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Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures
−Removed: As of the end of the period covered by this report, our principal executive
−Removed: officer and principal financial officer evaluated the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rules 13a-15(e)
−Removed: and 15d-15(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”)).
−Removed: Based on their evaluation of our
−Removed: disclosure controls and procedures, our principal executive officer and principal financial officer concluded that our disclosure controls
−Removed: and procedures were not effective as of December 31, 2024, to ensure that information required to be disclosed by the Company in the reports
−Removed: that we file or submit under the Exchange Act is (a) recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in
−Removed: the SEC’s rules and forms and (b) accumulated and communicated to management, including our principal executive officer and principal
−Removed: financial officer, as appropriate to allow for timely decisions regarding required disclosure.
−Removed: Management’s Annual Report on Internal Control Over Financial
−Removed: Our management is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate
−Removed: internal control over financial reporting.
−Removed: Internal control over financial reporting is a process designed under the supervision and with
−Removed: the participation of our management, including our chief executive officer and chief financial officer, to provide reasonable assurance
−Removed: regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with
−Removed: accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.
−Removed: As of December 31, 2024, our management assessed the effectiveness
−Removed: of our internal control over financial reporting using the criteria set forth by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway
−Removed: Commission, or COSO, in Internal Control-Integrated Framework (2013).
−Removed: Based on this assessment, management, under the supervision and
−Removed: with the participation of our chief executive officer and chief financial officer, concluded that, as of December 31, 2024, our internal
−Removed: control over financial reporting was not effective based on those criteria.
+Added: As of the end of the period covered by this report,
+Added: our principal executive officer and principal financial officer evaluated the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures
+Added: (as defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”)).
+Added: Based on their evaluation of our disclosure controls and procedures, our principal executive officer and principal financial officer
+Added: concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures were not effective as of December 31, 2025, to ensure that information required
+Added: to be disclosed by the Company in the reports that we file or submit under the Exchange Act is (a) recorded, processed, summarized and
+Added: reported within the time periods specified in the SEC’s rules and forms and (b) accumulated and communicated to management, including
+Added: our principal executive officer and principal financial officer, as appropriate to allow for timely decisions regarding required disclosure.
+Added: Management’s Annual Report on Internal
+Added: Control Over Financial Reporting
+Added: Our management is responsible for establishing
+Added: and maintaining adequate internal control over financial reporting.
+Added: Internal control over financial reporting is a process designed under
+Added: the supervision and with the participation of our management, including our chief executive officer and chief financial officer, to provide
+Added: reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes
+Added: in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.
+Added: Based on this evaluation, our chief executive
+Added: officer and chief financial officer have concluded that during the period covered by this report, our disclosure controls and procedures
+Added: were not effective, due to our identified material weaknesses in internal control over financial reporting.
+Added: As of December 31, 2025, our management assessed
+Added: the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting using the criteria set forth by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations
+Added: of the Treadway Commission, or COSO, in Internal Control-Integrated Framework (2013).
+Added: Based on this assessment, management, under the
+Added: supervision and with the participation of our chief executive officer and chief financial officer, concluded that, as of December 31,
+Added: 2025, our internal control over financial reporting was not effective based on those criteria.
Based upon its assessment, as of December 31,
−Removed: management identified the following material weaknesses in its internal control over financial reporting, inclusive of the control weakness
−Removed: related to disclosure controls and procedures:
−Removed: lack of sufficient dedicated accounting personnel, resulting in delays around the timely collection of inputs and the preparation and
−Removed: review of financial reporting, as well as the inability to provide for effective segregation of duties, and
−Removed: lack of formal documentation of the design of the control environment and the related control processes and procedures.
+Added: 2025, management has identified the following material weaknesses in its internal control over financial reporting, inclusive of the
+Added: control weakness related to disclosure controls and procedures:
+Added: The lack of sufficient
+Added: dedicated accounting personnel, resulting in delays around the timely collection of inputs and the preparation and review of financial
+Added: reporting, as well as the inability to provide for effective segregation of duties, and
+Added: The lack of formal documentation
+Added: of the design of the control environment and the related control processes and procedures.
Remediation Efforts to Address Material Weaknesses
−Removed: We have identified and implemented, and continue to implement, certain
−Removed: remediation efforts to improve the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting.
−Removed: These remediation efforts are ongoing
−Removed: and include the following measures to address the material weaknesses identified:
−Removed: ● We have engaged additional accounting resources from our consultants.
−Removed: additional resources have enabled us to improve the timeliness and initial recording of inputs as well as for the preparation of account
−Removed: reconciliations.
−Removed: ● We have engaged a new member of the management team into our cash disbursement
−Removed: function, thus providing an improvement in segregating duties for incompatible roles.
−Removed: ● We have implemented additional procedures in connection with our monthly
−Removed: accounting closing process.
−Removed: While we believe the steps taken to date will improve the effectiveness
−Removed: of our internal control over financial reporting, we have not yet completed all of our planned remediation efforts.
+Added: We have identified and implemented, and continue to implement,
+Added: certain remediation efforts to improve the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting.
+Added: These remediation efforts
+Added: are ongoing and include the following measures to address the material weaknesses identified:
+Added: We have engaged additional
+Added: accounting resources from our consultants.
+Added: These additional resources have enabled us to improve the timeliness and initial recording
+Added: of inputs as well as for the preparation of account reconciliations.
+Added: We have engaged a new member
+Added: of the management team into our cash disbursement function, thus providing an improvement in segregating duties for incompatible
+Added: We have implemented additional
+Added: procedures in connection with our monthly accounting closing process.
+Added: While we believe the steps taken to
+Added: date will improve the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting, we have not yet completed all of our planned remediation
Attestation Report
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of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
−Removed: Changes in Internal Control over Financial Reporting
−Removed: There have been no changes in our internal control over financial reporting
−Removed: identified in connection with the evaluation required by paragraph (d) of Rules 13a-15 or 15d-15 under the Exchange Act that occurred
−Removed: during the Company’s fourth fiscal quarter that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal
−Removed: control over financial reporting.
+Added: Changes in Internal Control over Financial
+Added: There have been no changes in our internal control
+Added: over financial reporting identified in connection with the evaluation required by paragraph (d) of Rules 13a-15 or 15d-15 under the Exchange
+Added: Act that occurred during the Company’s fourth fiscal quarter that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially
+Added: affect, our internal control over financial reporting.
OTHER INFORMATION.
−Removed: REGARDING FOREIGN JURISDICTIONS THAT PREVENT INSPECTIONS.
−Removed: DIRECTORS, EXECUTIVE OFFICERS AND CORPORATE
−Removed: The following table sets forth information regarding the members of
−Removed: our board of directors (the “Board”) and our executive officers.
+Added: DISCLOSURE REGARDING FOREIGN JURISDICTIONS THAT PREVENT
+Added: DIRECTORS, EXECUTIVE OFFICERS AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
+Added: The following table sets forth information regarding
+Added: the members of our board of directors (the “Board”) and our executive officers.
George Glasier
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Michael Rutter
−Removed: Chief Operating Officer (effective January 30, 2024)
+Added: Chief Operating Officer
Director, Chairman
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Michael Skutezky
−Removed: Director (effective June 27, 2024)
Executive Officers
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on the CSE and OTCQX.
−Removed: Klein was formerly the Chief Operating Officer of Cross River Group and began his association with Western on
−Removed: an Operating Partner basis after the formation of Western’s predecessor company, Pinon Ridge Mining, LLC.
+Added: Klein was formerly the Chief Operating Officer of Cross River Group and began his association with Western
+Added: on an Operating Partner basis after the formation of Western’s predecessor company, Pinon Ridge Mining, LLC.
Previously, Mr.
−Removed: Managing Director at Analytical Research, an alternative investments research firm.
−Removed: He has a broad financial background derived from senior
−Removed: operating and investment roles with asset managers and through Exeter Analytics, a consulting firm he founded.
−Removed: Klein was formerly
−Removed: the CFO of Five Points Capital, a hedge fund spin-out from Soros Fund Management.
−Removed: After having begun his career in public accounting,
+Added: was a Managing Director at Analytical Research, an alternative investments research firm.
+Added: He has a broad financial background derived
+Added: from senior operating and investment roles with asset managers and through Exeter Analytics, a consulting firm he founded.
+Added: was formerly the CFO of Five Points Capital, a hedge fund spin-out from Soros Fund Management.
+Added: After having begun his career in public
+Added: accounting, Mr.
Klein worked for Lehman Brothers, an investment bank, and William E.
−Removed: Simon & Sons, a merchant bank and private investment firm.
+Added: Simon & Sons, a merchant bank and private investment
Rob earned the Chartered Financial Analyst designation, received an M.B.A.
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all operations teams report to Mr.
−Removed: Rutter hires staff, procures equipment and
−Removed: is responsible for the maintenance and scaling-up of activities at Western’s resource properties.
−Removed: Beginning in 2016 and until he was appointed
−Removed: Rutter served as Western’s Vice President of Operations, serving part-time until 2022 and then full-time since.
−Removed: role as Vice President of Operations, Mr.
−Removed: Rutter was in charge of overseeing resource properties and the advancement of Kinetic Separation.
−Removed: He was the project coordinator for the development of all of Western’s resource properties and spearheaded efforts at the Sunday
−Removed: Mine Complex, and certain reclamation projects.
+Added: Rutter hires staff, procures equipment
+Added: and is responsible for the maintenance and scaling-up of activities at Western’s resource properties.
+Added: Beginning in 2016 and until
+Added: he was appointed COO, Mr.
+Added: Rutter served as Western’s Vice President of Operations, serving part-time until 2022 and then full-time
+Added: In his role as Vice President of Operations, Mr.
+Added: Rutter was in charge of overseeing resource properties and the advancement of
+Added: Kinetic Separation.
+Added: He was the project coordinator for the development of all of Western’s resource properties and spearheaded
+Added: efforts at the Sunday Mine Complex, and certain reclamation projects.
During the prior period from 2014 to 2016, Mr.
−Removed: Rutter provided services to Western as
−Removed: a consultant on a part-time basis.
−Removed: Rutter’s experience also included working for Veolia Nuclear Solutions Federal Services during
−Removed: 2014 through 2022, where Mr.
−Removed: Rutter oversaw electrical and mechanical operations at the Paradox Valley Unit of the Colorado River Basin
−Removed: Salinity Control Program and working for Energy Fuels Inc.
−Removed: from 2007 through 2014 as Maintenance and Operations Superintendent in uranium
−Removed: production in Utah, Colorado and Arizona.
+Added: Rutter provided
+Added: services to Western as a consultant on a part-time basis.
+Added: Rutter’s experience also included working for Veolia Nuclear Solutions
+Added: Federal Services during 2014 through 2022, where Mr.
+Added: Rutter oversaw electrical and mechanical operations at the Paradox Valley Unit of
+Added: the Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Program and working for Energy Fuels Inc.
+Added: from 2007 through 2014 as Maintenance and Operations
+Added: Superintendent in uranium production in Utah, Colorado and Arizona.
Non-Employee Directors
−Removed: Andrew Wilder serves as a Director and the Chairman of the Audit Committee for Western
−Removed: Uranium & Vanadium Corporation, positions he has held since 2014, and as a member of the Governance, Nominating & Compensation
−Removed: He is the Founder and the Chief Executive Officer of Cross River Infrastructure Partners, a platform designed to accelerate
−Removed: global sustainability through the development and construction of infrastructure projects deploying transformative industrial technologies.
−Removed: Areas of focus include capturing and sequestering carbon emissions, generating green hydrogen and ammonia, generating clean power with
−Removed: advanced small modular nuclear reactors, and up cycling bio-waste into renewable natural gas.
−Removed: Wilder is also currently a Board Member
−Removed: for Bedford 2030, a community-based climate action non-profit organization for the Township of Bedford, New York.
−Removed: In 2011, prior to launching
−Removed: Cross River Infrastructure Partners, Mr.
−Removed: Wilder founded and managed the Cross River Group, an advisory business providing capital and
−Removed: business development services to alternative asset managers and institutions.
−Removed: Wilder co-founded and served as Chief Operating
−Removed: and Chief Financial Officer for North Sound Capital LLC, an equity hedge fund manager with $3 billion peak assets under management.
−Removed: Wilder’s prior career included serving as a Manager in the audit group of Deloitte.
−Removed: Wilder received the Chartered Accountant
−Removed: (Canada) designation, holds the CFA designation, and received an MBA from the University of Toronto and a BA from the University of Western
+Added: Andrew Wilder serves as a
+Added: Director and the Chairman of the Audit Committee for Western Uranium & Vanadium Corporation, positions he has held since 2014, and
+Added: as a member of the Governance, Nominating & Compensation Committee.
+Added: He is the Founder and the Chief Executive Officer of Cross River
+Added: Infrastructure Partners, a platform designed to accelerate global sustainability through the development and construction of infrastructure
+Added: projects deploying transformative industrial technologies.
+Added: Areas of focus include capturing and sequestering carbon emissions, generating
+Added: green hydrogen and ammonia, generating clean power with advanced small modular nuclear reactors, and up cycling bio-waste into renewable
+Added: Wilder is also currently a Board Member for Bedford 2030, a community-based climate action non-profit organization for
+Added: the Township of Bedford, New York.
+Added: In 2011, prior to launching Cross River Infrastructure Partners, Mr.
+Added: Wilder founded and managed the
+Added: Cross River Group, an advisory business providing capital and business development services to alternative asset managers and institutions.
+Added: Wilder co-founded and served as Chief Operating and Chief Financial Officer for North Sound Capital LLC, an equity hedge
+Added: fund manager with $3 billion peak assets under management.
+Added: Wilder’s prior career included serving as a Manager in the audit
+Added: group of Deloitte.
+Added: Wilder received the Chartered Accountant (Canada) designation, holds the CFA designation, and received an MBA
+Added: from the University of Toronto and a BA from the University of Western Ontario.
Our board of directors believe that Mr.
−Removed: Wilder’s extensive experience in financial management and in the energy industry
−Removed: qualifies him to serve on our board of directors.
−Removed: Bryan Murphy has
−Removed: served as a Director of Western Uranium & Vanadium Corp.
−Removed: since 2018 and serves on both the Audit Committee and the Governance,
−Removed: Nominating & Compensation Committee.
−Removed: He is the founder of Magellan Limited, an advisory firm focusing on providing strategic,
−Removed: M&A, and financial advisory services and currently serves as CFO and Head of Finance for Biome Renewables Inc., an early stage
−Removed: renewable energy innovation and industrial design company.
+Added: extensive experience in financial management and in the energy industry qualifies him to serve on our board of directors.
