VANCOUVER (miningweekly.com) – Canadian uranium major Cameco is settling in to a more relaxed pace of business as it rides out the uranium price doldrums, with two of its best assets languishing on care and maintenance. President and CEO Tim Gitzel noted on Friday that “unprecedented noise in the political economy” are yet to translate …
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry and François Jacq, Chairman of France’s Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), seized the occasion of President Trump’s Head-of-State welcome for French President Emmanuel Macron to sign two Statements of Intent (SOIs). The signing ushers in a new era of DOE-CEA research and development (R&D) cooperation …
PERTH (miningweekly.com) – Uranium miner Paladin Energy on Thursday announced that it was unlikely to resume physical mining activities at its Langer Heinrich operation, in Namibia, and has taken preparatory steps to place the operation under care and maintenance. Paladin previously told shareholders that the medium-grade ore stockpiles currently being used as feed for the …
Swakop Uranium which owns the Husab uranium mine, one of the biggest uranium mine in the world, was the largest employer in the country’s mining industry in 2017, according to the Chamber of Mines CEO, Veston Malango. Malango highlighted this in his welcoming remarks at the two-day 7th Namibia Mining Expo and Conference which kicked …
Andrea Jennetta , Contributor Financial carry trade uranium deals still offer the cheapest supply source for nuclear utilities in 2019-2022. Paladin CEO Alexander Molyneux said last week that such contracts “remain the most competitive source of supply” for uranium fuel buyers, despite indications from the U.S. Federal Reserve that interest rates will rise four times this year for …
Nuclear power generation in France declined by 4.1 GW on Thursday as supply at multiple power stations along with two coal-fired units were slashed due to the start of a strike, grid operator RTE and plant operator EDF said. More than 4 GW of nuclear capacity unavailable Capacity at two Cordemais coal units at zero …
Under difficult uranium market conditions, this U.S. producer is capitalizing on a number of innovative opportunities. Energy Fuels Inc. (EFR:TSX; UUUU:NYSE.American) President and CEO Mark Chalmers addressed the uranium market issues in a recent letter to shareholders, “Things are happening in global uranium markets, namely major production cuts, that we believe will rationalize this market …
Uranium has been mired in a protracted slump since 2011 and despite claims by some pundits that a rally is looming, its price continues to fall, leaving it down by 12% over the last year. This has had a deleterious impact on uranium miners, with many — including the world’s largest publicly traded uranium miner Cameco Corp. (TSX:CCO)(NYSE:CCJ) shuttering …
Annual report says Saskatoon-based company lost $205M in 2017; Cameco blames global oversupply. Cameco admits it’s a difficult time to be in the uranium-mining business, but the Saskatoon-based company hopes conditions will improve. In the company’s latest annual report, Cameco said its net losses amounted to $205 million in 2017. In 2016, the company lost …
The comment below comes from the Uranium Research Team at Cormark Securities Inc. Our house view is still that the major catalyst to drive a Uranium rally is the striking of a new LONG-TERM contract…….Cameco is determined to do its part to clean up the spot market (see below) but really the main objective is spooking the …
