David Cates,Denison的总裁兼首席执行官评论道,“我们的第三季度报告中包含了我们计划的凤凰原地恢复(‘ISR’)铀矿开采项目工程和监管批准工作的积极进展更新。我们继续快速推进详细设计工程工作,并在第三季度结束时完成了总工程的45%。长前期采购工作继续加速进行。目前,已经完成了2100万加元的里程碑付款或承诺,用于支付我们对初期项目资本支出的估计中包括的项目,还有几个采购包正在进行中。
Denison is a
uranium mining, exploration and development company with interests
focused in the Athabasca Basin region of northern Saskatchewan,
Canada. The Company has an effective 95% interest in its flagship
Wheeler River Uranium Project, which is the largest undeveloped
uranium project in the infrastructure rich eastern portion of the
Athabasca Basin region of northern Saskatchewan. In mid-2023, the
Phoenix FS was completed for the Phoenix deposit as an ISR mining
operation, and an update to the previously prepared 2018
Pre-Feasibility Study (‘PFS’) was completed for Wheeler
River’s Gryphon deposit as a conventional underground mining
operation. Based on the respective studies, both deposits have the
potential to be competitive with the lowest cost uranium mining
operations in the world. Permitting efforts for the planned Phoenix
ISR operation commenced in 2019 and have advanced significantly,
with licensing in progress and a draft Environmental Impact Study
(‘EIS’) submitted for regulatory and public review in
October 2022.
Denison’s
interests in Saskatchewan also include a 22.5% ownership interest
in the McClean Lake Joint Venture (‘MLJV’), which
includes unmined uranium deposits (planned for extraction via the
MLJV’s SABRE mining method starting in 2025) and the McClean
Lake uranium mill (currently utilizing a portion of its licensed
capacity to process the ore from the Cigar Lake mine under a toll
milling agreement), plus a 25.17% interest in the Midwest Joint
Venture (‘MWJV’)’s Midwest Main and Midwest A
deposits, and a 69.44% interest in the Tthe Heldeth Túé
(‘THT’) and Huskie deposits on the Waterbury Lake
Property (‘Waterbury’). The Midwest Main, Midwest A,
THt and Huskie deposits are located within 20 kilometres of the
McClean Lake mill. Taken together, the Company has direct ownership
interests in properties covering ~384,000 hectares in the Athabasca
Basin region.
Additionally,
through its 50%
ownership of JCU (Canada) Exploration Company, Limited
(‘JCU’), Denison holds interests in various uranium
project joint ventures in Canada, including the Millennium project
(JCU, 30.099%), the Kiggavik project (JCU, 33.8118%) and Christie
Lake (JCU, 34.4508%).