Articles, tagged with "spot uranium price", page 1

A Closer Look at the Uranium Bull Market

reactor created excitement within the industry. During that time, Canadian uranium exploration was taken out of mothballs and production resumed. Hardball shenanigans in Washington kept the uranium ban intact, and global uranium prices reached an all-time... Read >
Author: Dillon Norris

Uranium Price Stops Declining on Cameco News

Just when the uranium markets begin to look dull - like they did in the 1980s and 1990s - along comes bad news planting the seeds of renewed interest. In October 2006, it was Cigar Lake. In March 2007, flooding at the Ranger operations attracted more inv... Read >
Author: James Finch

Little Transparency Inside Uranium’s Secret World

Mired in secrecy, the uranium market hopes to someday offer price transparency. To whom will this ‘real' uranium price become transparent? Industry insiders know well before the general investing public ever finds out. Utility fuel managers compete w... Read >
Author: James Finch

Exelon VP to Uranium Speculators: Thanks!

We thought by now we'd heard it all. But the quote which follows, given to us in a tape-recorded telephone interview by the man who obtains nuclear fuel for the largest nuclear utility in the United States, surprised even us. "From the point of view of... Read >
Author: James Finch

Utilities Quietly Worry about Uranium Supply

According to Friday's Nuclear Market Review (NMR), many market participants were left stunned by the recent record jump in the weekly spot uranium price. The market has increasingly diverged between those who have U3O8 and those without. Utilities with ex... Read >
Author: James Finch

New Mine Flood Tightens Uranium Supply

After Cameco Corp's Cigar Lake flood at the company's northern Saskatchewan uranium mining project rattled analysts and utilities who previously expected sufficient uranium would be available to meet the needs of nuclear utilities, along came another mine... Read >
Author: James Finch

Uranium: The New Precious Metal

Newly mined uranium remains ‘highly sought after' maintains Nuclear Market Review (NMR) editor Treva Klingbiel in the February 23rd issue of the weekly trade magazine, servicing the utility and nuclear fuel industry. It was no more evident than at this ... Read >
Author: James Finch

Expect Higher Uranium Prices in February

After a six-week stalemate, the spot uranium price indicator renewed its upward climb, as witnessed by the weekly spot uranium price change announced by UxC on January 29th and by Trade Tech's Nuclear Market Review in the magazine's month end report on Ja... Read >
Author: James Finch

Russia, Speculators to Dictate Uranium Price Swings in 2007

The year gone by was the warmest in England since 1659. Australia may be doomed to suffer the country's worst drought since the Federation Drought of 1894 - 1902, and at least one Dun & Bradstreet consultant believes if conditions do not improve, the coun... Read >
Author: James Finch

Uranerz Energy: Developing Uranium Projects in Wyoming

Relatively speaking, it's not saying much, but Wyoming's Powder River Basin is presently the largest uranium producing area in the United States. Cameco's (NYSE: CCJ) Smith Ranch produces over one million pounds of uranium oxide, more than one-third of U.... Read >
Author: James Finch

U.S. Utilities: Uranium Price Too High; Miners Say "Not High Enough"

Nowhere was it more evident of battle lines being drawn between suppliers and end users in the nuclear fuel sector than at the Platts Second Annual Nuclear Fuel Strategies conference on September 26th. Since April, various utility consultants and fuel bro... Read >
Author: James Finch

Domestic Uranium Industry to Mine 20 Million Pounds in 6 years, Part Two

The Uranium Producers of America (UPA) was formed more than twenty years ago. Over the years, this trade association worked with Congress and state legislators to help improve the front end of the nuclear fuel cycle: uranium mining. Today, it has been re-... Read >
Author: James Finch

Uranium: At The Center of New Mexico's Nuclear Renaissance

Once the proud center of the Uranium Universe, and until recently the world's largest uranium producer, the city of Grants (New Mexico) nearly collapsed in the 1980s as uranium prices sank into a twenty-year depression. Five thousand uranium miners lost t... Read >
Author: James Finch

Even Higher Uranium Prices Ahead This Summer, Part Two

What about going into Russia's G8 summit? It appears uranium trading through June could continue to show a very tight supply situation, where sellers continue to set pricing. A recent posting on the Trade Tech LLC website announced the following: "A nu... Read >
Author: James Finch

James Dines Talks about Uranium Stock Investing, Part Two

We asked James Dines about his price targets on the spot uranium price. He told us: $50, $60, anything is possible. If you are running a utility and your choice was getting uranium at any price or having the lights go out, which would you do? This is m... Read >
Author: James Finch

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