New Domestic Development Offers Investment Opportunity
A combination of events across the globe has been pushing uranium prices to highs not seen since 2008. In 2011 the Fukushima disaster severely dampened the market for nuclear energy projects. In the intervening years, active miners cut production levels in response to the depressed market. Recently, however, nuclear projects have been increasing as the world looks for carbon-neutral energy sources. In just the past year, the price for uranium nearly doubled.
Uranium Price Per Pound – Source DailyMetalPrice.com
Cameco, one of the world’s largest producers, cut back its production forecast this year due to labor shortages and problems with equipment. The world’s largest uranium producer, by far, is Kazakhstan’s state-owned Kazatomprom. The company has been throttling production since 2018 but was having difficulty meeting even reduced levels of production this year due to shortages of key materials like sulfuric acid. Kazatomprom plans to increase output in 2025 due to positive changes in the market.
Meanwhile, over 20 countries just promised to triple nuclear energy capacity by 2050 at the United Nations’ climate meeting, citing the need to decrease emissions as the driving force behind the pledge. The growth in nuclear projects has already begun, with 170 new reactors either under construction or planned for the near future. The current supply/demand dynamic in the sector does not appear to be going away any time soon.
As a result, now is probably a very good time to look at new sources of uranium production as an investment opportunity. Investors can follow the lead of hedge funds which have been investing heavily in the sector, betting that uranium stocks will continue to rise with no apparent end to the supply/demand imbalance. In the United States and Canada, uranium exploration is being incentivized by the federal governments because domestic uranium supply is critical to national security. For exploration companies there has never been a better time to pour resources into discovering the next big uranium deposit.
Large Exploration Package in Canada
One explorer worth considering is Stallion Uranium Corp. (TSX.V: STUD) (OTCQB: STLNF) (FSE: HM40). Stallion Uranium has assembled one of the largest land packages in Canada’s Athabasca Basin, which contains the world’s richest uranium deposits. The company is particularly focused in the southwestern region of the basin, historically less explored than the more developed eastern area but home to several recent discoveries.
Stallion Uranium CEO Drew Zimmerman talks about why investors should be interested in Athabasca Basin exploration companies.
With a market cap in the $17 million range, Stallion is certainly a very small company but the net it has cast is outsized in comparison. The company’s land package in the Athabasca Basin covers 742,320 acres in total, with 692,647 acres concentrated in the western Basin. It’s a mix of wholly-owned and joint venture claims, strategically located adjacent to and along trend lines from major discoveries and development projects. The company believes its holdings in the western Basin comprise the largest contiguous exploration package in the area.
Stallion Uranium acquired its wholly-owned claims in January 2023 and commissioned a VTEMTM Plus electromagnetic (EM) and magnetic survey over the entirety of their holdings. The survey helped identify conductive corridors with the potential to hold significant uranium deposits. As a result, Stallion Uranium now has seven named projects identified for further exploration on these wholly-owned claims.
The Coffer Project is the first to advance with an exploration permit secured and a ground-based electromagnetic survey launched very recently. The Gunter Lake Project isn’t far behind, with an exploration permit recently granted and a ground survey to follow. In both cases, the ground survey will be combined with the airborne data to identify drilling targets. Expect other projects to follow the same process.
After closing the joint venture agreement with ATHA Energy Corp. in September, Stallion quickly launched an airborne electromagnetic survey over the entirety of the JV lands. These claims cover about 2,200 square kilometers. The joint venture calls for Stallion to spend $12 million on exploration of the claims in the next five years to earn a 70% interest in the holdings. Just over $3.3 million of that needs to be spent in this first year.
The Upshot
It was a very busy 2023 for the company. Two name changes, from Stallion Gold to Stallion Discoveries to Stallion Uranium, are signposts of the company’s progress. Stallion still has a couple of gold, antimony, and multi-mineral projects up its sleeve, in strategic areas of Idaho and Nevada. But the focus shifted at the beginning of the year to uranium with the acquisition of its initial claims, and the uranium program is now in overdrive with the addition of the joint venture claims.
Look for 2024 to be just as significant for Stallion Uranium as it further identifies and explores uranium targets. Drill results can greatly impact an explorer’s stock price. F3 Uranium Corp. began announcing excellent drill results from the JR zone of its PLN project in November 2022. Within two months the stock price rose from around $0.06 to the $0.30 range, which is about where it trades today.
Stallion’s Coffer Project lies 13 km east of F3’’s JR zone, and 3 km southeast of the Shea Creek Project, with over 85 million pounds of uranium resource indicated and inferred. The potential is certainly there for a major discovery, and Stallion’s team is putting its initial efforts into Coffer as its most promising project. But the company is set up to take many swings at a major discovery across its massive holdings. 2024 promises to be full of major developments for Stallion Uranium, and investors interested in the red-hot uranium market should be paying close attention.
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