Investment Memo: GTR 2022

Objective: N/A

This morning our uranium exploration Investment GTI Resources (ASX: GTR) confirmed that applications were underway for a ~100,000 foot exploration program across its key ISR uranium prospects in Utah, USA.

This program will follow up on the drilling done earlier in the year where GTR confirmed a maiden discovery over its project area. To check out our coverage of that exploration program see our previous note here: Drilling results are in as Uranium prices keep edging upwards.

This next round of drilling will first target extensions (~40,000 feet of drilling) to that discovery and then move to the north to test 4 other prospective areas with the remaining ~60,000 feet of drilling.

Permitting is currently underway with drilling expected to commence in July.

Investment Memo: GTR 2022

Objective: N/A

Our uranium exploration Investment GTI Resources (ASX: GTR) has provided an update on the acquisition of an additional ~13,800 acres of claims adjacent to its current landholding and bordering grounds held by Rio Tinto.

GTR confirmed that due diligence was ongoing as planned and that the company would be providing an update on the acquisition in due course. We covered the new acquisition in detail in a previous Quick Take which you can read here.

Once completed, the acquisition will increase GTR’s landholding in this part of Wyoming to ~35,000 acres and mean that the next round of drilling can be followed up by testing the new acreage to the north as well.

Effectively, GTR is bringing in even more exploration potential to an already prospect rich portfolio of landholdings.

Overnight we read the following article on Bloomberg which mentioned the US Department Of Energy preparing to launch a US$6 billion program aimed at keeping uneconomical nuclear plants in service:

US nuclear power plants stand at ~93 reactors which combined provide ~1/5th of the country's electricity. More importantly though, the reactors supply more emission-free power than all other renewable energy sources combined.

The issue for these reactors is mostly centred around the reactors inability to compete with modern/cheaper sources of electricity generation mostly due to age. As a result, a lot of these were being considered for early shutdowns primarily related to the economics of keeping them open.

If the US government intervenes, these plants could stay in operation for longer and in turn ensure that there is more demand for the raw material which powers them being Uranium.

It’s long been our view that future electricity grids of countries all around the world will need to have some mix of nuclear energy, given it is one of the lowest carbon emission sources of baseload electricity generation.

As exposure to the sector, we hold uranium explorer GTI Resources (ASX: GTR) which is targeting Uranium discoveries in Wyoming, USA & Utah, USA. GTR’s projects in Wyoming specifically are strategically located with ~80% of domestic production coming out of this region.

Next: We are looking forward to GTR announcing its planned follow up drilling programs across its Wyoming projects and the completion of the recent acquisition which will almost double GTI’s project area in this part of the USA.

To see why we continue to hold GTR in our portfolio, check out our 2022 Investment Memo here.

This morning GTR announced that it had completed a placement raising $5M at 2.1c per share whilst at the same confirming that it has acquired another ~13,800 acres in grounds at its Wyoming Uranium project.

GTR now holds ~35,000 acres across the Great Divide Basin which is the capital for uranium production in the US accounting for ~80% of domestic uranium production. The new project area sits on the border of Rio Tinto’s project area and to the south of Energy Fuels’ 30mlb uranium resource.

The acquisition comes after the recent drilling results from GTR’s drilling program at the Thor project discovered a mineralised uranium system. We covered the drilling results in our last note for GTR which can be read here.

With an even bigger project area, GTR now has added even more exploration upside to follow up this drilling program with additional discoveries.

GTR has managed to pick these projects up for a total consideration of $750k in cash and 105 million shares in GTR, two thirds of which will be escrowed for ~6 months.

GTR will be funding the acquisition through the proceeds of the $5M capital raise @ 2.1c per share. The shares came with 1 free option for every 4 placement shares investors purchased, exercisable @ 3c per share with a October 2024 expiry.

With the Uranium price now trading above US$60/lb for the first time in ~11 years, GTR is starting to put together a project with some serious exploration upside strategically located in the US at just the right time.

This is one of the key reasons we continue to hold GTR in our portfolio. To see all of the reasons why we continue hold GTR and what we want to see the company achieve in 2022 check out our 2022 Investment Memo here.

GTR today announced that its maiden drilling program at its ISR uranium project in Wyoming, USA is nearly complete.

GTR expects the final 9 holes of the ~100 hole maiden drilling program to be drilled in the week starting on 15 March. The full set of final results and interpretations are expected in the first half of April.

The ultimate aim of the current drill program is to identify the depth, grade and width of mineralisation over the project area with a target of announcing a maiden ISR uranium resource, or at the very least, an exploration target which will form the basis for follow up exploration.

In a previous note, we set some expectations for what we want GTR to achieve in this drilling program and we look forward to seeing the last batch of results before we can make an assessment of what GTR has on its hands.

This drilling program forms the basis for the first objective we set for GTR in our 2022 Investment Memo. To see what else we want to see GTR achieve this year check out our 2022 Investment Memo here.