In short: Cited as evidence, not a stance on the stock: a contact who conducted a site visit at Arrow "strengthened my belie[f] that Arrow delivering something like 16 million pounds by 2033-2034 instead of roughly 30 million by 2030-2031 remains a right-tail risk a lot of buyers are woefully unprepared for."
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In short: Referenced only — by project: Arrow is one of "the three largest Canadian developments" that "show no start date in the report," cited as evidence that the new-mine pipeline is undated, not as a stance on the company.
4:26To put that in perspective, just one major new mine has been completed anywhere in the world since 2016. The report lists dozens more planned and prospective mines, but only about one in five have a start date. Even the three largest Canadian developments, Arrow, Phoenix, and Triple R, show no start date in the report. Demand, meanwhile, has barely changed from the last edition.
In short: "The big one that everybody is watching, and I do mean literally everybody, is Arrow" — needed for 2030s supply-demand "not [to] look like an absolute train wreck." The shock case: Arrow bought and re-planned, or slipping from 29–29.5m lb in 2030 to ~16m lb in 2033–34 — "still going to print a lot of money for the company," but a major market event once sniffed out. A watch item, not a stance on the stock.
22:39I think the big one that everybody is watching, and I do mean literally everybody, is Arrow. So NexGen's Arrow, because we need Arrow to have any hope of making the supply-demand modeling into the 2030s and beyond not look like an absolute train wreck. So I discussed this with a big trader as well, and we kind of discussed the possibility of, okay, what is this market going to look like if Arrow either gets bought up and the mine gets pushed back — say the new owner has a new mine plan —
In short: Arrow is "the big example of where there is perhaps a little bit too much optimism." ~29–30m lb/yr from 2030 is "aggressive… a very very large number to hit." If it is ~16m lb in 2034–35 instead of 29.5m in 2031, "it will have an outsized impact. It will be a shock." He treats this as a price risk for the whole sector, not a call on the stock.
NexGen plans Arrow, a huge new Canadian mine that many buyers count on for about 30 million pounds a year in the early 2030s. Mart thinks that is optimistic. If it starts years later and produces about half as much, the market loses a large expected source of supply.
His point is that the market can no longer absorb such a surprise. Spare inventories are thin, and contract options utilities used to stretch supply have already been used. A delay at Arrow would push prices up sharply. It is a warning about supply, not a rating of the stock.
32:28And I think of course the big one and the big example of where there is perhaps a little bit too much optimism yet and there is a lot of room for a real shock moment which I think is Arrow. Of course they're targeting 2030 for Arrow to come online. And next has stated they want to produce tens of millions of pounds, almost 30 million pounds.
In short: Arrow is "the big one that a lot of buyers still have plenty of faith in," but if it delivers "~16 million pounds by 2033-2034 instead of ~30 million pounds by 2030-2031" it "will cause a massive shockwave through the market" that many are "woefully unprepared for" — a right-tail price risk for the whole sector rather than a view on the stock.
NexGen's Arrow deposit is the big new Canadian mine many utilities are counting on for the 2030s. The risk Mart heard in conversations is timing: if it starts later and smaller than planned (about 16 million pounds a year by 2033–34 instead of about 30 million by 2030–31), a big chunk of expected supply disappears. Buyers are not prepared for that, so prices across the sector could jump. It is a warning about supply, not a rating of the stock.
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In short: Held alongside Cameco as one of "the safer seniors." (Caveat from the same interview: Athabasca deposits are high-grade but underground, costly and 15–20 years from discovery to production.)
NexGen is developing a very large, very high-grade uranium deposit in Canada's Athabasca Basin. Beck holds it next to Cameco as a "safer senior." The same interview gives the trade-off: Athabasca deposits are rich but deep underground, so radioactive they need robotic mining, and typically take 15–20 years from discovery to production. That makes a company already far along that road valuable in a market short of new supply, but it also means the development risk and timeline are real.
