The Uranium Cycle Is Still in Its Early Stages – and Offers Opportunities
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Dear Readers,
Bank of America remains constructive on the uranium market. According to a report published by Investing.com on 9 July 2026, the bank saw particularly strong upside potential in uranium despite lowering forecasts for numerous precious and base metals. The uranium spot price at the time was approximately 23% below BofA’s average 2026 forecast. Drivers cited included contracting frictions, supply discipline and potential additional utility purchases. As the underlying Bank of America research was not available to the editorial team, the statement is presented here as a secondary-source reference.
The fundamental backdrop remains supportive over the longer term. The World Nuclear Association estimates global reactor uranium requirements for 2025 at approximately 68,920 tonnes of uranium (tU). Under its Reference Scenario, requirements could rise to more than 150,000 tU by 2040. At the same time, mine production covered approximately 90% of annual reactor requirements in 2024, with the remaining gap supplied from inventories and other secondary sources.
This does not imply an automatic near-term supply shortage. However, new mines, restarts and expansions often require several years, substantial capital investment and regulatory approvals. Rising reactor requirements, geopolitically fragmented supply chains and utilities‘ focus on greater security of supply could therefore support additional long-term contracting. The uranium price remains an important value driver for uranium equities, while pronounced share-price volatility and project-specific risks must also be considered.
IsoEnergy: High-Grade Resource and U.S. Restart Optionality
IsoEnergy – https://www.commodity-tv.com/play/mining-news-flash-with-mogotes-metals-osisko-development-and-isoenergy/ – is a diversified uranium development company with current and historical Mineral Resources in Canada, the United States and Australia. The company is not currently producing uranium, but holds permitted, past-producing conventional uranium and vanadium mines in Utah and therefore describes itself as a potential near-term producer. No final restart or production decision has been made.
The flagship Larocque East Project in the eastern Athabasca Basin hosts the Hurricane Deposit. Its current Mineral Resource comprises 48.6 million lb U₃O₈ grading 34.5% U₃O₈ in the Indicated category and 2.7 million lb grading 2.2% U₃O₈ in the Inferred category. According to the company, the mineralization occurs at a depth of approximately 325 metres and is located around 40 kilometres northwest of the McClean Lake mill. In July 2026, IsoEnergy continued its summer drill program of up to 8,000 metres, designed to test the potential extension of mineralization along the Hurricane South Trend.
Tony M in Utah provides a second and distinctly different development option. By April 2026, IsoEnergy had mined approximately 2,100 U.S. short tons, equivalent to about 1,900 metric tonnes, of mineralized material as part of a bulk sample program. The operating, cost and processing data gathered are expected to inform an NI 43-101 Preliminary Economic Assessment. The company is also evaluating ore-sorting and upgrading technologies that, in earlier small-scale tests, concentrated a large proportion of the uranium into a materially smaller mass. Whether these results can be replicated at larger scale and on an economic basis remains to be demonstrated.
Premier American Uranium: Two U.S. Work Programs
Premier American Uranium – https://www.commodity-tv.com/play/exploration-updates-from-banyan-gold-fury-gold-mines-and-premier-american-uranium/ – is focused on uranium projects in the United States. Its portfolio spans five states and includes projects in New Mexico, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah and Arizona. A bought-deal private placement completed in February 2026 generated gross proceeds of approximately C$15 million and strengthened the funding available for ongoing work programs.
At Cebolleta in New Mexico, the company completed a 6,030-foot PQ core drilling program in July 2026 and delivered 77 core samples to Hazen Research. The planned metallurgical test program is intended, among other objectives, to evaluate assumptions relating to uranium recovery through heap leaching and potential improvements for future technical and economic studies. According to the company, the results are intended to inform an updated Preliminary Economic Assessment targeted for 2027. The 2025 PEA is preliminary in nature, includes Inferred Mineral Resources that are considered too geologically speculative for economic considerations to be applied that would enable them to be categorized as Mineral Reserves, and there is no certainty that the PEA will be realized.
At the Kaycee Project in Wyoming, 19 drill holes totalling 17,100 feet had been completed as of 17 June 2026. Seven holes intersected uranium mineralization grading at least 0.02% eU₃O₈ based on downhole gamma-probe measurements. These are radiometrically derived equivalent uranium grades rather than direct chemical assays, and no corrections were made for radiometric disequilibrium. The company planned up to 100,000 feet of drilling for the 2026 season to systematically test several target areas.
Conclusion: Two Different Forms of Exposure to the Same Market
The uranium thesis combines rising long-term reactor requirements with a primary supply base that can adjust only slowly. This may create opportunities, although the cycle remains volatile and capital-intensive. IsoEnergy combines an exceptionally high-grade Canadian resource with the potential restart of past-producing U.S. mines. Premier American Uranium provides a more exploration- and development-oriented exposure to the expansion of a domestic U.S. uranium supply chain. At both companies, progress remains dependent on technical results, permitting, financing, execution and a sustainable uranium price.
Current company information and press releases: IsoEnergy (- https://www.resource-capital.ch/de/unternehmen/iso-energy-ltd/ -) and Premier American Uranium (- https://www.resource-capital.ch/de/unternehmen/premier-american-uranium-corp/ -).
Further information is available in the Uranium Report 2026/03: https://www.resource-capital.ch/de/reports/ansicht/uran-report-2026-03/
Kind regards
Yours sincerely
Marc Ollinger
Swiss Resource Capital AG
Scientific and Technical Basis and Qualified Persons
The information concerning Larocque East/Hurricane is based in particular on IsoEnergy news releases dated 12 May, 11 June and 8 July 2026. The scientific and technical content of those releases was reviewed and approved by Dr. Dan Brisbin, P.Geo., IsoEnergy’s Vice President, Exploration, and a Qualified Person under NI 43-101. The information concerning the Tony M bulk sample is based on releases dated 7 January and 23 April 2026. The technical content of the 23 April 2026 release was also reviewed and approved by Dr. Dan Brisbin, while the 7 January 2026 release identifies Dean T. Wilton, PG, CPG, MAIG, as the Qualified Person. The Cebolleta information is based on Premier American Uranium’s release dated 13 July 2026. The scientific and technical information relating to the 2026 drilling program was reviewed and approved by Mike Thompson, C.P.G., a consultant to the company and Project Manager for Cebolleta. The information relating to the 2025 PEA and the Mineral Resource Estimate was reviewed and approved by Mark B. Mathisen, C.P.G., of SLR International Corporation. Additional technical information relating to the 2026 work program and metallurgical test program was reviewed and approved by Terry McNulty, P.E., a consultant to the company and a Qualified Person under NI 43-101. The Kaycee information is based on the 17 June 2026 release, which was reviewed and approved by J.J. Brown, P.G., SME-RM, Vice President, Exploration, and a Qualified Person. These QP reviews relate solely to the respective primary-source disclosures and not to this English-language article. SRC Swiss Resource Capital AG has not independently verified the scientific or technical information.
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