UraMin Inc - Placing and Admission to AIM
RNS Number:7788BUraMin Inc 21 April 2006
UraMin Inc. raises $60m (#34m) via a placing of 50,000,000 ordinary shares at a price of $1.20 (68.5p) per ordinary share ('the Placing') and is admitted to AIM
UraMin Inc.

('UraMin' or 'the Company') begins trading today with ticker symbol 'UMN', following completion of the Placing and admission of its entire issued share capital to trading on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange plc ('AIM').

The Company has raised US$60 million (approximately #34 million) before expenses and at the Placing price the Company has a market capitalisation of US$209 million (approximately #120 million).

Matrix Corporate Capital Limited isthe nominated adviser and Canaccord Adams Limited is broker to the Company. BMO Nesbitt Burns Inc. was the placing agent.

Samuel Jonah KBE, non-executive chairman, and Stephen R. Dattels, executivedeputy chairman and founder, head the UraMin board of directors. Mr. Dattels said: 'With the Placing and admission to AIM, UraMin has positioned itself to become an important uranium producer in the near term. The Company has the financial strength to develop its existing projects as well as assess new projects. Most importantly, we have built a top management team which can advance the Company's uranium projects to the bankable feasibility stage and ultimately into production.'

John (Ian) Stalker, CEO of UraMin, added 'This is an exciting time for uranium mining companies and with our listing, we expect our profile to grow within the industry.

'Expected TimetableAdmission and dealings in the ordinary shares commence on AIM 8.00 a.m. on 21 April 2006
Delivery of depositary interests into CREST 21 April 2006
Where applicable, despatch of definitive share certificates in respect of the 28 April 2006
Placing shares to placees by no later thanPlacing StatisticsPlacing price US$1.20 per shareNumber of Placing shares 50,000,000Number of ordinary shares in issue following the Placing 174,175,792Percentage of the enlarged issued share capital subject to the Placing 28.7 per centEstimated net proceeds of the Placing US$54 millionMarket capitalisation following admission at the Placing price US$209 millionNumber of options in issue on admission 22,133,332Number of warrants in issue on admission 20,093,947Number of ordinary shares on a fully diluted basis on admission 216,403,071ISIN number for the ordinary shares VGG9298V1067

For further informationUraMinIan Stalker, Chief Executive OfficerTel: +27 (0)11 783 5056Neil Herbert, Finance DirectorTel: +44 (0)20 7408 2018Matrix Corporate Capital LimitedAlastair StrattonTel: +44 (0)20 7925 3300Canaccord Adams LimitedRobin BirchallTel: +44 (0)20 7518 7388Britton FinancialTim BlackstoneTel: +44 (0)20 7251 2544

This press release has been issued by UraMin and is the sole responsibility ofthe Company. This press release does not contain or constitute an offer orinvitation to purchase or subscribe for any securities of UraMin and should notbe relied on in connection with any decision to purchase or subscribe for anysuch securities.The securities referred to herein have not been and will not be registered underthe U.S. Securities Act of 1933 and may not be offered or sold in the UnitedStates absent registration under the Securities Act or an available exemptionfrom it.Notes to EditorsUraMin Inc.

UraMin Inc. ('the Company' or, collectively with its subsidiaries, 'the Group')was incorporated in February 2005 for the purpose of seeking to acquire and develop mineral deposits, predominantly uranium, throughout the world. Provided its application for an exclusive prospecting licence (EPL) for its advanced exploration project, the Trekkopje Project in Namibia, is successful, the Group currently plans to develop and bring the project into production. The Group is also actively seeking and exploring additional uranium properties throughout the world.

The Trekkopje Project is located in west-central Namibia about 65 km northeast of Swakopmund. The project area has been extensively explored in the past with primary drilling in mineralised areas at approximately 100m to 200m intervals along lines 400m apart, with more closely spaced infill drilling covering areas of better grades. Aggregated SAMREC Code compliant resources in both the indicated and inferred categories are estimated by the competent persons of Dr.Morris Viljoen and Dr. Richard Viljoen at 120.9 Mlbs of U3O8. Total indicated resource alone is estimated at 13.2 Mlbs of U3O8.

The vanadium content isestimated to average approximately one third of the uranium content. Upon grant of the relevant EPL, the Group plans to complete a feasibility study on the Trekkopje Project over the next eighteen months, which will be followed by construction assuming that the results of the feasibility study are favourable.

Initial capital costs for the development of the project are estimated at US$181 million. A conceptual technical and economic evaluation of the Trekkopje Project was undertaken by Turgis Consulting (Pty) Ltd based on spot prices at the time of analysis of US$38.50/lb for U3O8 and US$9.50/lb for V2O5 and an exchange rate of US$1=R6.20.

The analysis assumed a mine life of 20 years for the indicated and inferred resources of the Trekkopje Project with an annual production rate of 3.1 Mlbs of U3O8 and an average operating cost of US$15.60/lb of U3O8. The net present value of the pre-tax cash flow at a 10 per cent discount rate was estimated at US$349 million with an internal rate of return of 44 per cent.

The net present value of the post-tax cash flow was estimated at US$167 million at a 10 per cent discount rate. SAMREC requires that in addition to reporting the results of any cash flow modelling on the total resource figure, that the results of the indicated resource alone are also reported. On this basis, the mining resource would comprise 13.2 Mlbs of U3O8 with an overall production cost of US$14.67/lb of U3O8 and would result in a pre-tax net present value of US$17 million at a 10 per cent discount rate.

The post-tax net present value at a 10 per cent discountrate would be negative US$28 million. Overall U3O8 production would be 9.7 Mlbs.

