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TORONTO AND JOHANNESBURG, May 3 /PRNewswire/ - First Uranium Corporation (TSX: FIU) (JSE: FUM) (ISIN:CA33744R1029) ("First Uranium" or the "Company") announced that it has successfully obtained the requisite consent of noteholders of the 7.00% Secured Convertible Notes due March 31, 2013 (the "Convertible Notes") and the 11.00% Secured Convertible Notes due March 31, 2013 (the "Rand Notes") to amend the technical completion test under the Gold Wheaton Chemwes Purchase Agreement (the...

TSXV: UAX OTCQX:  ATURF VANCOUVER, April 28 /PRNewswire/ - Athabasca Uranium Inc. ("Athabasca" or the "Company") (TSXV: UAX) (OTCQX: ATURF) is pleased to announce that it has entered into an agreement with an arm's-length vendor by which the Company has the option to earn a 100% interest in the Hamilton Lake Property in northeast Saskatchewan. The 5,873-hectare Hamilton Lake Property is located on the eastern margin of the uranium-rich Athabasca Basin, the most...

HOUSTON, April 28, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Texas Rare Earth Resources Corp., a heavy rare earths mining company that is developing Round Top Mountain, announced today that it has elected James J. Graham to its Board of Directors. Mr. Graham is a former member of the Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI) Board of Directors, served as Chairman of the Board of Governors for the World Nuclear Fuel Market (WNFM) and is the past Chairman of the NEI's Nuclear Fuel Supply Forum. Jim also Co-Chaired the World...

NYSE Amex Equities Exchange Symbol - UEC CORPUS CHRISTI, TX, April 26 /PRNewswire/ - Uranium Energy Corp (NYSE-AMEX: UEC) (the "Company") is pleased to announce that an updated, independent National Instrument 43-101 ("NI 43-101") Technical Report on the Company's Salvo Project located in Bee County, Texas, is in the process of being completed and reports an Inferred mineral resource of 1.2 million tons grading 0.08 percent U(3)O(8) or 2.839 million pounds U(3)O(8). The Salvo...

TORONTO and JOHANNESBURG, April 26 /PRNewswire/ - First Uranium Corporation (TSX:FIU) (JSE:FUM) (ISIN:CA33744R1029) ("First Uranium" or the "Company") announced that it is soliciting the consent of noteholders of the 7.00% Secured Convertible Notes due March 31, 2013 (the "Convertible Notes") and the 11.00% Secured Convertible Notes due March 31, 2013 (the "Rand Notes") to amend the technical completion test under the Gold Wheaton Chemwes Purchase Agreement whereby First Uranium would...

TORONTO AND JOHANNESBURG, April 19 /PRNewswire/ - First Uranium Corporation (TSX: FIU) (JSE: FUM) (ISIN:CA33744R1029) ("First Uranium" or "the Company") is pleased to announce that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Mine Waste Solutions ("MWS"), has commissioned its tailings storage facility ("TSF"), one month ahead of schedule, while production of yellow-cake from the re-commissioned uranium plant has commenced at the Ezulwini Mine. Mine Waste Solutions First Uranium's President...

HOBBS, N.M., April 18, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Former Senator Pete V. Domenici will be the key note speaker at the Uranium Fuel Cycle Conference, April 27 in Hobbs, N.M. The N.M. Center for Energy Policy, which is a division of New Mexico Tech, in partnership with the Economic Development Corporation of Lea County and New Mexico Junior College, is organizing the conference to bring together leaders in nuclear-related mining, energy and waste management. Domenici has long been...

Easy-to-follow recipes for radioactive compounds like those found in nuclear fuel storage pools, liquid waste containment areas and other contaminated aqueous environments have been developed by researchers at Sandia National Laboratories."The need to understand the chemistry of these compounds has never been more urgent, and these recipes facilitate their study," principal investigator May Nyman said of her group's success in encouraging significant amounts of relevant compounds to...

TSXV: UAX OTCQX:  ATURF VANCOUVER, April 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Athabasca Uranium Inc. is pleased to announce that it has received regulatory approval for, and subsequently closed on the first phase of its option to acquire the Hodges Lake Property, a 4,722-hectare property located on the eastern margin of the uranium-rich Athabasca Basin region in northeast Saskatchewan. As announced on March 30, 2011, the Company has the option to earn a 100% interest, subject to a...

-- Intercepts include 6.5 feet grading 0.262% U3O8 -- Updated resource estimate anticipated later this month NYSE Amex Equities Exchange Symbol - UEC CORPUS CHRISTI, TX, April 6 /PRNewswire/ - Uranium Energy Corp (NYSE-AMEX: UEC, the "Company") is pleased to announce continuing strong phase-one exploration drilling results at the Company's Salvo project located in Bee County, approximately 50 miles from the Company's Hobson processing facility in South...