Filing of Certain Prospectuses and Communications in Connection With Business Combination Transactions (425)
January 28 2015 - 6:01AM
Edgar (US Regulatory)
Filed by Energy Fuels Inc.
(Commission File No.: 001-36204)
Pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act of 1933
and deemed filed pursuant to Rule 14a-12
of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
Subject Company: Uranerz Energy Corporation
(Commission File No.: 001-32974)
ENERGY FUELS INCORPORATED
PRESENTATION BY STEVE ANTHONY
ON JANUARY 20, 2015
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MR. ANTHONY: All right. Good morning. |
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My name is Steve Anthony. I'm the
CEO and President |
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of Energy Fuels Incorporated, a
uranium mining company |
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based in Lakewood, Colorado. And
this morning, I'm |
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going to talk about nuclear
energy. |
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Nuclear is the only way you can produce clean, |
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carbon-free basic electricity in
the United States |
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today. We expect to see a big
growth in nuclear power |
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throughout the world as the
issues of global warming |
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and electricity demand increase
as we go forward in |
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this decade. |
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The growth in nuclear power, you know, is |
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always hampered by, obviously,
issues that are out of |
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our control. I mean, there's been
some nuclear power |
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upsets in the world that have
really hampered the |
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growth. The golden age of nuclear
power began in the |
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'60s -- actually the '50s, went
into the '60s and |
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peaked in the '70s in the United
States, which became |
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the largest producer of nuclear
power and largest |
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consumer of U308 which is the
fuel for nuclear power. |
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I want you to take away today four things; |
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that we are a producer, not an
explorer, we have the |
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strongest balance sheet amongst
our peers, production |
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growth potential in the US
through permeated assets |
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that are in a standby state and
can be turned on in a |
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short period of time. We've
recently announced a |
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transaction with Uranerz which is
an institute uranium |
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producer, a methodology of
extraction that is purported |
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to be on the lower end of the
cost curve. This will |
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create a company that will be the
purely dominant |
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mining company in the US. |
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These next slides are regulatory compliance |
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slides. Take a look at 'em at
your convenience. Now, |
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today I'm going to talk about
energy fuels. I'll talk |
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about our most recent
acquisition, the Uranerz Company |
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located in Wyoming. We'll talk a
bit about uranium |
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market dynamics and the Energy
Fuel's production |
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platform. I'll end with some
financials and current |
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guidance for the company. |
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The US nuclear power industry is the |
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strongest in the world currently.
Of course, China is |
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rapidly closing that gap with an
aggressive build of |
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power plants to service their
ever-increasing demand. |
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As you see on this slide, the
area in the yellow is our |
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operating area predominantly in
the Western US. |
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Historically, this is where the
majority of the uranium |
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production came from and, as I
indicated before, we |
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peaked at around 55 million
pounds of production here |
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in the United States in the late
1970s. You can see |
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where these nuclear power plants
are located. There's |
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about 102 currently operating,
two have recently shut |
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down, but there are five
currently under construction |
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that will come online in the
Southeast United States. |
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To service the demand of the nuclear power |
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industry, we embark on a
two-pronged philosophy. That |
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is, play to our strengths, which
is a strong balance |
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sheet and our long-term
contracts, and take advantage |
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of opportunities in the current
downturn in the market |
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to continue consolidation. We've
consolidated five |
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major companies since 2008
following the financial |
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crisis, and we took advantage of
the consolidation in |
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the industry because there were
many companies out |
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there in 2007 when the price of
uranium peaked at $138 |
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a pound. It's currently $36 a
pound, so you can see the |
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rapid and volatile price movement
in the market has |
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caused companies to fall by the
wayside that don't have |
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the strength to survive and
others that don't have the |
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strength to grow in the market.
