Removed: and 2023, the Company recognized aggregate revenue of $ 52,981 and $ 89,144 , respectively, and for the nine months ended September 30,
−Removed: 2024 and 2023, the Company recognized aggregate revenue of $ 147,035 and $ 357,908 , respectively, under these oil and gas lease arrangements.
−Removed: Reclamation Liabilities
+Added: has also received cash payments from the lessee related to the easement that the Company is recognizing incrementally over the eight year
+Added: term of the easement.
+Added: As of March 31, 2025, all sixteen (16) wells remain in production and monthly royalty payments will be ongoing in
+Added: perpetuity as long as oil and/or gas are produced from the pooled unit containing these sixteen (16) wells.
+Added: During the three months ended March 31, 2025 and
+Added: 2024, the Company recognized aggregate revenue of $ 41,221 and $ 54,273 , 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: In connection with the Company’s San Rafael Mine, during the three months ended
−Removed: September 30, 2024, the Company incurred an additional gross and discounted reclamation liability of $ 61,403 and $ 12,154 , respectively.
−Removed: The Company determined the gross reclamation liabilities of the mineral properties to be $ 812,027 and $ 751,444 as of September 30, 2024
−Removed: and December 31, 2023, respectively.
−Removed: The portion of the reclamation liability related to the Van 4 Mine, which is in reclamation as of
−Removed: September 30, 2024, and its related restricted cash are included in current liabilities and current assets, respectively, at a value
−Removed: of $ 75,057 .
−Removed: During the nine months ended September 30, 2024, the Company’s internal mining operations team has been performing
−Removed: the Van 4 Mine reclamation work, and the State of Colorado has not yet reduced the associated 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 September
−Removed: 30, 2024 and December 31, 2023 were $ 262,880 and $ 241,562 , respectively.
−Removed: The gross reclamation liabilities as of September 30, 2024 and
−Removed: December 31, 2023 are secured by financial warranties in the amount of $ 812,027 and $ 751,444 , respectively.
+Added: asset retirement obligations (“AROs”), which the Company has recorded as liabilities.
+Added: The AROs of the United States mines
+Added: are subject to legal and regulatory requirements, and estimates of the costs of asset retirement obligations are reviewed periodically
+Added: by the applicable regulatory authorities.
+Added: The ARO represents the Company’s best estimate of the present value of future costs in
+Added: connection with the mineral properties.
+Added: The Company determined the aggregate gross AROs
+Added: of the mineral properties to be $ 1,163,157 and $ 1,163,978 as of March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, respectively.
+Added: The portion of the
+Added: asset retirement obligations related to the Van 4 Mine, which is in reclamation as of March 31, 2025, and its related restricted cash
+Added: are included in current liabilities and current assets, respectively, at a value of $ 75,057 .
+Added: During the three months ended March 31, 2025,
+Added: the Company’s internal mining operations team has been performing the Van 4 Mine reclamation work, and the State of Colorado has
+Added: not yet reduced the associated asset retirement obligation amount.
+Added: The Company’s asset retirement obligations
+Added: are subject to legal and regulatory requirements.
+Added: Estimates of the costs of reclamation are reviewed periodically by the Company and the
+Added: applicable regulatory authorities.
+Added: The asset retirement obligations represent the Company’s estimate of the present value of future
+Added: reclamation costs, discounted using a credit adjusted risk-free interest rate of 5.4 % as of March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024.
+Added: net discounted aggregated values as of March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024 were $ 415,482 and $ 410,098 , respectively.
+Added: On March 13, 2025,
+Added: the Company remitted $ 351,131 in connection with the reevaluation of reclamation costs for existing mining properties.
+Added: Financial warranties
+Added: to secure AROs as of March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024 were $ 1,163,157 and $ 812,993 , respectively.
WESTERN URANIUM & VANADIUM CORP.
