Sweden mulls overturning ban on new nuclear power plants
Dependence on foreign energy and worries about climate change have ignited debate about overturning Sweden’s nearly…
Uranium
Japanese consortium finances Canada’s Uranium One
Uranium One (UUU-T) will raise C$270 million through a private placement with a Japanese consortium made up of Th…
UEX eyeing 40 million lbs. U3O8 at Hidden Bay
Vancouver – This fall UEX (UEX-T) leveled its 2009 resource-estimate sights on a target of 40 million lbs. U3O8 at …
First Uranium To Bring Low-Cost Uranium-Gold Mines Online
First Uranium (FIU-T, FUM-J) is close to completing two financing deals that together will allow the company to fund capital expenditures at its two uranium-gold projects in South Africa and bring the…
U308 Reports Uranium Resource In Guyana
Canadian uranium explorer U3O8 Corp. (UWE-V, UTREF-O) believes Guyana’s Roraima basin may one day play a significant role in feeding the world’s growing appetite for clean nuclear power.
Forsys grows what likely won’t be its own
Forsys Metals’ (FSY-T) continues to grow the Valencia uranium deposit in Namibia even though the project will not l…
First Uranium nails US$125m and $61.5m in two deals
First Uranium (FIU-T, FUM-J) has announced a bought deal private placement financing of $61.5 million, anticipate…
Denison To Pay Down Debt With $41M Financing
VANCOUVER — Intermediate uranium producer Denison Mines (DML-T, DNN-X) will use “basically all” of a recently announced $41- million bought-deal financing to pay down debt on a $125-million revolving…
Positive Feasibility For Western Prospector
Despite considerable cost increases, the economics are still profitable for Western Prospector Group’s (WNP-V, WEPGF-O) Gurvanbulag uranium deposit in eastern Mongolia, according to a definitive feasi…
Crosshair To Merge With Target
One uranium junior lacked cash and the other a worthwhile project, but they both had the same chief executive and an overlap of directors, making a merger the obvious choice, says Mark Morabito, presi…
U308 Corp. reports initial uranium resource in Guyana
Canadian uranium explorer U308 Corp. (UWE-V) believes Guyana’s Roraima Basin may one day play a significant ro…
Commentary: Commodity Prices To Bottom In 2009: Banks
While TD Bank sees the commodities market starting to rebound in the second half of 2009, followed by more pronounced price increases in 2010, the World Bank believes that, over the long term, commodi…