+Added: Bryan Murphy has served as a Director
+Added: of Western Uranium & Vanadium Corp.
+Added: since 2018 and serves on both the Audit Committee and the Governance, Nominating & Compensation
+Added: He is the founder of Magellan Limited, an advisory firm focusing on providing strategic, M&A, and financial advisory services
+Added: and currently serves as CFO and Head of Finance for Biome Renewables Inc., an early stage renewable energy innovation and industrial
+Added: design company.
Formerly, Mr.
−Removed: Murphy was Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Quest
−Removed: Partners, a boutique investment bank that focuses on the provision of M&A, corporate finance, and business strategy services.
−Removed: these capacities, Mr.
−Removed: Murphy has developed extensive international experience and relationships advising high-growth businesses
−Removed: across North America, Europe, and the Middle East.
−Removed: In the prior dozen years, Mr.
−Removed: Murphy held senior management roles at Canadian
−Removed: Tire Corporation overseeing divisions and business lines.
−Removed: Additionally, Mr.
−Removed: Murphy was formerly a board member of Covenant House
−Removed: Toronto, one of Canada’s largest homeless youth agencies.
−Removed: Bryan has an Honours Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration
−Removed: majoring in Finance and an MBA with Distinction from the University of Western Ontario Richard Ivey School of Business.
−Removed: the ICD.D designation from the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto and the Institute of Corporate Directors.
+Added: Murphy was Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Quest Partners, a boutique investment bank that focuses on
+Added: the provision of M&A, corporate finance, and business strategy services.
+Added: In these capacities, Mr.
+Added: Murphy has developed extensive
+Added: international experience and relationships advising high-growth businesses across North America, Europe, and the Middle East.
+Added: prior dozen years, Mr.
+Added: Murphy held senior management roles at Canadian Tire Corporation overseeing divisions and business lines.
+Added: Additionally,
+Added: Murphy was formerly a board member of Covenant House Toronto, one of Canada’s largest homeless youth agencies.
+Added: Honours Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration majoring in Finance and an MBA with Distinction from the University of Western Ontario
+Added: Richard Ivey School of Business.
+Added: Bryan earned the ICD.D designation from the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto
+Added: and the Institute of Corporate Directors.
Our board of directors believe that Mr.
−Removed: Murphy’s extensive experience in strategic and other advisory and executive leadership
−Removed: qualifies him to serve on our board of directors.
+Added: Murphy’s extensive experience in strategic and
+Added: other advisory and executive leadership qualifies him to serve on our board of directors.
Michael Skutezky was elected to
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He brings over 40 years of experience as an officer, counsel, and director in the financial sector in Canada.
−Removed: His career includes serving as Assistant General Counsel at Royal Bank of Canada, where he specialized in international and Canadian project
−Removed: financing, and as Senior Vice President, Personal Trust at National Trust.
+Added: His career includes serving as Assistant General Counsel at Royal Bank of Canada, where he specialized in international and Canadian
+Added: project financing, and as Senior Vice President, Personal Trust at National Trust.
Currently, Mr.
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Since 2019, Mr.
−Removed: Skutezky has served
−Removed: as Secretary and Senior Legal Counsel for Voyager Metals Inc.
+Added: served as Secretary and Senior Legal Counsel for Voyager Metals Inc.
He has also been a Director of New Break Resources Ltd.
−Removed: since April 2014,
2014, where he previously held the role of Corporate Secretary until stepping down in October 2021.
−Removed: However, he continues to serve as a Director.
+Added: However, he continues to serve as
Additionally, he has been a Director of Green Shift Commodities Ltd.
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Skutezky holds a B.A.
−Removed: in Business from Bishop’s
−Removed: University and an LL.B.
+Added: from Bishop’s University and an LL.B.
from Dalhousie Law School.
−Removed: He is a member of the Canadian and International Bar Associations and a non-practicing
−Removed: member of the Law Society of Ontario.
+Added: He is a member of the Canadian and International Bar Associations
+Added: and a non-practicing member of the Law Society of Ontario.
Our board of directors believe that Mr.
−Removed: Skutezky’s extensive legal, financial and uranium
−Removed: industry experience qualifies him to serve on our board of directors.
−Removed: Involvement of Officers and Directors in
−Removed: Certain Legal Proceedings
−Removed: During the past ten years,
−Removed: none of the persons serving as our executive officers and/or directors have been the subject of any of the following legal proceedings
−Removed: that are required to be disclosed pursuant to Item 401(f) of Regulation S-K, including:
−Removed: (a) any bankruptcy petition filed by or against
−Removed: any business of which such person was a general partner or executive officer either at the time of the bankruptcy or within two years
−Removed: prior to that time;
−Removed: (b) any criminal convictions or any criminal proceedings in which the person is a named subject (excluding traffic
−Removed: violations and other minor offenses);
−Removed: (c) any order, judgment, or decree permanently or temporarily enjoining, barring, suspending or
−Removed: otherwise limiting his involvement in any type of business, securities or banking activities;
−Removed: (d) any finding by a court, the SEC or the
−Removed: CFTC to have violated a federal or state securities or commodities law, any law or regulation respecting financial institutions or insurance
−Removed: companies, or any law or regulation prohibiting mail or wire fraud in connection with any business entity;
−Removed: or (e) any sanction or order
−Removed: of any self-regulatory organization, any registered entity, or any equivalent exchange, association, entity or other organization that
−Removed: has disciplinary authority over its members or persons associated with a member.
−Removed: Further, no such legal proceedings are believed to be
−Removed: contemplated by governmental authorities against any director or executive officer.
+Added: Skutezky’s extensive legal,
+Added: financial and uranium industry experience qualifies him to serve on our board of directors.
+Added: Involvement of Officers and Directors in Certain Legal Proceedings
+Added: During the past ten years, none of the persons
+Added: serving as our executive officers and/or directors have been the subject of any of the following legal proceedings that are required
+Added: to be disclosed pursuant to Item 401(f) of Regulation S-K, including:
+Added: (a) any bankruptcy petition filed by or against any business of
+Added: which such person was a general partner or executive officer either at the time of the bankruptcy or within two years prior to that time;
+Added: (b) any criminal convictions or any criminal proceedings in which the person is a named subject (excluding traffic violations and other
+Added: minor offenses);
+Added: (c) any order, judgment, or decree permanently or temporarily enjoining, barring, suspending or otherwise limiting his
+Added: involvement in any type of business, securities or banking activities;
+Added: (d) any finding by a court, the SEC or the CFTC to have violated
+Added: a federal or state securities or commodities law, any law or regulation respecting financial institutions or insurance companies, or
+Added: any law or regulation prohibiting mail or wire fraud in connection with any business entity;
+Added: or (e) any sanction or order of any self-regulatory
+Added: organization, any registered entity, or any equivalent exchange, association, entity or other organization that has disciplinary authority
+Added: over its members or persons associated with a member.
+Added: Further, no such legal proceedings are believed to be contemplated by governmental
+Added: authorities against any director or executive officer.
Family Relationships
−Removed: There are no family relationships
−Removed: among our directors and executive officers.
+Added: There are no family relationships among our directors
+Added: and executive officers.
Code of Ethics
−Removed: We have adopted a code
−Removed: of ethics that applies to our officers, directors, employees and consultants.
−Removed: 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., 5 Church Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
−Removed: Insider Trading Policy
−Removed: and Procedures
−Removed: We have adopted a Disclosure,
−Removed: Confidentiality and Insider Trading Policy that includes insider trading policies and procedures that we believe are reasonably designed
−Removed: to promote compliance with applicable insider trading laws, rules and regulations and the CSE’s continued listing standards.
+Added: We have adopted a code of ethics that applies
+Added: to our officers, directors, employees and consultants.
+Added: A copy of the code of ethics will be sent, free of charge, to any person who sends
+Added: a written request for a copy to Western Uranium & Vanadium Corp., 5 Church Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5E 1M2.
+Added: Insider Trading Policy and Procedures
+Added: We have adopted a Disclosure, Confidentiality
+Added: and Insider Trading Policy that includes insider trading policies and procedures that we believe are reasonably designed to promote compliance
+Added: with applicable insider trading laws, rules and regulations and the CSE’s continued listing standards.
Audit Committee
−Removed: Western has established a separately designated audit committee of
−Removed: the Board comprised of Andrew Wilder, Bryan Murphy, and Michael Skutezky.
−Removed: Our audit committee is responsible for oversight of audits,
−Removed: corporate governance, board nominations, and executive compensation.
−Removed: The Board has determined that one of its members, Andrew Wilder,
−Removed: who has previously served as Western’s Chief Financial Officer, qualifies as an “audit committee financial expert”.
+Added: Western has established a separately designated
+Added: audit committee of the Board comprised of Andrew Wilder, Bryan Murphy, and Michael Skutezky.
+Added: Our audit committee is responsible for oversight
+Added: of audits, corporate governance, board nominations, and executive compensation.
+Added: The Board has determined that one of its members, Andrew
+Added: Wilder, who has previously served as Western’s Chief Financial Officer, qualifies as an “audit committee financial expert”.
We have also determined that Mr.
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Skutezky are independent directors as defined in Nasdaq Listing Rule 5605(a)(2).
−Removed: Governance, Nominating
−Removed: & Compensation Committee
−Removed: Western has established a separately designated Governance, Nominating
−Removed: & Compensation Committee of the Board comprised of Michael Skutezky (Chair of the Governance, Nominating & Compensation Committee),
−Removed: Andrew Wilder, and Bryan Murphy.
−Removed: Our Governance, Nominating & Compensation Committee is responsible to assist the Board in fulfilling
−Removed: its oversight responsibilities relating to establishing corporate governance policies, evaluating the effectiveness and independence of
−Removed: the directors of the Company planning Board composition, overseeing director education, and developing a management continuity plan along
−Removed: with a competitive compensation strategy to enhance the Company’s sustainable profitability and growth.
+Added: Governance, Nominating & Compensation
+Added: Western has established a separately designated
+Added: Governance, Nominating & Compensation Committee of the Board comprised of Michael Skutezky (Chair of the Governance, Nominating &
+Added: Compensation Committee), Andrew Wilder, and Bryan Murphy.
+Added: Our Governance, Nominating & Compensation Committee is responsible to assist
+Added: the Board in fulfilling its oversight responsibilities relating to establishing corporate governance policies, evaluating the effectiveness
+Added: and independence of the directors of the Company planning Board composition, overseeing director education, and developing a management
+Added: continuity plan along with a competitive compensation strategy to enhance the Company’s sustainable profitability and growth.
EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION
Summary Compensation Table
−Removed: The following table sets forth information regarding compensation earned
−Removed: by our named executive officers:
−Removed: Principal Position
−Removed: George Glasier (1)
+Added: The following table sets forth information regarding
+Added: compensation earned by our named executive officers:
+Added: Name and Principal Position
President and Chief Executive Officer
−Removed: Robert Klein (2)
Chief Financial Officer
−Removed: Michael Rutter (3)
Chief Operating Officer
On November 24, 2024, Mr.
−Removed: 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.
−Removed: This option will vest in three installments:
−Removed: one-third on January 31, 2025, one-third on July 31, 2025 and one-third on January 31, 2026.
−Removed: On December 20, 2023, Mr.
−Removed: 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.
+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
+Added: 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, 2024 and one-third on January 31, 2025.
−Removed: For each of the years December 31, 2024 and 2023, Mr.
+Added: on January 31, 2025, one-third on July 31, 2025 and one-third on January 31, 2026.
+Added: For each of the years December 31, 2025 and 2024,
Glasier received a reimbursement of $15,000 in lieu of participation in Western’s health plan, which was initiated in 2023.
On November 24, 2024, Mr.
−Removed: Klein was granted a non-qualified option
−Removed: 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
−Removed: respective vesting dates.
+Added: Klein 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
+Added: which expires five years from each of the respective vesting dates.
This option will vest in three installments:
−Removed: one-third on January 31, 2025, one-third on July 31, 2025 and one-third
−Removed: on January 31, 2026.
−Removed: On December 20, 2023, Mr.
−Removed: Klein was granted a non-qualified option to purchase 250,000 of our common shares at an
−Removed: exercise price of $1.20 (CAD $1.60) per share which expires five years from each of the respective vesting dates.
−Removed: This option will vest
−Removed: in three installments:
−Removed: one-third on January 31, 2024, one-third on July 31, 2024 and one-third on January 31, 2025.
−Removed: For each of the years
−Removed: ended December 31, 2024 and 2023, Mr.
−Removed: Klein received a reimbursement of $15,000 in lieu of participation in Western’s health plan,
−Removed: which was initiated in 2023.
−Removed: Rutter became an executive officer on January 30, 2024.
+Added: one-third on January
+Added: 31, 2025, one-third on July 31, 2025 and one-third on January 31, 2026.
+Added: For each of the years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024, Mr.
+Added: Klein received a reimbursement of $15,000 in lieu of participation in Western’s health plan, which was initiated in 2023.
+Added: Rutter became an executive
+Added: officer on January 30, 2024.
On November 24, 2024, Mr.
−Removed: 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.
−Removed: This option will vest in three installments:
+Added: Rutter was granted a non-qualified option to purchase 175,000 of our common
+Added: 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: 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.
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his annual base salary.
−Removed: On November 12, 2020, the Company entered into a new employment agreement
−Removed: with Robert Klein, its Chief Financial Officer.
−Removed: The agreement was effective as of October 1, 2020 and has an initial term that ends on
−Removed: September 30, 2021.
−Removed: The agreement will automatically renew for successive annual terms unless either party provides a 90-day advance written
−Removed: notice of their intention not to renew.
−Removed: The agreement provides for a base salary of $150,000 per year, the amount of which is subject
−Removed: to review by the board of directors at least annually.
+Added: On November 12, 2020, the Company entered into
+Added: a new employment agreement with Robert Klein, its Chief Financial Officer.
+Added: The agreement was effective as of October 1, 2020 and has
+Added: an initial term that ends on September 30, 2021.
+Added: The agreement will automatically renew for successive annual terms unless either party
+Added: provides a 90-day advance written notice of their intention not to renew.
+Added: The agreement provides for a base salary of $150,000 per year,
+Added: the amount of which is subject to review by the board of directors at least annually.
Under the agreement, Mr.
−Removed: Klein is eligible to receive bonuses after the end of
−Removed: 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
−Removed: by the Company.
+Added: Klein is eligible to receive
+Added: bonuses 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
+Added: of a strategic transaction by the Company.
In January 2024, the Board approved an increase to Mr.
−Removed: Klein’s base salary from $150,000 to $200,000.
−Removed: The agreement
−Removed: provides that Mr.
