Webcast on August 9,
2022
LAKEWOOD, Colo., Aug. 5, 2022
/PRNewswire/ - Energy Fuels Inc. (NYSE: UUUU) (TSX: EFR)
("Energy Fuels" or the "Company") today reported its
financial results for the quarter ended June
30, 2022. The Company's quarterly report on Form 10-Q has
been filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
("SEC") and may be viewed on the Electronic Document
Gathering and Retrieval System ("EDGAR") at
www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml, on the System for Electronic Document
Analysis and Retrieval ("SEDAR") at www.sedar.com, and on
the Company's website at www.energyfuels.com. Unless noted
otherwise, all dollar amounts are in U.S. dollars.
Highlights:
- At June 30, 2022, the Company had
a robust balance sheet with $134.1
million of working capital, including $86.4 million of cash and cash equivalents,
$11.8 million of marketable
securities, $28.6 million of
inventory, and no short term (or long term) debt. At current
commodity prices, the Company's product inventory has a value of
$43.9 million.
- During the quarter ended June 30,
2022, the Company incurred a net loss of $18.1 million, which included a non-cash
mark-to-market decrease in the value of investments accounted for
at fair value of $13.4 million.
- During Q2-2022, the Company entered into three (3) long-term
uranium sales contracts with U.S. nuclear utilities. Base
quantities under these contracts total 3.0 million pounds with
deliveries to occur during the 2023 – 2030 time period. If the
buyers exercise all options, total delivery quantities could
increase to as much as 4.2 million pounds. Annual quantities vary
year-to-year, with lower delivery quantities in the early years,
and higher quantities in the later years. Contract pricing has a
fixed price component (fully indexed to inflation) and a spot
market component, along with floor and ceiling prices (fully
indexed to inflation). The Company expects to fulfill deliveries
during the early years of these contracts from its significant
existing produced inventories.
- In June 2022, the U.S. Department
of Energy ("DOE") issued a Request for Proposals
("RFP") to purchase uranium
("U3O8") for the new U.S. Uranium
Reserve (the "Reserve"). The DOE states that they expect to
purchase up to 1 million pounds of U3O8
inventory from up to four (4) qualified U.S. uranium producers. The
uranium must be physically located at Honeywell's Metropolis Works
conversion facility (the "U.S. Converter"). Energy Fuels
believes it meets all qualifications to supply the Reserve, and the
Company currently holds about 692,000 pounds of
U3O8 at the U.S. Converter. The Company has
submitted a bid to sell U3O8 to the Reserve,
taking into consideration its long-term contract commitments and
current and expected market conditions. There are no guarantees the
DOE will purchase uranium from the Company under this RFP.
- During the first half of 2022, the Company produced
approximately 205 tonnes of mixed rare earth element ("REE")
carbonate ("RE Carbonate"), containing approximately 95
tonnes of total rare earth oxides ("TREO"). Energy Fuels' RE
Carbonate, which is roughly 32% - 34% NdPr, is the most advanced
REE material being produced in the U.S. today.
- In May 2022, the Company
announced it had entered into agreements to acquire a 58 square
mile rare earth land position in Brazil (the "Bahia Project"). The Bahia
Project is a well-known heavy mineral sand ("HMS") deposit
that has the potential to feed the Company's White Mesa Mill with
REE and uranium-bearing monazite sand for decades. Due diligence is
ongoing, and closing is currently expected to occur on or around
August 31, 2022. After closing, the
Company expects to conduct an extensive exploration program to
better define the HMS and monazite resource, including
comprehensive sonic drilling and geophysical mapping with the
intent to complete an Initial Assessment under SK-1300 (U.S.) and a
Preliminary Economic Assessment under NI 43-101 (Canada) during Q4-2022 or Q1-2023.
- The Company is currently in active discussions with several
additional sources of natural monazite sands around the world to
significantly increase the supply of feed for its growing REE
initiative.
- The Company continues to make excellent progress toward
installing full REE separation capabilities at the Mill to produce
both "light" and "heavy" separated REE oxides in the coming years,
subject to successful licensing, financing, and commissioning, and
continued strong market conditions. The Company has hired Carester
SAS ("Carester"), a global leader in producing separated REE
oxides, to support these REE separation initiatives. The Company is
also evaluating installing a smaller "light" separation circuit
within the existing Mill facilities with the ability to produce up
to 1,500 tonnes TREO and 375 tonnes of NdPr oxide per year in the
next 18-24 months. Initial estimates indicate low capital and
operating costs for this circuit until a larger facility in the
order of 10,000 tonnes TREO can be permitted, constructed and
commissioned.