The Group is also attempting to secure mineral rights in the Beaufort West, Sutherland and Springbok Flats districts of South Africa and plans to explorethose properties on which it acquires or is granted prospecting rights. The Group also plans, subject to publication of a decree ratifying the Mining Convention between the Group and the Chad government, to conduct preliminary evaluation work on the areas over which it has been granted exploration permits in Chad. In addition, the Company has recently signed an option agreement to acquire up to a 50 per cent. interest in the Rea Property located in the highly uranium-prospective Athabasca Basin in Alberta, Canada.

The Group is also attempting to secure five prospecting and research licences in Mozambique and licences in the Botsalano Ring Complex region on the South Africa/Botswana border.

The UraMin board is headed by non-executive chairman Samuel Jonah KBE and executive deputy chairman Stephen R. Dattels. Samuel Jonah KBE is non-executive president of AngloGold Ashanti Limited and executive chairman of Equator Exploration Limited, as well as a member of President Thabo Mbeki's advisorycouncil of South Africa. Mr. Dattels is the founder of UraMin and has beena ctive in its formation, development and financing. He was also a key executive at Barrick Gold Corporation during its formative years and is a financier andfounder of a number of mining companies. John (Ian) Stalker is chief executive officer. He has over thirty years of experience as an international miningexecutive, having most recently worked for Gold Fields Ltd. as vice president responsible for the company's main project activities in Europe and Australia. Mr. Stalker has been responsible for placing into production eight mines with several important mines in Africa including the Siguri, Bibiani and Geita mines.

Since its incorporation, the Company has raised US$100.8 million in equity finance, including the gross proceeds of the Placing. Should the Group's EPL application prove successful the funds raised by the Company will be used to move the Trekkopje Project to the feasibility study stage. No assurance can be given that the Group's application for an EPL will be successful; however, the Group has been advised by local counsel that an application of this nature should not normally be refused. Net proceeds of the Placing will also be applied to the Group's other prospecting programmes and towards securing an interest in the Rea Property. The directors will also continue to identify and evaluate opportunities for the acquisition of uranium properties and may apply net proceeds to the securing of additional properties.

Oh...it is because you are on board now, cynic. LOL!

The high for these was 2.82 , the graph would look good if they reached over 3

but currently sp cannot break into new high ground and, moreimportantly, hold it .... with Dow heading swiftly south (glad i'm short and shall not say told you so some days back), UMN is likely to follow suit in the morning

Cynic, I didn't know you are short on UMN.

You are right today on shorting UMN, cynic.

i am NOT short of UMN .... i am long ..... merely made an observation

UMN is not doing too badly...down 14p on a day like this!

Somebody just dumped 550,000 shares at 225p.

lets get them all up for the mroning how dose tomorrow look cynic

Well the ft was well down , umn down 14p is not bad . A good day and we will gain this in 15 mins .

well i'm in @239p, maybe could have left it til tomorrow, if dow closes 11,950 or less and far east follow suit, i think we will test 5950 or lower in morn... who knows

I wonder where cynic is today. He's been very quiet. Spoken to him once early this morning.

been playing golf!

morning cynic nice to have you back hope today is little better then your golf

cynic , snap on the golf course as well . A better day for umn .

Were will we go with the sp this week ? Lets hope we get towards the 2.82 high .

The JP Morgan report is the latest indication that nuclear, for long the "renewable that dared not speak its name", is back in vogue. The renaissance, driven by growth in the energy-hungry markets of the US and China, is fuelling an explosion in the cost of uranium and attracting the interest of hedge funds in search of the next big thing.

this is a good read
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/money/2007/03/13/ccnuclear13.xml

Holding steady around 2.50 , they started on their lastest project on march 9th , an update could be due soon and positive results could push the sp to 3 .

UraMin Inc
20 March 2007



20 March 2007
UraMin Inc.
("UraMin" or the "Company")

UraMin Completes US$226 million Private Placement


NOT FOR DISSEMINATION IN THE UNITED STATES OR FOR DISTRIBUTION TO U.S. NEWSWIRE
SERVICES


UraMin is pleased to confirm that it has completed its previously announced
private placement of 52.0 million ordinary shares of UraMin at a price of 2.25
per share for gross proceeds of approximately US$226 million. BMO Capital
Markets Inc. acted as lead agent for the financing on behalf of a syndicate that
included Canaccord Adams Limited and Sprott Securities Inc.

Subject to compliance with applicable law, the shares sold through the placing
may be traded through AIM immediately but will be subject to United States
resale restrictions, and resale restrictions in Canada for the period from
closing until 21 July 2007. The new shares rank pari passu in all respects with
the existing ordinary shares in issue.

The net proceeds from the private placement will be used primarily to advance
the Trekkopje Project towards commercial production.


BACKGROUND INFORMATION

The Company was established in 2005 to acquire and develop mineral properties,
predominantly uranium. Following the private placement the Company currently
working capital of approximately US$300 million and a market capitalization of
approximately US$1.3 billion on an undiluted basis. UraMin (www.uramin.com) is
traded on the Alternative Investment Market of the London Stock Exchange plc and
the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol UMN.

UraMin is currently focusing on the development of its advanced stage
exploration projects at Trekkopje in Namibia, Bakouma in the Central African
Republic and Ryst Kuil in South Africa. Through a South African joint venture,
UraMin also enjoys additional prospecting (license applications for important
uranium deposits in the Karoo, South Africa. No assurance can be given that
remaining applications for prospecting licences will be successful.)

RNS out , now we will see the sp move up .