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Denison Mines’ Wheeler River uranium project in northern Saskatchewan’s Athabasca basin. DENISON MINES
Phoenix value soars for Denison as costs drop URANIUM
| Wheeler River property could host Canada’s first ISR uranium mine
BY BRIAN SYLVESTER Special to The Northern Miner
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new prefeasibility study on Denison Mines’ (TSX: DML; NYSE-AM: DNN) flagship Wheeler River uranium project in northern Saskatchewan’s
Athabasca basin says underground in-situ recovery methods would lower cash-operating costs at the high-grade Phoenix deposit to US$3.33 per lb. — an eye-popping decrease from the US$22.15 per lb. determined in a preliminary economic assessment (PEA) com-
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pleted just two and half years ago. The remarkable drop in anticipated operating costs throttles up the study’s pre-tax net present value of the Phoenix deposit to $1.41 billion from $513 million, using a base uranium oxide (U3O8) price of US$44 per lb., and an 8% discount rate. That’s a 275% boost from the PEA. At press time the spot price for U3O8 was US$27.50 per pound. The pre-tax internal rate of return on Wheeler River also jumps to 47.4%, versus 20.4% in the 2016 PEA. And the pre-tax payback pe-
riod shifts to 15 months, versus 36. Meanwhile, total recovered U3O8 would reach almost 60 million lb. over 10 years, which is virtually unchanged from the 2016 PEA. The dramatic change in economics is all about the move from the costly “jet bore” mining method used in the PEA to an advanced form of in-situ recovery (ISR). “The selection of ISR will prove to be a defining moment for our company and a potentially transformational development for the future See DENISON / 2
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recious Metals Summit Conferences wrapped up its annual three-day event in fine form this year in Beaver Creek, Colorado. The eighth consecutive Summit ran from Sept. 20–22. Temperatures rose to a high of 17°C, as is typical in the region that time of year, and the sun shone across a cloudless sky. “This is a good time to come visit because it’s our most colourful season,” the cab driver says during the half-hour drive from Eagle County Airport to Beaver Creek. She gestures to Colorado’s surrounding See SUMMIT / 15 PM40069240