Record-breaking performance at
"This quarter delivered proof that our long-term commitment to the
"Based on the high mined grades and production so far, we anticipate sustained production and high grades at
"Equally important, is our progress as a leader in the
"We are also very pleased that the Government of Victoria, Australia has approved the Work Plan for the construction and operation of the
"Naturally, we are also very excited about having successfully developed the technology that we believe is required to commercially produce 'heavy' REEs at scale through expansion of our existing REE production capability in
"These commodity lines are complementary to our core uranium business with the expected ability to provide consistent cash flow and long-term shareholder growth value."
Q2-2025 Highlights
Unless noted otherwise, all dollar amounts are in
Financial Highlights:
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Robust Balance Sheet with Over
$250 million of Liquidity and No Debt: As ofJune 30, 2025 , the Company had$253.23 million of working capital including$71.49 million of cash and cash equivalents,$126.41 million of marketable securities (short-term interest-bearing securities and uranium equities),$7.79 million of trade and other receivables,$76.50 million of inventory, and no debt, which puts the Company in a strong position as it advances its projects. -
Over
$13 Million of Additional Liquidity from Market Value of Inventory: AtAugust 1, 2025 commodity prices, the Company's product inventory has a market value of approximately$56.25 million , while the balance sheet reflects product inventory carried at historical cost of$43.00 million . -
Net Loss of
$21 Million Shows Improved Financial Results Compared to Q1 2025 : During Q2-2025, the Company incurred a net loss of$21.81 million , or$0.10 per common share, which is an improvement compared to a net loss of$26.32 million , or$0.13 per common share during Q1-2025. -
Well-Stocked to Capture Market Opportunities and to Meet Long-term Contract Obligations: As of
June 30, 2025 , the Company held a total of 1,875,000 pounds of U3O8 in inventory, including 725,000 pounds of finished U3O8, 1,100,000 pounds of U3O8 in ore and raw materials, and 50,000 pounds of work-in-progress U3O8. Inventory increased from last quarter due toPinyon Plain ,La Sal and Pandora mine ore production. The Company expects these uranium inventories to continue increasing, as we continue to mine additional ore and purchase ore from third parties, offset by upcoming contract uranium sales and potential spot sales. The Company continues to elect to retain most of its finished uranium product in inventory in anticipation of higher uranium prices. The Company also held 905,000 pounds of finished vanadium ("V2O5"), 37,000 kilograms ("kg") of finished separated neodymium-praseodymium ("NdPr") oxide and 9,000 kg of finished high purity, partially separated mixed "heavy" samarium-plus ("Sm+") rare earth carbonate ("RE Carbonate") in inventory.
Uranium Milestones:
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Finished U3O8 Production: The Company produced a total of 180,000 pounds of finished U3O8 at its
White Mesa Mill (the "Mill") inUtah during the three months endedJune 30, 2025 , from newly mined ore and stockpiled alternate feed materials. -
U3O8 Sales: The Company sold a total of 50,000 pounds of U3O8 during Q2-2025 on the spot market for
$77.00 per pound realizing total gross proceeds of$3.85 million and a gross margin of 31%. Spot uranium prices during the quarter were relatively weak, with weekly prices averaging$70.26 during Q2 2025. Therefore, as the Company believes prices will improve later in 2025, the Company elected to make only one small sale of U3O8 during the quarter. -
Q2 2025 Uranium Mine Production: During Q2-2025, the Company mined ore containing approximately 665,000 pounds of uranium from its
Pinyon Plain andLa Sal mines with an average grade of 2.23% U3O8 at thePinyon Plain mine, which the Company believes is one of the highest-grade uranium mines inU.S. history. Production rates at the mine have steadily increased over the past several months, with ore being stockpiled for a large-scale ore processing run at the Mill beginning in Q4 2025. -