8:56But the real money and the real juice in this business is trying to find those basket of juniors, and they all won't work out, but where you can pick them up for five cents and with a little bit of luck and good timing they'll be worth a dollar or $2 a share in 12 to 18 months.
In short: Supply yardstick, not a view: India's 100 GW nuclear ambition "would consume all the production out of NexGen, Denison, and Paladin's mines in Saskatchewan." Later: even the big Athabasca Basin mines being slated — "the market needs those pounds."
3:03Now they need to turn to be more strategic because it's not just them buying. You have large state-owned players in places like China and India. India alone announced last week that they can envision adding another 100 gigawatts of nuclear capacity in the coming years. That amount of nuclear growth would consume all the production out of NexGen, Denison, and Paladin's mines in Saskatchewan.
In short: Not a call on the stock — the example of a utility blind spot: fuel buyers pencil in NexGen "producing 30 million pounds of uranium per year starting in 2031" as supply that will "flood the market," but greenfield timelines keep slipping and "no company, NexGen included, is going to" dump pounds into spot and push down its own market.
This isn't a view on NexGen's shares — Huhn explicitly declines to pick on individual companies. NexGen is the example he uses of a Western blind spot. Its Arrow mine in Saskatchewan is planned to produce around 30 million pounds a year from about 2031, and utilities treat that as a flood of supply that will push prices down, so they wait rather than sign contracts now.
He thinks that's wrong for two reasons. Developers' published start dates have slipped for years across the industry, so a feasibility-study timeline is a best case, not a plan. And even when a big new mine does start, its owner has no interest in dumping pounds into the spot market and crushing its own selling price — it will sign long contracts like Cameco and Kazatomprom do. Waiting for NexGen to bail the market out, in his view, only delays utility buying and makes the eventual price move bigger.
11:19So the timelines are slipping and slipping and the west continues to believe the stated timeframe and volume numbers from feasibility studies that are intended to get investors attention, utility fuel buyers are taking that same information and taking it to heart. So when utility fuel buyers believe that for example nextg will be producing 30 million pounds of uranium per year starting in 2031 that is something that they kind of keep in their back pocket is that is going to come in and flood the market uranium and push the price down. Now
In short: Named alongside Denison as the other Athabasca uranium developer now in construction — and so competing for the same scarce Saskatchewan labour pool. No view offered on the company.
3:22— You touched on the labor market and I'm curious because Dennis and mines and nextgen are both in the construction phase. So I can only imagine the labor market must be very tight. Do you have any problems finding skilled labor? — Well and it's not just Dennis and NextGen. Saskatchewan is an incredibly successful province right now because of the government's commitment to supporting sustainable resource development.
In short: His own company, so a CEO's book. Rook I / Arrow is in construction after the 5-Mar CNSC permit and the 13-Aug groundbreaking — ~240 on site, civil works this year, shaft sinking from mid-2027, production in four years, with "every day planned for the next four years." C$2.2B capex against ~C$1B in treasury and funding into late 2027; the delta is to be settled by March 2027, prepayment preferred. Contracting keeps "very strong exposure to spot price" so NexGen stays "the world's most levered company to the future price uranium," and at the current price it would be "a top 10 world mining company based on after tax cash flow."
NexGen is building a uranium mine called Rook I (the deposit is Arrow) in northern Saskatchewan. The long wait was regulatory: Canada's nuclear regulator granted the final permit in March 2026, and construction formally began on 13 August. Right now the work is groundwork — an airstrip, a camp for 700 people with about 240 there today, a water outflow pipe installed by divers, and freezing the ground so two shafts can be dug from mid-2027. Production is about four years away, and the company says it has mapped out every day between now and then.
The money question is straightforward: the mine costs about C$2.2 billion to build and NexGen has roughly C$1 billion in the bank, enough to keep going into late 2027. Curyer wants to fill the gap by March 2027, and his preferred route is a prepayment — a customer pays cash up front for uranium delivered later — because that raises money without issuing new shares that dilute existing owners. Bank loans, a partner buying into the project itself, new shares and government support are the backups.