−Removed: Klein is eligible to participate generally in any employee benefit plan of the Company or its affiliates and to receive
−Removed: annual stock option grants under the Company’s incentive stock option plan in amounts to be determined and approved by the Board.
+Added: Klein’s base salary from $150,000
+Added: The agreement provides that Mr.
+Added: Klein is eligible to participate generally in any employee benefit plan of the Company or
+Added: its affiliates and to receive annual stock option grants under the Company’s incentive stock option plan in amounts to be determined
+Added: and approved by the Board.
Outstanding Equity Awards Table
−Removed: The following table sets forth unexercised options, unvested stock
−Removed: and equity incentive plan awards outstanding for our named executive officers as of December 31, 2024.
+Added: The following table sets forth unexercised options,
+Added: unvested stock and equity incentive plan awards outstanding for our named executive officers as of December 31, 2025.
Outstanding Option Awards at December 31,
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Michael Rutter
−Removed: Outstanding Stock Awards at Fiscal Year-End for 2024
+Added: Outstanding Stock Awards at Fiscal Year-End
Director Compensation
The following table sets forth a summary of the
−Removed: compensation for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024 earned by each director who is not a named executive officer and who served on
−Removed: the Board during the year.
+Added: compensation for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2025 earned by each director who is not a named executive officer and who served
+Added: on the Board during the year.
Andrew Wilder (1)
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Michael Skutezky (3)
−Removed: During the year ended December 31, 2024, the Company incurred $43,823 in director fees for Mr.
+Added: During the year ended December
+Added: 31, 2025, the Company incurred $42,941 in director fees for Mr.
Wilder’s services as a Director.
−Removed: On November 25, 2024, Mr.
−Removed: 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.
−Removed: This option will vest in three installments:
−Removed: one-third on January 31, 2025, one-third on July 31, 2025 and one-third on January 31, 2026.
−Removed: During the year ended December 31, 2024, the Company incurred $79,231
−Removed: in director fees for Mr.
+Added: During the year ended December
+Added: 31, 2025, the Company incurred $68,705 in director fees for Mr.
Murphy’s services as a Director.
−Removed: On November 25, 2024, Mr.
−Removed: Murphy was granted a non-qualified option to
−Removed: 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
−Removed: vesting dates.
−Removed: This option will vest in three installments:
−Removed: one-third on January 31, 2025, one-third on July 31, 2025 and one-third on
−Removed: January 31, 2026.
−Removed: Michael Skutezky was elected to the Board of Directors on June 27,
−Removed: During the year ended December 31, 2024, the Company incurred $24,760 in director fees for Mr.
+Added: year ended December 31, 2025, the Company incurred $42,941 in director fees for Mr.
Skutezky’s services as a Director.
−Removed: On July 14, 2024, Mr.
−Removed: Skutezky was granted a non-qualified option to purchase 100,000 of our common shares at an exercise price of $1.47
−Removed: (CAD $2.00) per share which expires five years from each of the respective vesting dates.
−Removed: These options will vest in two installments:
−Removed: 50,000 on July 31, 2024 and 50,000 on January 31, 2025.
−Removed: On November 25, 2024, Mr.
−Removed: Skutezky was granted a non-qualified option to purchase
−Removed: 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
−Removed: vesting dates.
−Removed: This option will vest in three installments:
−Removed: one-third on January 31, 2025, one-third on July 31, 2025 and one-third on
−Removed: January 31, 2026.
SECURITY OWNERSHIP OF CERTAIN BENEFICIAL
OWNERS AND MANAGEMENT AND RELATED STOCKHOLDER MATTERS
−Removed: The following table sets forth information with respect to the beneficial
−Removed: ownership of our class of common shares as of April 15, 2025 by:
−Removed: person, or group of affiliated persons, known to us to beneficially own more than 5% of our outstanding common shares;
−Removed: of our directors and executive officers;
−Removed: of our directors and executive officers as a group.
−Removed: The amounts and percentages of common shares beneficially
−Removed: owned are reported on the basis of regulations of the SEC governing the determination of beneficial ownership of securities.
−Removed: The information
−Removed: relating to our 5% beneficial owners is based on information we received from such holders and information that is publicly available
−Removed: in Schedule 13Ds and Schedule 13Gs filed with the SEC.
−Removed: Under the rules of the SEC, a person is deemed to be a “beneficial owner”
−Removed: 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
−Removed: power, which includes the power to dispose of or to direct the disposition of a security.
−Removed: A person is also deemed to be a beneficial owner
−Removed: of any securities of which that person has a right to acquire beneficial ownership within 60 days.
−Removed: Securities that can be so acquired
−Removed: are deemed to be outstanding for purposes of computing such person’s ownership percentage, but not for purposes of computing any
−Removed: other person’s percentage.
−Removed: Under these rules, more than one person may be deemed a beneficial owner of the same securities and a
−Removed: person may be deemed to be a beneficial owner of securities as to which such person has no economic interest.
+Added: The following table sets forth information with
+Added: respect to the beneficial ownership of our class of common shares as of April 14, 2026 by:
+Added: each person, or group of
+Added: affiliated persons, known to us to beneficially own more than 5% of our outstanding common shares;
+Added: each of our directors and
+Added: executive officers;
+Added: all of our directors and
+Added: executive officers as a group.
+Added: The amounts and percentages of common shares
+Added: beneficially owned are reported on the basis of regulations of the SEC governing the determination of beneficial ownership of securities.
+Added: The information relating to our 5% beneficial owners is based on information we received from such holders and information that is publicly
+Added: available 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
+Added: owner” of a security if that person has or shares voting power, which includes the power to vote or direct the voting of a security,
+Added: or investment power, which includes the power to dispose of or to direct the disposition of a security.
+Added: A person is also deemed to be
+Added: a beneficial owner of any securities of which that person has a right to acquire beneficial ownership within 60 days.
+Added: that can be so acquired are deemed to be outstanding for purposes of computing such person’s ownership percentage, but not for
+Added: purposes of computing any other person’s percentage.
+Added: Under these rules, more than one person may be deemed a beneficial owner of
+Added: the same securities and a 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
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Canada M5E 1M2.
−Removed: Unless otherwise indicated in the footnotes, each of the beneficial owners listed has, to our knowledge, sole voting and
−Removed: investment power with respect to the indicated common shares.
+Added: Unless otherwise indicated in the footnotes, each of the beneficial owners listed has, to our knowledge, sole voting
+Added: and investment power with respect to the indicated common shares.
Title of Class
Name of Beneficial Owner
−Removed: Percent of class (1)
5% or Greater Shareholders:
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George Glasier, CEO
−Removed: Common shares
−Removed: ALPS Advisors, Inc.
+Added: 6,362,829 (2)
Common shares
MMCAP International Inc.
−Removed: Common shares
−Removed: Global X Management Company LLC
+Added: 6,044,567 (3)
Directors and Named Executive Officers:
1 unchanged sentence
George Glasier, CEO
+Added: 6,362,829 (2)
Common shares
Robert Klein, CFO
+Added: 1,062,508 (4)
Common shares
2 unchanged sentences
Andrew Wilder
+Added: 1,027,784 (6)
Common shares
+Added: 1,135,338 (7)
Common shares
1 unchanged sentence
All executive officers and directors as a group (6 persons)
−Removed: 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 858,333 common shares issuable
−Removed: upon the exercise of stock options held by Mr.
+Added: Based on 71,853,888 common shares outstanding on April 14, 2026 and,
+Added: with respect to each individual holder, rights to acquire our common shares exercisable within 60 days of April 14, 2026.
+Added: Consists of 5,028,516 common
+Added: shares, 1,016,666 common shares issuable upon the exercise of stock options held by Mr.
+Added: Glasier, and 117,647 common shares issuable
+Added: upon the exercise of warrants held by Mr.
Also includes 200,000 common shares issuable upon the exercise of stock options
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Glasier disclaims.
−Removed: Consists of 6,871,000
−Removed: common shares.
−Removed: The address for ALPS Advisors, Inc.
−Removed: is 1290 Broadway, Suite 1000, Denver, Colorado 80203.
−Removed: Consists of 2,702,666
−Removed: common shares and 3,126,455 common shares issuable upon the exercise of warrants beneficially owned by MMCAP International Inc.
−Removed: The address for MMCAP International Inc.
−Removed: SPC is 161 Bay Street, TD
−Removed: Canada Trust Tower Suite 2240, Toronto, Ontario, M5J 2S1, Canada.
−Removed: Consists of 3,268,064 common shares.
−Removed: The address for Global X Management Company LLC is 605 3rd Avenue,
−Removed: 43rd Floor, New York, NY 10158
−Removed: Consists of 45,842 common shares and 858,334 common shares issuable
+Added: Consists of 2,516,366 common
+Added: shares and 3,528,201 common shares issuable upon the exercise of warrants beneficially owned by MMCAP International Inc.
+Added: address for MMCAP International Inc.
+Added: SPC is 161 Bay Street, TD Canada Trust Tower Suite 2240, Toronto, Ontario, M5J 2S1, Canada.
+Added: Consists of 45,842 common
+Added: shares and 1,016,666 common shares issuable upon the exercise of stock options held by Mr.
+Added: Consists of 13,321 common
+Added: shares and 708,333 common shares issuable upon the exercise of stock options held by Mr.
+Added: Consists of 11,118 common
+Added: shares and 1,016,666 common shares issuable upon the exercise of stock options held by Mr.
+Added: Consists of 56,172 common
+Added: shares owned directly, 62,500 common shares beneficially owned indirectly through Magellan Limited, and 1,016,666 common shares issuable
upon the exercise of stock options held by Mr.
−Removed: Consists of 13,321 common shares and 533,333 common shares issuable upon the exercise of stock options held by Mr.
−Removed: Consists of 11,118 common shares and 858,334 common shares issuable upon the exercise of stock options held by Mr.
−Removed: Consists of 56,172 common shares owned directly, 62,500 common shares
−Removed: beneficially owned indirectly through Magellan Limited, and 858,334 common shares issuable upon the exercise of stock options held by
−Removed: 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.
+Added: Consists of 10,000 common
+Added: shares beneficially owned indirectly through Rhodes Capital Corporation, 20,000 common shares owned directly by Mr.
+Added: Skutezky, 6,787
+Added: common shares issuable upon the exercise of warrants beneficially owned indirectly through Rhodes Capital Corporation,
+Added: and 366,666 common shares issuable upon the exercise of stock options held by Mr.
Equity Compensation Plan Information
4 unchanged sentences
The board of directors approved additional changes to the Plan on September 12, 2015.
−Removed: On October 1, 2021, the
−Removed: Company further amended the Plan.
−Removed: On May 24, 2023, the Board of Directors approved and on June 29, 2023 the shareholders approved an amendment
+Added: On October 1, 2021,
+Added: the Company further amended the Plan.
+Added: On May 24, 2023, the Board of Directors approved and on June 29, 2023 the shareholders approved
+Added: an amendment to the Plan.
The purpose of the Plan is to attract, retain
5 unchanged sentences
The Board is authorized, subject to the provisions of the Plan,
−Removed: to adopt such rules and regulations as it deems consistent with the Plan’s provisions and, in its sole discretion, to designate options
−Removed: to purchase shares of the Company pursuant to the Plan.
−Removed: The Board may delegate to a committee the authority to exercise any or all power
−Removed: and authority of the Board under the Plan, including the authority with respect to option grants and/or exercises, all to the extent stipulated
−Removed: by the Board when so delegated.
−Removed: The Board may authorize one or more individuals of the Company to execute, deliver and receive documents
−Removed: on behalf of the Board.
+Added: to adopt such rules and regulations as it deems consistent with the Plan’s provisions and, in its sole discretion, to designate
+Added: options to purchase shares of the Company pursuant to the Plan.
+Added: The Board may delegate to a committee the authority to exercise any or
+Added: all power and authority of the Board under the Plan, including the authority with respect to option grants and/or exercises, all to the
+Added: extent stipulated by the Board when so delegated.
+Added: The Board may authorize one or more individuals of the Company to execute, deliver
+Added: and receive documents on behalf of the Board.
At December 31, 2025, a total of 5,348,332 stock
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31, 2025, there remain 1,837,056 stock options available to be issued under the Plan.
−Removed: The Plan provides that if an optionee’s employment
−Removed: is terminated for any reason, or if the service of a director, senior executive or consultant of the Company who is an optionee is terminated,
−Removed: any vested stock option of such optionee may be exercised during a period of ninety (90) days following the date of termination of such
−Removed: employment or service, as the case may be.
−Removed: In the case of an optionee’s death, any vested stock option of such optionee at the time of
−Removed: death may be exercised by his or her personal representative, heirs or legatees or their liquidator during a period of one year following
−Removed: such optionee’s death.
+Added: The Plan provides that if an optionee’s
+Added: employment is terminated for any reason, or if the service of a director, senior executive or consultant of the Company who is an optionee
+Added: is terminated, any vested stock option of such optionee may be exercised during a period of ninety (90) days following the date of termination
+Added: of such employment or service, as the case may be.
+Added: In the case of an optionee’s death, any vested stock option of such optionee
+Added: at the time of death may be exercised by his or her personal representative, heirs or legatees or their liquidator during a period of
+Added: one year following such optionee’s death.
The total number of common shares issuable to
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option exercise price.
−Removed: The terms of any existing option may not be altered, suspended or discontinued without the consent in writing of
−Removed: the Optionee.
+Added: The terms of any existing option may not be altered, suspended or discontinued without the consent in writing
+Added: of the Optionee.
Equity Compensation Plan Information
5 unchanged sentences
Equity compensation plans not approved by shareholders
−Removed: CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS
−Removed: AND RELATED TRANSACTIONS, AND DIRECTOR INDEPENDENCE
+Added: CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED
+Added: TRANSACTIONS, AND DIRECTOR INDEPENDENCE
Transactions with Related Persons
−Removed: The Company has transacted with related parties
−Removed: pursuant to service arrangements in the ordinary course of business, as follows:
+Added: We have transacted with related parties pursuant
+Added: to service arrangements in the ordinary course of business, as follows:
Prior to the acquisition of Black Range, Mr.
−Removed: Glasier, the Company’s CEO, who is also a director of the Company (“Seller”), transferred his interest in a former joint
−Removed: venture with Ablation Technologies, LLC to Black Range.
−Removed: In connection with the transfer, Black Range issued 25 million shares of Black
−Removed: 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: George Glasier, the Company’s CEO, who is also a director of the Company (“Seller”), transferred his interest in a
+Added: former joint venture with Ablation Technologies, LLC to Black Range.
+Added: In connection with the transfer, Black Range issued 25 million shares
+Added: of Black Range common stock to Seller and committed to pay $333,349 (AUD $500,000) to Seller within 60 days of the first commercial application
of the Kinetic Separation technology.
