That isn’t to say 2017 has been uneventful; Berkeley has made significant progress with early works, continued its exploration programme and secured US$120 million of finance at the height of the uranium bear market for a project set to make the company a top-10 producer.
These achievements – delivered when the spot uranium price is hovering around a 12-year low – are testament to the project, management team and expected market resurgence for the nuclear raw material.