Sentences with phrase «in uranium prices»

Perhaps the most obvious answer to the uptick in uranium prices lies simply in the actions of uranium producing companies to bolster their balance sheets and remain profitable in the low spot and term price environments.

Not exact matches

Thanks in part to the low - cost uranium coming from Canada, rising prices made the Swiss subsidiary tremendously profitable — it earned $ 4.3 billion during the six - year period ending in 2012.

That's partly because under an arrangement struck years ago, it sells that uranium at low prices to a subsidiary in Switzerland, where profits are taxed at lower rates.

That lower baseline energy demand as well as marginal increases in supplies has led to lower global oil and gas prices and more competitive pressure on the uranium space.

An example is uranium with the spot price recently rallying by close to 30 % while most uranium companies remain stuck in neutral.

The sole determinant, in the near term, and by near term, I mean by two or three years, as to whether the uranium price goes up, is simply the pace of Japanese reactor restarts.

«We are maintaining our Buy rating as we believe EFR should see a recovery in its share price as uranium market conditions improve later this year.»

The recent uptick in uranium appears to be due to the fact that the commodity price has been too low for too long with a majority of global production operating below cost.

by Jason Smith Blue Sky Uranium finds cause for optimism in Argentina Uranium prices have plummeted in recent years, as Japan's nuclear power industry has continued to recover very slowly from the Fukushima disaster in 2011.

Hard rock deposits by and large are not economic at current spot (or term) uranium prices, so if you see uranium at $ 75 or $ 80 per pound in the coming years (I don't), purchasing shares in hard rock uranium development companies could lead to gains.

Prices for the metal have been depressed in the aftermath of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear accident in Japan, but the situation got so bad this year that Cameco, the world's largest publicly traded uranium miner, had to suspend production at multiple mines.

Several developments in the uranium space, including the restart of a reactor in Japan that has been offline since the Fukushima disaster, have primed the commodity for a price surge.

Uranium as a commodity was basically forgotten about until it marched up to a record high price above $ 130 USD / lb in 2007.

This rise created a healthy market for junior uranium explorers, which was promptly slaughtered when the contract price tanked in the wake of the 2008 crash, and was done in after Fukushima melted down a few years later.

With 436 reactors worldwide consuming 65,000 metric tons (one metric ton equals 1.1 U.S. tons) of enriched uranium per year, demand for this nuclear reactor fuel outstrips available supply, which has caused uranium prices to jump from a low of $ 10 per pound a few years ago to more than $ 130 per pound in 2007 and still more than $ 50 per pound today.

Recent spikes in the price of uranium — perhaps due to renewed interest in nuclear power as an alternative to fossil fuels as global warming makes its presence felt — have led to a surge in applications for new uranium mining permits on otherwise protected federal lands.

But, factoring in inflation, uranium prices remain the same today as they were at the dawn of the nuclear era.

Uranium Prices Fall to their Lowest Level In More than Ten Years: Global Uranium Price Trends, Reactor Plans, Uranium Resources and Information Sources Presented at Western Mining Action Network (WMAN) Biennial Conference, San Carlos, Arizona, Paul Robinson, Research Director, November 18, 2016

V.B. Price speaks with the Paul Robinson, Research Director at the Southwest Research and Information Center, about the legacy of uranium mining in New Mexico, how the uranium market works and who suffers if there's another boom.

An example of what's going on in the world affecting us is the rise in the global uranium spot prices - the price per pound of uranium used in nuclear power plants - and how it relates to work we do, especially regarding proposed uranium mining in New Mexico (pages 8 - 9).

Insight New Mexico's V.B. Price interviews SRIC's Paul Robinson regarding the legacy of uranium mining in New Mexico.

Uranium prices have doubled in the past year and half, rising more steeply than the price for oil or any other metal, including gold.

Instead, the price rise seems to reflect the increasing importance of the secondary, or pre-mined and processed market, as sources of uranium for use in the reactor fuel market.

The jump is in the spot market price for uranium oxide, which is also known as «yellowcake,» the form of uranium produced at uranium mills and in situ mines.

Six months after the December 2006 Indigenous World Uranium Summit (IWUS) at Window Rock, Arizona, the assault by governments and the uranium industry on Mother Earth continues throughout the world.Driven by the inflated, but rising price of uranium on the world market, this perceived economic boom is creating economic blackmail in Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities worldwide, including several in New Uranium Summit (IWUS) at Window Rock, Arizona, the assault by governments and the uranium industry on Mother Earth continues throughout the world.Driven by the inflated, but rising price of uranium on the world market, this perceived economic boom is creating economic blackmail in Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities worldwide, including several in New uranium industry on Mother Earth continues throughout the world.Driven by the inflated, but rising price of uranium on the world market, this perceived economic boom is creating economic blackmail in Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities worldwide, including several in New uranium on the world market, this perceived economic boom is creating economic blackmail in Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities worldwide, including several in New Mexico.

«If we have technology to capture uranium from seawater, we can ensure that an essentially unlimited supply of the element becomes available if uranium prices go up in the future,» Schneider said.

Floor price: A price specified in a market - price contract as the lowest purchase price of the uranium, even if the market price falls below the specified price.

The call, made in a submission to Chief Scientist Alan Finkel's review of future security of the NEM, came with the revelation that BHP's power bill at the Olympic Dam copper and uranium mine in South Australia is expected to rise by $ US30m ($ 39m) this year because of higher gas prices and the cost of contracts that offset the risks of power price spikes.

Set against a continued drawdown of finite uranium inventories and underinvestment in mines due to low prices, we expect uranium prices to perform strongly though the end of the decade.

From our early blogs about the increase in uranium mining here in the U.S. (which has just as much merit today with our country's ever - rising energy prices as it did back in 2008) to our more recent blogs, uranium mining is something we've been watching for quite some time.

Coal, gas and uranium rich Australia shouldn't be paying the highest power prices in the world; and it shouldn't be cutting power to businesses and hospitals during hot weather, when demand spikes and -LSB-...]

And nuclear power is just as sustainable as any other power source — even if we only use conventional nuclear fast reactor designs, there is enough uranium in the oceans and on land (recoverable at prices that allow the fuel costs of fast reactors to remain the same as today — which is trivial) to last for 5 billlion years, the expected time remaining fo our sun.

Pursuant to the Minister's calculation, the sale price in a high volume contract will have more impact on the average sale price calculation than a contract for the sale of less uranium.