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U.S. government fast-tracks permitting for Uranium Energy's Sweetwater complex to add ISR capability
URANIUM ENERGY CORP
- Sweetwater designated as FAST-41 transparency project under President Trump's Executive Order on critical minerals.
- Fast-track permitting aims to enable In-Situ Recovery mining within existing boundary and expand to adjacent BLM lands.
- Sweetwater, acquired from Rio Tinto in 2024, will become largest dual-feed U.S. uranium facility (conventional ore + ISR resin).
- Current licensed capacity is 4.1M lbs U3O8/year; plant is a 3,000 ton/day conventional mill fully permitted by Wyoming.
- Over 175M lbs historic uranium resources, 6.1M ft of historic drilling, ~108,000 acres in basin portfolio.