Uranium Resources Retains Wendy Yang for Investor Relations

CENTENNIAL, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

Uranium Resources, Inc. URRE has retained Wendy Yang to provide investor relations services for the Company. Ms. Yang will support URRE's management team in raising the Company's profile in the investment community and enhancing shareholder communications.

Christopher M. Jones, President and Chief Executive Officer of URRE, said, “We have successfully strengthened the management team over the past year and now are adding another asset to the Company. As part of the consolidation of our corporate administration and other functions to Colorado, we have also integrated the investor relations function to work more closely with management. We thank Deborah K. Pawlowski and her firm Kei Advisors for their long service and support to the Company. As we move forward on a new chapter for URRE, we are excited to be working with an investor relations professional of Wendy's caliber.”

Ms. Yang brings to URRE over 25 years of public markets and mining experience having led investor relations programs for small to large capitalization mining companies. Ms. Yang was recently the Vice President of Investor Relations for Coeur Mining and previously served in investor relations roles for several other mining companies, including Brigus Gold, Newmont Mining, Stillwater Mining and Santa Fe Pacific Gold. Ms. Yang will serve URRE under a non-exclusive consulting agreement.

About Uranium Resources

Uranium Resources, Inc. explores for, develops and restores uranium projects. URI has over 206,600 acres of uranium mineral holdings in New Mexico, processing facilities and properties in Texas, and an NRC license to recover up to three million pounds of uranium per year using the in situ recovery (ISR) process. The Company acquired these properties over the past 20 years, along with an extensive information database of historic drill hole logs, assay certificates, maps and technical reports.

For further information about Uranium Resources, please refer to our website at www.uraniumresources.com.

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