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Of course, having the best balance sheet |
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helps us in this current market
situation. Three |
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long-term contracts currently
with the company, and |
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these contracts average a price
of around $59 a pound. |
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You can see over the current
price of 36 that there's a |
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substantial buffer there. |
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It -- we have some important strategic |
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alliances with two major players
in the world; that is |
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Kepco which is he Korean Electric
Power Company and |
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Sumitomo, a major Japanese
trader. |
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Again, our two part strategy is to manage our |
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assets with a strong working
capital conservatively and |
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focus on low-cost production
centers. Build the |
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production growth potential by
permeating the current |
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large-scale base load projects
which are three projects |
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that each one individually
consists of over 20 million |
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pounds a year production
potential -- or 20 million |
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pounds of resource base. These
three base load |
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projects will give us a
sufficient feed into our |
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uranium mill to produce what we
project to be 4-5 |
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million pounds a year. |
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Uranerz acquisition; increasing uranium |
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production through this strategic
acquisition allows us |
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to be perceived on a lower cost
of the production |
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curve. ISR production is solution
mining essentially, |
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contrary to the conventional
mining that we've done to |
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date. ISR production is purported
to have a lower |
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operating cost and that has borne
to be true in other |
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areas of the world such as
Kazakhstan which produces |
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about 40 percent of the world's
demand -- supply or |
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uranium, at lower costs than are
typically seen in |
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hard-rock mines. But ISR
production has a certain |
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geological environment that has
to be conducive toward |
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it. It's not uniform. In other
words, all uranium |
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deposits -- the majority of
uranium deposits in the |
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world that are known really have
to be mined through |
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the conventional method. |
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Now, the true cost of production with Uranerz |
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will lower our overall portfolio
of projects and we |
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will get down to what we feel's a
competitive rate to |
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compete on utility contracts
which we feel are going to |
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increase in the future.
Scalability is one of our key |
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strengths and Uranerz also has
scalability which will |
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add to the production profile of
the company as we see |
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the price come up and allow
production to resume. |
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This slide shows the dominant position we |
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think Energy Fuels has in the
industry. By any metric, |
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both methods of production,
supply contracts and sole |
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focus in the US, we think we rank
at the number one |
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position -- actually number two,
second to Cameco, |
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which is the world's largest
producer out of Canada. |
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This is a shot of the Nichols Ranch |
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processing facility. As you can
see, it's a brand new |
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facility, just came online in
April of 2014, has a |
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licensed capacity of 2 million
pounds a year and in the |
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current production in 2014, was
197,000 pounds. We |
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project the Nichols Ranch to
contribute up to 500 |
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million -- or 500,000 pounds a
year of production in |
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2016 as the mine comes up to
production design |
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capacity. It's located in the
Powder River Basin of |
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Wyoming. The Powder River Basin
is where Cameco has |
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its operations which is the
largest current producer of |
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ISR generated uranium in the
United States. The |
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district itself has several other
uranium mining |
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companies that have contributed
toward ISR production |
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in that area. |
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Together, Energy Fuels and Uranerz will offer |
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a diverse uranium production
profile from two separate |
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production centers, along with
six long-term contracts |
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that deliver through 2020 at an
average price of $59 a |
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pound. Now, this -- you know,
this production and |
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contract portfolio allows us
really to be a revenue |
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generator and we have actually
generated positive cash |
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flow and reported the first
earnings in the history of |
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the company in third quarter
2014. |
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We have strong board and management, and I |
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want to emphasize that with the
Uranerz acquisition, |
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which is the largest in the
history of the company and |
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we -- by the way, we've done five
-- Uranerz is the |
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fifth rollup acquisition that
we've done in the |
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business. We started in 2008 with
a company called |
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Magnum and consequently bought or
merged with four |
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other companies. Uranerz has the
largest and with |
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Uranerz we got the ISR technical
expertise that we |
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needed to come into this area of
production. And, as |
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you see, Paul Goranson who's a
major COO of Uranerz |
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will come with the company and be
in charge of those |
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operations. |
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Our board of directors is deep in mining |
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industry experience and uranium
specifically, with some |
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of the major names in the
industry on our board. |
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Let's talk a little bit about uranium market |
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dynamics. There's increasing
demand in the world for |
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clean energy. I'm sure you've
seen pictures of |
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Beijing, China and some of the
issues they have with |
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air quality. Of course, China
still depends in large |
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part on coal production to supply
the fuel to their |
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generating units to supply the
electricity to the |
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populus. But they are the most
aggressive builder of |
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nuclear power plants today. They
have some 24 plants |
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that are under construction and
more to come. I mean, |
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they're -- you know, their whole
philosophy is to -- |
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similar to the French in the '70s
where they settled on |
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a reactor type, perfected that
reactor type, and the |
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duplicate that reactor type. It
was successful for the |
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French. They built to be -- to
supply 80 percent of |
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their electrical demand in the
1970s through the most |
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robust program and are still
regarded leaders in |
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technology today. |
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So the geopolitical risk of creating new |
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uranium supply are substantial.