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liability in the amount of $333,349 and $309,138 as of December 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively.
−Removed: George Glasier, the President, CEO and a director of Western, and his
−Removed: 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
−Removed: so the transaction was considered a related party transaction.
−Removed: The Company’s Board of Directors established an independent committee
−Removed: of the Board comprised of directors who were not considered to have an interest in the transaction, and the independent committee oversaw
−Removed: the negotiation and approved the entering into the agreement on behalf of the Company.
+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.
+Added: The independent
+Added: committee supervised the negotiation of and approved Western’s entry into the PRC agreement.
Of the total cash paid to the sellers,
$414,584 was paid to George Glasier and $24,875 was paid to an affiliate of Andrew Wilder.
−Removed: The Company has multiple lease arrangements with
−Removed: Silver Hawk Ltd., an entity which is owned by George Glasier and his wife, Kathleen Glasier.
+Added: We have multiple lease arrangements with Silver
+Added: Hawk Ltd., an entity which is owned by George Glasier and his wife Kathleen Glasier.
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 $106,500
−Removed: and $71,700 in connection with these arrangements for the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively.
−Removed: The Company is obligated to pay Mr.
−Removed: reimbursable expenses in the amount of $83,554 and $84,040, included within accounts payable and accrued liabilities, as of December 31,
−Removed: 2024 and 2023, respectively.
−Removed: During the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023,
−Removed: the Company purchased equipment from Silver Hawk Ltd.
−Removed: for $9,000 and $25,800, respectively.
+Added: In connection with these arrangements, we incurred
+Added: rent expense of $108,546 and $106,500 for the years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively.
+Added: We are obligated to pay Mr.
+Added: Glasier for reimbursable
+Added: expenses in the amount of $74,063 and $83,554, included within accounts payable and accrued liabilities, as of December 31, 2025 and
+Added: 2024, respectively.
+Added: During the yeas ended December 31, 2024, we purchased
+Added: equipment from Silver Hawk Ltd.
+Added: for $9,000, respectively.
+Added: There were no purchases from Silver Hawk Ltd.
+Added: during the year ended December
+Added: In connection with the Company’s June 13,
+Added: 2025 private placement, of the 5,911,786 common shares and warrants issued to investors, 117,647 were issued to Mr.
+Added: Glasier for his participation
+Added: in the private placement.
+Added: In December 2025, Mr.
+Added: Glasier acquired an aggregate
+Added: of 100,000 common shares of the Company at a price of $0.35 (CAD $0.48 as of December 31, 2025).
Director Independence
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could, in the view of the Board, be reasonably expected to interfere with the exercise of a director’s independent judgment.
−Removed: The Company’s Board currently consists of
−Removed: three directors.
+Added: The Company’s Board currently consists
+Added: of three directors.
Currently, Andrew Wilder, Bryan Murphy and Michael Skutezky are independent directors based upon the tests for independence
set forth in National Instrument 52-110 Audit Committees .
−Removed: SEC rules require a separate determination of independence of the Company’s
−Removed: directors based on the definition of independence of a U.S.
−Removed: national securities exchange or inter-dealer quotation system which has
−Removed: requirements that a majority of the board of directors be independent.
−Removed: Because the Company’s common shares are not currently listed
−Removed: on a national securities exchange, we currently use the definition in Nasdaq Listing Rule 5605(a)(2) for determining director independence.
+Added: SEC rules require a separate determination of
+Added: independence of the Company’s directors based on the definition of independence of a U.S.
+Added: national securities exchange or inter-dealer quotation
+Added: system which has requirements that a majority of the board of directors be independent.
+Added: Because the Company’s common shares are
+Added: not currently listed on a national securities exchange, we currently use the definition in Nasdaq Listing Rule 5605(a)(2) for determining
+Added: director independence.
Under that definition, Andrew Wilder, Bryan Murphy and Michael Skutezky would be considered independent directors.
−Removed: and Michael Skutezky would also be considered independent directors under Rule 5605(c)(2)’s provisions relating to audit committee
+Added: Murphy and Michael Skutezky would also be considered independent directors under Rule 5605(c)(2)’s provisions relating
+Added: to audit committee composition.
PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTANT FEES AND SERVICES
−Removed: The following table sets forth the aggregate fees
−Removed: billed by MNP LLP (“MNP”), our independent registered accounting firm for the fiscal years ended December 31, 2024 and December
+Added: The following table sets forth the aggregate
+Added: fees billed by MNP LLP (“MNP”), our independent registered accounting firm for the fiscal years ended December 31, 2025 and
These fees are categorized as audit fees, audit-related fees, tax fees, and all other fees.
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All other fees:
−Removed: There were no fees billed by MNP
−Removed: for professional services rendered for other compliance purposes for the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023.
+Added: There were no fees billed by
+Added: MNP for professional services rendered for other compliance purposes for the years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024.
The Company’s Board of Directors has established
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statements are being filed as part of this Annual Report.
−Removed: Financial Statements of Western Uranium & Vanadium Corp.
−Removed: and Subsidiaries
−Removed: of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm (Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (“PCAOB”) ID:
−Removed: Consolidated Balance Sheets
−Removed: as of December 31, 2024 and 2023
−Removed: Consolidated Statements of
−Removed: Operations and Other Comprehensive Income (Loss) for the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023
−Removed: Consolidated Statements of
−Removed: Shareholders’ Equity for the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023
−Removed: Consolidated Statements of
−Removed: Cash Flows for the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023
−Removed: Notes to Consolidated Financial
+Added: Consolidated Financial Statements of Western Uranium & Vanadium Corp.
+Added: and Subsidiaries Page No.
+Added: Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm (Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (“PCAOB”) ID:
+Added: Consolidated Balance Sheets as of December 31, 2025 and 2024 F-2
+Added: Consolidated Statements of Operations and Other Comprehensive Income (Loss) for the years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024 F-3
+Added: Consolidated Statements of Shareholders’ Equity for the years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024 F-4
+Added: Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for the years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024 F-5
+Added: Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements F-6
(b) The following exhibits
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List of Subsidiaries
+Added: Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
Rule 13a-14(a)/15d-14(a) Certification of Chief Executive Officer
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Cover Page Interactive Data File (formatted as Inline XBRL and contained in Exhibit 101).*
−Removed: Schedules and exhibits omitted pursuant to Item 601(b)(2) of Regulation S-K.
−Removed: The Company agrees to furnish a copy of the omitted schedules and exhibits to the SEC upon request.
+Added: Schedules and exhibits
+Added: omitted pursuant to Item 601(b)(2) of Regulation S-K.
+Added: The Company agrees to furnish a copy of the omitted schedules and exhibits
+Added: to the SEC upon request.
Filed herewith
−Removed: Previously filed as an exhibit to the Company’s Form 10 filed on April 29, 2016
−Removed: Previously filed as an exhibit with Amendment No.
+Added: Previously filed as an
+Added: exhibit to the Company’s Form 10 filed on April 29, 2016
+Added: Previously filed as an
+Added: exhibit with Amendment No.
2 to the Company’s Form 10 filed on July 22, 2016
−Removed: Previously filed as an exhibit with Amendment No.
+Added: Previously filed as an
+Added: exhibit with Amendment No.
1 to the Company’s Form 10 filed on June 22, 2016
−Removed: Previously filed as an exhibit to the Company’s Form 10-Q filed on May 15, 2017
−Removed: Previously filed as an exhibit to the Company’s Form 10-K filed on April 2, 2018
−Removed: Previously filed as an exhibit to the Company’s Form 10-Q filed on August 14, 2019
−Removed: Previously filed as an exhibit to the Company’s Form 10-Q filed on November 16, 2020
−Removed: 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 Proxy filed on May 31, 2023
+Added: Previously filed as an exhibit to the Company’s
+Added: Form 10-Q filed on May 15, 2017
+Added: Previously filed as an exhibit to the Company’s
+Added: Form 10-K filed on April 2, 2018
+Added: Previously filed as an exhibit to the Company’s
+Added: Form 10-Q filed on August 14, 2019
+Added: Previously filed as an exhibit to the Company’s
+Added: Form 10-Q filed on November 16, 2020
+Added: Previously filed as an exhibit to the Company’s
+Added: Form 10-K filed on April 15, 2022
+Added: Previously filed as an exhibit to the Company’s
+Added: Proxy filed on May 31, 2023
+Added: Previously filed as an exhibit to the Company’s
+Added: Form 10-K filed on April 15, 2025
FORM 10-K SUMMARY
−Removed: Pursuant to the requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities
−Removed: Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.
+Added: Pursuant to the requirements of Section 13 or
+Added: 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned,
+Added: thereunto duly authorized.
WESTERN URANIUM & VANADIUM CORP.
+Added: April 15, 2026
George Glasier
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on the dates indicated.
+Added: April 15, 2026
George Glasier
George Glasier
−Removed: Chief Executive Officer, President and Director
−Removed: (Principal Executive Officer)
+Added: Chief Executive Officer, President and Director (Principal
+Added: Executive Officer)
April 15, 2026
−Removed: Chief Financial Officer (Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)
+Added: Chief Financial Officer (Principal Financial and Accounting
April 15, 2026
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Michael Skutezky
−Removed: Western Uranium & Vanadium Corp.
−Removed: and Subsidiaries
−Removed: Index to Consolidated Financial Statements
−Removed: Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm (PCAOB ID:
−Removed: Consolidated Balance Sheets as of December 31, 2024 and 2023 F-3
−Removed: Consolidated Statements of Operations and Other Comprehensive Loss for the Years Ended December 31, 2024 and 2023 F-4
−Removed: Consolidated Statements of Changes in Shareholders’ Equity for the Years Ended December 31, 2024 and 2023 F-5
−Removed: Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for the Years Ended December 31, 2024 and 2023 F-6
−Removed: Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements F-7
OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM
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Opinion on the Consolidated Financial Statements
−Removed: We have audited the accompanying consolidated
−Removed: balance sheets of Western Uranium & Vanadium Corp.
−Removed: and subsidiaries (the Company) as of December 31, 2024 and 2023, and the related
−Removed: consolidated statements of operations and other comprehensive loss, changes in shareholders’ equity, and cash flows for each of
−Removed: 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
−Removed: present fairly, in all material respects, the consolidated financial position of the Company as of December 31, 2024 and 2023, and the
−Removed: results of its consolidated operations and its consolidated cash flows for each of the years in the two-year period ended December 31,
−Removed: 2024, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.
+Added: We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of Western
+Added: Uranium & Vanadium Corp.
+Added: and subsidiaries (the “Company") as of December 31, 2025 and 2024, and the related consolidated
+Added: statements of operations and other comprehensive loss, changes in shareholders’ equity, and cash flows for each of the years in
+Added: the two-year period ended December 31, 2025, and the related notes (collectively referred to as the “consolidated financial statements”).
+Added: In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements present fairly,
+Added: in all material respects, the consolidated financial position of the Company as of December 31, 2025 and 2024, and the results of its
+Added: consolidated operations and its consolidated cash flows for each of the years in the two-year period ended December 31, 2025, in conformity
+Added: with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.
Material Uncertainty Related to Going Concern
−Removed: The accompanying consolidated financial statements
−Removed: have been prepared assuming that the Company will continue as a going concern.
−Removed: As discussed in Note 2 to the consolidated financial statements,
−Removed: the Company has incurred continuing losses and negative cash flows from operations and is dependent upon future sources of equity or debt
−Removed: financing in order to fund its operations.
−Removed: These conditions raise substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a
−Removed: going concern.
−Removed: Management’s plans in regard to these matters are also described in Note 2.
−Removed: The consolidated financial statements
−Removed: do not include any adjustments that might result from the outcome of this uncertainty.
+Added: The accompanying consolidated financial statements have been prepared
+Added: assuming that the Company will continue as a going concern.
+Added: As discussed in Note 2 to the consolidated financial statements, the Company
+Added: has incurred losses from operations and is dependent upon future sources of equity or debt financing in order to fund its operations,
+Added: which raises substantial doubt about its ability to continue as a going concern.
+Added: Management's plans in regard to these matters are also
+Added: described in Note 2.
+Added: The consolidated financial statements do not include any adjustments that might result from the outcome of this uncertainty.
Basis for Opinion
−Removed: These consolidated financial statements are the
−Removed: responsibility of the Company’s management.
−Removed: Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company’s consolidated financial
−Removed: statements based on our audits.
−Removed: We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United
−Removed: States) (PCAOB) and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S.
−Removed: federal securities laws and
−Removed: the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.
−Removed: We conducted our audits in accordance with the
−Removed: standards of the PCAOB.
−Removed: Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the consolidated
−Removed: financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud.
−Removed: The Company is not required to have, nor were we
−Removed: engaged to perform, an audit of its internal control over financial reporting.
−Removed: As part of our audits, we are required to obtain an understanding
−Removed: of internal control over financial reporting but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Company’s
−Removed: internal control over financial reporting.
+Added: These consolidated financial statements are the responsibility of the
+Added: Company’s management.
+Added: Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company’s consolidated financial statements based
+Added: on our audits.
+Added: We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (“PCAOB”)
+Added: and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S.
+Added: federal securities laws and the applicable
+Added: rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.
+Added: We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB.
+Added: Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the consolidated financial statements
+Added: are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud.
+Added: The Company is not required to have, nor were we engaged to perform,
+Added: an audit of its internal control over financial reporting.
+Added: As part of our audits, we are required to obtain an understanding of internal
+Added: control over financial reporting, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Company’s internal
+Added: control over financial reporting.
Accordingly, we express no such opinion.
−Removed: Our audits included performing procedures to assess
−Removed: the risks of material misstatement of the consolidated financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures
−Removed: that respond to those risks.
−Removed: Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the
−Removed: consolidated financial statements.
−Removed: Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by
−Removed: management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the consolidated financial statements.
−Removed: We believe that our audits provide
−Removed: a reasonable basis for our opinion.
+Added: Our audits included performing procedures to assess the risks of material
+Added: misstatement of the consolidated financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those
+Added: Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the consolidated financial
+Added: Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as
+Added: evaluating the overall presentation of the consolidated financial statements.
+Added: We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for
Chartered Professional Accountants
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Prepaid expenses
−Removed: Marketable securities
Other current assets
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Total liabilities and shareholders’ equity
+Added: The accompanying notes are an integral part of
+Added: these consolidated financial statements.
WESTERN URANIUM & VANADIUM CORP.
AND SUBSIDIARIES
−Removed: CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS AND OTHER COMPREHENSIVE LOSS
+Added: CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS AND OTHER
+Added: COMPREHENSIVE LOSS
(Stated in USD)
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Interest income, net
−Removed: Other expense, net
+Added: Other income (expense), net
( 7,175,923 )
( 10,112,037 )
−Removed: Other comprehensive (loss) income
+Added: Other comprehensive loss
Foreign currency translation adjustment
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Weighted average shares outstanding - basic and diluted
+Added: The accompanying notes are an integral part of
+Added: these consolidated financial statements.