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4 – Property, plant & equipment and mineral properties, net AND Kinetic separation INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, continued
−Removed: Reclamation Liabilities, continued
−Removed: Reclamation liability activity consists of:
−Removed: For the Nine Months Ended
−Removed: September 30,
−Removed: Beginning balance at January 1
−Removed: Adjustment to reclamation liability
−Removed: Ending Balance at September 30
−Removed: Reclamation liability, current portion
−Removed: Reclamation liability, net of current portion
+Added: Asset Retirement Obligations, continued
+Added: Asset retirement obligation activity consists of:
+Added: For the Three Months Ended
+Added: Beginning balance as of January 1
+Added: Adjustment to asset retirement obligations
+Added: Ending balance as of March 31
+Added: Asset retirement obligations, current portion
+Added: Asset retirement obligations, net of current portion
Topaz Mine Permitting Status
−Removed: In November 2020 and December 2020, a coalition
−Removed: of environmental groups (the “Plaintiffs”) filed a complaint against the Mined Land Reclamation Board (“MLRB”)
−Removed: seeking partial appeals of prior MLRB decisions, requesting the termination of the Topaz Mine permit.
−Removed: The Company joined with the MLRB
−Removed: in defense of those decisions.
−Removed: On May 5, 2021, the Plaintiffs in the Topaz Appeal filed an opening brief with the Denver District Court
−Removed: seeking to overturn the July 22, 2020 and October 21, 2020 MLRB permit hearing decisions on the Topaz Mine permit.
−Removed: The MLRB and the Company
−Removed: sought a settlement with the Plaintiffs.
−Removed: A settlement was not reached, and the MLRB and the Company submitted answer briefs on August
−Removed: The Plaintiffs submitted a reply brief on September 10, 2021.
−Removed: On March 1, 2022, the Denver District Court reversed the MLRB’s
−Removed: orders regarding the Topaz Mine and remanded the case back to the MLRB for further proceedings consistent with its order.
−Removed: on March 20, 2023, the MLRB issued a board order for the Company to commence final reclamation, which upon completion will terminate
−Removed: mining operations at the Topaz Mine.
−Removed: Reclamation commenced immediately at the Topaz Mine and is to be completed within five years by
−Removed: The Company has been working toward the completion
−Removed: of an updated Topaz Mine Plan of Operations (“Topaz Mine Plan”), which is a separate federal requirement of the U.S.
−Removed: of Land Management (“BLM”) for the conduct of mining activities on the federal land at the Topaz Mine.
−Removed: This is a prerequisite
−Removed: to re-permit the Topaz Mine with Colorado’s DRMS.
−Removed: In connection with the Topaz Mine Plan, an environmental assessment was prepared
−Removed: by an outside consultant and submitted to the BLM on June 24, 2024.
−Removed: The BLM issued a letter to the Company on August 2, 2024 advising
−Removed: that the application for the Topaz Mine Plan had run past the allowed evaluation period and was cancelled.
−Removed: A new federal law called the
−Removed: Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023 was enacted that creates a one year time limit for BLM reviews.
−Removed: Under the transitional rules, the Topaz
−Removed: project was not eligible for an extension due to its duration.
−Removed: However, the project can be resubmitted and be picked-up where it was left
−Removed: The re-scoping process will need to be repeated to start the one year time clock.
−Removed: The Company is making a determination as to the
−Removed: best means and timing to resubmit its application.
+Added: Upon an order from the Mined Land Reclamation
+Added: Board (“MLRB”) in March 2023, the Topaz Mine was put into reclamation which is scheduled to be completed by March 2028.
+Added: Company has been working toward the completion of an updated Topaz Mine Plan of Operations (“Topaz Mine Plan”), which is a
+Added: separate federal requirement of the U.S.
+Added: Bureau of Land Management (“BLM”) for the conduct of mining activities on the federal
+Added: 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
+Added: Plan, an environmental assessment was prepared by an outside consultant and submitted to the BLM on June 24, 2024.
+Added: The BLM issued a letter
+Added: to the Company on August 2, 2024 advising that the application for the Topaz Mine Plan had run past its allowed evaluation period and
+Added: was cancelled.
+Added: Pursuant to the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023, each permitting project has a one year time limit for the BLM to complete
+Added: Under the transitional rules, the Topaz project was not eligible for an extension due to its duration.
+Added: However, the project
+Added: can be resubmitted and be picked up where it was left off.
+Added: The re-scoping process will need to be repeated to start the one year time
+Added: Consultants have completed new work toward gathering additional inputs for the BLM resubmission, but have not yet restarted the
+Added: BLM clock by making an amended submission.
San Rafael Permitting Status
−Removed: The San Rafael Uranium Project, located in Emery County, Utah, is being
−Removed: developed as the Company's second production facility.