Expected 2025 Uranium Mine Production: The Company continues to mine and stockpile ore from its
Pinyon Plain ,La Sal and Pandora mines, which is expected to total approximately 875,000 to 1,435,000 pounds of U3O8 contained in approximately 55,000 to 80,000 tons of ore from these mines during 2025, subject to market conditions, mining rates and other factors. The Company also expects to purchase uranium ore from third-party miners in the region, and there is the potential to receive additional alternate feed materials and mine cleanup materials, expected to add a total of approximately 160,000 to 200,000 pounds of additional contained uranium to ore inventories, all of which will be processed as market conditions, Mill schedules, and contract requirements may warrant. -
Expected FY 2025 Finished Uranium Product Production: The Company currently expects to process up to approximately 670,000 pounds of U3O8 in Q4 2025 from stockpiled ore mined from its
Pinyon Plain ,La Sal and Pandora mines. This ore processing run is expected to continue through Q1 2026. Expected Q4 2025 production, combined with the Company's 330,000 pounds of production during Q1 and Q2 2025, will result in the production of up to approximately 1,000,000 pounds of finished U3O8 for 2025. - Uranium Sales During the Remainder of 2025: The Company expects to sell 140,000 pounds of uranium during Q3 2025 and 160,000 pounds in Q4 2025, under the Company's existing long-term contracts with utilities. The Company may sell additional uranium on the spot market during the remainder of 2025, depending on market conditions. In 2026, the Company expects to sell between 620,000 and 880,000 pounds of U3O8 under its current portfolio of long-term uranium sales contracts.
- Expected Year End U3O8 Inventory: As a result of these sales, plus planned 2025 mine production, at the end of 2025, the Company expects to hold a total of 1,985,000 to 2,585,000 pounds of U3O8 in ore inventories, including approximately 925,000 to 1,225,000 pounds of finished U3O8 inventory, subject to any additional spot sales that may be made in 2025. This expected finished goods uranium inventory is expected to be sufficient to satisfy the Company's 2025, 2026 and a large portion of the Company's current 2027 delivery requirements under existing contracts.
- Changes in Guidance: As a result of the spot sale of 50,000 pounds of U3O8 during Q2 2025 and the flex-up by the Company's utility customers of deliveries under the Company's long-term contracts from 220,000 pounds of U3O8 to 300,000 pounds of U3O8 in 2025, the Company is changing its sales guidance for 2025 from 220,000 pounds to 350,000 pounds of U3O8, not counting additional spot sales the Company may make depending on market conditions. No other changes have been made to the Company's previously published guidance. The Company's revised guidance for 2025 is as follows:
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|
Current Guidance, as |
|
|
|
|
Low |
High |
|
Mined (contained pounds of U3O8) |
|
875,000 |
1,435,000 |
|
Alternate Feed Materials and other (contained pounds of U3O8)(1) |
|
160,000 |
200,000 |
|
Processed (pounds of U3O8) |
|
700,000 |
1,000,000 |
|
Sales (pounds of U3O8)(2) |
|
350,000 |
350,000 |
|
Finished goods (pounds of U3O8) |
|
925,000 |
1,225,000 |
|
Total inventories (contained pounds of U3O8) |
|
1,985,000 |
2,585,000 |
|
(1) |
"Other" includes ore purchases from 3rd party miners and potential cleanup from historic abandoned uranium mines. |
(2) |
The Company may sell inventory into the spot market in addition to these sales, subject to market conditions. |
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Uranium Costs Expected to Decline in Q4 2025 and FY 2026: The Company plans to begin processing low-cost
