Murray Hill, Managing Director / CEO of Elevate Uranium LTD is a uranium exploration company that has significant resources in Namibia and Australia and is making new discoveries through active exploration programs. The Company’s shares are listed on the Australian Securities Exchange and are traded on several overseas exchanges including OTCQX: ELVUF, NSX:EL8 and several German exchanges.
Elevate owns 48 Mlbs of high-grade uranium Mineral Resources in Australia at an average grade of 859 ppm U3O8, including the Angela, Thatcher Soak, Minerva and Oobagooma projects and joint venture interests in the Bigrlyi, Malawiri, Walbiri and Areva joint ventures.
The Company developed a counter-cyclical strategy several years ago which, focussed on:
Patented process
U-pgrade™ is Elevate’s 100% owned breakthrough beneficiation process which reduces ore mass by 95% prior to leach, and therefore, increases ore grade from 93 ppm to 5,000 ppm U3O8 and reduces capital and operating costs by approximately 50% (as indicated from bench-scale testing on the Marenica Uranium Project).
Cost of production
The U-pgrade™ process provides the potential of a 50% reduction in CAPEX and OPEX compared with conventional processes. U-pgrade™ provides flexibility and optionality in project design and development, and due to the anticipated lower cost of production, potentially allows Elevate to develop a mining operation at lower uranium prices than its peers.