−Removed: During the second quarter 2024, Western submitted a Notice of Intent to the BLM
−Removed: that was approved for a mineral and groundwater exploration project.
−Removed: During the third quarter of 2024, Utah’s Division
−Removed: of Oil, Gas & Mining gave its approval of the exploration permit application and the Company posted a $ 60,300 Financial Guarantee
+Added: The San Rafael Uranium Project, located in Emery
+Added: County, Utah, is being developed as the Company’s second production facility.
+Added: During the second quarter 2024, Western submitted
+Added: a Notice of Intent to the BLM that was approved for a mineral and groundwater exploration project.
+Added: During the third quarter of 2024, Utah’s
+Added: Division of Oil, Gas & Mining gave its approval of the exploration permit application and the Company posted a $ 61,403 Financial Guarantee
of reclamation costs with the BLM.
−Removed: Following the completion of repairs to access roads, the phase 1 drilling program is set to begin in
+Added: Following the completion of repairs to access roads, the phase 1 drilling program is eligible to begin.
Initially, groundwater monitoring wells will be installed at five drilling locations, reaching depths of approximately 1,000 feet.
−Removed: During the borehole completion process, mineralization will also be assessed and confirmed against historical drill data.
−Removed: will provide the baseline data needed for permitting application submission.
+Added: the borehole completion process, mineralization will also be assessed and confirmed against historical drill data.
+Added: This project will provide
+Added: the baseline data needed for permitting application submission.
WESTERN URANIUM & VANADIUM CORP.
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Kinetic Separation Intellectual Property
−Removed: The Kinetic Separation intellectual property
−Removed: was acquired in Western’s acquisition of Black Range on September 16, 2015.
−Removed: Previously Black Range acquired its Kinetic Separation
−Removed: assets in the dissolution of a joint venture on March 17, 2015, through the acquisition of all the assets of the joint venture and received
−Removed: a 25-year license to utilize all of the patented and unpatented technology owned by the joint venture.
+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.
The technology license agreement
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13, 2012 and granted on February 14, 2014 by the United States Patent Office.
−Removed: The patent is effective for a period of 20 years until
−Removed: September 13, 2032.
+Added: The patent is effective for a period of 20 years until September
This patent is supported by two provisional patent applications.
−Removed: The provisional patent applications expired after
−Removed: one year but were incorporated in the U.S.
+Added: The provisional patent applications expired after one year
+Added: but were incorporated in the U.S.
Patent by reference and claimed benefit prior to their expirations.
−Removed: The status of the patent
−Removed: and two provisional patent applications has not changed subsequent to the 2014 patent grant.
−Removed: The Company has the continued right to use
−Removed: any patented portion of the Kinetic Separation technology that enters the public domain subsequent to the patent expiration.
−Removed: The Company anticipates Kinetic Separation will improve the efficiency
−Removed: of the mining and processing of the sandstone-hosted mined material from Western’s conventional mines through the separation of
−Removed: waste from mineral bearing-ore, potentially reducing transportation, mill processing, and mill tailings costs.
−Removed: Kinetic Separation is not
−Removed: currently in use or being applied at any Company mines.
−Removed: The Company views Kinetic Separation as a cost saving technology, which it will
−Removed: seek to incorporate subsequent to commencing scaled production levels.
−Removed: There are also alternative applications, which the Company has
−Removed: NOTE 5 - Accounts Payable
−Removed: and Accrued Liabilities
−Removed: payable and accrued liabilities consist of:
−Removed: September 30,
+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.
+Added: NOTE 5 – Accounts
+Added: Payable and Accrued Liabilities
+Added: Accounts payable and accrued liabilities consist of:
Trade accounts payable
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of common shares are entitled to share ratably in all assets of the Company that are legally available for distribution.
−Removed: As of September
+Added: As of March 31,
2025 and December 31, 2024, an unlimited number of common shares were authorized for issuance.
Warrant Exercises
−Removed: During the three and nine months ended September
−Removed: 30, 2024, an aggregate of 0 and 5,198,540 warrants were exercised for total proceeds of $ 0 and $ 4,605,458 (CAD $ 6,238,248 ), respectively.
−Removed: During the three and nine months ended September
−Removed: 30, 2023, an aggregate of 656,000 warrants were exercised for total gross proceeds of $ 551,629 .
+Added: There were no warrant exercises during the three
+Added: months ended March 31, 2025.
