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COMMON STOCK | 9 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2020
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COMMON STOCK | 10. COMMON STOCK Common Stock Issued, Net of Issuance Costs 2020 Purchase Agreement with Lincoln Park On May 21, 2020, the Company entered into a Purchase Agreement with Lincoln Park, as amended on May 29, 2020 (the “2020 Purchase Agreement”), to place up to $12.0 million in the aggregate of the Company’s common stock on an ongoing basis when required by the Company over a term of 24 months. At the Annual Shareholders Meeting conducted on April 28, 2020, the Company received shareholder approval to sell up to 8.0 million shares of common stock under the 2020 Purchase Agreement. As an initial purchase on May 21, 2020, Lincoln Park bought $250,000 worth of Common Stock of the Company at a price of $1.2989 per share. The Company issued 156,250 shares of Common Stock to Lincoln Park as consideration for its commitment to purchase shares of Common Stock under the 2020 Purchase Agreement. On May 21, 2020, the Company entered into a registration rights agreement with Lincoln Park pursuant to which the Company filed a registration statement on Form S-1 with the Securities and Exchange Commission, which was declared effective on June 26, 2020 relating to the resale of an initial tranche of 1.97 million shares subject to the 2020 Purchase Agreement. As of September 30, 2020, the Company had sold 1.8 shares of common stock for gross proceeds of $3.8 million, of which 1.6 million shares of common stock and gross proceeds of $3.5 million was sold in the three months ended September 30, 2020. The Company filed a second registration statement on Form S-1 relating to the resale of 3.2 million shares which was declared effective on October 2, 2020, and sold 1.1 million shares for gross proceeds of $8.2 million in October 2020. With the October 2020 sales, the $12.0 million sales capacity of the 2020 Purchase Agreement has been reached. 2019 Purchase Agreement (“2019 Purchase Agreement”) with Lincoln Park On June 6, 2019, the Company entered into the 2019 Purchase Agreement with Lincoln Park to place up to $10.0 million in the aggregate of the Company’s common stock on an ongoing basis when required by the Company over a term of 24 months. On August 6, 2019 the Company conducted a Special Meeting of Shareholders whereby the Company received such approval to sell up to 3.2 million shares of common stock under the 2019 Purchase Agreement. Following effectiveness of a registration statement on Form S-1 relating to the resale of the shares subject to the 2019 Purchase Agreement on June 18, 2019, the Company began selling shares of its common stock to Lincoln Park under the terms of the 2019 Purchase Agreement. On September 11, 2019, October 28, 2019 and February 28, 2020 the Company filed subsequent registration statements on Form S-1, which were declared effective on September 20, 2019, November 7, 2019 and March 6, 2020, respectively, registering for resale additional shares under the 2019 Purchase Agreement. During the quarter ended June 30, 2020 the Company sold 623,236 shares of common stock for gross proceeds of $593,356. The 2019 Purchase Agreement was terminated in May 2020 with historical sales of 3.2 million shares of common stock for gross proceeds of $7.7 million. Securities Purchase Agreement with Lincoln Park On May 24, 2019, Westwater entered into a Securities Purchase Agreement, as amended by Amendment No. 1 thereto dated as of May 30, 2019, with Lincoln Park, pursuant to which the Company agreed to issue and sell to Lincoln Park, and Lincoln Park agreed to purchase from the Company (i) 104,294 shares of the Company's common stock and (ii) warrants to initially purchase an aggregate of up to 182,515 shares of common stock, at an exercise price of $5.062 per share. On May 30, 2019, the Company issued and sold the common shares and the warrants to Lincoln Park and received aggregate gross proceeds before expenses of $550,751. The warrants became exercisable on November 30, 2019 and were exercised on October 6, 2020. ATM Offering Agreement with Cantor On April 14, 2017, the Company entered into a Controlled Equity Offering Sales Agreement (the “ATM Offering Agreement”) with Cantor acting as sales agent. Under the ATM Offering Agreement, the Company may from time to time sell shares of its common stock in “at-the-market” offerings. The Company pays Cantor a commission of up to 2.5% of the gross proceeds from the sale of any shares pursuant to the ATM Offering Agreement. As of September 30, 2020, the Company had sold 4.1 million shares of common stock for net proceeds of $13.9 million under the ATM Offering Agreement, of which 2.1 million shares of common stock for net proceeds of $3.7 million were sold in the three months ended September 30, 2020. During the month of October 2020, the Company registered and sold 7.3 million shares of common stock for net proceeds of $42.0 million under the ATM Offering Agreement. As of November 12, 2020, the Company has no shares of common stock registered for sale under the ATM Offering Agreement. Warrants The following table summarizes warrants outstanding and changes for the three-month periods ending September 30, 2020 and 2019:
|  | September 30, 2020 |  | September 30, 2019
|  | Number of |  | Number of
|  | Warrants |  | Warrants
Warrants outstanding at beginning of period |  | 186,182 |  | 197,621
Issued |  | — |  | —
Expired |  | — |  | —
Warrants outstanding at end of period |  | 186,182 |  | 197,621
On October 6, 2020, Lincoln Park provided notice of its exercise of 182,515 warrants. Lincoln Park elected the cashless exercise method to convert the warrants to shares of common stock. Based on the cashless exercise formula, the Company issued Lincoln Park 118,799 shares of common stock.

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