Pinyon Plain mine ores commencing in Q4 2025 through Q1 2026, during which we expect to produce 1.1 to 1.4 million pounds of finished U3O8. During that Mill run, the average mining and transportation costs to the Mill forPinyon Plain ore are expected to be$10 to$14 per pound of recovered U3O8, which together with an expected milling cost of approximately$13 to$16 per pound U3O8, are expected to result in a total weighted average cost of goods sold of approximately$23 to$30 per pound of U3O8 recovered, ranking among the lowest costs for mined uranium production in the world. These high-gradePinyon Plain ores will be blended and processed with the lower grade, higher cost,La Sal /Pandora ores through early 2026, after which the Company can choose to processPinyon Plain ores alone to maximize absolute margin, or in conjunction withLa Sal /Pandora ores, purchased ores, and alternate feed materials at the Company's discretion. -
Low Uranium Production Costs Expected for 2025: The Company's inventories of finished U3O8 had an approximate weighted average cost of
$53.00 per pound U3O8 as atJune 30, 2025 , reflecting the weighted average cost of production and purchase of finished inventories from various sources over the years, as the Company continues to ramp up production and maximize economies of scale, including from alternate feed materials, theLa Sal /Pandora mines, low-grade mine clean-up materials, and spot purchases of uranium on the open market. These costs do not reflect the expected lower costs of recently mined ores from thePinyon Plain mine, which have not yet been processed. As the Company accounts for cost of goods sold as the weighted average cost of its finished product inventories, sales of uranium produced in 2025 and into 2026 will reflect the blended average of the existing 725,000 pounds of U3O8 finished inventories, plus the cost of additional finished U3O8 produced from blended stockpiledPinyon Plain andLa Sal /Pandora ores. This is expected to result in costs of goods sold of approximately$50 to$55 per pound for U3O8 sales through the end of 2025, which is expected to drop to the$30 to$40 per pound range in Q1 2026, depending on the quantity of any additional spot sales of inventory that may be made in Q3 and Q4 2025. The Company's ability to blend and match various sources of uranium feeds to satisfy contract delivery requirements is a unique element of the Company's production capabilities that no other producer has inNorth America . - Increasing Gross Margins on Uranium Production: Based on expected decreasing cost of goods sold and conservative uranium price forecasts, gross margins from the Company's uranium sales are expected to increase over time.
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Exploration at
Pinyon Plain : The Company has been performing underground drilling in the "Juniper Zone " of thePinyon Plain mine, with exceptional drill results from its 2024 – 2025 underground drill program showing high-grade intercepts within the previously defined Mineral Resource as well as above the existing mineralized zone, which exceed previous expectations (linked here). The Company is in the process of completing aU.S. Subpart 1300 of Regulation S-K ("S-K 1300") and Canadian National Instrument 43-101 ("NI 43-101") compliant technical report, which is expected to significantly add to the uranium resources atPinyon Plain . -
Nichols Ranch and Whirlwind Update: The Company continues to observe positive results from ongoing drilling at itsNichols Ranch in-situ recovery ("ISR") Project inWyoming . Both theNichols Ranch Project andWhirlwind Mine inColorado are being prepared for production, as market conditions warrant. Production from these mines, when combined with production fromPinyon Plain ,La Sal and Pandora, alternate feed materials, uranium from monazite, and third-party uranium ore purchases, would be expected to increase the Company's production run-rate to roughly two million pounds per year by as early as 2026. -
Roca Honda , Bullfrog, and Sheep Mountain Update: The Company continued advancing permitting and other pre-development activities on its large-scaleRoca Honda and Bullfrog uranium projects during the three months endedJune 30, 2025 , which together with itsSheep Mountain Project , have the potential to expand the Company's uranium production to a run-rate of up to five million pounds of U3O8 per year in the coming years. -
Uranium Market Update: As of
August 1, 2025 , the spot price of U3O8 was$71.50 per pound and the long-term price of U3O8 was$82.00 per pound, according to data fromTradeTech .