+Added: During the three months ended March 31, 2024, an aggregate of 5,198,540 warrants were exercised for total
+Added: proceeds of $ 4,605,458 (CAD $ 6,238,248 ).
+Added: Warrant Modification
+Added: On November 28, 2024, The Company’s Board
+Added: approved amendments to extend the term and reduce the exercise price of 2,868,541 previously issued common share purchase warrants.
+Added: warrants, originally issued during December 2021 and January 2022, had initial exercise prices of $ 1.94 (CAD $ 2.50 ) and $ 2.00 (CAD $ 2.50 )
+Added: per share, respectively, and were set to expire three years post-issuance.
+Added: Effective November 28, 2024, the term was extended to January
+Added: 20, 2026, a date that is less than five years since the original date of issuance.
+Added: Effective February 27, 2025 the exercise price was
+Added: reduced to $ 1.39 (CAD $ 2.00 ), the date upon which the Canadian Securities Exchange (CSE) accepted the warrant repricing and the amended
+Added: Form 13 filing was approved for filing.
+Added: During the year ended December 31, 2024, the Company recorded an incremental fair value of $ 184,308
+Added: arising from the extension of the term.
+Added: On February 27, 2025, the Company recorded an incremental fair value of $ 104,840 for the modification
+Added: 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
+Added: to facilitate the raising of additional equity capital by extending the exercise period and lowering the exercise price, thereby providing
+Added: warrant investors with more time and incentive to exercise their warrants.
+Added: WESTERN URANIUM & VANADIUM CORP.
+Added: AND SUBSIDIARIES
+Added: NOTES TO THE CONDENSED INTERIM CONSOLIDATED
+Added: FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
+Added: (Stated in USD)
+Added: NOTE 6 – SHARE CAPITAL AND OTHER EQUITY
+Added: INSTRUMENTS, CONTINUED
Incentive Stock Option Plan
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The purpose of the Plan is to attract, retain,
−Removed: and motivate directors, management, staff, and consultants by providing them with the opportunity, through stock options, to acquire
−Removed: a proprietary interest in the Company and benefit from its growth.
−Removed: The Plan provides that the aggregate number of common shares for which
−Removed: stock options may be granted will not exceed 10 % of the issued and outstanding common shares at the time stock options are granted.
−Removed: of September 30, 2024, a total of 55,223,113 common shares were outstanding.
−Removed: As of September 30, 2024, the maximum number of stock options
−Removed: eligible to be issued under the Plan would be 5,522,311 and net of 4,473,334 options outstanding as of September 30, 2024, there remain
−Removed: 1,048,977 stock options available to be issued under the Plan.
+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.
+Added: The Plan provides that the aggregate number of
+Added: common shares for which stock options may be granted will not exceed 10 % of the issued and outstanding common shares at the time stock
+Added: options are granted.
+Added: As of March 31, 2025, a total of 59,386,546 common shares were outstanding.
+Added: As of March 31, 2025, the maximum number
+Added: of stock options eligible to be issued under the Plan would be 5,938,654 and net of 5,556,671 options outstanding as of March 31, 2025,
+Added: there remain 381,983 stock options available to be issued under the Plan.
Shareholder Rights Plan
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29, 2023, the shareholders approved a shareholder rights plan, which is designed to ensure the fair treatment of shareholders in connection
−Removed: with any take-over bid for the Company and to provide the Board of Directors and shareholders with sufficient time to fully consider
−Removed: any unsolicited takeover bid (the “Shareholder Rights Plan”).
+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”).
The Shareholder Rights Plan also provides the Board of Directors
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“Rights”) will be issued to holders of Common Shares at a rate of one Right for each Share outstanding.
+Added: Stock Options
+Added: There were no stock options granted during the
+Added: three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024.
+Added: During the three months ended March 31, 2025,
+Added: the Company issued 3,850 common shares pursuant to the cashless exercise of options to purchase 83,332 common shares with an
+Added: exercise price of $ 0.79 (CAD $ 1.03 ).
+Added: During the three-months ended March 31, 2024,
+Added: the Company issued 22,484 common shares pursuant to the cashless exercise of options to purchase 41,666 common shares with an exercise
+Added: price of $ 0.79 (CAD $ 1.03 ).
WESTERN URANIUM & VANADIUM CORP.
