UEX Completes $5.06 Million Non-Brokered Private Placement

Trading Symbol: UEX-TSX

VANCOUVER , Dec. 17 /CNW/ - UEX Corporation ("UEX") has closed the previously announced non-brokered private placement of 3,628,100 flow-through common shares at a price of $1.12 per share and 975,000 non-flow-through common shares at a price of $1.02 per share for aggregate gross proceeds of $5,057,972 .

Proceeds from the private placement will be used to fund recently announced 2010 exploration and development budgets for projects in the western Athabasca Basin, 2010 exploration and development activities on UEX's 100%-owned Hidden Bay Project located in the eastern Athabasca Basin, and for general corporate purposes. UEX agreed to incur and renounce qualifying Canadian Exploration Expenses under the Income Tax Act ( Canada ) to purchasers of the flow-through common shares in an amount equal to the aggregate subscription price of such shares.

UEX presently has a cash position in excess of $17.0 million .

About UEX

UEX is a Canadian uranium exploration and development company actively involved in 19 uranium projects, including seven that are 100% owned and operated by UEX, one joint venture with AREVA Resources Canada Inc. ("AREVA") that is operated by UEX, ten joint-ventured with AREVA and one under option from JCU ( Canada ) Exploration Company, Limited, which are operated by AREVA. The 19 projects, totaling 353,134 hectares (872,613 acres), are located in the eastern, western and northern perimeters of the Athabasca Basin in northern Saskatchewan, Canada , the world's richest uranium belt, which accounts for approximately 21% of the global primary uranium production. UEX is currently developing several uranium deposits in the Athabasca Basin which include the Kianna, Anne and Colette Deposits at its 49%-owned Shea Creek Uranium Project, a joint venture with AREVA in the western Athabasca Basin, and the West Bear, Raven and Horseshoe Deposits located at its 100%-owned Hidden Bay Project in the eastern Athabasca Basin.

    
           ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF UEX CORPORATION

                               Graham C. Thody,
                             President & C.E.O.
    

Forward-Looking Statements

This news release contains certain forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are subject to a variety of risks and uncertainties beyond UEX's ability to control or predict, which could cause actual events or results to differ materially from those anticipated in such forward-looking statements. Although UEX believes that the assumptions inherent in the forward-looking statements are reasonable, undue reliance should not be placed on these forward-looking statements.

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