WESTERN URANIUM & VANADIUM CORP.
AND SUBSIDIARIES
−Removed: CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CHANGES IN SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY
+Added: CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CHANGES IN SHAREHOLDERS’
(Stated in USD)
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Treasury Shares
−Removed: Comprehensive
+Added: Accumulated Other Comprehensive
Balance as of January 1, 2024
$ ( 18,817,857 )
−Removed: $ ( 261,132 )
−Removed: Private placement - December 12, 2023, net of offering costs
+Added: Private placement - November 2024, net of offering costs
Proceeds from the exercise of warrants
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$ ( 28,929,894 )
−Removed: Private placement - November 2024, net of offering costs
−Removed: Proceeds from the exercise of warrants
+Added: $ ( 233,871 )
+Added: Private placement - June 2025, net of offering costs
+Added: Private placement - October 2025, net of offering costs
Cashless exercise of stock options
−Removed: Stock based compensation - stock options
+Added: Stock-based compensation expense
Foreign currency translation adjustment
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$ ( 269,130 )
+Added: The accompanying notes are an integral part of
+Added: these consolidated financial statements.
WESTERN URANIUM & VANADIUM CORP.
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(Stated in USD)
−Removed: For the Years Ended December 31,
+Added: For the Years Ended
Cash Flows Used In Operating Activities:
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Reconciliation of net loss to cash used in operating activities:
−Removed: Loss on the sale of equipment
+Added: (Gain) loss on the sale of equipment
Accretion of asset retirement obligations
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Asset retirement obligations
−Removed: Deferred revenue
Contingent consideration
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( 3,395,888 )
−Removed: ( 2,404,440 )
Proceeds from sale of equipment
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( 3,391,888 )
−Removed: ( 2,404,440 )
Cash Flows Provided By Financing Activities
−Removed: Proceeds from private placements, net
+Added: Proceeds from private placement, net
Proceeds from warrant exercises
−Removed: Cash received from note receivable
Net cash provided by financing activities
Effect of foreign exchange rate on cash
−Removed: Net decrease in cash and cash equivalents and restricted cash
+Added: Net increase (decrease) in cash and cash equivalents and restricted
( 3,673,405 )
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Cash paid during the period for:
−Removed: Noncash transactions:
−Removed: Notes received in exchange for equipment sold
+Added: The accompanying notes are an integral part of
+Added: these consolidated financial statements.
WESTERN URANIUM & VANADIUM CORP.
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on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q and current reports on Form 8-K.
−Removed: On the subsequent measurement date June 30, 2024, Western
−Removed: reconfirmed its qualification as a foreign private issuer.
+Added: As of the subsequent measurement date June 30, 2024, Western
+Added: reconfirmed its qualification as a foreign private issuer for periods ended through December 31, 2025.
+Added: WESTERN URANIUM & VANADIUM CORP.
+Added: AND SUBSIDIARIES
+Added: NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
+Added: (Stated in USD)
2 – Liquidity and going concern
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requirements principally through the issuance of notes, the sale of its common shares and from limited revenue sources.
−Removed: During November
−Removed: 2024, the Company closed a private placement of 4,142,906 units at a price of $ 0.94 (CAD $ 1.32 ) per unit.
−Removed: The aggregate gross proceeds
−Removed: 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 ).
−Removed: 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
−Removed: to purchase 5,198,540 common shares.
−Removed: On December 12, 2023, the Company closed a non-brokered private placement of 5,215,828 units at a
−Removed: price of $ 1.02 (CAD $ 1.39 ) per unit.
+Added: On October 14,
+Added: 2025, the Company closed a brokered private placement of 6,555,556 units at a price of $ 0.64 (CAD $ 0.90 ) per unit.
+Added: The aggregate gross
+Added: proceeds raised in the private placement amounted to $ 4,202,281 (CAD $ 5,900,000 ) and proceeds net of issuance costs were $ 3,806,270 (CAD
+Added: $ 5,344,010 ).
+Added: On June 13, 2025, the Company closed a brokered private placement of 5,911,786 units at a price of $ 0.63 (CAD $ 0.85 ) per
+Added: The aggregate gross proceeds raised in the private placement amounted to $ 3,693,424 (CAD $ 5,025,018 ) and proceeds net of issuance
+Added: costs were $ 3,331,687 (CAD $ 4,532,939 ).
+Added: Of the 5,911,786 common shares and warrants issued to investors, 117,647 were issued to Mr.
+Added: for his participation in the private placement (see Note 8).
+Added: During November 2024, the Company closed a private placement of 4,142,906
+Added: units at a price of $ 0.94 (CAD $ 1.32 ) per unit.
The aggregate gross proceeds raised in the private placement amounted to $ 3,897,166 (CAD
−Removed: and proceeds net of issuance costs amounted to $ 4,836,867 (CAD $ 6,588,089 ).
−Removed: During the year ended December 31, 2023, the Company received
−Removed: $ 1,004,044 (CAD $ 1,358,565 ) in proceeds from the exercise of common share warrants to purchase 1,165,450 common shares.
−Removed: WESTERN URANIUM & VANADIUM CORP.
−Removed: AND SUBSIDIARIES
−Removed: NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
−Removed: (Stated in USD)
−Removed: 2 – Liquidity and going concern, CONTINUED
+Added: $ 5,468,636 ) and proceeds net of issuance costs were $ 3,546,870 (CAD $ 4,975,966 ).
+Added: During the year ended December 31, 2024, the Company
+Added: received $ 4,605,458 (CAD $ 6,238,248 ) in proceeds from the exercise of common share warrants to purchase 5,198,540 common shares.
The Company’s ability to continue its planned
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consolidated financial statements do not include any adjustments that might result from the outcome of these uncertainties.
+Added: WESTERN URANIUM & VANADIUM CORP.
+Added: AND SUBSIDIARIES
+Added: NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
+Added: (Stated in USD)
NOTE 3 – SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES
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Minerals Wyoming LLC, Haggerty Resources LLC, Ranger Alaska LLC, Black Range Minerals Utah LLC, Black Range Minerals Ablation Holdings
−Removed: Inc., Black Range Development Utah LLC, Maverick Strategic Minerals Corp (“Maverick”), Pinon Ridge Corp (“PRC”)
−Removed: and Mustang Mineral Processing Inc (“Mustang”).
+Added: Inc., Black Range Development Utah LLC, Maverick Strategic Minerals Corp (“Maverick”), Pinon Ridge Corporation (“PRC”)
+Added: and Mustang Mineral Processing Inc.
All inter-company transactions and balances have been eliminated upon consolidation.
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materials for certain uranium projects.
−Removed: The Company has not established proven or probable reserves, as defined by the United States Securities
−Removed: and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”), through the completion of a “final” or “bankable” feasibility
−Removed: study for any of its uranium projects.
+Added: The Company has not established proven or probable reserves, as defined by the Commission, through
+Added: the completion of a “final” or “bankable” feasibility study for any of its uranium projects.
Segment Information
−Removed: In accordance with Financial Accounting Standards
+Added: In accordance with the Financial Accounting Standards
Board (“FASB”) Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) 280, Segment Reporting , operating segments are
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The Company’s CODM regularly reviews the
−Removed: segment net income (loss) that also is reported on the income statement as consolidated net income (loss).
−Removed: The measure of segment assets
−Removed: is reported on the balance sheet as total consolidated assets.
+Added: segment net income (loss) that also is reported on the statement of operations and other comprehensive loss as net income (loss).
+Added: measure of segment assets is reported on the balance sheet as total consolidated assets.
+Added: WESTERN URANIUM & VANADIUM CORP.
+Added: AND SUBSIDIARIES
+Added: NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
+Added: (Stated in USD)
+Added: 3 – SUMMARY OF Significant Accounting Policies, CONTINUED
Exploration Stage and Mineral Properties
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to mining and production while the Company is in the exploration stage and while the mined material is stockpiled underground are expensed
−Removed: WESTERN URANIUM & VANADIUM CORP.
−Removed: AND SUBSIDIARIES
−Removed: NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
−Removed: (Stated in USD)
−Removed: – SUMMARY OF Significant Accounting Policies, CONTINUED
−Removed: Exploration Stage and Mineral Properties, continued
Production stage issuers, as defined in subpart
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Actual results could differ from those estimates.
+Added: WESTERN URANIUM & VANADIUM CORP.
+Added: AND SUBSIDIARIES
+Added: NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
+Added: (Stated in USD)
+Added: 3 – SUMMARY OF Significant Accounting Policies, CONTINUED
Foreign Currency Translation
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31, 2025 and 2024.
−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: During the year ended
−Removed: December 31, 2024, the Company’s sole marketable security was fully impaired and written off.
−Removed: WESTERN URANIUM & VANADIUM CORP.
−Removed: AND SUBSIDIARIES
−Removed: NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
−Removed: (Stated in USD)
−Removed: – SUMMARY OF Significant Accounting Policies, CONTINUED
Restricted Cash
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The Company reflects the Van 4 Mine’s asset retirement obligation and its restricted cash in full on the Company’s
−Removed: consolidated balance sheets as current.
+Added: consolidated balance sheets as current (see Note 4).
Property, Plant & Equipment and Mineral Properties, Net
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with the prepayment.
−Removed: Royalty receipts are recognized as revenues based upon production.
+Added: Royalty receipts are recognized as revenues based upon production (see Note 4).
Fair Values of Financial Instruments
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of these instruments.
−Removed: Marketable securities were adjusted to fair value at each balance sheet date based on quoted prices which were considered
−Removed: level 1 inputs.
−Removed: A portion of the Company’s operating and financing activities are conducted in Canadian dollars, and as a result,
−Removed: the 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
+Added: result, the Company is subject to exposure to market risks from changes in foreign currency rates.
The carrying amount of restricted cash
– net of current portion, approximates fair value as the accounts earn interest at market rates.
−Removed: The Company is exposed to credit risk through
−Removed: its cash and restricted cash but mitigates this risk by keeping these deposits at major financial institutions.
−Removed: The FASB ASC 820, Fair Value Measurements and
−Removed: Disclosures , provides the framework for measuring fair value.
−Removed: That framework provides a fair value hierarchy that prioritizes the
−Removed: inputs to valuation techniques used to measure fair value.
−Removed: The hierarchy gives the highest priority to unadjusted quoted prices in active
−Removed: markets for identical assets or liabilities (level 1 measurements) and the lowest priority to unobservable inputs (level 3 measurements).
+Added: The Company is exposed to credit
+Added: risk through its cash and restricted cash but mitigates this risk by keeping these deposits at major financial institutions.
WESTERN URANIUM & VANADIUM CORP.
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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 pricing
−Removed: an asset or liability.
−Removed: A three-tier fair value hierarchy is used to prioritize the inputs in measuring fair value as follows:
−Removed: Level 1 - Quoted prices in active markets for
−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 inputs
−Removed: 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 December 31, 2024):
−Removed: Liabilities in
−Removed: Marketable securities as of December 31, 2023
Impairment of Long-Lived Assets
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may not be recoverable.
−Removed: Impairment is considered to exist if the total estimated future cash flows on an undiscounted basis are less than
−Removed: the carrying amount of the assets.
−Removed: An impairment loss is measured and recorded based on discounted estimated future cash flows or upon
−Removed: an estimate of fair value that may be received in an exchange transaction.
−Removed: Future cash flows are estimated based on estimated quantities
−Removed: of recoverable minerals, expected uranium prices (considering current and historical prices, trends, and related factors), production
−Removed: levels, operating costs of production, and capital, restoration and reclamation costs, based upon the projected remaining future uranium
−Removed: production from each project.
−Removed: The Company’s long-lived assets (which principally include its mineral assets and Kinetic Separation
−Removed: intellectual property) were acquired during the end of 2014 and in 2015 in arms-length transactions.
−Removed: During the year ended December 31,
−Removed: 2024, the Company acquired a parcel of land upon which it intends to develop and construct a facility for the processing of mineral resources
−Removed: (see Note 4).
−Removed: As of December 31, 2024, the Company evaluated the total estimated future cash flows on an undiscounted basis for its mineral
−Removed: properties and Kinetic Separation intellectual property and determined that no impairment was deemed to exist.
−Removed: Estimates and assumptions
−Removed: used to assess recoverability of the Company’s long-lived assets and to measure fair value of the Company’s uranium properties
−Removed: are subject to risk uncertainty.
−Removed: 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 largely
−Removed: independent of future cash flows from other asset groups.
−Removed: WESTERN URANIUM & VANADIUM CORP.
−Removed: AND SUBSIDIARIES
−Removed: NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
−Removed: (Stated in USD)
−Removed: 3 – SUMMARY OF Significant Accounting Policies, continued
+Added: Mineral properties are monitored for impairment based on factors such as mineral prices, direct and indirect costs,
+Added: mineral grades, mining capabilities, equipment and manpower capacity constraints, and government regulation, the Company’s continued
+Added: right to explore the area, mine development findings and its continued plans to fund its mining and development programs along with the
+Added: development of its planned Mustang Mineral Processing Mill.
+Added: Impairment is considered to exist if the total estimated future cash flows
+Added: on an undiscounted basis are less than the carrying amount of the assets.
+Added: An impairment loss is measured and recorded based on discounted
+Added: estimated future cash flows or upon an estimate of fair value that may be received in an exchange transaction.
+Added: Future cash flows are estimated
+Added: based on estimated quantities of recoverable minerals, expected uranium and vanadium prices (considering current and historical prices,
+Added: trends, and related factors), production levels and fixed and variable operating costs of production.
+Added: The Company’s long-lived assets
+Added: (which principally include its mineral assets and Kinetic Separation intellectual property) were acquired during the end of 2014 and in
+Added: 2015 in arms-length transactions.
+Added: During the year ended December 31, 2024, the Company acquired a parcel of land upon which it intends
+Added: to develop and construct a facility for the processing of mineral resources (see Note 4).
+Added: As of December 31, 2025, the Company evaluated
+Added: the total estimated future cash flows on an undiscounted basis for its mineral properties and Kinetic Separation intellectual property
+Added: and determined that no impairment was deemed to exist.
+Added: The Company’s estimates of future cash flows are based on numerous assumptions,
+Added: and it is possible that actual future cash flows will be significantly different than the estimates, as future quantities of recoverable
+Added: minerals, uranium and vanadium prices, production levels, costs and capital are each subject to significant risks and uncertainties.
+Added: in these estimates and assumptions could result in the impairment of the Company’s long-lived assets.