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NOTE 6 – SHARE CAPITAL AND OTHER EQUITY INSTRUMENTS, CONTINUED
−Removed: Stock Options
−Removed: During the nine months ended September 30, 2024, the Company issued 22,484
−Removed: shares of common stock pursuant to the cashless exercise of 41,666 stock options with an exercise price of $ 0.79 (CAD $ 1.03 ).
−Removed: During the nine months ended September 30, 2024, the Company granted
−Removed: a stock option to a director for the purchase of 100,000 shares of common stock with a weighted average grant date fair value of $ 0.80
−Removed: The Company utilized the Black-Scholes option pricing model to determine
−Removed: the fair value of this grant, using the assumptions as outlined below:
−Removed: For the Nine Months
−Removed: September 30,
−Removed: Exercise price
−Removed: Dividend yield
−Removed: Expected volatility
−Removed: 79.1 % - 88.0
−Removed: Weighted average risk-free interest rate
−Removed: Expected life (in years)
−Removed: There were no stock options granted during the nine months ended September
+Added: Stock Options, continued
Shares Weighted
Exercise Price Weighted
−Removed: Contractual Life
−Removed: (Years) Intrinsic
+Added: Life (Years) Intrinsic
Outstanding – January 1, 2025 5,723,336 $ 1.14 3.80 $ -
−Removed: Granted 100,000 1.47
Forfeited and expired ( 83,333 ) 0.79
Exercised ( 83,332 ) 0.79
−Removed: Outstanding – September 30, 2024 4,473,334 $ 1.19 3.40 $ 1,057,764
−Removed: Exercisable – September 30, 2024 3,948,326 $ 1.19 3.14 $ 952,300
−Removed: The Company’s stock-based compensation
−Removed: expense (net of effect of forfeitures) related to stock options for the three months ended September 30, 2024 was $ 149,038 of which ($ 3,918 )
−Removed: and $ 152,956 was included in mining expenditures and general and administrative expenses, respectively, on the Company’s condensed
−Removed: interim consolidated statements of operations and other comprehensive loss.
−Removed: The Company’s stock-based compensation expense related
−Removed: to stock options for the three months ended September 30, 2023 was $ 0 .
−Removed: The Company’s stock-based compensation expense related to
−Removed: stock options for the nine months ended September 30, 2024 was $ 893,688 , of which $ 203,607 and $ 690,081 was included in mining expenditures
−Removed: and general and administrative expenses, respectively, on the Company’s condensed interim consolidated statements of operations
−Removed: and other comprehensive loss.
−Removed: The Company’s stock-based compensation expense related to stock options for the nine months ended
−Removed: September 30, 2023 was $ 350,900 , of which $ 57,417 and $ 293,483 was included in mining expenditures and general and administrative expenses,
−Removed: respectively, on the Company’s condensed interim consolidated statements of operations and other comprehensive loss.
−Removed: As of September
−Removed: 30, 2024, there was approximately $ 130,928 of unrecognized share-based compensation for unvested stock option grants, which is expected
−Removed: to be recognized over a weighted average period of 0.34 years.
−Removed: Shares Weighted Average
−Removed: Exercise Price Weighted Average
−Removed: Contractual Life
−Removed: (Years) Intrinsic
−Removed: Outstanding – January 1, 2024 10,804,539 $ 1.30 1.31 $ 1,576,511
−Removed: Exercised ( 5,198,540 ) 0.88
−Removed: Expired/Forfeited ( 27,260 ) 0.88
−Removed: Outstanding – September 30, 2024 5,578,739 $ 1.61 1.65 $ 38,090
−Removed: Exercisable – September 30, 2024 5,578,739 $ 1.61 1.65 $ 38,090
+Added: Outstanding – March 31, 2025 5,556,671 $ 1.15 3.66 $ 25,515
+Added: Exercisable – March 31, 2025 4,639,998 $ 1.19 3.28 $ 25,515
+Added: The Company’s stock-based compensation expense
+Added: (net of the effect of forfeitures) related to stock options for the three months ended March 31, 2025 was $ 271,138 of which $ 54,242 and
+Added: $ 216,896 was included in mining expenditures and general and administrative expenses, respectively, on the Company’s condensed interim
+Added: consolidated statements of operations and other comprehensive loss.