Right now, the areas |
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of the world that have seen rapid
production are |
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Central Asia in the town -- or
excuse me, in the |
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country of Kazakhstan -- African
in Niger, Namibia, |
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some of the other African
countries that have really |
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seen political unrest which has
jeopardized some of the |
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production sources there. In
fact, Areva had a |
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shutdown of their production
facility there until they |
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got the issue straightened out
through local military |
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intervention. |
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Has the market turned the corner? Well, if |
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you look at all the other sources
of fuel that have |
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gone down here in the last six
months, uranium's the |
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only one that actually has risen
in price. We've seen |
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prices rise 25 percent since
July. Now, a lot of this |
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is predicated on the Japanese
reactor restarts because |
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we all know that the Japanese
nuclear power situation |
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at Fukushima caused worldwide
concern, both in safety |
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and in the resumption of nuclear
power in Japan. We |
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thought, in the industry, that it
would maybe be a year |
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or two because the Japanese had a
very dedicated |
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political base to develop nuclear
power. They were |
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second to the United States. They
had some 54 reactors |
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and, of course, they shut them
all down after Fukushima |
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and not -- and that was in March
of 2011 and not one |
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has restarted yet. The latest
projection is for the |
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Chennai nuclear power plant, two
reactors at that |
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location to start up here in the
first quarter of '15. |
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So time will tell on that. But, of course, |
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with the Japanese shutdowns came
major production |
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cutbacks around the world. Some
of the biggest |
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producers of U308, our product,
are Rio Tinto, BHP, |
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Paladin and Cameco. They're all
down as far as their |
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production that they've brought
to the market. So this, |
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consequently, will have a lagging
effect on the price, |
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which we believe, you know, has
got to increase because |
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the world supply right now isn't
being met by |
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production and, of course, that
bridge -- that gap is |
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being bridged by secondary --
what they call secondary |
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supplies in the market, which is
a fairly complex |
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situation around the world; stems
from the de-blending |
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program, the arms treaty with the
Russians and a lot |
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comes out of what we call
enrichment facilities on, |
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essentially, secondary supplies
that come out of that. |
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Underfeeding is the term where
they can produce more |
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than they have to. |
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China continues to aggressively buy uranium |
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and stockpile it. They've got the
longest runway look |
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in the industry and India also is
a major -- country |
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with a major demand for nuclear
power that they go |
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along at a different pace than
China, but we expect |
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them to enter into the market
with increased production |
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-- with increased demand, excuse
me. |
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Uranium, the beacon in darkness; when you |
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look at the -- all the current
price decreases that |
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have occurred; some are on this
-- this list here |
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where, you know, crude oil is off
57 percent, natural |
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gas 9, heating oil 46, gasoline
54; you obviously see |
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that everything has been going
down with the energy |
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price situation in the world, but
uranium increased 25 |
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percent from its low of $28 in
early '14. |
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I'd like to talk a little bit about uranium |
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-- tho operating platform for
uranium -- or for Energy |
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Fuels. The pictures you see her
are really the |
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fundamental basis of our company.
We are an operating |
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company. We have mines. They are
permitted. We |
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employ people. In fact, our
payroll peaked at 350 |
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people between mines and mill and
exploration and |
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development staff in early 2014.
