Ur-Energy Releases 2025 Q1 Results and Announces Receipt of Final Approval for Lost Creek Expansion

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LITTLETON, CO / ACCESS Newswire / May 8, 2025 / Ur-Energy Inc. (NYSE American:URG)(TSX:URE) (the "Company" or "Ur-Energy") has filed the Company's Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2025, with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission at www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml and with Canadian securities authorities at www.sedarplus.ca.

Ur-Energy CEO, John Cash said: "We appreciate the Wyoming Water Quality Division and EPA's careful consideration of the aquifer exemption for the LC East and KM Amendment areas for the Lost Creek Permit to Mine. The issuance of the aquifer exemption is the culmination of many years of thorough analysis and is the final approval required to mine within the specified geologic horizons. The nuclear fuel generated from the Lost Creek Project will provide clean, baseload power for U.S. and European power plants while diversifying Wyoming's tax base and reducing our nation's reliance on uranium from other countries."

Lost Creek Operations
During 2025 Q1 operations at Lost Creek, we dried and packaged 83,066 pounds and shipped 106,301 pounds U3O8 to the conversion facility. At quarter end, our in-process inventory at Lost Creek was approximately 29,700 pounds, our drummed inventory at Lost Creek was 10,772 pounds, and our finished inventory at the conversion facility was 368,540 pounds. Subsequent to quarter end, we shipped an additional 35,287 pounds U3O8. We now have 403,827 pounds U3O8 in inventory at the conversion facility.

As previously disclosed, our wellfield flow rate has increased by 44% since the beginning of March 2025 and is now routinely over 2,800 gallons per minute. Additional flow increases are expected throughout the summer as our current fleet of 19 contract drill rigs and Company construction staff bring on additional header houses and enhance flow in existing wells through routine maintenance and improvements. Head grade remains on target. The Lost Creek processing plant is reducing in-circuit inventory with both dryers operating routinely and other process circuits performing more consistently.

Subsequent to quarter-end, we received the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality (WDEQ) amendments to our Lost Creek permit to mine. This final permitting action by the State, following the license amendment received from WDEQ Uranium Recovery Program (URP) in 2021, allows for the expansion of recovery operations in up to six additional mine units in the HJ and KM horizons at our LC East Project and HJ mine units at Lost Creek. The State's permit approval was followed by the final concurrence and approval for the expansion: the related aquifer exemption from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, which was received May 1, 2025.