Kaycee Uranium Project, Wyoming
Highlights
The Kaycee Project in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin (PRB) is the Company’s priority project, covering a 33 mile mineralized trend with over 110 miles of identified roll fronts and consists of more than 42 square miles of mineral rights. The Kaycee Project is believed to be the only project in the PRB where all three known historically productive sandstone formations (Wasatch, Fort Union and Lance) are mineralized and potentially amenable to ISR extraction. Under Nuclear Fuels Inc., this represents the first time since the early 1980’s that the entire district is controlled by one company.
With over 3,800 drill holes, historic drilling has confirmed uranium mineralization in all three historically productive sandstones within the PRB, occurring over more than 1,000 feet of vertical section. The majority of the trend has not been well-explored with drilling concentrated on approximately 10% of the trend.
Project Details
Nuclear Fuels acquired the Kaycee Project from enCore Energy Corp., which retains a back-in right for 51% of the project by paying 2.5X the exploration costs and carrying the Kaycee project to production (costs recoverable from production) upon Nuclear Fuels establishing a minimum of a 43-101 compliant resource of 15 million pound U3O8. A 200 hole drill program is currently underway.
Wyoming is a proven and prolific uranium producer with a pro-energy government with established regulatory regime for the extraction of uranium through in-situ recovery (ISR) technology. As Wyoming is one of the few “Agreement States” where the federal government and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission have ceded regulatory authority to the state government, permitting and advancing uranium projects is more efficient and streamlined as compared to most other states. Wyoming, with over 250 million pounds of historic production, ranks as the state with the second most uranium production to date; most of which has been through the ISR method since 1990 with most of the ISR production having come from the PRB.
*Readers are cautioned that a qualified person has not done sufficient work to classify any of the historical estimates as current mineral resources or mineral reserves as defined by NI 43-101. The Company is not treating the historical estimates as current mineral resources or reserves as defined by NI 43-101. Further compilation of the historic geological and drilling data, resource modelling and additional drilling will be necessary to convert the historic estimates outlined above to NI 43- 101 conforming mineral resources. The historic resource is based on information from Fruchey (1982) for Washtenaw Energy Corporation and Midwest Energy Resources.
Spiering, Eugene D., 1983, Geologic Report on the 1983 Mapping Program of the Kaycee Uranium Project: Private Company Report, 79p., 27 pl.
Fruchey, R., A., 1982, Kaycee Geologic Report for Washtenaw Energy Corporation and Midwest Energy Resources Co. Internal report.
*A Qualified Person (as defined in NI 43-101) has not done sufficient work to classify the historical estimate as a current mineral resource. Additional work will be required to verify and update historical estimates, including a review of assumptions, parameters, methods and testing. Historical estimates do not use the current mineral resources categories prescribed under NI 43-101. Nuclear Fuels is not treating the historical estimate as a current mineral resource and it should not be relied upon.
