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LIQUIDITY
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2013
LIQUIDITY  
LIQUIDITY

3. LIQUIDITY

 

The Company had negative cash flow from operations of $3.6 million for the first quarter of 2013.  Our cash position was $4.4 million at March 31, 2013 and $7.9 million at April 30, 2013. During April 2013, the Company paid certain expenditures that are annual or quarterly in nature or are non-recurring costs; such payments totaled approximately $840,000. The Company is not currently commercially producing uranium and as such does not anticipate generating any significant sales revenues in 2013.

 

In March, 2013, the Company completed a Shareholder Rights Offering (“Rights Offering”) whereby all of the Company’s shareholders and warrant holders were eligible to participate on an equal, proportional basis in purchasing shares of common stock of the Company. Each URI shareholder and warrant holder received one subscription right for each share of common stock owned or subject to a warrant as of the record date. Every subscription right entitled the holder to purchase 0.3119 of a share of common stock of URI at a price of $2.55 per whole share. Under the Rights Offering the Company received $3.6 million in cash, net of expenses and $5.0 million was used to repay the short term financing from Resource Capital Fund V L.P. (“RCF”) whereby RCF was issued 1.96 million shares of the Company’s common stock bringing its ownership percentage in the Company to 32.8%.

 

In February 2013, the Company secured a new source to satisfy its financial surety obligations for the Texas regulatory agencies.  Previously, the Company had met its financial surety obligations through a combination of bank issued letters of credit (the “L/Cs”) and bonds issued for the benefit of the Company. These financial surety arrangements required the Company to fully collateralize the face amount of the L/C’s and the bonds with short term investment vehicles.  This requirement resulted in the Company posting $9.3 million in cash that was restricted for the purpose of collateralizing these obligations.  The Company’s new financial surety arrangements are provided by Lexon Insurance Company (“Lexon”) in the form of bonds issued for the benefit of the Company.  The amount of the bonds written by Lexon total approximately $9.0 million and the collateral requirements of these bonds requires the Company to maintain 40% of the value of the bonds in the form of restricted cash.  This change in collateral requirement occurred in April 2013 and reduced the amount of restricted cash required by the Company to $3.6 million and resulted in a corresponding increase in cash to the Company of $5.4 million.

 

In the fourth quarter of 2011, the Company entered into an At-The-Market Sales Agreement with BTIG, LLC, allowing it to sell from time to time, its common shares having an aggregate offering price of up to $15.0 million, through an “at-the-market” equity offering program (“ATM Sales Agreement”). The Company did not make any sales under the ATM Sales Agreement in the first quarter of 2013 and has a total of $9.0 million available for future sales under the ATM Sales Agreement.

 

The Company expects that its existing cash and funding available under the ATM Sales Agreement will provide it the necessary liquidity moving forward for 2013. Additional funding available under the ATM Sales Agreement is subject to market conditions. In the event funds are not available, we may be required to change our planned business strategies.