The deliberate part of the strategy is what he does not do: when he sells future production to power utilities, he keeps the price tied to whatever uranium is trading at on delivery rather than fixing it today. That means the share price stays highly sensitive to the uranium price — he calls NexGen "the world's most levered company to the future price of uranium" and says contracting is designed to keep it that way. Upside if uranium rises; nothing to cushion the fall if it doesn't. He also says that at today's price the mine would put NexGen among the ten largest mining companies in the world by after-tax cash flow. This is the founder and CEO talking about his own company, so weigh it accordingly.
6:24to be in a position to be in construction and in four years from now based on the current spot price and I think we all agree and this conference 1400 people this year. It's evident that uranium price is going higher. But at the current uranium price will be a top 10 world mining company based on after tax cash flow and in an elite environmental performance and social performance at the same time.
In short: Named, not rated: "there's been some interesting news rumors around NexGen and BHP in the last couple weeks that there might be something going on there." His point is supply, not the takeover — "that project still remains a number of years away… that's a big project, the Rook I, to bring online," so it does nothing to relieve a term market already at record prices.
NexGen is a Canadian development-stage uranium company. Its Rook I project in Saskatchewan's Athabasca Basin is the largest undeveloped uranium deposit in the Western world — but it is a project, not a mine: nothing has been produced yet.
It comes up here as a fact rather than a recommendation. There have been "interesting news rumors around NexGen and BHP in the last couple weeks that there might be something going on there" — market chatter that the world's largest miner may be circling. Rozencwajg doesn't rate the shares and doesn't speculate on the deal.
His point is the opposite of a takeover story: even this, the flagship project, "still remains a number of years away… that's a big project, the Rook I, to bring online." Which is exactly why the uranium term price keeps making highs — there is "not much in the way of new mine supply to bail the market out," so a shortage cannot be solved quickly however much money arrives.
42:5250 a pound. Obviously in real dollars it's still below the '08 highs, but it broke by 50 cents the '08 highs in nominal terms. And that's because the market remains very, very tight. There's been some interesting news rumors around NexGen and BHP in the last couple weeks that there might be something going on there.
In short: Used twice, both times as illustration rather than as a pick. Its supply-gap chart supplies the demand case — "by 2040 primary uranium deficit is projected to reach 335 million pounds per year… meeting forecasted 2040 demand of 530 million pounds will require mine supply to more than triple" — and then it becomes the risk thought-experiment: "if you had 5 billion would you want to go partner with NexGen on a project that's uncertain?… What's your permitting risk? What's the First Nations risk? What's financing?" No stance on the shares.
NexGen is a Canadian uranium developer with a very large undeveloped deposit in Saskatchewan. In this episode it appears twice, and neither time as a recommendation.
First, its published supply-gap chart supplies the numbers behind his bullish uranium case: a projected primary shortfall of 335 million pounds a year by 2040, against 2040 demand of 530 million pounds, which would need world mine supply to more than triple. Since a uranium project takes roughly fifteen years from discovery to production, 2040 is not a distant date — "you're already in the window," and the projects that would fill the gap largely do not exist yet.
Second, he uses NexGen as the subject of a thought experiment about why they don't exist. Imagine you have $5 billion: would you partner on a fifteen-year build whose permitting, First Nations agreements, financing, labour, equipment, cost overruns and host-government politics are all unknown that far out? His answer is that you would need an extraordinary payoff to say yes — which is why he expects uranium at $200–250 a pound eventually. The point is about the incentive price, not about NexGen's shares.
40:10I'm talking about legit companies and then approach it that way or just buy the metal on discount and sit back and make, you'll make money. Okay, this is a chart from NexGen, a widening uranium supply gap. This is the upper scenario that says by 2040 primary uranium deficit is projected to reach 335 million pounds per year.