- During the first half of 2022, the Company sold approximately
575,000 pounds of the Company's existing inventory of vanadium
("V2O5") (as ferrovanadium,
"FeV"), for an average weighted net price of $13.44 per pound of V2O5.
Vanadium markets have dropped in recent weeks. Therefore, the
Company has halted sales of its inventory which currently stands at
approximately 1.05 million pounds of V2O5.
However, the Company expects to resume sales when markets improve
again. The Company is evaluating the potential to resume vanadium
recovery at the Mill in the future as market conditions may warrant
for future sale and to replace sold inventory, where its tailings
pond solutions contain an estimated additional 1.0 to 3.0 million
recoverable pounds of V2O5.
- To bolster the Company's management team during its current
growth phase and expansion into the REE industry, Energy Fuels has
hired John Uhrie as Chief Operating
Officer ("COO"), effective August 1,
2022, and Tom Brock as Chief
Financial Officer ("CFO"), effective August 8, 2022. Mr. David
Frydenlund, the Company's current CFO, General Counsel and
Corporate Secretary, was appointed to the position of Executive
Vice President, Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary of the
Company, effective August 8, 2022.
Mr. Brock previously served as Vice President and Chief Accounting
Officer for Extraction Oil and Gas Inc. and prior thereto as Vice
President, Chief Accounting Officer and Corporate Controller for
American Midstream Partners LP. Dr. Uhrie most recently served as
Vice President for Metals, Exploration and Development for The Doe
Run Company, a global leader in lead, zinc and copper production
and prior thereto as President, Consulting Services of the Americas
for RPM Global, as Manager of Process Metallurgy for Newmont Mining
Corp., and as Manager, Metallurgy and Strategic Planning,
Africa and Manager of
Hydrometallurgical Operations for Freeport McMoRan Copper and Gold,
Bagdad Operations. Both Mr. Brock and Dr. Uhrie bring significant
experience in managing producing natural resource companies.
Mark S.
Chalmers, Energy Fuels' President and CEO, stated:
"Energy Fuels continues to make progress on all fronts of our
uranium, rare earth, vanadium and medical isotope businesses.
Uranium markets have been volatile but remain strong. We continue
to believe the short and long-term fundamentals for uranium
continue to point to higher pricing. We are extremely pleased to
announce the execution of three long-term contracts with U.S.
nuclear utilities. With up to 4.2 million pounds of uranium
deliveries between 2023 and 2030, at attractive pricing and other
terms, these contracts will help underpin Energy Fuels' uranium
business for many years to come. We are also beginning to perform
the work needed to recommence production at one or more of our
uranium mines. The Company's substantial existing uranium
inventories are expected to provide sufficient uranium for the
early years of the contract deliveries. However, we expect to be in
production at one or more of our uranium mines in the next two
years. Our substantial inventories will also allow Energy Fuels the
potential to offer significant quantities of uranium to the new
U.S. Uranium Reserve. During the second half of 2022, we expect to
shift back to processing stockpiled ores for uranium production,
and we expect to produce 100,000 to 120,000 pounds of uranium in
2022.
"We sold some of our substantial vanadium inventories during the
first half of 2022, as prices rose during the quarter. However, in
recent weeks, vanadium prices have dropped back. Therefore, we
stopped our sales. Nonetheless, during the first half of 2022, we
sold about 575,000 pounds of V2O5, contained
in ferrovanadium, at an average net price of $13.44 per pound V2O5. Our
vanadium inventory was carried on our balance sheet at $6.09 per pound V2O5, so we
have been able to capture some gross margin on these sales. Plus,
we still have another 1.05 million pounds of
V2O5 in inventory that we can sell into
future market strength.
