Uranium One Announces Agreement to Acquire 50% Interest in Karatau Uranium Mine and 35% Increase in 2010 Production Guidance

Uranium One Inc. today announced the signing of a definitive purchase agreement to acquire a 50% interest in the Karatau Uranium Mine in Kazakhstan from JSC Atomredmetzoloto ("ARMZ"), the Russian state-owned uranium mining company.

The purchase price will be paid by way of the issuance of 117 million common shares of Uranium One and a cash payment of US$ 90 million (or equivalent promissory note). The purchase agreement also provides for a contingent payment to ARMZ of up to US$ 60 million, payable in three equal tranches over the period between 2010 and 2012 subject to certain post-closing tax related adjustments.

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Uranium Energy Corp Announces Dismissal of Lawsuit

Uranium Energy Corp (NYSE AMEX: UEC, "the Company") is pleased to announce that on June 5, 2009, the United States District Court issued an order dismissing the lawsuit filed by Goliad County commissioners against the Company. The lawsuit alleged infractions of the Safe Drinking Water Act nearby to areas where the Company has conducted exploration activities.

The allegations had previously been investigated and found to be without merit by the Texas Railroad Commission, the agency with sole jurisdiction over uranium exploration in Texas. In 2007, the Commission stated, "...the agency's investigation of your complaint has not revealed any practice or activity at UEC's Uranium Exploration Permit 123 that is out of compliance...We consider this investigation to be closed."

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Hathor's Midwest NorthEast Drill Hole # 116 Intersects 2.5 Metres of 70% U3O8 with Assays up to 84% U3O8

Hathor Exploration Limited (HAT:TSX-V) is pleased to announce U3O8 assay results for a further 23 drill holes from the 2009 winter drill program on the Roughrider Zone at its 90%-owned Midwest NorthEast property, northern Saskatchewan. Twenty of these drill holes intersected uranium mineralization (using a 0.05 wt% U3O8 cut-off grade) and high-grade highlights of U3O8 assayed core-length intervals (i) from 7 of these include:

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U3O8 Corp. Cuts 8 Metres of 0.119% (2.4 Pounds Per Short Ton) U3O8 at Accori North C

Fourth mineralized structure has potential to add to the company's resource base & may be part of a sizeable uranium system in the Kurupung Batholith

U3O8 Corp. (TSX VENTURE: UWE), a Canadian uranium exploration company, reports significant intercepts of uranium mineralization from an additional fifteen bore holes drilled in the Accori North C albitite-hosted breccia zone of the Kurupung Batholith, in the basement near the Roraima Basin in Guyana (Figure 1). Accori North C is the fourth uranium-bearing structure to undergo relatively close-spaced drilling in the batholith, and constitutes part of U3O8 Corp's pipeline of basement-hosted targets in the Kurupung area, a promising uranium district in South America.

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Bannerman Confirms Formal Renewal of Etango Project Exploration Licence

Bannerman Resources Limited (TSX: BAN)(ASX: BMN)(NSX: BAN) ("Bannerman"), an Australian-based uranium mine development and exploration company, is pleased to confirm that the Namibian Ministry of Mines and Energy has today granted the formal renewal of the Etango Project Exclusive Prospecting Licence ("EPL") 3345 for an additional two year period.

The EPL is owned by Bannerman's 80% subsidiary, Bannerman Mining Resources (Namibia) (Pty) Ltd. The Etango uranium project area lies wholly within EPL 3345.

About Bannerman - Bannerman Resources Limited is an emerging uranium development company with interests in two properties in Namibia, a southern African country considered to be a premier uranium mining jurisdiction.

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