Rare Earth Element Milestones:
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Significant Improvements in REE Market: REE markets have improved significantly over the last month, with Chinese NdPr prices increasing approximately 19.5% from
$61.88 per kg onJune 30, 2025 to$73.93 onAugust 1, 2025 . As ofJuly 31, 2025 , recently published European dysprosium ("Dy") and terbium ("Tb") prices of$800 per kg and$3,625 per kg exceed the published Chinese prices of$230 per kg and$988 per kg, respectively, by 348% and 367%. -
Donald Project Receives Final Major Regulatory Approvals: On
June 25, 2025 , the Company announced that the Government ofVictoria, Australia had approved the Work Plan for the construction and operation of theCompany's Donald Rare Earth and Mineral Sand Project (the "Donald Project ") located in the Wimmera region ofVictoria . This is the final major regulatory approval required to construct and operate theDonald Project . It enables the finalization of critical activities, including arrangements for debt and equity financing, before a final investment decision ("FID") can be made.Energy Fuels and its joint venture partner Astron are currently working towards an FID for theDonald Project , which could be made as early as the end of 2025. With the Work Plan approval, construction on theDonald Project could begin within weeks of a positive FID.Energy Fuels believes theDonald Project is one of the best, near-term sources of "mid" and "heavy" REEs needed for numerous commercial and defense applications, due to the high relative concentrations of xenotime associated with the monazite from the mine. Xenotime is a phosphate mineral like monazite, which is enriched in "mid" and "heavy" REE oxides, and is found alongside monazite in many mineral sand deposits. Monazite and xenotime can be processed together in the Mill's circuits. -
Development of Technical Ability to Commercially Produce Heavy REEs: On
April 17, 2025 ,Energy Fuels announced that it had successfully developed the technical ability it believes is required to commercially produce samarium ("Sm"), gadolinium ("Gd"), Dy, Tb, lutetium ("Lu"), yttrium ("Y"), and other oxides, at scale through expansion of its existing REE production capability inUtah . OnApril 4, 2025 , the Chinese government announced export restrictions on these REEs, which are needed for key defense technologies. -
Pilot Scale Production of Heavy REEs Currently Underway: The Company is now in the process of producing Dy oxide at pilot scale at the Mill.
Energy Fuels expects to complete production of its first kilogram of Dy oxide inAugust 2025 . The Company expects to continue producing Dy oxide on a pilot scale until the end ofSeptember 2025 , at which time it expects to have produced approximately 15 kilograms of Dy oxide, enabling the production of Tb oxide starting the beginning ofOctober 2025 . The Company expects to produce one kilogram of Tb oxide by the end ofNovember 2025 . The Company also expects to be able to start producing Sm oxide on a pilot scale at the Mill in January of 2026. -
Commercial Scale Production of Heavy REEs: Assuming the pilot scale production continues to be successful, the Company could be in a position to produce Dy, Tb and Sm on a commercial scale at its existing Phase 1 rare earth element separation circuit at the Mill, with minor modifications, as early as Q4, 2026 from existing feed sources and, if a positive final investment decision and production decision is made in 2025, as early as Q4 2027 from monazite feed produced at its permitted
Donald Project inAustralia . -
Technology Applicable to a
Wide Range of Feedstocks: Unlike others who are experimenting with heavy REE production via recycling,Energy Fuels is the onlyU.S. company producing separated heavy REE oxides from commercial rare earth ores. The rare earth separation techniques being utilized byEnergy Fuels can also be applied to a wide range of feedstocks, including rare earth concentrates and recycled materials. - Qualification of REE Product: Samples of the Company's NdPr product have been sent to permanent magnet manufacturers and other companies around the world for product qualification, including POSCO International. Initial testing responses have been positive.
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Planned Expansion of Commercial Throughput of REEs: The Company continues the process of updating the Mill's
AACE International ("AACE") Class 4 Pre-Feasibility Study (not a Pre-Feasibility Study subject to or intended to be compliant with NI 43-101 or S-K 1300), originally released in Q2-2024 to increase throughput to a total of 50,000 tonnes per annum ("tpa") of monazite, producing roughly 5,000 tpa of NdPr, 150 to 225 tpa of Dy, and 50 to 75 tpa of Tb. The Mill PFS referenced above can be viewed on the Company's website, www.energyfuels.com.
