Sentences with phrase «low uranium prices»

For our recent report on the world's largest uranium producer, read Positive outlook for Cameco Corp. despite low uranium prices.

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A stubbornly low market price and the growing focus on renewables have WA's fledgling uranium sector on the ropes.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

When we recommend uranium mining stocks, we want to see a positive cash flow, preferably even when uranium prices are low.

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.

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.

The higher uranium price reflects the need to move to ever deeper mines, which increases the energy needed to extract the ore, and the shift to lower - grade ore.

Uranium fuel prices have been kept artificially low by an enormous supply from the Russion reprocessing of decommissioned nuclear weapons that is sold at far below market prices.