Ur-Energy Releases 2024 Q3 Results

LITTLETON, CO / ACCESSWIRE / November 6, 2024 / Ur-Energy Inc. (NYSE American:URG)(TSX:URE) (the "Company" or "Ur-Energy") has filed the Company's Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2024, with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission at www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml and with Canadian securities authorities at www.sedarplus.ca.

Ur-Energy CEO, John Cash said: "The uranium market fundamentals remain strong, and, despite some volatility, we expect to see continued price support based on a slow response by suppliers to growing demand. We estimate this imbalance will take many years to correct and could be exacerbated by geopolitical events.

"Production at Lost Creek continued to increase quarter over quarter. While ramp-up has progressed at a slower rate than anticipated, we continue to work through the remaining challenges to facilitate steady state operations with increased production. Development and construction programs at Shirley Basin continue to advance and we expect to increase our company wide production capacity to 2.2M pounds per year in early 2026 when we anticipate bringing Shirley Basin online."

Lost Creek Operations

During 2024 Q3 we captured 75,075 pounds, dried and packaged 71,804 pounds and shipped 67,488 pounds U₃O₈. Although not at previously anticipated rates, these figures represent increases in production numbers compared with the captured and dried figures of earlier quarters.

At quarter end, our in-process inventory was approximately 90,140 pounds, our drummed inventory at Lost Creek was 26,580 pounds, and our finished inventory at the conversion facility was 40,713 pounds U₃O₈. In addition to the two shipments made to the conversion facility during 2024 Q3, we made two shipments following the end of the quarter, which totaled 46,592 pounds U₃O₈.

As we continue to work through the challenges of ramp-up at Lost Creek, we now anticipate 2024 production will be in a range between 240,000 and 280,000 pounds U₃O₈ captured on IX resin.

We expect to satisfy our remaining 2024 contractual commitments to our customers with Lost Creek production and other available sources.

Sales of U₃O₈ and Sales Agreements

We sold 100,000 pounds U₃O₈ in 2024 Q3 at an average price of $61.65 per pound for proceeds of $6.2 million.

We continue to anticipate that we will deliver and sell 570,000 pounds U₃O₈ in 2024. Including the revenue received during the quarter, we expect to realize revenues of $33.1 million from our 2024 U₃O₈ sales.

We anticipate we will deliver 740,000 pounds U₃O₈ into three of our term sales agreements in 2025.

Financial Results

As of September 30, 2024, we had cash resources of $129.4 million, which was an increase of $61.2 million from the $68.2 million balance on December 31, 2023. During the nine months ended September 30, 2024, we spent $32.5 million on operating activities, used $5.7 million on investing activities, and generated $99.3 million from financing activities.

U₃O₈ Sales by Product, U₃O₈ Product Cost, and U₃O₈ Product Profit ¹

The following table provides information on our U₃O₈ sales, product costs, and product profit.