UEX Appoints Evelyn Abbott Chief Financial Officer
June 12 2018 - 7:00AM
UEX Corporation (TSX:UEX) (“UEX” or the “Company”) is pleased to
announce that Ms. Evelyn Abbott, CPA, CMA, has been appointed the
Company’s Chief Financial Officer (“CFO”) effective June 11, 2018.
Ms. Abbott has more than 20 years of finance and
accounting experience with senior financial roles. Ms. Abbott
has worked as the Chief Financial Officer and Corporate Secretary
of Geologix Explorations Inc. for the past eleven years. Ms.
Abbott has also held senior positions in the biotech, manufacturing
and logistics industries. She started her career in public
accounting and progressed to an eight-year tenure with The Tibbett
& Britten Group, a multinational public logistics
company. Ms. Abbott has also worked as a Chief Financial
Officer in the manufacturing sector and was Director of Finance for
B.C. Research Inc. and Vizon Scitec Inc. Ms. Abbott graduated in
1987 with Bachelor of Science from Mount Allison University and
received her Certified Management Accounting (CMA) designation in
1997.
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I am
pleased that Evelyn has joined UEX. Her extensive financial
background as an accounting professional will be of immeasurable
benefit to the UEX Management Team. Her finance and accounting
experience will help the Company towards continued success as a
leading global uranium and cobalt explorer and to advance our
portfolio of Athabasca Basin uranium and cobalt deposits and
discoveries through the development stage to the production
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- Roger
Lemaitre, President & CEO |
The Company also congratulates Mr. Wylie Hui on
his new opportunity. We thank Wylie for his time at UEX and
wish him success on his new endeavor.
About UEX
UEX (TSX:UEX) (OTC:UEXCF.PK) (FRANKFURT:UXO) is
a Canadian uranium exploration and development company involved in
seventeen uranium projects, including seven that are 100% owned and
operated by UEX, one joint venture with Orano Canada Inc. (“Orano”)
that is 90.1% owned by UEX and is under option to and operated by
ALX Uranium, as well as eight joint ventures with Orano, one joint
venture with Orano and JCU (Canada) Exploration Company Limited,
which are operated by Orano, and one project (Christie Lake) under
option from JCU (Canada) Exploration Company Limited and operated
by UEX.
The company is also involved in one
cobalt-nickel exploration project located in the Athabasca Basin of
northern Saskatchewan. The West Bear Project was formerly
part of UEX’s Hidden Bay Project and contains the West Bear
Cobalt-Nickel Prospect and the West Bear Uranium Deposit. The
seventeen projects are located in the eastern, western and northern
perimeters of the Athabasca Basin, the world's richest uranium
belt, which in 2016 accounted for approximately 23% of the global
primary uranium production. UEX is currently advancing
several uranium deposits in the Athabasca Basin which include the
Christie Lake deposits, the Kianna, Anne, Colette and 58B deposits
at its currently 49.1%-owned Shea Creek Project (located 50 km
north of Fission’s Triple R Deposit and Patterson Lake South
Project, and NexGen’s Arrow Deposit) the Horseshoe and Raven
deposits located on its 100%-owned Horseshoe-Raven Development
Project and the West Bear Uranium Deposit located at its 100%-owned
West Bear Project.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE
CONTACT
Roger LemaitrePresident & CEO(306)
713-1401
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