Exhibit 99.1

   Uranium Resources, Inc. Announces Appointment of a New President
                       and Independent Director


    LEWISVILLE, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 5, 2006--Mr. Paul K.
Willmott, CEO and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Uranium
Resources, Inc. (OTCBB: URRE) is pleased to announce the appointment
of Mr. David N. Clark to the position of President and Chief Operating
Officer. Mr. Clark currently serves as a Director of the Company and
Chairman of the Strategic Planning Committee of the Board of
Directors. He will continue to serve in these roles.

    Mr. Clark is the principal owner of the Ux Consulting Company LLC
("UxC"). UxC publishes the Ux Weekly and the UxC Market Outlook
Reports, which cover the complete nuclear fuel cycle including
uranium, conversion, and enrichment. Mr. Clark co-founded UxC in March
1994 as an affiliate of The Uranium Exchange Company ("Ux"), a uranium
brokerage and consulting company he founded in 1987. Mr. Clark has
also held marketing positions with other entities in the nuclear fuel
business. He began his career as a Field Geologist and Market Analyst
for the uranium division of the Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company. Mr.
Clark holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Geology (1978) from the
University of Akron.

    Mr. Clark will be based in the Company's Corpus Christi office
location.

    The Company is also pleased to announce that it has expanded its
Board of Directors from four to five members. Mr. Terence J. Cryan was
appointed to fill the vacancy.

    Mr. Cryan is the Managing Director of Concert Energy Partners LLC,
a New York based investment banking and private equity investment firm
specializing in the energy and natural resources industries. Mr. Cryan
was previously Senior Managing Director of Bear Stearns & Co. Inc. Mr.
Cryan holds degrees from Tufts University and the London School of
Economics.

    Uranium Resources, Inc. is a Dallas area based uranium-mining
company whose shares are quoted on the OTC Bulletin Board under the
symbol URRE. The Company specializes in in-situ solution mining and
holds mineralized uranium materials in South Texas and New Mexico.

    CONTACT: Uranium Resources, Inc.
             David N. Clark, President and Chief Operating Officer,
             361-883-3990
             or
             Thomas H. Ehrlich, Vice President - CFO,
             972-219-3330