+Added: In estimating future cash
+Added: flows, assets are grouped at the lowest level for which there are identifiable cash flows that are largely independent of future cash
+Added: flows from other asset groups.
The Company utilizes an asset and liability approach
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and such returns for the years 2019 through 2024 remain subject to examination.
+Added: WESTERN URANIUM & VANADIUM CORP.
+Added: AND SUBSIDIARIES
+Added: NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
+Added: (Stated in USD)
+Added: 3 – SUMMARY OF Significant Accounting Policies, CONTINUED
Asset Retirement Obligations
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actual expenses incurred, and technology and industry standards.
−Removed: WESTERN URANIUM & VANADIUM CORP.
−Removed: AND SUBSIDIARIES
−Removed: NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
−Removed: (Stated in USD)
−Removed: 3 – SUMMARY OF Significant Accounting Policies, continued
−Removed: Asset Retirement Obligations, continued
−Removed: In accordance with the FASB ASC 410, Asset Retirement and Environmental
−Removed: Obligations , the Company capitalizes the measured fair value of asset retirement obligations to mineral properties.
−Removed: The estimated
−Removed: fair value of the asset retirement obligation is based on the current cost escalated at an inflation rate and discounted at a credit adjusted
−Removed: risk-free rate.
−Removed: The asset retirement obligations are accreted to an undiscounted value until the time at which they are expected to be
−Removed: The accretion expense is charged to earnings and the actual retirement costs are recorded against the asset retirement obligations
−Removed: when incurred.
−Removed: Any difference between the recorded asset retirement obligations and the actual retirement costs incurred will be recorded
−Removed: as a gain or loss in the period of settlement.
+Added: In accordance with the FASB ASC 410, Asset
+Added: Retirement and Environmental Obligations , the Company capitalizes the measured fair value of asset retirement obligations to mineral
+Added: The estimated fair value of the asset retirement obligation is based on the current cost escalated at an inflation rate and
+Added: discounted at a credit adjusted risk-free rate.
+Added: The asset retirement obligations are accreted to an undiscounted value until the time
+Added: at which they are expected to be settled.
+Added: The accretion expense is charged to earnings and the actual retirement costs are recorded against
+Added: the asset retirement obligations when incurred.
+Added: Any difference between the recorded asset retirement obligations and the actual retirement
+Added: costs incurred will be recorded as a gain or loss in the period of settlement.
At each reporting period, the Company reviews
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For employees and consultants, this is typically considered to be the vesting period of the award.
+Added: WESTERN URANIUM & VANADIUM CORP.
+Added: AND SUBSIDIARIES
+Added: NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
+Added: (Stated in USD)
+Added: 3 – SUMMARY OF Significant Accounting Policies, CONTINUED
Net Loss Per Share
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anti-dilutive.
−Removed: For the Years
−Removed: Ended December 31,
+Added: For the Years Ended
Warrants to purchase common shares
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Recently Adopted Accounting Pronouncements
−Removed: In November 2023, the FASB issued Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”)
−Removed: 2023-07 – Improvements to Reportable Segment Disclosures (“ASU 2023-07”) , which enhances the disclosures required
−Removed: for reportable segments in annual and interim consolidated financial statements.
−Removed: The standard is effective for fiscal years beginning
−Removed: after December 15, 2023, and interim periods within fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2024.
−Removed: The Company adopted ASU 2023-07 for
−Removed: the year ended December 31, 2024 retrospectively to all periods presented in the consolidated financial statements.
−Removed: The adoption of this
−Removed: ASU had no impact on reportable segments identified and had no effect on the Company’s consolidated financial position, results
−Removed: of operations, or cash flows.
−Removed: Additional required disclosure has been included within this Note 3, under subsection Segment Information.
−Removed: WESTERN URANIUM & VANADIUM CORP.
−Removed: AND SUBSIDIARIES
−Removed: NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
−Removed: (Stated in USD)
−Removed: 3 – SUMMARY OF Significant Accounting Policies, continued
+Added: In December 2023, the FASB, issued Accounting
+Added: Standards Update (“ASU”), 2023-09 – Improvements to Income Tax Disclosures (“ASU 2023-09”), which enhances
+Added: the transparency and decision usefulness of income tax disclosures.
+Added: The Company adopted ASU 2023-09 during the fourth quarter of the
+Added: year ended December 31, 2025 on a prospective basis.
+Added: The adoption of this ASU had no material impact on the Company’s consolidated
+Added: financial position, results of operations, or cash flows.
+Added: Additional required disclosure has been included within Note 9.
Recent Accounting Standards Not Yet Adopted
−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: The standard is effective for public companies for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2024.
−Removed: Early adoption is available.
−Removed: 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
−Removed: impact on its consolidated financial statements and disclosures.
In November 2024, the FASB issued ASU 2024-03,
– Income Statement—Reporting Comprehensive Income—Expense Disaggregation Disclosures
−Removed: Disaggregation of Income Statement Expenses (“ASU 2024-03”).
−Removed: This ASU requires disclosures about specific types of expenses included in the expense captions presented on the face of the statement
−Removed: of operation as well as disclosures about selling expenses.
−Removed: The standard is effective for annual reporting periods beginning after December
−Removed: 15, 2026 and interim reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2027.
−Removed: The requirements will be applied prospectively with the option
−Removed: for retrospective application.
+Added: (Subtopic 220-40):
+Added: Disaggregation of Income Statement Expenses.
+Added: This ASU requires disclosures about specific types of expenses included
+Added: in the expense captions presented on the face of the statement of operation as well as disclosures about selling expenses.
+Added: is effective for annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2026 and interim reporting periods beginning after December 15,
+Added: The requirements will be applied prospectively with the option for retrospective application.
Early adoption is permitted.
−Removed: The Company will evaluate the full extent of the potential impact of
−Removed: the adoption of ASU 2024-03, but believes it will not have a material impact on its consolidated financial statements and disclosures.
+Added: Company is still evaluating the full extent of the potential impact of the adoption of ASU 2024-03.
+Added: In December 2025, the FASB issued ASU 2025-11
+Added: – Interim Reporting (Topic 270) – Narrow-Scope Improvements, which improves the guidance in Interim Reporting (Topic 270)
+Added: by improving the navigability of the required interim disclosures and clarifying when that guidance is applicable.
+Added: The standard is effective
+Added: for public companies for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2027.
+Added: Early adoption is available.
+Added: The Company is still evaluating
+Added: the full extent of the potential impact of the adoption of ASU 2025-11.
+Added: Subsequent Events
+Added: The Company evaluated subsequent events and transactions
+Added: that occurred after the balance sheet date up to the date that the financial statements were available to be issued.
+Added: Other than as described
+Added: in Note 4 and Note 11, the Company did not identify any subsequent events that would have required adjustment or disclosure in the financial
+Added: WESTERN URANIUM & VANADIUM CORP.
+Added: AND SUBSIDIARIES
+Added: NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
+Added: (Stated in USD)
4 – Property, plant & equipment and mineral properties, net AND Kinetic separation INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
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Kinetic separation intellectual property $ 9,488,051 $ 9,488,051
−Removed: The Company’s mining properties acquired on August 18, 2014 that
−Removed: the Company retains as of December 31, 2024 include:
+Added: The Company’s mining properties acquired
+Added: on August 18, 2014 that the Company retains as of December 31, 2025 include:
The San Rafael Uranium Project located in Emery County, Utah;
−Removed: The Sunday Mine Complex
−Removed: located in western San Miguel County, Colorado;
+Added: The Sunday Mine Complex located in western San Miguel County, Colorado;
The Van 4 Mine located in western Montrose County, Colorado;
−Removed: The Sage Mine located in
−Removed: San Juan County, Utah, and San Miguel County, Colorado.
−Removed: These mining properties include leased land in the states of Colorado and Utah.
−Removed: The Company is obligated to remit a 1.0 % royalty based upon the market value of uranium recovered from these mining properties.
−Removed: these mining properties were operational at the date of acquisition.
+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.
The Company’s mining properties acquired
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extracted as originally planned and anticipated.
+Added: During the years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024,
+Added: Western made purchases of $ 795,618 and $ 3,395,888 , to increase the Company’s mining and processing capacities.
+Added: During the years
+Added: ended December 31, 2025 and 2024, depreciation expense was $ 822,765 and $ 613,610 , of which $ 818,695 and $ 613,610 was included in mining
+Added: expenditures and $ 4,070 and $ 0 was included in general and administrative on the Company’s consolidated statements of operations
+Added: and other comprehensive loss, respectively.
WESTERN URANIUM & VANADIUM CORP.
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(Stated in USD)
−Removed: 4 – Property, plant & equipment and mineral properties, net AND Kinetic separation INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY,
−Removed: During the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023, Western made purchases
−Removed: of $ 3,395,888 and $ 2,404,440 , to increase the Company’s mining and processing capacities.
−Removed: During the years ended December 31, 2024
−Removed: and 2023, depreciation expense was $ 613,610 and $ 262,832 , respectively, which was included in mining expenditures on the Company’s
−Removed: consolidated statements of operations and other comprehensive loss.
+Added: 4 – Property, plant & equipment and mineral properties, net AND Kinetic separation INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, continued
Mustang Mineral Mill Site
−Removed: On October 1, 2024, Western, through its wholly owned subsidiary, Western
−Removed: Utah, executed a binding stock purchase agreement (the “PRC Agreement”) to purchase 100 % of the shares of PRC from a private
−Removed: investor group and thereby acquire Mustang, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of PRC.
−Removed: Mustang owns an 880 -acre property located in Montrose
−Removed: County, Colorado, where a uranium processing mill was previously licensed but never constructed.
−Removed: The acquisition becomes the second property
−Removed: that Western has acquired, in addition to the Maverick site in Utah.
−Removed: It also becomes part of Western’s plans for developing and
−Removed: licensing one or more uranium and vanadium processing facilities to process production from its resource properties in Colorado and Utah.
−Removed: The Company assumed an obligation to an unrelated third party to remit
−Removed: a royalty based on the volume of minerals processed through any mineral processing plant located on the property.
−Removed: This transaction was
−Removed: accounted for as the purchase of an asset.
+Added: On October 1, 2024, Western, through its wholly
+Added: owned subsidiary, Western Utah, executed a binding stock purchase agreement (the “PRC Agreement”) to purchase 100 % of the
+Added: shares of PRC from a private investor group and thereby acquire Mustang, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of PRC.
+Added: Mustang owns an 880 -acre
+Added: property located in Montrose County, Colorado, where a uranium processing mill was previously licensed but never constructed.
+Added: The acquisition
+Added: becomes the second property that Western has acquired, in addition to the Maverick site in Utah.
+Added: It also becomes part of Western’s
+Added: plans for developing and licensing one or more uranium and vanadium processing facilities to process production from its resource properties
+Added: in Colorado and Utah.
+Added: The Company assumed an obligation to an unrelated
+Added: third party to remit a royalty based on the volume of minerals processed through any mineral processing plant located on the property.
+Added: This transaction was accounted for as the purchase of an asset.
George Glasier, the President, CEO and a director
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The Company’s Board of Directors established an
−Removed: independent committee of the Board comprised of directors who were not considered to have an interest in the transaction, and the independent
−Removed: committee oversaw the negotiation and approved the entering into the PRC Agreement on behalf of the Company.
+Added: independent committee of the Board comprised of directors who were not considered to have an interest in the transaction.
+Added: The independent
+Added: committee supervised the negotiation of and approved Western’s entry into the PRC Agreement.
The purchase price consisted of the following
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(Stated in USD)
−Removed: 4 – Property, plant & equipment and mineral properties, net AND Kinetic separation INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY,
+Added: 4 – Property, plant & equipment and mineral properties, net AND Kinetic separation INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, continued
+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: (“Provisional Payment”) calculated based upon the sampled grade and an agreed upon pricing schedule.
+Added: Within 30 days after
+Added: each lot is fed to processing, the Purchaser shall pay to PRM a final settlement payment calculated based upon the assayed grade and the
+Added: agreed upon pricing schedule, net of a royalty, pursuant to a previously existing royalty agreement with the Purchaser.
+Added: Deliveries of uranium bearing ore to Purchaser
+Added: began in June 2025.
+Added: Revenue related to shipments are recognized after title for stockpiled ore passes to the Purchaser.
+Added: Such title passes
+Added: upon the Purchaser having received, weighed and graded the deliveries for the lot.
+Added: During the year ended December 31, 2025, the Company
+Added: recognized revenue from the sale of ore, net of royalty, of $ 297,285 .
+Added: As of December 31, 2025, included within other current assets on
+Added: the consolidated balance sheet, was a receivable from the Purchaser in the amount of $ 45,503 .
+Added: On June 12, 2025, the Company funded a $ 50,000
+Added: surety bond for San Miguel County, Colorado.
+Added: This bond was a precondition to acquiring a permit for hauling on the county’s road
+Added: acquiring this permit allowed the Company to commence deliveries in June 2025.
+Added: Acquisition of Uranium Claims
+Added: On October 8, 2025, PRM closed on the purchase
+Added: of a 50 % interest in a package of unpatented mineral lode claims (the “Claims”).
+Added: PRM paid $ 250,000 for a 50 % ownership interest
+Added: in a drilled-out uranium-vanadium deposit situated on 240 acres that is located on BLM land in Montrose County, Colorado and $ 3,625 for
+Added: cost of sale, which are included within property, plant & equipment and mineral properties, net on the consolidated balance sheet.
+Added: The 50 % of mineral claims that are not owned by PRM continue to be owned by Mr.
+Added: George Glasier, the Company’s CEO.
+Added: The Uranium Ridge
+Added: Project is located in close proximity to the Company’s proposed Mustang Mineral Processing Plant.
+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, continued
Oil and Gas Lease and Easement
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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 long
−Removed: as oil and/or gas are produced from the pooled unit containing these sixteen (16) wells.
+Added: As of December 31, 2025, all sixteen (16) wells remain in production and monthly royalty payments will be ongoing
+Added: in perpetuity as long as oil and/or gas are produced from the pooled unit containing these sixteen (16) wells.
During the years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024,
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The Company’s mines are subject to certain
−Removed: AROs, which the Company has recorded as liabilities.
−Removed: The AROs of the United States mines are subject to legal and regulatory requirements,
−Removed: and estimates of the costs of asset retirement obligations are reviewed periodically by the applicable regulatory authorities.
−Removed: represents the Company’s best estimate of the present value of future costs in connection with the mineral properties.
