WUC Closes Non-Brokered Private Placement
February 16, 2021
Western Uranium & Vanadium Corp. Closes Non-Brokered Private Placement
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Toronto, Ontario and Nucla, Colorado - Western Uranium & Vanadium Corp. (CSE: WUC) (OTCQX: WSTRF)
(“Western” or the ” Company”) is pleased to announce the closing of a non -brokered private placement (the “ Private
Placement”) of 3,250,000 units (the ”Units”) at a price of CAD$0.80 per Unit. The aggregate gross proceeds raised in this
Private Placement amount to CAD$2,600,000.
Each Unit consists of one common share of Western (a "Share") plus one common share purchase warrant of Western (a
“Warrant”). Each Warrant shall entitle the holder to purchase one Share at a price of CAD$1.20 per Share for a period of
three years following the closing date of the Private Placement. A total of 3,250,000 Shares and 3,250,000 Warrants are
being issued in the Private Placement.
The Warrants contain a provision that if the Company’s Shares trade at or above CAD$2.40 per Share for 10 consecutive
trading days, the Company may, at any time after the expiry of the applicable statutory hold period, accelerate the
expiration of the Warrants upon not less than 30 days’ written notice by the Company (the “Acceleration Clause”).
The Company anticipates that the net proceeds of the Private Placement will be used to secure value -added
opportunities, fund follow -on work at the five mines comprising the Sunday Mine Complex, the exploration and
development of a second production center and for general corporate and working capital purposes.
In connection with the Private Placement, the Company is paying CAD $123,000 in finder’s fees plus 153,750
compensation warrants exercisable for three years, each warrant being exercisable at CAD$0.94 per Share of the
Company. The compensation warrants are subject to the Acceleration Clause . Red Cloud Securities Inc. has acted as a
finder with respect to the Private Placement.
Securities issued pursuant to the Private Placement shall be subject to a minimum six (6) month hold period. The closing
of the Private Placement remains subject to final regulatory approval.
The securities offered and sold have not been registered under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933 and may not be offered
or sold in the United States absent registration or an applicable exemption from registration requirements.
About Western Uranium & Vanadium Corp.
Western Uranium & Vanadium Corp. is a Colorado based uranium and vanadium conventional mining
company focused on low cost near -term production of uranium and vanadium in the western United States ,
and development and application of kinetic separation.
Cautionary Note Regarding Forward -Looking Information: Certain information contained in this news release
constitutes “forward-looking information” or a “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of applicable
securities laws (collectively, “forward -looking statements”). Statements of that nature include statements
relating to, or that are dependent upon: the Company’s expectations, estimates and projections regarding
exploration and production plans and results; the timing of planned activities; whether the Company can raise
any additional funds required to implement its plans; whether regulatory or analogous requirements can be
satisfied to permit planned activities; and more generally to the Company’s business, and the economic and
political environment applicable to its operations, assets and plans. All such forward -looking statements are
subject to important risk factors and uncertainties, many of which are beyond the Company’s ability to control
or predict. Please refer to the Company’s most recent Management’s Discussion and Anal ysis, as well as its
other filings at www.sec.gov and/or www.sedar.com, for a more detailed review of those risk factors. Readers
are cautioned not to place undue reliance on the Company’s forward-looking statements, and that these
statements are made as of the date hereof. While the Company may do so, it does not undertake any
obligation to update these forward -looking statements at any particular time, except as and to the extent
required under applicable laws and regulations.
FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT:
George Glasier
President and CEO
970-864-2125
Robert Klein
Chief Financial Officer
908-872-7686