"Energy Fuels' rare earth initiative continues to proceed
extremely well, and we believe we are making more progress, faster,
than any other U.S. company. Last year, we began production of a
high-purity mixed rare earth carbonate that is ready for
separation. No other company in the U.S. is commercially producing
a product as advanced as Energy Fuels. In March 2022, we began the partial separation of
lanthanum from our rare earth carbonate, using existing solvent
extraction equipment at our White Mesa Mill. This is the first
commercial-scale rare earth separation to occur in the U.S. in many
years. As a result, we produced a very high-purity rare earth
carbonate, with most of the lanthanum removed, that contains about
32% - 34% NdPr. We also performed pilot-scale rare earth separation
in the Mill's laboratory, where we produced about two kilograms of
high-purity NdPr oxide per day. We expect to resume rare earth
processing later in 2022, when we receive additional shipments of
monazite sand from Chemours. It is early days, but with the
outstanding achievements of our internal staff, complemented by our
relationships with Neo Performance Materials ("Neo") and
Carester, we are confident that we will restore U.S. rare earth
separation capabilities in the coming years.
"Finally, our medical isotope initiative is also advancing
nicely. As previously announced, we are evaluating the recovery of
radioisotopes from our existing uranium and rare earth process
streams at the White Mesa Mill that could potentially be used in
emerging targeted alpha therapy ("TAT") cancer therapeutics.
We look forward to providing more information on this initiative in
the coming months.
"Lastly, I would like to welcome Tom
Brock and John Uhrie to
Energy Fuels' management team. I believe Energy fuels is making the
leap to large-scale production of uranium and rare earth elements
in the coming years. Therefore, we are extremely pleased to add
these two individuals to our management team, both of whom have
extensive experience in managing operating natural resource
companies."
Webcast at 4:00 pm EDT on
August 9, 2022:
Energy Fuels will be hosting a video webcast on August 9, 2022 at 4:00 pm
EDT (2:00 pm MDT) to
discuss its Q2-2022 financial results, the outlook for 2022,
uranium, rare earths, vanadium, and medical isotopes. To join the
webcast and access the presentation and viewer-controlled webcast
slides, please click on the link below:
Webcast Link
If you would like to participate in the webcast and ask
questions, please dial in to 1-888-664-6392 (toll free in the U.S.
and Canada).
A link to a recorded version of the proceedings will be
available on the Company's website shortly after the webcast by
calling 1-888-390-0541 (toll free in the U.S. and Canada) and by entering the code 536175#. The
recording will be available until August 23,
2022.
Selected Summary Financial
Information:
$000's, except per
share data
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Six months ended
June 30, 2022
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Six months ended
June 30, 2021
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Results of Operations:
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|
|
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Total
revenues
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$
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9,404
|
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$
|
809
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Gross profit
|
3,093
|
|
809
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Operating
loss
|
(16,920)
|
|
(17,189)
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Net loss attributable
to the company
|
(32,783)
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(21,692)
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Basic and diluted net
loss per common share
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(0.21)
|
|
(0.15)
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$000's
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As at
June 30, 2022
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As at
December 31, 2021
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Financial Position:
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|
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Working
capital
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$
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134,089
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$
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143,190
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Property, plant and
equipment, net
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21,515
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21,983
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Mineral
properties
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83,539
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83,539
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Total assets
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288,258
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315,446
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Total long-term
liabilities
|
13,927
|
|
13,805
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Financial Discussion:
At June 30, 2022, the Company had $134.1
million of working capital, including $98.1
million of cash and cash equivalents and marketable securities
and $28.6 million of inventory, including approximately
692,000 pounds of uranium and 1.05 million pounds of high-purity
vanadium, both in the form of immediately marketable product. The
current spot price of U3O8, according to
TradeTech, is $48.75 per pound, and the current mid-point
spot price of V2O5, according to Metal
Bulletin, is $8.00 per pound. Based on those spot prices,
the Company's uranium and vanadium inventories have a current
market value of $33.7 million and $8.4 million,
respectively, totaling $42.1 million. The Company also holds
RE Carbonate inventory with a current value of $1.8 million, for total product inventory of
$43.9 million at current commodity
prices.
During the quarter ended June 30, 2022, the Company
incurred a net loss of $18.1 million, compared to a net loss
of $10.8 million for the second quarter of 2021, and a
net loss of $32.8 million for the six months ended
June 30, 2022 compared to a net
loss of $21.7 million during the
first six months of 2021. The increased net losses in 2022 are due
primarily to a non-cash mark-to-market decrease in the value of
investments accounted for at fair value of $13.4 million for the second quarter of 2022 and
$16.8 million for the six months
ended June 30, 2022. The Company has
seen improvement in the value of these investments accounted for at
fair value subsequent to quarter end.