+Added: The Company’s stock-based compensation expense related to stock
+Added: options for the three months ended March 31, 2024 was $ 516,515 , of which $ 143,946 and $ 372,569 was included in mining expenditures and
+Added: general and administrative expenses, respectively, on the Company’s condensed interim consolidated statements of operations and
+Added: other comprehensive loss.
+Added: As of March 31, 2025, there was approximately $ 298,881 of unrecognized share-based compensation for unvested
+Added: stock options, which is expected to be recognized over a weighted average period of 0.59 years.
WESTERN URANIUM & VANADIUM CORP.
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(Stated in USD)
+Added: NOTE 6 – SHARE CAPITAL AND OTHER EQUITY INSTRUMENTS, CONTINUED
+Added: Shares Weighted
+Added: Price Weighted
+Added: (Years) Intrinsic
+Added: Outstanding – January 1, 2025 9,718,345 $ 1.52 2.76 $ -
+Added: Expired/Forfeited ( 98,985 ) 2.00
+Added: Outstanding – March 31, 2025 9,619,360 $ 1.33 2.54 $ -
+Added: Exercisable – March 31, 2025 9,619,360 $ 1.33 2.54 $ -
7 – Mining Expenditures
−Removed: For the Three Months Ended
−Removed: September 30,
−Removed: For the Nine Months Ended
−Removed: September 30,
+Added: For the Three Months Ended March 31,
Labor and related benefits
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Operations”) certain uranium and vanadium permitted mines and mining claims located in Colorado and owned by Rimrock (the “JV”).
−Removed: Pursuant to the terms of the JV, Rimrock will contribute certain assets into the JV and PRM will contribute $ 200,000 (the “Initial
−Removed: Contribution”) to be used to fund the Mining Operations.
+Added: Pursuant to the 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.
Thereafter, each party will own a 50 % interest in the assets of the JV.
−Removed: During the initial phase of the JV, Rimrock will be the operator and the permits and licenses for the operator will remain in the name
−Removed: The JV intends to sell the mined material to the Company under terms to be determined.
−Removed: During the term of the JV, PRM will
−Removed: pay the costs of the Mining Operations and will be entitled to recover 50 % of such costs subsequent to the contribution of the full amount
−Removed: of the Initial Contribution.
+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.
The JV will fund the recovery payments to be made to PRM from the proceeds of the sale of mined material.
−Removed: During the three and nine months ended September 30, 2024, PRM funded $ 55,643 and $ 234,192 to the JV, respectively, which was expensed
−Removed: to mining expenditures within the condensed interim consolidated statements of operations and other comprehensive loss and reflected within
−Removed: mining cost in the table above.
−Removed: The Company has completed its earn-in through the Initial Contribution and now owns a 50 % interest in
−Removed: the assets of the JV.
+Added: During the three months ended
+Added: March 31, 2025 and 2024, PRM funded an aggregate of $ 395 and $ 50,000 , respectively (inclusive of funding the Initial Contribution) to
+Added: the JV, which was expensed to mining expenditures within the condensed interim consolidated statements of operations and other comprehensive
+Added: loss and reflected within mining cost in the table above.
+Added: The Company has completed its earn-in through the Initial Contribution and now
+Added: owns a 50 % interest in the assets of the JV.
+Added: WESTERN URANIUM & VANADIUM CORP.
+Added: AND SUBSIDIARIES
+Added: NOTES TO THE CONDENSED INTERIM CONSOLIDATED
+Added: FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
+Added: (Stated in USD)
8 – Related Party Transactions AND BALANCES
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Prior to the acquisition of Black Range, Mr.
−Removed: George Glasier, the Company’s CEO, who is also a director of the Company (“Seller”), transferred his interest in a
−Removed: former joint venture with Ablation Technologies, LLC to Black Range.
−Removed: In connection with the transfer, Black Range issued 25 million shares
−Removed: of Black Range common stock to Seller and committed to pay $ 346,820 (AUD $ 500,000 ) to Seller within 60 days of the first commercial application
+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 $ 312,343 (AUD $ 500,000 ) to Seller within 60 days of the first commercial application
of the Kinetic Separation technology.
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consideration obligation is probable and the amount is estimable, the Company recorded the deferred contingent consideration as an assumed
−Removed: liability in the amount of $ 346,820 and $ 340,650 as of September 30, 2024 and December 31, 2023, respectively.
+Added: liability in the amount of $ 312,343 and $ 309,138 as of March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, respectively.