Heavy Mineral Sands:
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Toliara Project : The Company continues to work with theGovernment of Madagascar to formalize the terms and conditions set out in the Memorandum of Understanding signed with the Malagasy government inDecember 2024 relating to theToliara Project (the "Toliara Project ") inMadagascar , and to establish the necessary legal regime that will support development of the Project. To achieve this, the Company and theGovernment of Madagascar have been negotiating the terms of an investment agreement that would be submitted to the Madagascar Parliament for approval as a law. The investment agreement is intended to provide the key pillars for a bankable large-scale project, including legal and fiscal stability, select tax and customs benefits, necessary adjustments to foreign exchange rules, protections from expropriation, and access to international arbitration for dispute resolution. The investment agreement under discussion would also clarify existing procedures for adding monazite to the Project's mining permit, which currently allows for the production of ilmenite, rutile, and zircon. The Company could make an FID on theToliara Project as early as 2026, conditional upon finalization of the investment agreement or other suitable stability arrangements with the Malagasy government, to which there can be no guarantee of success. -
Donald Project : The Company continued to advance theDonald Project , a large monazite-rich HMS project inAustralia , pursuant to its joint venture withAstron Corporation Limited . Having received the final major regulatory approval required to construct and operate theDonald Project , the Company expects that an FID could be made on theDonald Project as early as Q4 2025.The Donald Project is of particular interest as the monazite concentrate has exceptional concentrations of the "heavy" rare earth elements, including Dy, Tb and Sm.
Medical Isotope Highlights:
- During Q2-2025, the Company continued to utilize its research and development ("R&D") license for the potential recovery of R&D quantities of Ra-226 at the Mill. During the remainder of 2025,
Energy Fuels plans to complete its process development engineering and, upon successful completion of such engineering, expects to set up the first stages of the pilot facility and produce R&D quantities of Ra-226 for testing by end-users of the product. Upon successful production of R&D quantities of Ra-226,Energy Fuels plans to develop capabilities at the Mill for the commercial-scale production of Ra-226 in 2027-2028, conditional on completion of engineering design, securing sufficient offtake agreements for final radium production, and receipt of all required regulatory approvals and project financing. At the same time, parallel with its Ra-226 process development activities, the Company has applied for a license to concentrate R&D quantities of Ra-228 at the Mill and is currently performing engineering on its process development and R&D pilot facility for Ra-228 production.
Appointment of New Officers:
- To bolster the Company's global expertise within the executive management team, the Company recently hired
Oscar German into the newly expanded role of Vice President of Global Human Resources, effectiveJuly 7, 2025 , andMike van Akkooi into the newly created position of Senior Vice President of Global External Affairs, effectiveJuly 21, 2025 .Mr. German brings to the Company a deep understanding of the human resources function at a senior level with extensive expertise in the energy and mining sectors. Ms.Dee Ann Nazarenus , the Company's former Vice President of Human Resources and Administration and a longtime employee of the Company, retired effectiveAugust 1, 2025 , but will continue to consult with the Company throughDecember 31, 2026 as an invaluable source of institutional knowledge.Mr. van Akkooi brings to the Company over 25 years of leadership and management experience in highly complex, multi-cultural, international political and business environments. As previously announced onJuly 31, 2025 , the Company appointed Mr.Ross R. Bhappu as President of the Company, effectiveAugust 4, 2025 .
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Selected Summary Financial Information:
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Three Months Ended |
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(In thousands, except per share data) |
2025 |
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2024 |
Results of Operations: |
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Uranium concentrates revenues |
$ 3,850 |
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$ 8,590 |
Heavy mineral sands revenues |
278 |
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— |
Total revenues |
4,212 |
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8,719 |
Operating loss |
(26,175) |
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(9,044) |
Net loss attributable to |
(21,812) |
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(6,418) |
Basic net loss per common share |
$ (0.10) |
|
$ (0.04) |
Diluted net loss per common share |
$ (0.10) |
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$ (0.04) |
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(In thousands) |
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Percent Change |
Financial Position: |
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Working capital |
$ 253,229 |
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$ 170,898 |
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48 % |
Property, plant and equipment, net |
57,259 |
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55,187 |
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4 % |
Mineral properties, net |
293,832 |
|
278,330 |
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6 % |
Current assets |
288,900 |
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230,187 |
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26 % |
Total assets |
702,474 |
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611,969 |
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15 % |
Current liabilities |
35,671 |
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59,289 |
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(40) % |
Total liabilities |
57,705 |
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80,292 |
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(28) % |
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