If you're new to #Uranium Bull Market 🐂📈 Tribeca's Guy Keller recently walked #investors thru
the story🧑‍💼 beginning today where world's best performing YTD commodity #U3O8 is up 36%🚀 amidst #COVID19 #SupplyShock😷⚛️⛏️⤵️ while #Nuclear demand remains "relatively stable"🌞⚡️..
2) Lead-up to #Uranium Bull run was 3+ years of supply destruction↘️ including 20% cut for 3yrs by largest #U3O8 miner $KAP & indefinite closure of world's largest U mine, Cameco's McArthur/Key.🏭 #COVID19 has triggered more mine suspensions, cutting >50% of monthly supply⚛️⤵️...
3) Supply cuts in other commodities have historically caused large price corrections⤴️ needed to trigger production to meet demand. Supply in #uranium is not elastic & price increase is just first hurdle. 🏇 Spot #U3O8 price is up over 80% since 2016 low but more to come. 🚀 ...
4) For over 2 years there've been many "handbrakes" slowing market response to #Uranium supply cuts.. US #Section232 & subsequent #Nuclear Fuel Working Group sent utility buyers to sidelines, then 2020 #COVID19 market crash.. but now those are released & trend has turned up!⤴️...
5) #COVID19 sent shockwaves thru #Uranium mining sector, leading to indefinite suspension of all production in #Canada, a 17.5% cut in #Kazakhstan & stoppages in #Namibia resulting in over 50% of global monthly #U3O8 production disrupted⛏️⤵️ = 12% global supply destruction ...
6) Since 2013 there have been a long series of #Uranium mine supply cuts & #U3O8 mines placed into long term Care & Maintenance. ⚛️⛏️↘️ To bring production back will require U prices in excess of US$45/lb at a minimum, plus significant Capital💰 & signed long-term contracts📜...
7) 2019 Global #Uranium production was close to 135M lbs #U3O8 (vs #Nuclear fuel requirement of nearly 200M lbs) but #COVID19 #SupplyShock⚡️ is cutting 2020 production estimate to 110M lbs⤵️ deepening deficit heading to 2 permanent mine closures in 2021, Ranger & Cominak.⚠️ ...
8) In 2019 the World #Nuclear Association, for first time in 10 years, modelled #Uranium demand increases in all 3 of its #U3O8 demand scenarios to 2040.↗️ Today there are 450 reactors in operation, 54 more under construction, 111/328 more planned/proposed = Growth story.🏗️⚛️...
9) With 2020 #uranium production at 110M lbs, #nuclear demand near 200M lbs, utilities have been depleting inventory for many years & must now begin a restocking cycle🛒 to cover future fuel needs & replenish stockpiles simultaneous with demand from new reactors = #SupplyRisk⚠️..
10) #China is leading #Nuclear growth & #Uranium demand, aided by rising global #CarbonFree #electricity demand in an age of #ClimateChange & #ExtremeWeather.🌀 Renewables "fantasy" has failed miserably, making Nuclear best #CarbonFree tool in global #CleanEnergy tool box 🌞🧰...
11) Lastly, Global supply of "available" #uranium inventory has shrunk, #U3O8 Spot supply is now tight🗜️& U3O8 Bull Market is underway🚀 on a >80% price rise since 2016... BUT #uranium #stocks have fallen way behind & need to rebound an average +255% to catch up with Spot price⤴️
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