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Value is to be found in the earth: Uranium One Inc. (T.UUU)
Value is to be found in the earth: Uranium One Inc. (T.UUU)
About this update from Uranium One Mining Corp.
[{"type":"text","content":"\nValue is to be found in the earth: Uranium One Inc. (T.UUU)\n\n\n Mar. 17, 2009 (Baystreet.ca) -- All in the financial world is not doom and gloom; one just has to look deep enough to find the success stories that are still out there. Companies are still working hard to provide values for shareholders, making products that are still of value to our world.One of those firms is Vancouver-based Uranium One, whose stock trades on the TSX under the symbol UUU. Its name and symbol represent simplicity itself.Uranium One, Inc. (TSX: UUU) is one of the world's largest publicly traded uranium producers with a globally diversified portfolio of assets located in Kazakhstan, the United States, South Africa and Australia. And its most recent tidings have to provide a smile, or at least, an upraised eyebrow to small cap investors seeking value.In March, UUU announced its 2008 results, and they were encouraging: uranium production during 2008 of 2.8 million pounds, an increase of 41 per cent from just over two million pounds in 2007. The company also reported attributable sales volumes of 2.2 million pounds of uranium last year, a 37-per-cent hike over the year before. Not that the company was immune to the general economic pinch of 2008. Earnings from mine operations were $96.7 million (all figures in U.S. dollars unless specified otherwise) during 2008, a five-per-cent drop from 2007, primarily due to a lower realized uranium sales price. However, 2008 was also the year of forging links with international partners such as Japanese-based Mitsui & Company, who would pick up a 49-per-cent stake in the Australian assets of Uranium One for a minimum cash commitment of $104 million Australian (or about $68.4 million U.S.).UUU has numerous friends of influence in Japan. In February, Tokyo Electric Power Co., Toshiba Corp. and the Japan Bank for International Cooperation teamed up to buy 19.95 per cent of outstanding shares in Uranium One Inc. to secure a stable supply of the radioactive element. Keeping with the international theme, Uranium One has a 70-per-cent interest in a Joint Venture in Kazakhstan that owns the Akdala Uranium Mine, which is currently in operation and the South Inkai Uranium Project, which commenced pre-commercial production in 2007. The Corporation also has a 30-per-cent interest in a Joint Venture in Kazakhstan that is...