+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 the AROs are reviewed periodically by the applicable regulatory
+Added: The ARO represents the Company’s best estimate of the present value of future costs in connection with the mineral
During the year ended December 31, 2025, in connection
−Removed: with the Company’s San Rafael Mine and Sunday Mine Complex, the Company incurred additional gross and discounted asset retirement
−Removed: obligations of $ 412,534 and $ 80,508 , respectively.
−Removed: The Company determined the aggregate gross AROs of the mineral properties to be $ 1,163,978
−Removed: and $ 751,444 as of December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively.
−Removed: The portion of the asset retirement obligations related to the Van 4 Mine,
−Removed: which is in reclamation as of December 31, 2024, and its related restricted cash are included in current liabilities and current assets,
−Removed: respectively, at a value of $ 75,057 .
−Removed: During the year ended December 31, 2024, the Company’s internal mining operations team has
−Removed: been performing the Van 4 Mine reclamation work, and the State of Colorado has not yet reduced the associated asset retirement obligation
−Removed: The Company’s asset retirement obligations are subject to legal
−Removed: and regulatory requirements.
−Removed: Estimates of the costs of reclamation are reviewed periodically by the Company and the applicable regulatory
−Removed: The asset retirement obligations represent the Company’s estimate of the present value of future reclamation costs,
−Removed: discounted using a credit adjusted risk-free interest rates of 5.4 % for the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023.
+Added: with the Company’s Sage Mine, the Company incurred additional gross and discounted asset retirement obligations of $ 24,396 and $ 6,713 ,
+Added: respectively.
+Added: The Company determined the aggregate gross AROs of the mineral properties to be $ 1,187,553 and $ 1,163,978 as of December
+Added: 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively.
+Added: The portion of the asset retirement obligations related to the Van 4 Mine, which is in reclamation as
+Added: of December 31, 2025 and 2024, and its related restricted cash are included in current liabilities and current assets, respectively, at
+Added: a value of $ 75,057 .
+Added: During the years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024, the Company’s internal mining operations team has been performing
+Added: the Van 4 Mine reclamation work, and through December 31, 2025, the State of Colorado has not yet reduced the associated asset retirement
+Added: obligation amount.
+Added: Western’s operations team completed the last of the Van 4 reclamation work prior to the reclamation deadline.
+Added: The Company submitted its surety reduction request application to the State of Colorado on January 7, 2026 for a reduction of the financial
+Added: warranty based on current site conditions and consideration of reclamation activities completed.
+Added: On March 19, 2026, the State of Colorado
+Added: concluded its review and approved the Company’s request and reduced the financial warranty to $ 49,350 .
+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 December 31, 2025 and 2024.
The net discounted
aggregated values as of December 31, 2025 and 2024 were $ 415,164 and $ 410,098 , respectively.
−Removed: On September 17, 2024 and March 13, 2025,
−Removed: the Company remitted $ 61,403 and $ 351,131 , respectively in connection with the aforementioned 2024 incremental AROs.
−Removed: Financial warranties
−Removed: to secure AROs as of December 31, 2024 and 2023 were $ 812,993 and $ 751,444 , respectively.
+Added: On March 13, 2025 and July 31, 2025, the
+Added: Company remitted $ 351,131 and $ 24,489 , respectively, in connection with the reevaluation of reclamation costs for existing mining properties.
+Added: Financial warranties to secure AROs as of December 31, 2025 and 2024 were $ 1,187,553 and $ 812,993 , respectively.
WESTERN URANIUM & VANADIUM CORP.
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(Stated in USD)
−Removed: NOTE 4 – PROPERTY, PLANT &
−Removed: EQUIPMENT AND MINERAL PROPERTIES, NET AND KINETIC SEPARATION INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, CONTINUED
+Added: 4 – Property, plant & equipment and mineral properties, net AND Kinetic separation INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, continued
Asset Retirement Obligations, continued
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Topaz Mine Permitting Status
−Removed: Upon an order from the Mined Land Reclamation Board (“MLRB”)
−Removed: in March 2023, the Topaz Mine was put into reclamation which is scheduled to be completed by March 2028.
−Removed: The Company has been working
−Removed: toward the completion of an updated Topaz Mine Plan of Operations (“Topaz Mine Plan”), which is a separate federal requirement
−Removed: Bureau of Land Management (“BLM”) for the conduct of mining activities on the federal land at the Topaz Mine.
+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.
This is a prerequisite to re-permit the Topaz Mine with Colorado’s DRMS.
−Removed: In connection with the Topaz Mine Plan, an environmental
−Removed: assessment was prepared by an outside consultant and submitted to the BLM on June 24, 2024.
−Removed: The BLM issued a letter to the Company on
−Removed: August 2, 2024 advising that the application for the Topaz Mine Plan had run past its allowed evaluation period and was cancelled.
−Removed: to the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023, each permitting project has a one year time limit for the BLM to complete a review.
−Removed: transitional rules, the Topaz project was not eligible for an extension due to its duration.
−Removed: However, the project can be resubmitted and
−Removed: be picked up where it was left off.
−Removed: The re-scoping process will need to be repeated to start the one year time clock.
−Removed: Consultants have
−Removed: completed new work toward gathering additional inputs for the BLM resubmission, but have not yet restarted the BLM clock by making an
−Removed: amended submission.
+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 of Oil, Gas
−Removed: & Mining gave its approval of the exploration permit application and the Company posted a $ 61,403 Financial Guarantee of reclamation
−Removed: costs with the BLM.
+Added: The San Rafael Uranium Project, located in Emery
+Added: County, Utah, is being developed as a Company production facility.
+Added: During the second quarter 2024, Western submitted a Notice of Intent
+Added: to the BLM that was approved for a mineral and groundwater exploration project.
+Added: During the third quarter of 2024, Utah’s Division
+Added: of Oil, Gas & Mining gave its approval of the exploration permit application and the Company posted a $ 61,403 Financial Guarantee
+Added: of reclamation costs with the BLM.
Following the completion of repairs to access roads, the phase 1 drilling program is eligible to begin.
−Removed: groundwater monitoring wells will be installed at five drilling locations, reaching depths of approximately 1,000 feet.
−Removed: During the borehole
−Removed: completion process, mineralization will also be assessed and confirmed against historical drill data.
−Removed: This project will provide the baseline
−Removed: data needed for permitting application submission.
+Added: Initially, groundwater monitoring wells will be installed at five drilling locations, reaching depths of approximately 1,000 feet.
+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.
+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, continued
Kinetic Separation Intellectual Property
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and retains ownership of, and may obtain patent protection on, any such improvements developed by the Company.
−Removed: WESTERN URANIUM & VANADIUM CORP.
−Removed: AND SUBSIDIARIES
−Removed: NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
−Removed: (Stated in USD)
−Removed: 4 – PROPERTY, PLANT & EQUIPMENT AND MINERAL PROPERTIES, NET AND KINETIC SEPARATION INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY,
−Removed: Kinetic Separation Intellectual Property, continued
The Kinetic Separation patent was filed on September
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Company has explored.
−Removed: Accounts Payable and Accrued Liabilities
−Removed: payable and accrued liabilities consist of:
+Added: NOTE 5 – Accounts
+Added: Payable and Accrued Liabilities
+Added: Accounts payable and accrued liabilities consist of:
As of December 31,
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Total accounts payable and accrued liabilities
−Removed: NOTE 6 – SHARE CAPITAL AND OTHER EQUITY
+Added: WESTERN URANIUM & VANADIUM CORP.
+Added: AND SUBSIDIARIES
+Added: NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
+Added: (Stated in USD)
+Added: NOTE 6 – SHARE CAPITAL AND OTHER EQUITY INSTRUMENTS
Authorized Capital
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Private Placements
−Removed: On November 20, 2024, the Company closed a private
+Added: On October 14, 2025, the Company closed a brokered
+Added: private placement of 6,555,556 units at a price of $ 0.64 (CAD $ 0.90 ) per unit.
+Added: The aggregate gross proceeds raised in the private placement
+Added: amounted to $ 4,202,281 (CAD $ 5,900,000 ) and proceeds net of issuance costs were $ 3,806,270 (CAD $ 5,344,010 ).
+Added: Each unit is comprised of
+Added: one common share of Western and one common share purchase warrant.
+Added: Each warrant is exercisable into one common share at a price of $ 0.85
+Added: (CAD $ 1.20 ) per share for a period of 54 months following the closing date of the private placement.
+Added: A total of 6,555,556 common shares
+Added: and warrants to purchase 6,555,556 common shares were issued to investors and warrants to purchase 229,444 common shares were issued to
+Added: broker dealers in connection with the private placement.
+Added: On June 13, 2025, the Company closed a private
placement of 5,911,786 units at a price of $ 0.63 (CAD $ 0.85 ) per unit.
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per share for a period of four years following the closing date of the private placement.
−Removed: On December 12, 2023, the Company closed a non-brokered
−Removed: 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
−Removed: amounted to $ 5,324,989 (CAD $ 7,250,000 ) and proceeds net of issuance costs amounted to $ 4,836,867 (CAD $ 6,588,089 ).
−Removed: Each unit consisted
−Removed: of one common share plus one half of one warrant.
−Removed: Each warrant is exercisable into one share at a price of $ 1.38 (CAD $ 1.88 ) per common
−Removed: share for a period of four years following the closing date of the private placement.
A total of 5,911,786 common shares and warrants
−Removed: to purchase 2,607,913 common shares were issued to investors in connection with the private placement.
+Added: to purchase 5,911,786 common shares were issued to investors and warrants to purchase 206,913 common shares were issued to broker dealers
+Added: in connection with the private placement.
+Added: Of the 5,911,786 common shares and warrants issued to investors, 117,647 were issued to Mr.
+Added: Glasier for his participation in the private placement (see Note 8).
+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.
+Added: The aggregate gross proceeds raised in the private
+Added: 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: unit is comprised of one common share of Western and one common share purchase warrant.
+Added: Each warrant is exercisable into one common share
+Added: at a price of $ 1.27 (CAD $ 1.78 ) per share for a period of four years following the closing date of the private placement.
Warrant Exercises
−Removed: During the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023,
−Removed: 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
−Removed: $ 1,358,565 ), respectively.
+Added: During the year ended December 31, 2025, no warrants
+Added: were exercised.
+Added: During the year ended December 31, 2024, 5,198,540 warrants were exercised for total proceeds of $ 4,605,458 (CAD $ 6,238,248 ).
WESTERN URANIUM & VANADIUM CORP.
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(Stated in USD)
−Removed: NOTE 6 – SHARE CAPITAL AND OTHER EQUITY INSTRUMENTS,
+Added: NOTE 6 – SHARE CAPITAL AND OTHER EQUITY
+Added: INSTRUMENTS, CONTINUED
Warrant Modification
−Removed: On November 28, 2024, The Company’s Board approved amendments
−Removed: to extend the term and reduce the exercise price of 2,868,541 previously issued common share purchase warrants.
−Removed: These warrants, originally
−Removed: 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,
−Removed: and were set to expire three years post-issuance.
−Removed: Effective November 28, 2024, the term was extended to January 20, 2026, a date that
−Removed: is less than five years since the original date of issuance.
−Removed: Effective February 27, 2025 the exercise price was reduced to $ 1.39 (CAD
−Removed: $ 2.00 ), the date upon which the Canadian Securities Exchange (CSE) accepted the warrant repricing and the amended Form 13 filing was approved
−Removed: During the year ended December 31, 2024, the Company recorded an incremental fair value of $ 184,308 arising from the extension
−Removed: On February 27, 2025, the Company recorded an incremental fair value of $ 104,840 for the modification of the exercise price.
+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.
The cost of the warrant modifications was accounted for as a cost of raising capital.
−Removed: This modification was granted to facilitate the
−Removed: raising of additional equity capital by extending the exercise period and lowering the exercise price, thereby providing warrant investors
−Removed: with more time and incentive to exercise their warrants.
+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.
Incentive Stock Option Plan
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“Rights”) will be issued to holders of Common Shares at a rate of one Right for each Share outstanding.
+Added: Share Repurchase Program, NCIB
+Added: On December 19, 2025, the Company implemented
+Added: a normal course issuer bid (“NCIB”) to allow the Company to purchase up to 6,672,291 of its common shares representing approximately
+Added: 10 % of the Company’s “public float” as of December 17, 2025, as defined under the policies of the CSE.
+Added: The Company may
+Added: purchase shares under the NCIB over a 12-month period beginning on December 19, 2025 and ending on December 18, 2026.
+Added: Shares repurchased
+Added: under the NCIB shall be purchased on the open market through the facilities of the CSE or Canadian alternative trading systems at the
+Added: prevailing market price of the shares at the time of purchase and in accordance with the policies of the CSE and applicable Canadian securities
+Added: All shares purchased under the NCIB are required to be cancelled.
+Added: The Company will fund any such purchases of shares under the NCIB
+Added: with cash on hand.
+Added: During the year ended December 31, 2025, no shares
+Added: were repurchased under the NCIB.
+Added: WESTERN URANIUM & VANADIUM CORP.
+Added: AND SUBSIDIARIES
+Added: NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
+Added: (Stated in USD)
+Added: NOTE 6 – SHARE CAPITAL AND OTHER EQUITY INSTRUMENTS, CONTINUED
Stock Options
−Removed: On December 20, 2023, the Board of Directors granted
+Added: During the year ended December 31, 2025, there
+Added: were no options granted.
+Added: On November 24, 2024, the Board of Directors granted
options under the Plan for the purchase of an aggregate of 1,375,000 common shares to individuals consisting of directors and officers
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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
−Removed: of December 31, 2023) and vest equally in thirds on January 31, 2024, July 31, 2024 and January 31, 2025.
+Added: of November 29, 2024) and vest equally in thirds on January 31, 2025, July 31, 2025 and January 31, 2026.
On July 14, 2024, the Board of Directors granted
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July 31, 2024 and January 31, 2025.
−Removed: On November 24, 2024, the Board of Directors granted
−Removed: options under the Plan for the purchase of an aggregate of 1,375,000 common shares to individuals consisting of directors and officers
−Removed: of the Company.
−Removed: 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
−Removed: of November 29, 2024) and vest equally in thirds on January 31, 2025, July 31, 2025 and January 31, 2026.
During the year ended December 31, 2025, the Company
−Removed: issued 18,246 common shares pursuant to the cashless exercise of an option to purchase 50,000 common shares with an exercise
−Removed: price of $ 0.75 (CAD $ 1.00 as of December 31, 2023).
−Removed: During the year ended December 31, 2024, the Company issued 39,161
−Removed: 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 ).
−Removed: WESTERN URANIUM & VANADIUM CORP.