In short: Used as the hypothetical that would end his uranium trade, not as a pick: "until I see Rio, until I see BHP, until I see the Lundins come in… this is hypothetical, coming in say, 'All right, that's it. We're buying NexGen. We're going to develop this mine and we're going to spend $5 billion.' Then I'm not — this supply demand deficit is going to stay in place." He adds why no one has: "remember the uranium market's really not that big either. That's why you haven't seen somebody really come into this yet." No stance on the shares.
1:10:14We're buying NexGen. We're going to develop this mine and we're going to spend $5 billion." Then I'm not, this supply demand deficit is going to stay in place. You just saw last week Kazatomprom. I think this is managed decline, if you will. The view was, several years ago, they're going to flood the market.
In short: "I'm not a timer… What I try to do is on days that are very bad days, when the NexGens or the Camecos sell off for whatever reason — the prime minister of Japan sneezed or something like that — I try to buy stock. I don't have any uranium equities that I would sell for any price near the current price."
NexGen owns one of the best undeveloped uranium deposits in the world, in Saskatchewan. In this session it appears mainly as the vehicle for Rick's tactic rather than a fresh thesis: he refuses to time the market, and instead buys "on days that are very bad days, when the NexGens or the Camecos sell off for whatever reason — the prime minister of Japan sneezed or something like that."
The corollary is what makes it a stance and not a shrug: "I don't have any uranium equities that I would sell for any price near the current price." Because the sell side is closed, only down days require action — "I have no interest in up days."
22:38You know, I'm not a timer, Steve. I'll leave that to you technical guys. When I look at what the uranium business is going to do in the next 10 years, I'm really unconcerned with timing the market. What I try to do is on days that are very bad days, when the NexGens or the Camecos sell off for whatever reason — the prime minister of Japan sneezed or something like that — I try to buy stock.
In short: The one name he came down the quality trail for: "If I'm willing to come down the quality trail to NexGen, I have to get a substantial premium in the delta between price and net present value before I'll take the risk. I've done that… despite their outrageous general and administrative expense — that deposit is so superb that it will finance itself over time."
NexGen owns Arrow, one of the best undeveloped uranium deposits in the world, in Saskatchewan — but it isn't producing anything yet, so owning it means betting on cash flows that don't exist. That's what Rick means by "coming down the quality trail" from Cameco.
His discipline: he'll only step down in quality if he's paid for it — a "substantial premium in the delta between price and net present value," meaning the stock has to trade at a much bigger discount to what the deposit is worth than the safe name does. He took that bet, holding his nose at what he calls the company's "outrageous" head-office spending, because he believes the deposit is good enough that "it will finance itself over time" — i.e. banks and partners will fund the mine without shareholders being diluted to death.
19:05If I'm willing to come down the quality trail to NexGen, I have to get a substantial premium
19:12in the delta between price and net present value before I'll take the risk. I've done that
In short: 10% Focus List / 12.5% Dynamic Model. "We have consistently maintained that NexGen is the most strategic asset in the space… the best undeveloped uranium project globally, and therefore is a 'must own'." Rook 1 is in early construction; the first 12–18 months boring through 150m of overburden will determine whether the 48-month timeline holds. Management is engaged with hyperscalers on project finance and offtake, and told a room of utilities Arrow only needs ~5M lbs/yr to break even against 29M lbs nameplate — extra pounds come only with contracting incentives. Shares −18.8% in June to $9.39.
NexGen is building Rook 1 / Arrow in Saskatchewan's Athabasca Basin — in Huhn's view "the best undeveloped uranium project globally" and therefore "a must own." It is not producing anything yet; it is a construction story with first output around 2031.
The near-term thing to watch is unglamorous: the first 12–18 months are spent digging through 150 metres of loose "overburden" before the shaft reaches solid rock. That is the highest-risk engineering phase, and any trouble there pushes out the whole 48-month build. Huhn is telling subscribers to judge the timeline on that, not on press releases.