We've since had |
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cutbacks with the uranium
production being cut back |
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just to meet our contracts, but
nevertheless, this |
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gives you a picture of the real
world as we operate. |
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The White Mesa Mill is truly our strategic |
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asset. It was built in the early
'80s, but maintained |
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in excellent condition and
currently supplies 20 to 25 |
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percent of the US production. US
production is down to |
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4 million pounds a year from 55
in the '70s as I said |
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before, but of that we produce
about a million pounds a |
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year. The remainder is being
produced by Cameco and |
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ISR producers that don't require
a hard rock convention |
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uranium mill. You can see our
annual production for |
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the last five years has averaged
around a million |
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pounds a year. So we've put the
product in the can, |
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converted it to revenue through
our contracts and, you |
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know, we are truly an operating
company from that |
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standpoint. |
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When you look at our mill, it gives us an |
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opportunity for alternate feed
which, in the depressed |
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times in the market, is a way to
generate additional |
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revenue by essentially taking
waste streams or streams |
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that have to be reprocessed, and
they can be delivered |
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and -- or they can be disposed of
in our NRC regulated |
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tailings cells. So it gives us a
little bit of a |
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sideline as a value added
business. |
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So this is kind of a snapshot of our |
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production platform from the
mining standpoint. We |
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operate in the five western
states and one mine is |
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currently under production at
Pinenut. These are |
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underground -- or shaft-access
mines. We have a mine |
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in development in Canyon which is
also on the south |
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side of the Grand Canyon. I must
note that we operate |
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in highly-sensitive environmental
areas that the bar |
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for us to get approved, I think,
and I've -- I've |
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personally been in coal, I've
been in copper, I've been |
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in vanadium in my career; it's
the highest bar as far |
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as environmental. The rules may
seem the same, but |
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they're regulated by a separate
US agency, the Nuclear |
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Regulatory Commission. |
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So the Canyon mine has got five -- produced |
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3-4 million pounds of potential
resource. We've |
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developed the mine based on only
knowing 1.4 million |
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pounds. Large-scale products,
that's what we need to |
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average down the cost of
processing at the White Mesa |
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Mill and, as you see, we have
three mines that are in |
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this category what we call base
load production |
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potential and that's Sheep
Mountain Wyoming, Roca Honda |
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in New Mexico and Henry Mountains
in Utah. Sheep |
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Mountain is permitted from the
mining standpoint. Roca |
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Honda is -- is in permitting, and
Henry Mountains we |
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will continue permitting these
areas, and we're all |
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comfortable we can get operating
permits there. Roca |
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Honda and Henry Mountains are
within trucking distance |
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of the White Mesa Mill. It'll
allow us to utilize the |
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underutilized capacity in that
facility. |
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We have other smaller mines up in what's |
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called the Colorado Plateau area
that are currently |
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being maintained on standby
situations and can be |
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brought back to production as
early as three to six |
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months. Keep in mind, when we
acquired Denison, a major |
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acquisition in 2012 that brought
us into the production |
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world, we -- they were mining
about 1.5 million pounds |
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a year and as the price was $52 a
pound then, dropped |
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precipitously lower below the
cost of production, we |
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shut in those mines, but they
were fully permitted, |
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equipped and manned and mining at
that rate at that |
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time. So we're comfortable we can
bring those back up |
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should the price support it.
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This is a picture of resource summary. We |
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have the largest 43-101 resource
base in the United |
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States; both conventional, and
we've added Uranerz |
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here, which you'll see what they
add to our -- about |
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another 16 million pounds to our
resource portfolio. |
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Again, financial highlights for the nine |
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months ended September 30th, we
had 800,000 pounds of |
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sales. We produced 770, almost
balancing there. The |
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rest came out of inventory. We
put another 800,000 |
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pounds in inventory for revenues
of 46 million as you |
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can see, and $45 million of
working capital. Currently, |
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cash is 13 million pounds. |
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Capitalization summary; as you can see, you |
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know, we feel we're in a strong
position with our cash |
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and cash equivalence; $45 million
working capital. |
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Everybody asks me are you raising
money? Well, the |
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price of the stock keeps going
down and we don't think |
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it's prudent to do that at this
time, but I think you |
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always have to be -- you always
have to be ready to |
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take advantage of the market and
in this volatile price |
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environment that we're in and
volatile price stock |
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movement, you know, we are all
well aware of monitoring |
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that and trying to capitalize it
to the best interests |
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of the company. We're covered by
six analysts, a |
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couple of majors out of Canada
and here in the US |
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Cantor, Roth and Cowen Securities
cover us. |
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Guidance for '14-'15, we'll sell again |
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800,000 pounds of resource at
$57. We'll produce 770 |
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pounds of that and in 2015 we'll
have another 800,000 |
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pounds of sales. These are on the
existing contracts. |
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Production will drop to 125,000
pounds and spot |
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purchases will be 300,000 which
will serve into one of |
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our longer-term contracts where
we can, essentially, |
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bridge the difference between
spot and our contract |
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price. |
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We're going to campaign the mill in 2015. |
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Campaigning, essentially, is when
you get a sufficient |
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amount of resource stockpile so
you can make an |
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economic operation of the mill. I
mean, these mills, |
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you can't turn them on for one
month. You have to |
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stockpile material until you can
get a minimum of a |
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three-month run, and that's what
we mean by |
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campaigning. |
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In summary, we have a strong balance sheet, |
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current uranium production,
significant growth |
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potential and a proposed
acquisition of Uranerz gives |
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us a new entry into the ISR area.
