Note 24 - Subsequent Event

12 Months Ended

Jul. 31, 2024

Notes to Financial Statements

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NOTE 24: SUBSEQUENT EVENT

Acquisition of Wyoming project

On September 20, 2024, the Company, through its wholly-owned subsidiary, UEC Sweetwater Corp., a Delaware corporation (the “Buyer”) entered into a stock purchase agreement (the “Stock Purchase Agreement”) with Rio Tinto America Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Seller”), pursuant to which the Company through the Buyer will acquire from the Seller all of the issued and outstanding shares of capital stock (the “Shares”) of (i) Kennecott Uranium Company, a Delaware corporation (“KUC”), which is a joint venture participant of, and owns a 50% ownership interest in, the Green Mountain Mining Venture, an unincorporated Wyoming contractual joint venture (“GMMV”), and (ii) Wyoming Coal Resources Company, a Delaware corporation (“WCRC”), which is a joint participant of, and owns a 50% ownership interest in GMMV (collectively, the “Acquisition”). KUC, WCRC and GMMV, collectively, own or hold the assets, rights and obligations comprised of: (i) the facilities, equipment, improvements and fixtures for the processing of uranium located in Sweetwater County, Wyoming owned by KUC, WCRC and GMMV, and related facilities and impoundments; (ii) the Jackpot and Big Eagle properties located in Wyoming; (iii) the mineral and real property interests which are owned or leased by KUC, WCRC or GMMV, subject to the permitted encumbrances, including patented and unpatented mining and millsite claims, leaseholds, and material easements and rights-of-way of record; and (iv) the other rights and interests in uranium mineralization located in Fremont and Sweetwater Counties, Wyoming owned or held by any of KUC, WCRC or GMMV (collectively, the “Project”).

The consideration for the Acquisition payable at closing of the Stock Purchase Agreement is $175 million in cash, subject to customary working capital adjustments as provided for in the Stock Purchase Agreement, with closing expected to occur in the first quarter of fiscal year 2025.

Upon completion of the Acquisition, the Company will arrange to replace approximately $25 million in surety bonds securing future reclamation costs relating to the Project. In addition, from and after the completion of the Acquisition the Company and the Buyer shall continue to indemnify the Seller from most of the liabilities associated with the Project.

The closing of the Acquisition is subject to certain conditions customary for an Acquisition of this nature, including that the Wyoming Nuclear Regulator shall have preliminarily approved the application for the transfer of a Radioactive Materials License to the Buyer, and the same shall not have been stayed or enjoined.

Other subsequent events

Except as disclosed elsewhere in these financial statements, subsequent to July 31, 2024,

● we received gross proceeds of approximately $55 million from the sale of certain of our investment in equity securities as at September 26, 2024; and

● we entered into an agreement to sell 100,000 pounds of our physical uranium inventory at a price of $80.25 per pound and with a settlement date on or about October 18, 2024.