Operations Update and Outlook for
2022:
Overview
The Company continues to believe that uranium supply and demand
fundamentals point to higher sustained uranium prices in the
future. In addition, Russia's
recent invasion of Ukraine and the
recent entry into the uranium market by financial entities
purchasing uranium on the spot market to hold for the long-term has
the potential to result in higher sustained spot and term prices
and, perhaps, induce utilities to enter into more long-term
contracts with non-Russian producers like Energy Fuels to ensure
security of supply and more certain pricing. Having recently
secured three long-term uranium contracts with major U.S.
utilities, the Company is beginning to perform the work needed to
recommence production at one or more of its mines and in-situ
recovery ("ISR") facilities, starting as soon as 2023. Until
such time when the Company has ramped back up to commercial uranium
production, it can rely on its significant uranium inventories to
fulfill its new contract requirements. The Company also continues
to evaluate selling a portion of its inventories on the spot market
in response to future upside price volatility, into the newly
created U.S. Uranium Reserve Program, or for delivery into
additional long-term supply contracts if procured. During the first
half of 2022, the Company also began selling a portion of its
vanadium inventory into then strengthening markets.
The Company will also continue to seek new sources of revenue,
including through its emerging REE business, as well as new sources
of Alternate Feed Materials and new fee processing opportunities at
the Mill that can be processed without reliance on current uranium
sales prices. The Company is also seeking new sources of natural
monazite sands (in addition to the proposed acquisition of the
Bahia Project) for its emerging REE business, is evaluating the
potential to recover radioisotopes for use in the development of
TAT medical isotopes for the treatment of cancer, and continues its
support of U.S. governmental activities to assist the U.S. uranium
mining industry, including the new U.S. Uranium Reserve Program and
other efforts to restore domestic nuclear fuel capabilities.
Extraction and Recovery Activities
Overview
During 2022, the Company plans to recover 100,000 to 120,000
pounds of uranium and approximately 650 to 1,000 tonnes of mixed RE
Carbonate containing approximately 300 to 450 tonnes of TREO.
No vanadium production is currently planned during 2022, though
the Company sold some of its existing vanadium inventory into
recent strong markets and is evaluating the potential to recommence
vanadium production in 2023 or later years as market conditions may
warrant for future sale and to replace sold inventory.
The Company has secured three new long-term sales contracts with
U.S. nuclear utilities and is continuing to strategically pursue
additional uranium sales commitments with pricing expected to have
both fixed and market-related components. The Company believes that
recent price increases, volatility and focus on security of supply
in light of Russia's invasion of
Ukraine have increased the
potential for the Company to make uranium sales and procure
additional term sales contracts with utilities at pricing that
sustains production and covers corporate overhead. Therefore,
existing inventories may increase from 692,000 pounds of
U3O8 to 792,000 to 812,000 pounds of
U3O8 at year-end 2022 or may increase to a
lesser extent, or be reduced, in the event the Company sells a
portion of its inventory on the spot market, to the U.S. Uranium
Reserve, or pursuant to term contracts in 2022.
ISR Activities
The Company expects to produce insignificant quantities of
U3O8 in the year ending December 31,
2022 from Nichols Ranch and Alta
Mesa. Until such time when market conditions improve
sufficiently, suitable term sales contracts can be procured, or the
U.S. Uranium Reserve Program is expanded, the Company expects to
maintain the Nichols Ranch and Alta Mesa Projects on standby and
defer development of further wellfields and header houses.
Conventional Activities
Conventional Extraction and Recovery
Activities
During the six months ended June 30,
2022, the Mill did not package any material quantities of
U3O8, focusing instead on developing its REE
recovery business. During the six months ended June 30, 2022, the Mill produced approximately
205 tonnes of RE Carbonate, containing approximately 95 tonnes of
TREO. The Mill recovered small quantities of uranium during the
Quarter, which were retained in circuit. During 2022, the Company
expects to recover 100,000 to 120,000 pounds of uranium at the Mill
as finished product. The Company expects to recover approximately
650 to 1,000 tonnes of mixed RE Carbonate containing approximately
300 to 450 tonnes of TREO at the Mill during 2022. The Company
expects to sell all or a portion of its mixed RE Carbonate to Neo
or other global separation facilities and/or to stockpile it for
future production of separated REE oxides at the Mill or elsewhere.