The most commercially interesting disclosure is about restraint. Arrow's nameplate capacity is about 29 million pounds a year — enough to move the whole global market — but management told a room full of utility buyers it only needs roughly 5 million pounds a year to break even, and anything beyond that will only be produced if utilities pay up in contracts. That is a deliberate message: the market should stop assuming 30 million pounds automatically arrives and floods the price. Separately, hyperscalers (Big Tech data-centre operators) have approached NexGen about financing the project and buying its uranium directly — and, per management, they arrived "very well educated" on the fuel cycle.
Huhn's phrase for the current stage is "the boring part of the Lassonde Curve" — the well-known mining pattern where a stock runs hard on discovery, then drifts sideways for years during construction when there is no news, then re-rates when production actually starts. Boring is the point: it is when you can buy it.
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In short: In the "basket of juniors" for the gamier uranium investor — "would probably include NexGen." Understand you're taking actual risk and volatility, and doing the work on news flow.
For the investor who wants real upside and can handle real risk, Rick suggests a basket of smaller ("junior") uranium companies rather than one bet. NexGen owns a top-tier undeveloped uranium deposit in Canada. These juniors are much more volatile than a fund or a big producer, and you have to keep up with each company's news — but they carry the biggest potential payoff if uranium keeps climbing.
58:05You could buy Kamako, the second biggest but the largest producer of uranium. If you feel a bit more gamey, you could buy their Kazakhstani competitor, Kazatam. Or you could buy a basket of juniors. That basket would probably include NextGen. Would definitely include Paladin. and could conceivably also include Denison.
In short: A developer, and his proof of explorer upside: "NextGen, which was a $40 million company, is now worth 10 billion dollars… over a matter of a short period of time."
NextGen is a "developer": it has found a large Athabasca Basin deposit and is working to turn it into a mine. Frostad uses it as the poster child for why explorers are worth the risk — it went from a roughly $40 million company to around $10 billion in a short time once its discovery proved out. Developers like NextGen and Denison are the companies the market is counting on to close the supply gap.
11:37So these are sort of things you have to watch. So if you want to get into the exploration end of this stuff where, like I say, your typical upside is in the hundreds to thousands times payback. NextGen, which was a $40 million company, is now worth 10 billion dollars.
In short: Lightened up. Its Saskatchewan property is "a mess" and "not going to come online on time" — management embellishes timelines (the Elon-robotaxi analogy). A supply problem that's bullish uranium, bearish the timeline.
NexGen is developing a big Canadian uranium mine the world's supply forecasts lean on. He calls its Saskatchewan project "a mess" that won't come online on time — management embellishes the timeline. He's lightened his position. The delay is a supply problem that helps the uranium price, but it's a reason to be wary of the stock itself.
53:50The thing about Cameco and NexGen and a lot of these Canadian assets is the companies, they're a little bit like Elon Musk. He's like, oh, we have autonomous vehicles and they'll be all over the streets and high market share by 2026. Sure, that happened in Austin, Texas. You can say that.
In short: "Love and hate" — ranks it a 4 and owns a lot (zero remaining cost basis). The finest and largest undeveloped uranium deposit on earth — buildable by the junior, or saleable at auction to Cameco, Rio Tinto, or the new Anglo Tech (Anglo American + Teck). Would be a 3 if not for excessive G&A (he singles out Formula 1 sponsorship) and capital raises that look aimed at entrenching management.
NexGen owns what Rule calls the finest, largest undeveloped uranium deposit on the planet (in Saskatchewan), and he owns a lot of it — so much, and bought so cheaply, that he's already pulled all his original money out. He grades it a 4 and says it's rich enough to be built by NexGen itself or sold at auction to Cameco, Rio Tinto, or the new Anglo-Teck "Anglo Tech" combine. The "love and hate": he thinks management spends too freely (he singles out sponsoring a Formula 1 race team) and structures fundraising to protect its own control. Fix that and he'd grade it a 3 — a rare, very high rank for him.
43:41I no longer own Kazatomprom. On a valuation basis, I have it as a five, but I need to say I no longer own the stock. — Understood. NexGen NXE down 22% from the highs in January. — Love and hate. I own a lot of it. I need to disclose I own it at a much lower price and I've sold enough that I no longer have any cost in my remaining holdings.
