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DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS | 1. DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS Uranium Resources, Inc. (URI) is a uranium exploration, development and production company. We were organized in 1977 to acquire and develop uranium mines in South Texas using the in-situ recovery mining process (ISR). URI has historically produced uranium by ISR methods in the state of Texas where the Company currently has ISR mining projects, including two licensed processing facilities. We also have 206,600 acres of mineral holdings with 144.8 million pounds U 3 O 8 of in-place mineralized uranium material in New Mexico and a NRC license to produce up to 3 million pounds per annum of uranium on certain of its New Mexico projects. The Company acquired these properties over the past 20 years along with an extensive information database of historic mining logs and analysis. None of URI's properties are currently in production. The Company's vision is to be a leading U.S. uranium developer and producer. Our strategy is to create wealth for shareholders by advancing our projects in a way which both conserves cash and best positions us to return to production when uranium markets improve. In Texas, our focus is to add quality reserves within an economic distance of each licensed ISR processing facility through exploration activities and/or through value accretive acquisitions. In New Mexico, we will continue to progress the Churchrock Section 8 ISR project and also assess the potential of our significant resource base, for the development of larger scale projects on a standalone basis or with partners.

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