Casper, WY, September 23, 2024 – Uranium Energy Corp. (NYSE American: UEC, the “Company” or “UEC”) is pleased to announce that it has entered into an agreement with Rio Tinto America Inc. (“Rio Tinto”) to acquire 100% of Rio Tinto's Wyoming assets, comprised of the wholly-owned and fully-licensed Sweetwater Plant and a portfolio of uranium mining projects with approximately 175 million pounds of historic resources(1) (the “Transaction”). The purchase price payable at closing is $175 million, subject to customary working capital adjustments, and will be funded with UEC’s available liquidity.

Transaction Rationale and Highlights:

Creates UEC’s Third U.S. Hub-and-Spoke Production Platform – UEC currently controls 12 uranium projects in the Great Divide Basin of Wyoming. The addition of Rio Tinto's Sweetwater Plant and portfolio of permitted and exploration stage projects is highly strategic and enables UEC to unlock the development potential of the Company’s extensive portfolio in the Great Divide Basin, creating a third U.S. hub-and-spoke production platform within UEC’s pure-play uranium business.
Highly Invested Asset Base with Operating Synergies – Significant asset base with high replacement value and substantial time and cost-savings compared to building and licensing a new processing facility and assembling similar levels of geological data, with minimal capital required to prepare the Sweetwater Plant for in-situ recovery (“ISR”) processing. In addition, the Transaction provides UEC critical scale in the Great Divide Basin, with opportunities to realize synergies from shared infrastructure and project personnel expertise.
Sizeable and Accretive Resource Growth – Addition of approximately 175 million pounds of historic uranium resources(1), at an in-situ valuation multiple well below UEC’s current trading levels. Approximately half of these resources appear amenable to ISR mining methods and half to conventional mining. see & read more on
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