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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001437749-25-033897"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "UEC"
cik: "0001334933"
company_name: "URANIUM ENERGY CORP"
filed_at: "2025-11-07T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-16T22:58:09.765701+00:00"
event_type: "regulatory"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Uranium added to USGS Critical Minerals List; UEC applauds decision

## Summary
- U.S. Geological Survey adds uranium to Final 2025 Critical Minerals List, published in Federal Register.
- CEO Amir Adnani says UEC will ramp up activities at its three licensed hub-and-spoke platforms in Texas and Wyoming.
- Company also advancing United States Uranium Refining & Conversion Corp. to restore domestic nuclear fuel conversion.
- Departments of Energy and Defense recommended inclusion, citing energy production and national security.
- U.S. heavily reliant on foreign uranium imports; designation aims to secure domestic supply chains.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001437749-25-033897
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: UEC
- cik: 0001334933
- company_name: URANIUM ENERGY CORP
- filed_at: 2025-11-07T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: regulatory
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1334933/000143774925033897/0001437749-25-033897-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1334933/000143774925033897/uec20251107_8k.htm

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