The Company is in advanced discussions with several sources of
natural monazite sands (in addition to the Bahia Project) to secure
additional supplies of monazite sands, which if successful, would
be expected to allow the Company to increase RE Carbonate
production.
In addition to its 692,000 pounds of finished uranium
inventories currently located at North American conversion
facilities and at the Mill, the Company has approximately 300,000
pounds of U3O8 contained in stockpiled
Alternate Feed Materials and other ore inventory at the Mill that
can be recovered relatively quickly in the future, as general
market conditions may warrant (totaling about 992,000 pounds of
U3O8 of total uranium inventory). The Company
is also seeking to acquire additional ore inventory from third
party mine cleanup activities that can be recovered relatively
quickly in the future.
The Company currently holds 1.05 million pounds of
V2O5 in inventory, and there remains an
estimated 1.0 to 3.0 million pounds of additional solubilized
recoverable V2O5 remaining in tailings
solutions awaiting future recovery, as market conditions may
warrant.
Conventional Standby, Permitting and
Evaluation Activities
During the six months ended June 30,
2022, standby and environmental compliance activities
continued at the fully permitted and substantially developed Pinyon
Plain Project (uranium and, potentially, copper) and the fully
permitted and developed La Sal Complex (uranium and vanadium). The
Company plans to continue carrying out engineering, metallurgical
testing, procurement and construction management activities at its
Pinyon Plain Project. The timing of the Company's plans to extract
and process mineralized materials from these Projects will be based
on sustained improvements in general market conditions, procurement
of suitable sales contracts and/or the expansion of the U.S.
Uranium Reserve Program.
The Company is selectively advancing certain permits at its
other major conventional uranium projects, such as the Roca Honda
Project, which is a large, high-grade conventional project in
New Mexico. The Company is also
continuing to maintain required permits at its conventional
projects, including the Whirlwind Project, which came out of
temporary cessation during the Quarter, and the Sheep Mountain
project. In addition, the Company will continue to evaluate the
Bullfrog Project. Expenditures for certain of these projects have
been adjusted to coincide with expected dates of price recoveries
based on the Company's forecasts. All these projects serve as
important pipeline assets for the Company's future conventional
production capabilities, as market conditions may warrant.
Uranium Sales
During the six months ended June 30,
2022, the Company entered into three uranium sale and
purchase agreements with major U.S. utilities, constituting its
first new long-term supply contracts since 2018. Having observed a
marked uptick in interest from nuclear utilities seeking long-term
uranium supply, the Company remains actively engaged in pursuing
additional selective long-term uranium sales contracts.
The Company submitted a bid to sell a portion of its existing
uranium inventory into the U.S. Uranium Reserve at pricing that
provides an appropriate rate of return to the Company. There are no
guarantees that the U.S. government will buy all, or any, of the
uranium the Company offers for sale.
Vanadium Sales
As a result of strengthening vanadium markets, during the six
months ended June 30, 2022, the
Company sold approximately 575,000 pounds of
V2O5 (as FeV) at a gross weighted average
price of $13.44 per pound of
V2O5. The Company expects to sell its
remaining finished vanadium product when justified into the
metallurgical industry, as well as other markets that demand a
higher purity product, including the aerospace, chemical, and
potentially the vanadium battery industries. The Company expects to
sell to a diverse group of customers in order to maximize revenues
and profits. The vanadium produced in the 2018/19 pond return
campaign was a high-purity vanadium product of 99.6%-99.7%
V2O5. The Company believes there may be
opportunities to sell certain quantities of this high-purity
material at a premium to reported spot prices. The Company may also
retain vanadium product in inventory for future sale, depending on
vanadium spot prices and general market conditions.
RE Carbonate Sales
The Company commenced its ramp-up to commercial production of a
mixed RE Carbonate in March 2021 and
has shipped all its RE Carbonate produced to-date to Neo's Silmet
facility in Estonia, where it is
currently being fed into their separation process. All RE Carbonate
produced at the Mill in 2022 is expected to be sold to Neo for
separation at Silmet. Until such time as the Company expects to
permit and construct its own separation circuits at the Mill,
production in future years is expected to be sold to Neo for
separation at Silmet and, potentially, to other REE separation
facilities outside the U.S. To the extent not sold, the Company
expects to stockpile mixed RE Carbonate at the Mill for future
separation and other downstream REE processing at the Mill or
elsewhere. During the quarter ended June 30,
2022, the Company sold approximately 18,000 kilograms of
TREO at an average price of $25.35
per kilogram of TREO.