−Removed: AND SUBSIDIARIES
−Removed: NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
−Removed: (Stated in USD)
−Removed: NOTE 6 – SHARE CAPITAL AND OTHER EQUITY INSTRUMENTS,
−Removed: Stock Options, continued
+Added: issued 3,850 common shares pursuant to the cashless exercise of an option to purchase 83,332 common shares with an exercise price of $ 0.79
+Added: (CAD $ 1.03 ).
+Added: During the year ended December 31, 2024, the Company
+Added: issued 39,161 common shares pursuant to the cashless exercise of an option to purchase 166,664 common shares with an exercise price $ 0.79
+Added: (CAD $ 1.03 ).
The Company utilized the Black-Scholes option
pricing model to determine the fair value of this grant, using the assumptions as outlined below:
−Removed: For the years ended
+Added: the years ended
CAD$ 1.29 – $ 2.00
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Expected Volatility
−Removed: 90.9 % - 96.1 %
Weighted Average Risk-Free Interest Rate
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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 1,475,000 0.98
Forfeited and expired ( 291,672 ) 0.84
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Exercisable – December 31, 2025 4,906,654 $ 1.18 2.83 $ -
−Removed: The Company’s stock-based compensation expense (net of the effect
−Removed: 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
−Removed: in mining expenditures and general and administrative expenses, respectively, on the Company’s consolidated statements of operations
−Removed: and other comprehensive loss.
−Removed: The Company’s stock-based compensation expense related to stock options for the year ended December
−Removed: 31, 2023 was $ 429,429 , of which $ 78,874 and $ 350,555 was included in mining expenditures and general and administrative expenses, respectively,
−Removed: on the Company’s consolidated statements of operations and other comprehensive loss.
−Removed: As of December 31, 2024, there was approximately
−Removed: $ 597,448 of unrecognized share-based compensation for unvested stock options, which is expected to be recognized over a weighted average
−Removed: period of 0.44 years.
+Added: WESTERN URANIUM & VANADIUM CORP.
+Added: AND SUBSIDIARIES
+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’s stock-based compensation expense
+Added: (net of the effect of forfeitures) related to stock options for the year ended December 31, 2025 was $ 558,221 of which $ 104,570 and $ 453,651
+Added: was included in mining expenditures and general and administrative expenses, respectively, on the Company’s consolidated statements
+Added: of operations and other comprehensive loss.
+Added: The Company’s stock-based compensation expense (net of the effect of forfeitures) related
+Added: to stock options for the year ended December 31, 2024 was $ 1,142,541 , of which $ 251,557 and $ 890,984 was included in mining expenditures
+Added: and general and administrative expenses, respectively, on the Company’s consolidated statements of operations and other comprehensive
+Added: As of December 31, 2025, there was approximately $ 18,063 of unrecognized share-based compensation for unvested stock options, which
+Added: is expected to be recognized over a weighted average period of 0.08 years.
Shares Weighted
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Issued 12,903,699 0.82
−Removed: Exercised ( 5,198,540 ) 0.95
Expired/Forfeited ( 98,985 ) 2.00
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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 contributed certain assets into the JV and PRM contributed $ 200,000 (the “Initial Contribution”)
+Added: During February 2024, PRM entered into a joint
+Added: venture agreement with Rimrock Exploration and Development Inc.
+Added: (“Rimrock”) to explore, develop and mine (the “Mining
+Added: Operations”) certain uranium and vanadium permitted mines and mining claims located in Colorado and owned by Rimrock (the “JV”).
+Added: Pursuant to the terms of the JV, Rimrock contributed certain assets into the JV and PRM contributed $ 200,000 (the “Initial Contribution”)
to be used to fund the Mining Operations.
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The JV will fund the recovery payments to be made to PRM from the proceeds of the sale of mined material.
−Removed: During the year ended December
−Removed: 31, 2024, PRM funded an aggregate of $ 235,210 (inclusive of funding the Initial Contribution) to the JV, which was expensed to mining
−Removed: expenditures within the consolidated statements of operations and other comprehensive loss and reflected within mining cost in the table
−Removed: The Company has completed its earn-in through the Initial Contribution and now owns a 50 % interest in the assets of the JV.
+Added: During the years ended December
+Added: 31, 2025 and 2024, PRM funded an aggregate of $ 1,573 and $ 235,210 , respectively (inclusive of funding the Initial Contribution) to the
+Added: JV, which was expensed to mining expenditures within the consolidated statements of operations and other comprehensive loss and reflected
+Added: within mining cost in the table above.
+Added: The Company has completed its earn-in through the Initial Contribution and now owns a 50 % interest
+Added: in the assets of the JV.
+Added: WESTERN URANIUM & VANADIUM CORP.
+Added: AND SUBSIDIARIES
+Added: NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
+Added: (Stated in USD)
8 – Related Party Transactions AND BALANCES
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2025 and 2024, respectively.
−Removed: During the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023,
−Removed: the Company purchased approximately $ 9,000 and $ 25,800 of mining related equipment from Silver Hawk Ltd, respectively.
−Removed: See Note 4 – Property, Plant & Equipment
−Removed: and Mineral Properties, Net and Kinetic Separation Intellectual Property.
+Added: During the year ended December 31, 2024, the
+Added: Company purchased approximately $ 9,000 of mining related equipment from Silver Hawk Ltd.
+Added: There were no purchases from Silver Hawk Ltd.
+Added: during the year ended December 31, 2025.
WESTERN URANIUM & VANADIUM CORP.
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9 – Income Taxes
+Added: For financial reporting purposes, income (loss)
+Added: before taxes includes the following components:
+Added: For the Years Ended
+Added: United States
+Added: $ ( 5,352,722 )
+Added: $ ( 7,962,695 )
+Added: ( 1,823,201 )
+Added: ( 2,149,342 )
+Added: Total income (loss) before taxes
+Added: $ ( 7,175,923 )
+Added: $ ( 10,112,037 )
The tax effects of temporary differences that
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Increase in valuation allowance
−Removed: A reconciliation of the provision for income taxes
−Removed: with the amounts computed by applying the statutory federal income tax rate to income from operations before the provision for income
−Removed: taxes is as follows:
+Added: WESTERN URANIUM & VANADIUM CORP.
+Added: AND SUBSIDIARIES
+Added: NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
+Added: (Stated in USD)
+Added: 9 – Income Taxes, Continued
+Added: A reconciliation of the provision for income taxes with the amounts
+Added: computed by applying the statutory federal income tax rate to income from operations before the provision for income taxes for the year
+Added: ended December 31,2025 is as follows:
For the Years Ended
+Added: December 31, 2025
+Added: Income tax benefit at U.S.
federal statutory rate
+Added: $ ( 1,506,944 )
+Added: State and local income taxes, net of federal income tax benefit
+Added: Change in valuation allowance
+Added: Nontaxable or nondeductible items
+Added: True-up to prior year return
+Added: True-up of stock-based compensation
+Added: Effective income tax rate
+Added: The reconciliation of the U.S.
+Added: federal income tax provision for 2025
+Added: above reflects the adoption of ASU 2023-09 in the fourth quarter of the year ended December 31, 2025, on a prospective basis (see Note
+Added: The Company’s operations are principally in Colorado and Utah, however, there is no apportionable taxable income to either of these
+Added: The reconciliation of the U.S.
+Added: federal income tax provision at the
+Added: statutory federal income tax rate of 21.0 % for the year ended December 31, 2024 to our provision for income taxes, as previously disclosed,
+Added: prior to the adoption of ASU 2023-09, was as follows:
+Added: For the Year Ended
+Added: December 31, 2024
+Added: federal statutory rate
State and foreign taxes
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Effective income tax rate
+Added: For the years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024, the Company’s
+Added: effective tax rate was 0% , which consisted principally of a federal rate of 21 %, the Company’s estimate of state income taxes, primarily
+Added: driven by changes in tax rate and apportionment changes net of the federal benefit and the change in the valuation allowance recorded
+Added: against its deferred tax assets.
+Added: The Company has net operating loss
+Added: carryovers of approximately $ 34,251,942 for federal and state income tax purposes and net operating loss carryovers of $ 12,052,334
+Added: for Canadian provincial tax purposes which begin to expire in 2027 and 2035, respectively.
+Added: The ultimate realization of the net
+Added: operating loss is dependent upon future taxable income, if any, of the Company.
WESTERN URANIUM & VANADIUM CORP.
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9 – Income Taxes, Continued
−Removed: The Company has net operating loss carryovers of approximately $ 26,092,449
−Removed: for federal and state income tax purposes and net operating loss carryovers of $ 14,354,511 for Canadian provincial tax purposes which
−Removed: begin to expire in 2026.
−Removed: The ultimate realization of the net operating loss is dependent upon future taxable income, if any, of the Company.
−Removed: Based on losses from inception, the Company determined
−Removed: that as of December 31, 2024 it is more likely than not that the Company will not realize benefits from the deferred tax assets.
−Removed: does not record income tax benefits in the consolidated financial statements until it is determined that it is more likely than not that
−Removed: the Company will generate sufficient taxable income to realize the deferred income tax assets.
−Removed: As a result of the analysis, the Company
−Removed: determined that a deferred tax asset valuation allowance of $ 8,336,707 and $ 5,602,952 was required as of December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively.
+Added: Based on losses from inception, the Company determined that, as of
+Added: December 31, 2025, it is more likely than not that the Company will not realize benefits from the deferred tax assets.
+Added: The Company does
+Added: not record income tax benefits in the consolidated financial statements until it is determined that it is more likely than not that the
+Added: Company will generate sufficient taxable income to realize the deferred income tax assets.
+Added: As a result of the analysis, the Company determined
+Added: that a deferred tax asset valuation allowance of $ 9,648,226 and $ 8,336,707 was required as of December 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively.
Internal Revenue Code (“IRC”) Section
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loss carryforwards in the future.
+Added: In July 2025, U.S.
+Added: tax legislation known as the
+Added: “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” (“OBBBA”) was signed into law which makes permanent many of the tax provisions enacted
+Added: in 2017 as part of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act that were set to expire at the end of 2025.
+Added: In addition, the OBBBA makes changes to certain
+Added: corporate tax provisions, many of which are generally not effective until January 1, 2026.
+Added: The OBBBA did not have a material effect
+Added: on the Company’s consolidated financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2025.
+Added: As of December 31, 2025 and 2024, management does not believe that
+Added: the Company has any material uncertain tax positions that would require it to measure and reflect the potential lack of sustainability
+Added: of a position on audit in its consolidated financial statements.
+Added: The Company will continue to evaluate its uncertain tax positions in
+Added: future periods to determine if measurement and recognition in its consolidated financial statements is necessary.
+Added: The Company does not
+Added: believe there will be any material changes in its unrecognized tax positions over the next year.
NOTE 10 – FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS
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instruments approximate their carrying values due to the short-term maturity of these instruments.
−Removed: The Company’s financial instruments
−Removed: also incorporate marketable securities that are adjusted to fair value at each balance sheet date based on quoted prices which are considered
−Removed: level 1 inputs.
−Removed: The reclamation deposits, which are reflected in restricted cash on the consolidated balance sheets, are deposits mainly
−Removed: invested in interest bearing certificates of deposit at major financial institutions, and their fair values are estimated to approximate
−Removed: their carrying values.
−Removed: There were no transfers of financial instruments between Levels 1, 2, and 3 during the years ended December 31,
−Removed: 2024 and 2023.
+Added: The reclamation deposits, which are
+Added: reflected in restricted cash on the consolidated balance sheets, are deposits mainly invested in interest bearing certificates of deposit
+Added: at major financial institutions, and their fair values are estimated to approximate their carrying values.
Foreign Currency Risk
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(Stated in USD)
−Removed: 10 – FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS, CONTINUED
+Added: NOTE 10 – FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS, CONTINUED
Concentration of Credit Risk
−Removed: Concentration of credit risk is the risk of loss
−Removed: in the event that certain counterparties are unable to fulfil their obligations to the Company.
−Removed: The Company limits its exposure to credit
−Removed: loss on its cash and restricted cash by placing its cash with high credit quality financial institutions.
+Added: Financial instruments, which potentially subject
+Added: the Company to concentrations of credit risk, consist principally of cash and cash equivalents and restricted cash.
+Added: The Company limits
+Added: its exposure to credit loss on its cash and restricted cash by placing its cash with high credit quality financial institutions.
Liquidity Risk
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Company had working capital of $ 5,384,164 and cash and cash equivalents of $ 5,620,630 .
−Removed: Market risk is the risk that fluctuations in the
−Removed: market prices of minerals will impact the Company’s future cash flows.
−Removed: The Company is exposed to market risk on the price of uranium
−Removed: and vanadium, which will determine its ability to build and achieve profitable operations, the amount of exploration and development work
−Removed: that the Company will be able to perform, and the number of financing opportunities that will be available.
−Removed: Management believes that it
−Removed: would be premature at this point to enter into any hedging or forward contracts to mitigate its exposure to specific market price risks.
−Removed: 11 – Subsequent event
−Removed: Ore Purchase Agreement
−Removed: On April 8, 2025, PRM entered into an Ore Purchase
−Removed: Agreement (the “Ore Purchase Agreement”) with subsidiaries of Energy Fuels Inc.
−Removed: (“Purchaser”).
−Removed: The Ore Purchase
−Removed: 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
−Removed: in Blanding, Utah.
−Removed: PRM shall make deliveries at its own cost and the purchase price per ton will be based upon the average grade of uranium
−Removed: of each lot, and other qualifying conditions.
−Removed: Within 30 days after each lot is closed, Purchaser shall pay to PRM an 85 % provisional payment
−Removed: calculated based upon the sampled grade and an agreed upon pricing schedule.
−Removed: Within 30 days after each lot is fed to processing, the Purchaser
−Removed: shall pay to PRM a final settlement payment calculated based upon the assayed grade and the agreed upon pricing schedule, net of a royalty,
−Removed: pursuant to a previously existing royalty agreement with the Purchaser.
+Added: Market risk is the risk that fluctuations in
+Added: the market prices of minerals will impact the Company’s future cash flows.
+Added: The Company is exposed to market risk on the price of
+Added: uranium and vanadium, which will determine its ability to build and achieve profitable operations, the amount of exploration and development
+Added: work that the Company will be able to perform, and the number of financing opportunities that will be available.
+Added: Management believes
+Added: that it would be premature at this point to enter into any hedging or forward contracts to mitigate its exposure to specific market price
+Added: 11 – Subsequent eventS
+Added: On January 15, 2026, the Board of Directors granted
+Added: an aggregate of 1,350,000 options for the purchase of the Company’s common stock to the Company’s officers, directors and
+Added: Each of these options was granted under the Plan and had an exercise price of $ 0.65 (CAD $ 0.90 as of January 15, 2026).
+Added: options vest equally in three installments on January 31, 2026, July 31, 2026 and January 31, 2027.
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