The Company has multiple lease arrangements with
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The Company incurred rent expense of $ 26,325
−Removed: and $ 17,925 in connection with these arrangements for the three months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023, respectively.
−Removed: The Company incurred
−Removed: rent expense of $ 76,175 and $ 53,775 in connection with these arrangements for the nine months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023, respectively.
+Added: and $ 23,525 in connection with these arrangements for the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively.
The Company is obligated to pay Mr.
−Removed: reimbursable expenses in the amount of $ 23,832 and $ 50,010 , included within accounts payable and accrued liabilities, as of September
+Added: reimbursable expenses in the amount of $ 18,067 and $ 83,554 , included within accounts payable and accrued liabilities, as of March 31,
2025 and December 31, 2024, respectively.
−Removed: During the nine months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023, the Company
−Removed: purchased approximately $ 9,000 and $ 25,800 of mining related equipment from Silver Hawk Ltd, respectively.
−Removed: See Note 9 - Subsequent Events.
−Removed: WESTERN URANIUM & VANADIUM CORP.
−Removed: AND SUBSIDIARIES
−Removed: NOTES TO THE CONDENSED INTERIM CONSOLIDATED
−Removed: FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
−Removed: (Stated in USD)
−Removed: NOTE 9 – Subsequent events
−Removed: Purchase of Colorado Mill Site
−Removed: On October 1, 2024, Western, through its wholly owned subsidiary, Western
−Removed: Uranium Corporation, executed a binding Stock Purchase Agreement (the “PRC Agreement”) to purchase 100 % of the shares of Pinon
−Removed: Ridge Corporation, a Colorado corporation (“PRC”), from a private investor group and thereby acquire Pinion Ridge Resources
−Removed: Corporation (“PRRC”), which is a wholly owned subsidiary of PRC.
−Removed: PRRC owns an approximately 900 -acre property located in Montrose
−Removed: County, Colorado, where a uranium processing mill was previously licensed but never constructed.
−Removed: While the mill was never constructed,
−Removed: it was fully licensed and thus provides leverage from past expenditures unique to this specific site supporting the permitting process.
−Removed: The acquisition becomes the second property package that Western has acquired, in addition to the Maverick Minerals Processing Plant site
−Removed: in Utah, and is part of Western’s plans for developing and licensing one or more uranium and vanadium processing facilities to process
−Removed: production from its resource properties in Colorado and Utah.
−Removed: Pursuant to the PRC Agreement, the former PRC
−Removed: shareholders were paid $ 829,167 for their PRC equity and shareholder loan repayments.
−Removed: As of October 3, 2024, Western has completed all
−Removed: such payments and the transaction has closed.
−Removed: After closing, a creditor holding a security interest against PRRC was paid a total of $ 1,148,125
−Removed: to pay off an outstanding promissory note.
−Removed: Western also assumed certain PRC liabilities and obligations in the transaction, including
−Removed: royalty obligations payable to an unrelated third party based upon the mineral volume processed through any mineral processing plant that
−Removed: is located on the property.
−Removed: The transaction will be accounted for as a purchase
−Removed: George Glasier, the President, CEO and a director
−Removed: 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
−Removed: shares of PRC, and so the transaction was considered a related party transaction.
−Removed: The Company’s Board of Directors established
−Removed: an independent committee of the Board comprised of directors who were not considered to have an interest in the transaction, and the
−Removed: independent committee oversaw the negotiation and approved the entering into the Agreement on behalf of the Company.
−Removed: Of the total cash
−Removed: paid to the sellers, approximately $ 414,000 was paid to George Glasier and approximately $ 24,000 was paid to an affiliate of Andrew Wilder.
−Removed: November 2024 Private Placement
−Removed: On November 8, 2024, the Company announced a private placement of up
−Removed: to 4,166,666 units at a price of CAD $ 1.32 per unit, which if fully subscribed would result in aggregate gross proceeds of up to approximately
−Removed: CAD $ 5,500,000 , subject to a 15 % discretionary overallotment increase.
−Removed: Each unit is comprised of one common share of Western and one common
−Removed: share purchase warrant.
−Removed: Each warrant is exercisable into one common share at a price of CAD $1.78 per share for a period of four years
−Removed: following the closing date of the private placement.
−Removed: This private placement is expected to close on November 15, 2024.
+Added: 9 – 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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