In short: "It's really tough when you look at the market cap for pre-revenue." On their numbers, Rook One could be almost 20% of global supply — an irreplaceable scarce asset (the halo) that "at some point" should carry a richer multiple, but the pre-revenue valuation gives him pause.
NexGen is a uranium developer whose flagship Rook One project, by the company's own numbers, could eventually supply almost 20% of the world's uranium. That scarcity is exactly the "halo" Larson loves — an irreplaceable asset that he argues should one day command a richer valuation than the low single-digit cash-flow multiples the sector trades at. The catch keeping him neutral: it's pre-revenue (the mine isn't producing yet), so paying a large market value today for future, not-yet-real output gives him pause.
34:18And so that's giving me my sector play. It's giving me exposure. I do own Cameco. Yes, it's expensive. It's one I look at a lot and go this is getting crazy, function of multiples of book. I like the Westinghouse optionality on it and then NexGen, it's really tough when you look at the market cap for pre-revenue, but with the way they talk their book, Rook One, I think they're expecting, again these are their numbers, it to be almost 20% of global supply, pair this all back to that halo, these heavy assets with low
In short: Family offices close to uranium think NexGen's mine timeline is exaggerated by a year or two — a supply problem that tightens the 2027–29 deficit (bullish the commodity, not the equity).
NexGen is developing the giant Canadian uranium mine the world's supply forecasts lean on. Family offices close to the sector told him the company is probably overstating its timeline by a year or two. That delay is a supply problem for the world — which supports the uranium price — but it's a reason to be wary of the stock itself.
46:56First of all, he completely agrees with you around the 2027-28 deficits but I think the sexiest part of his story is supply and demand and it's the point that he made to me and I'm hearing this from some of the most sophisticated investors in the world and that is on the supply side the nextgens, the camos, the Dennis they tend to overpromise on production. So, for example, that nextgen mine that's supposed to come on in later this decade, a lot of the people, a lot of the family offices that are close to the uranium space think
In short: "Incredible assets" and one of the higher-quality junior (soon-to-be) producers — but big spot-price exposure and the chronic uranium-project risk of delays/cost overruns. For higher-risk-tolerance investors only; he'd rather play uranium through the liquid Cameco stake.
NexGen owns "incredible" undeveloped uranium deposits and is one of the higher-quality soon-to-be miners. But it isn't producing yet, so it's fully exposed to swings in the uranium price and to the chronic risk that mine projects run late and over budget.
That makes it a higher-risk-tolerance name only. He'd rather get his uranium exposure through the bigger, safer, easy-to-trade Cameco.
45:28I think the uranium supply and demand math is very compelling and there's people like Cara there's thesis that try to break that and you know, I think it's pretty easy to underwrite a pretty compelling uranium thesis. Um don't really have much interest in the small modular reactor or some of the more speculative names but you know, NextGen as a uranium miner um they have a lot of exposure to spot prices.
In short: Best undeveloped uranium deposit in the world (Saskatchewan/Arrow), permitting groundwork done — but he "hates" the extravagant G&A (Formula 1) eating his NPV. Ranks it a "5".
NexGen owns what Rule believes is the best undeveloped uranium deposit in the world (the Arrow project in Saskatchewan, a stable, mining-friendly Canadian province), and has quietly done the hard permitting and community groundwork. His gripe — and why he grades it only a "5" — is the lavish corporate spending (sponsoring Formula 1 racing), which he says is "spending away" the value he'd otherwise capture. He notes it can now sell itself to several big buyers, not just Cameco, but building the mine would cost roughly $6 billion, so any payoff is years away.
28:00On top of that, now you have the added impetus of uh energy security and this will cause more plants to get built and more uranium to get contracted in the 10-year time frame. And by the way, it'll be it'll be um referenced in share prices before 10 years. — Okay. All right. So, speaking of share prices, uh what are your thoughts on NextGen? — Uh I hate the way the management team spends money.