As the Company continues to ramp up its mixed RE Carbonate
production and additional funds are spent on process enhancements,
improving recoveries, product quality and other optimization,
profits from this initiative are expected to be minimal until such
time when monazite throughput rates are increased and optimized.
However, even at the current throughput rates, the Company is
recovering most of its direct costs of this growing initiative,
with the other costs associated with ramping up production, process
enhancements and evaluating future separation capabilities at the
Mill being expensed as underutilized capacity production costs
applicable to RE Carbonate and development expenditures. Throughout
this process, the Company is gaining important knowledge,
experience and technical information, all of which will be valuable
for current and future mixed RE Carbonate production and expected
future production of separated REE oxides and other advanced REE
materials at the Mill. As discussed above, the Company is
evaluating installing a full separation circuit at the Mill to
produce both "light" and "heavy" separated REE oxides in the coming
years, subject to successful licensing, financing, and
commissioning and continued strong market conditions, and has hired
Carester to support these REE separation initiatives.
About Energy Fuels: Energy Fuels is a
leading U.S.-based uranium mining company, supplying
U3O8 to major nuclear utilities. The Company
also produces vanadium from certain of its projects, as market
conditions warrant, and is ramping up to full commercial-scale
production of RE Carbonate. Its corporate offices are in
Lakewood, Colorado near
Denver, and all its assets and
employees are in the United
States. Energy Fuels holds three of America's key uranium
production centers: the White Mesa Mill in Utah, the Nichols Ranch ISR Project in
Wyoming, and the Alta Mesa ISR
Project in Texas. The White Mesa
Mill is the only conventional uranium mill operating in the U.S.
today, has a licensed capacity of over 8 million pounds of
U3O8 per year, and has the ability to produce
vanadium when market conditions warrant, as well as RE Carbonate
from various uranium-bearing ores. The Nichols Ranch ISR Project is
currently on standby and has a licensed capacity of 2 million
pounds of U3O8 per year. The Alta Mesa ISR
Project is also currently on standby and has a licensed
capacity of 1.5 million pounds of U3O8 per
year. In addition to the above production facilities, Energy
Fuels also has one of the largest S-K 1300 and NI 43-101 compliant
uranium resource portfolios in the U.S. and several uranium and
uranium/vanadium mining projects on standby and in various stages
of permitting and development. The primary trading market for
Energy Fuels' common shares is the NYSE American under the trading
symbol "UUUU," and the Company's common shares are also listed on
the Toronto Stock Exchange under the trading symbol "EFR." Energy
Fuels' website is www.energyfuels.com.
Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking
Statements: This news release contains certain "Forward
Looking Information" and "Forward Looking Statements" within the
meaning of applicable United
States and Canadian securities legislation, which may
include, but are not limited to, statements with respect to:
production and sales forecasts; costs of production; any
expectation that the Company will be awarded any sales under the
U.S. Uranium Reserve; scalability, and the Company's ability and
readiness to re-start, expand or deploy any of its existing
projects or capacity to respond to any improvements in uranium
market conditions or in response to the Uranium Reserve; any
expectation as to future uranium, vanadium, RE Carbonate or REE
market fundamentals or sales; any expectation as to recommencement
of production at any of the Company's uranium mines or the timing
thereof; any expectation regarding any remaining dissolved vanadium
in the Mill's tailings facility solutions or the ability of the
Company to recover any such vanadium at acceptable costs or at all;
any expectation as to the ability of the Company to secure any new
sources of Alternate Feed Materials or other processing
opportunities at the Mill; any expectation as to timelines for the
permitting and development of projects; any expectation as to
longer term fundamentals in the market and price projections; any
expectation as to the implications of the current Russian invasion
of Ukraine on uranium, vanadium or
other commodity markets; any expectation that the Company will
maintain its position as a leading uranium company in the United States; any expectation with
respect to timelines to production; any expectation that the
Mill will be successful in producing RE Carbonate on a full-scale
commercial basis; any expectation that Neo will be successful in
separating the Mill's RE Carbonate on a commercial basis; any
expectation that Energy Fuels will be successful in developing U.S.
