Document and Entity Information (USD $)	12 Months Ended
	Jul. 31, 2012	Oct. 10, 2012	Jan. 31, 2012
Document Type	10-K
Amendment Flag	true
Amendment Description	Uranium Energy Corp. (the “Company”) is filing this Form 10-K/A (Amendment No. 1) (the “Form 10-K/A”) to its annual report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended July 31, 2012, as originally filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on October 15, 2012 (the “Original Report”), to amend the disclosure contained in Items 1, 1A, 2, 7, 8 and 11 of the Original Report. For the avoidance of doubt, the Company’s audited consolidated financial statements and accompanying notes for the fiscal year ended July 31, 2012 as included in Item 8 of the Original Report have not been restated, although certain disclosures contained in the accompanying notes have been added or amended.For the convenience of the reader, this Form 10-K/A sets forth the Company’s annual report in its entirety, not just those portions that have been amended since the filing of the Original Report. Other than the amendments noted above, none of the disclosure contained in any other Item of the Original Report has been amended, updated or otherwise revised. Furthermore, none of the Items, including the amendments as noted above, have been amended, updated or otherwise revised to reflect material subsequent events occurring after the filing date of the Original Report on October 15, 2012.Pursuant to the requirements of the SEC, Item 15 of the Original Report has been amended to contain: (i) currently dated certifications from the Company’s Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, as required by Sections 302 and 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, attached as Exhibits 31.1, 31.2 and 32.1 to this Form 10-K/A, and (ii) a currently dated consent of independent registered public accounting firm, attached as Exhibit 23.1 to this Form 10-K/A.
Document Period End Date	Jul. 31, 2012
Trading Symbol	uec
Entity Registrant Name	URANIUM ENERGY CORP
Entity Central Index Key	0001334933
Current Fiscal Year End Date	--07-31
Entity Filer Category	Accelerated Filer
Entity Common Stock, Shares Outstanding		85,243,155
Entity Current Reporting Status	Yes
Entity Voluntary Filers	No
Entity Well Known Seasoned Issuer	No
Entity Public Float			$ 256,769,298
Document Fiscal Year Focus	2012
Document Fiscal Period Focus	FY