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Energy Fuels Announces Sale of Secured Convertible Note and Receipt of Payment in Full for Prior Sale of Alta Mesa ISR Project
Together with $41.8 million previously paid by enCore, net proceeds from the Note total $64.2 million LAKEWOOD, Colo., Nov. 13, 2023 /CNW/ - Energy Fuels Inc. (
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[{"type":"text","content":" Together with $41.8 million previously paid by enCore, net proceeds from the Note total $64.2 million LAKEWOOD, Colo., Nov. 13, 2023 /CNW/ - Energy Fuels Inc. (NYSE American: UUUU) (TSX: EFR) (\"Energy Fuels\" or the \"Company\") is pleased to announce that, on November 9, 2023, it sold to MMCAP International Inc. SPC (\"MMCAP\") the remaining unpaid balance of $20 million owed under the Secured Convertible Note (the \"Note\") issued to the Company by enCore Energy Corp. (\"enCore\") as partial consideration for enCore's purchase of the Alta Mesa In-Situ Recovery Project (the \"Alta Mesa Sale\"), as previously announced on February 15, 2023, for total consideration of $21 million plus $1.5 million in unpaid accrued interest, less a sales commission of $100,000 paid to a third-party broker. As disclosed in the Company's Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2023, enCore previously paid $40 million toward the $60 million principal Note balance and $1.8 million of interest to the Company in partial fulfillment of its obligations under the Note. As a result of enCore's earlier paydown and the $22.4 million received in connection with the Note's sale, the Company has now received payment in full for the Alta Mesa Sale, and no further consideration is owed in connection therewith. All references to dollar amounts in this press release are references to US$. ABOUT ENERGY FUELS Energy Fuels is a leading US-based critical minerals company. The Company, as the leading producer of uranium in the United States, mines uranium and produces natural uranium concentrates that are sold to major nuclear utilities for the production of carbon-free nuclear energy. Energy Fuels recently began production of advanced rare earth element (\"REE\") materials, including mixed REE carbonate, and plans to produce commercial quantities of separated REE oxides in the future. Energy Fuels also produces vanadium from certain of its projects, as market conditions warrant, and is evaluating the recovery of radionuclides needed for emerging cancer treatments. Its corporate offices are in Lakewood, Colorado, near Denver, and substantially all its assets and employees are in the United States. Energy Fuels holds two of America's key uranium production centers: the White Mesa Mill in Utah and the Nichols Ranch in-situ recovery (\"ISR\") Project in Wyoming. Th...