separation, or other value-added U.S. REE production capabilities
at the Mill, or otherwise, including the timing of any such
initiatives and the expected production capacity or capital and
operating costs associated with any such production capabilities;
any expectation that the Company will restore U.S. rare earth
separation capabilities in the coming years; any expectation with
respect to the future demand for REEs; any expectation with respect
to the quantities of monazite sands to be acquired by Energy Fuels,
the quantities of RE Carbonate to be produced by the Mill or the
quantities of contained TREO in the Mill's RE Carbonate; any
expectation that any additional supplies of monazite sands will
result in sufficient throughput at the Mill to reduce underutilized
capacity production costs and allow the Company to realize its
expected margins on a continuous basis; any expectation that the
Company will close the acquisition of the Bahia Project as
scheduled or at all; any expectation that the Bahia Project has the
potential to feed the Mill with REE and uranium-bearing monazite
sand for decades; any expectation that the Company will complete
comprehensive sonic drilling and geophysical mapping at the Bahia
Project or complete an Initial Assessment under SK-1300 (U.S.) and
a Preliminary Economic Assessment under NI 43-101 (Canada) during Q4-2022 or Q1-2023, or
otherwise; any expectation that the Company's evaluation of thorium
and radium recovery at the Mill will be successful; any expectation
that the potential recovery of medical isotopes from any thorium
and radium recovered at the Mill will be feasible; any expectation
that any thorium, radium and other isotopes can be recovered at the
Mill and sold on a commercial basis; any expectation as
to the quantities to be delivered under existing uranium sales
contracts, or that such contracts may help underpin the Company's
uranium business for many years to come; any expectation that the
Company will be successful in completing any additional contracts
for the sale of uranium to U.S. utilities; any expectation that any
existing or potential future uranium sales contracts will be at
prices and quantities that provide an appropriate rate of return or
sustain production and cover corporate overhead; any expectation
that the value of the Company's investments accounted for at fair
value may improve in future periods; and any expectation that the
Company will generate net income in future periods.
Generally, these forward-looking statements can be identified by
the use of forward-looking terminology such as "plans," "expects,"
"does not expect," "is expected," "is likely," "budgets,"
"scheduled," "estimates," "forecasts," "intends," "anticipates,"
"does not anticipate," or "believes," or variations of such words
and phrases, or state that certain actions, events or results
"may," "could," "would," "might" or "will be taken," "occur," "be
achieved" or "have the potential to." All statements, other than
statements of historical fact, herein are considered to be
forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements involve
known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may
cause the actual results, performance or achievements of the
Company to be materially different from any future results,
performance or achievements express or implied by the
forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause actual results
to differ materially from those anticipated in these
forward-looking statements include risks associated with: commodity
prices and price fluctuations; processing and mining difficulties,
upsets and delays; permitting and licensing requirements and
delays; changes to regulatory requirements; legal challenges; the
availability of sources of Alternate Feed Materials and other feed
sources for the Mill; competition from other producers; public
opinion; government and political actions; available supplies of
monazite sands; the ability of the Mill to produce RE Carbonate to
meet commercial specifications on a commercial scale at acceptable
costs; the ability of Neo to separate the RE Carbonate produced by
the Mill to meet commercial specifications on a commercial scale at
acceptable costs; market factors, including future demand for REEs;
the ability of the Mill to be able to separate radium or other
radioisotopes at reasonable costs or at all; market prices and
demand for medical isotopes; and the other factors described under
the caption "Risk Factors" in the Company's most recently filed
Annual Report on Form 10-K, which is available for review on EDGAR
at www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml, on SEDAR at www.sedar.com, and on the
Company's website at www.energyfuels.com. Forward-looking
statements contained herein are made as of the date of this news
release, and the Company disclaims, other than as required by law,
any obligation to update any forward-looking statements whether as
a result of new information, results, future events, circumstances,
or if management's estimates or opinions should change, or
otherwise. There can be no assurance that forward-looking
statements will prove to be accurate, as actual results and future
events could differ materially from those anticipated in such
statements. Accordingly, the reader is cautioned not to place undue
reliance on forward-looking statements. The Company assumes no
obligation to update the information in this communication, except
as otherwise required by law.
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