David Cates,Denison的總裁兼首席執行官評論道,“我們的第三季度報告中包含了我們計劃的鳳凰原地恢復(『ISR』)鈾礦開採項目工程和監管批准工作的積極進展更新。我們繼續快速推進詳細設計工程工作,並在第三季度結束時完成了總工程的45%。長前期採購工作繼續加速進行。目前,已經完成了2100萬加元的里程碑付款或承諾,用於支付我們對初期項目資本支出的估計中包括的項目,還有幾個採購包正在進行中。
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%).