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T.EFR Files Updated Technical Report for its 100%-Owned Canyon Uranium/Copper Mine

Energy Fuels Inc. (NYSE MKT: UUUU; TSX: EFR) (“Energy Fuels” or the “Company”), a leading producer of uranium in the United States, is pleased to announce that it has filed an updated technical report for its Canyon Mine on the System for Electronic Document Analysis and Retrieval (“SEDAR”) in accordance with National Instrument 43-101 – Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects (“NI 43-101”).  The Canyon Mine is a fully-permitted and substantially-developed uranium/copper mine located in Northern Arizona.

The document, entitled “Technical Report on the Canyon Mine, Coconino County, Arizona, U.S.A.” and dated October 6, 2017, was authored by Mark B. Mathisen, C.P.G., Valerie Wilson, M.Sc., P.Geo, and Jeffrey L. Woods, QP MMSA, SME of Roscoe Postle Associates Inc., each of whom is an independent qualified person for purposes of NI 43-101.  As previously reported in the Company’s news release dated August 23, 2017, the Canyon Mine is estimated to contain 139,000 tons of Measured and Indicated Mineral Resources with an average grade of 0.88% U3O8 containing 2,434,000 pounds of uranium, along with 18,000 tons of Inferred Mineral Resources with an average grade of 0.38% U3O8 containing 134,000 pounds of uranium.  The Main Zone of the deposit is also estimated to contain 11,939,000 pounds of copper contained in 101,000 tons of Measured and Indicated Mineral Resources with an average grade of 5.93% Cu.   There are no discrepancies between the technical report and the August 23 news release.

About Energy Fuels:  Energy Fuels is a leading integrated US-based uranium mining company, supplying U3O8 to major nuclear utilities.  Energy Fuels holds three of America’s key uranium production centers, the White Mesa Mill in Utah, the Nichols Ranch Processing Facility in Wyoming, and the Alta Mesa Project in Texas.  The White Mesa Mill is the only conventional uranium mill operating in the U.S. today and has a licensed capacity of over 8 million pounds of U3O8 per year.  The Nichols Ranch Processing Facility is an ISR production center with a licensed capacity of 2 million pounds of U3O8 per year.  Alta Mesa is an ISR production center currently on care and maintenance.  Energy Fuels also has the largest NI 43-101 compliant uranium resource portfolio in the U.S. among producers, and uranium mining projects located in a number of Western U.S. states, including one producing ISR project, mines on standby, and mineral properties in various stages of permitting and development.  The Company also produces vanadium as a co-product of its uranium production from certain of its mines on the Colorado Plateau, as market conditions warrant.  The Company’s common shares are listed on the NYSE MKT under the trading symbol “UUUU”, and on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the trading symbol “EFR”.

Source: Energy Fuels

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