In short: The "nextgen" Canadian project the world's uranium balance depends on — deep (~100m), very expensive, repeatedly pushed back (28/29/30). Skeptical they hit timelines; the misses are bullish for the uranium price.
NexGen is developing a major Canadian uranium project the world's future supply is counting on. He's skeptical they'll hit their timelines — the deposit sits about 100 meters underground, it's very expensive, and the start date keeps slipping (2028, then 2029, then 2030). Crucially, he sees those repeated delays as bullish for the uranium price: less new supply means a tighter market.
28:18There is no spot price the way there is with other commodities. And so this is going to be this is where you the market has to fix the supply and demand. You've got the brain drain. Think of like the best project in the world, this this nextgen project, which is a major project in Canada, and it's like every single time these companies give projections on production, they're way off because of all kinds of environmental and all kinds of problems with weather.
In short: "Great assets… I'm not crazy about the management team" — part of why he prefers the uranium commodity over the equities.
NexGen is a uranium developer with, in his words, "great assets" — strong uranium deposits in the ground.
But he's "not crazy about the management team," and that hesitation is exactly why he prefers owning the uranium commodity (SRUUF) over betting on individual miners. Good rocks, but he wants more confidence in the people running the company.
23:05I'm not crazy about the management team. Yes, so the bottom line is I'm seeing institutional investors taking down their exposure to uranium equities and buying the uranium commodity. Interesting. All right, going back to gold and gold mining with the backdrop that we've been discussing here for the last 23 minutes.
In short: Passing mention — named only in the host's question on how Denison's contracting strategy differs from NexGen's and Cameco's; Smith contrasts Denison with producers needing "a greater degree of price certainty… to service debt" but does not name them.
8:34And maybe you can speak to how your strategy at Denison will be different from NextGen's and Cameco when it comes to selling pounds. Yeah, absolutely. So, it all starts with basically a Denison-centric approach. And what that really means for us is looking at our unique circumstance, whether that's our assets, our balance sheet, and market position.
In short: The other major pipeline project — its Rook I just received a construction licence, expected online ~2030; neither it nor Phoenix would come near to closing the US/global supply-demand gap.
NexGen is building Rook I, the other major new uranium project, which just got its construction license but won't be running until roughly 2030. Like Denison, it's cited as evidence of how long new supply takes — neither project gets close to filling the gap between how much uranium reactors need and how much is being mined.
In short: Owns it — "I own it despite those protests because it's the best undeveloped uranium deposit in the world. The company is doing an admirable job of de-risking it." The protests are specific: G&A "high, and some of it misspent" ("I'm not really certain what benefit shareholders get from sponsoring Vancouver Canucks hockey or Formula 1 racing"); "selling that high-priced convert to buy pounds was a mistake"; the convert's voting-rights optics "were very bad"; and "real problems in their relationship with the [Métis/First Nations]." The rule that overrides them: "it's difficult if you like a sector not to own the best deposit in the sector… I own it because the deposit is that good."
NexGen owns Rook I, a very high-grade uranium deposit in Saskatchewan's Athabasca Basin that has not yet been built into a mine. Rule's view is that it is simply the best undeveloped uranium deposit anywhere, and that the company is doing a good job of reducing the technical and permitting risk on the way to production.
What makes his view useful is that he does not like the management's spending. He names the complaints one by one: overhead that is too high (sports sponsorships he sees no shareholder benefit in), a convertible bond sold at a high price to buy physical uranium that he calls a mistake, poor optics on the voting rights attached to that convertible, and real friction with local Indigenous communities. He owns it anyway, on a rule he states plainly: if you want to own a sector, it is hard to justify not owning its best asset. The deposit quality is doing the work, and he accepts the governance cost as the price of admission.
1:55I own it despite those protests because it's the best undeveloped uranium deposit in the world. The company is doing an admirable job of de-risking it. Albeit, there are real problems in their relationship with the Mandi. It's difficult if you like a sector not to own the best deposit in the sector.
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