We're going to |
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create the leading producer in
the United States and, |
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as you see in this picture, this
is our end product. |
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Drums of U308 ready to go to the
converter. Each one of |
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these drums is about 50,000
pounds value as it sits. So |
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I'm going to leave that with you
and answer any |
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questions at this time. Yes?
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MALE SPEAKER: Germany pushing back and what |
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are your feelings about that? Are
they actually going |
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to be free of nuclear energy?
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MR. ANTHONY: Well, Germany's on record for, |
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you know, dismantling their
nuclear power plants and |
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removing, you know, the nuclear
power component from |
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their electrical supply. If they
do it, it remains to |
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be seen. That's the current
political position that |
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they took, but keep in mind, you
know, that the |
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hypocrisy there is that they get
all their electricity |
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that they shut down nuclear wise,
they get it across |
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the rind from France whose 80
percent nuclear |
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generation. So, you know, that's
part of the deal |
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there with Germany. |
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Whether they do it or not; again, economics |
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will tie into that because, you
know, they're like |
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Japan having to buy hydrocarbons
and things like that. |
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So that's what I think there.
Yes? |
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MALE SPEAKER: Is it determined that Japan is |
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going to be turning their
facilities back on? I read |
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that they've made a bigger
commitments to, or want to, |
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to L&G [phonetic]? |
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MR. ANTHONY: Mm-hm. |
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MALE SPEAKER: So that's question number one. |
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Two is what percentage of your
end market goes to |
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batteries and things other than
nuclear energy? And, |
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third, can you just talk about
incentives and how much |
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stock insiders own? |
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MR. ANTHONY: Mm-hm. Well, first -- first |
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one on -- I believe the first one
you entered on Japan. |
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Japan, politically, is set to
turn on their nuclear |
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reactors. They did have 54
operating. Our best |
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estimate is that they'll turn on
33, which are the most |
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modern design, what they call a
boiling point reactors, |
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not the -- you know, not the --
excuse me, the pressure |
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reactors, not the boiling water
reactors. So, you |
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know, it's a political game with
-- you know, with the |
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Japanese. The Japanese,
culturally, have usually |
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followed step with what the
government has said. Of |
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course, Fukushima disrupted that
greatly, so there's a |
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factor between the populus and
the people, but they're |
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paying dearly in their economy on
the cost of power. So |
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we think they will come online
and to -- we'll find the |
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first quarter's going to really
tell that. |
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And your second question was about -- |
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MALE SPEAKER: End market. |
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MR. ANTHONY: Excuse me? |
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MALE SPEAKER: End markets in terms of any |
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end markets for -- |
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MR. ANTHONY: Oh yeah, for vanadium. Yeah, |
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we -- it was little touched on
here, but part of our |
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resource base has a vanadium
component to it. In fact, |
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White Mesa Mill had a vanadium
processing circuit at |
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it. One of the few -- one of the
only ones in the |
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country and we did produce
vanadium as a value add, and |
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as vanadium is getting more
attention for the new |
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generation of batteries, we feel
that, you know, that's |
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going to be an opportunity. But
we really don't push |
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that because it's going to come
at a different place |
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than we're tied into as far as
our core business. |
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And the other one on insiders, I think |
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insiders have about, when you add
it up, it's somewhere |
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around 5 percent. |
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MALE SPEAKER: Okay. Thank you. |
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MR. ANTHONY: So I appreciate you coming |
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today. Thanks so much. I have one
-- I have one pop |
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quiz question though. Here's my
pop quiz question. |
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When you always talk about
nuclear and this dark side, |
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tell me what powered the USS
Enterprise in the series |
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Star Trek? What was the fuel? It
was nuclear. Don't |
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you remember that? Nuclear
powered starship on its |
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20-year voyage. I always liked
that one, you know? |
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And the other one, two -- second point is the |
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United States Navy, you know,
which is -- which is |
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elemental to the security of this
country, runs their |
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major ships off nuclear, and they
haven't had any major |
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upsets in the history since
Admiral Rickover brought |
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the nuclear generation into the
Navy. So what can I |
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say about nuclear? It's safe.
Thank you. |
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