Haywood bullish on uranium sector fundamentals
While uranium spot prices were down 14% in 2019, supply and demand fundamentals for uranium are the “most bullish in years,” and the sector “offers its most compelling value proposition…
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Uranium holding companies offer alternative to producers
The uranium spot price has hovered around US$25 ($32.86) per lb. over the better part of the last year and long-term pricing is at the US$32 per lb. level. The…
Top-10 large, high-grade uranium projects
Uranium companies have been awaiting a price recovery since the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactor disaster in March 2011. Since early 2016 the spot uranium price has remained below US$30 per…
UEX finds mineralization at Christie Lake
UEX (TSX: UEX) has intersected new uranium mineralization at its 60%-owned Christie Lake project, 9 km northeast of Cameco’s (TSX: CCO; NYSE: CCJ) McArthur River uranium mine in northern Saskatchewan….
Top-10 Canadian miners by market cap
The Northern Miner presents the top-10, Canada-headquartered mining companies by market capitalization, as of early July 2019. 1. Nutrien Market cap: $41.8 billion Nutrien (TSX: NTR; NYSE: NTR) is the…
GoviEx prepares Madaouela for higher uranium prices
GoviEx Uranium (TSXV: GXU; US-OTC: GVXXF) received the permits needed to build its flagship Madaouela project in Niger three years ago, but lagging uranium prices have kept development in check….
NexGen builds scale at Arrow
The entire footprint of NexGen Energy’s (TSX: NXE; NYSE-AM: NXE) proposed Arrow mine is smaller than a university campus, but could produce 21% of the world’s uranium once in production,…
Blue Sky Uranium advances Amarillo in Argentina
Argentina has three nuclear reactors and plans for more, yet the country has no domestic uranium production. Blue Sky Uranium (TSXV: BSK; US-OTC: BKUCF) hopes to fill that void. “They…
Uranium markets starting to improve, Cameco’s Gitzel says
The following is a transcript of remarks made by Cameco (TSX: CCO; NYSE: CCJ) president and CEO Tim Gitzel during the company’s first-quarter conference call on May 1 on the…
The Northern Miner Podcast – Miner Moment #22: Uranium’s ‘pivotal year’ ft Cameco CEO Tim Gitzel
In this mini-podcast, we share a 10-minute highlight from Cameco’s hour-long quarterly results call, with president and CEO Tim Gitzel arguing why 2018 was a “pivotal year” for the uranium…
Uranium Energy lays groundwork for market recovery
Over the last two years, Uranium Energy (NYSE-AM: UEC) has taken advantage of the downturn in uranium markets and acquired uranium projects in the Powder River basin of Wyoming, Canada’s…
UxC’s Nick Carter expects uranium’s ‘gradual upward movement’
Nicolas Carter is an executive vice-president of uranium at UxC LLC, one of the nuclear industry’s market research and analysis companies. Carter has 21 years of nuclear industry experience. He…