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Colin Healey

CEO & Chairman | Premier American Uranium | Uranium-focused mining executive and former sell-side analyst

"CEO and Chairman of Premier American Uranium and a 20-year uranium-focused mining research analyst turned operator"

Mining Executive

Biography

Colin Healey is the CEO and Chairman of Premier American Uranium (TSXV: PUR | OTCQB: PAUIF), a U.S.-focused uranium explorer built around the thesis that domestic supply will matter more as nuclear power demand grows. For a resource investor, he is worth tracking because he sits at the intersection of two things the uranium trade rewards right now: a working knowledge of U.S. permitting and project-level geology, and the sell-side research background to evaluate deals on their merits rather than their press releases.

Healey spent the bulk of his career as a mining research analyst at a recognized Canadian broker-dealer, covering uranium and the broader resource sector for more than two decades. That sell-side experience — modeling NPV (Net Present Value — what a project's future cash flows are worth today), writing initations, and pressing management on AISC (All-In Sustaining Cost — the per-pound cost to keep a mine running) — is the lens he now applies as an operator. He holds an MBA in Finance from the Schulich School of Business at York University and trained originally as a Mechanical Engineering Technician, which he credits with grounding his technical reading of resource projects.

At Premier American Uranium, Healey has led the company's pivot to a U.S. asset base, including the 2024 acquisition of American Future Fuel and the subsequent combination with Nuclear Fuels Inc. The portfolio is anchored in the Uravan Mineral Belt and the Great Divide Basin in Wyoming, plus the Marquez-Juan Tafoya project in New Mexico — historic uranium districts where infrastructure, permitting pathways, and resource estimates are already partially de-risked. Healey has framed the strategy as consolidation of permitted, past-producing U.S. uranium ground into a single vehicle sized to matter to utilities and developers.

For a mining stock investor, Healey's value as a public commentator is the same one he brings to his own deal sheet: he talks about uranium in terms of pounds in the ground, permitting timelines, and offtake economics rather than in thematic terms. His interviews on Bloor Street Capital with Jimmy Connor and in webinars hosted by Red Cloud Financial Services tend to focus on portfolio construction, jurisdictional risk, and the gap between uranium spot and term pricing — conversations an end investor can use directly when sizing positions in the U.S. uranium juniors.

The honest limits: Healey's profile as a public-facing commentator is recent, and the bulk of his uranium-market commentary sits inside Premier American Uranium's own media pages and the CEO-interview circuit. Investors looking for a long, independent editorial track record should weight his views accordingly — useful for how the company behind him is positioned, less useful as a standalone market call.

Videos (1)

U.S. Based Uranium Company | Colin Healey and Jimmy Connor

U.S. Based Uranium Company | Colin Healey and Jimmy Connor

guest Apr 8, 2026
  • Top takeaway Frames the investment thesis around the US nuclear renaissance — domestic energy security and greenhouse-gas mandates supporting US uranium exploration and production — with two explicit 2026 priorities: the Wyoming ISR exploration pillar (KC, Cyclone) and the Cebieta development pillar in New Mexico
  • Argues Cebieta's economics are deliberately conservative: the 80% base-case recovery (set without advanced metallurgical work) drives the $84M after-tax NPV, while an analog heap-leach PFS used 91% recovery and every 2% recovery step is worth ~$16M NPV, making the 2026 column-leach program a high-leverage catalyst
  • Interprets the 2025 KC results as confirmation of an ~8-mile Rustler–Stampede mineralized trend plus a new Outpost roll-front discovery (one of the strongest 2025 grade intervals), framing Outpost as a higher-upside, earlier-stage target warranting focused 2026 drilling
  • Plans an aggressive 100,000 ft 2026 Wyoming drill program focused on resource delineation along the Rustler–Stampede trend and geometry definition at Outpost, weather-constrained to a May/June–year-end window to deliver continuous news flow alongside the longer-dated Cebieta metallurgical work
  • Sees scale as the path back into uranium ETFs — URNM restructured on free-float math and dropped several smaller constituents including the company — and outlines 2026 milestones (Cebieta MET, KC drilling, Cyclone follow-up) as the route to regain inclusion (URNJ exposure already preserved for sector beta)

Premier American Uranium stands out as one of the largest U.S.-focused uranium explorers, with both ISR (Wyoming) and heap leach (New Mexico) assets. Cebieta's PEA shows robust economics: 1.4M lbs/year production over 13 years at $90/lb uranium, with $115M capex and $84M after-tax NPV at 80% recovery. Heap leach recovery is the key swing variable: lifting it from 80% to 90% could add roughly $75M to Cebieta's after-tax NPV. Wyoming ISR drilling extended an 8-mile mineralized trend at KC and delivered a project-record 15.5 ft hole grading 0.09% U3O8 at Cyclone. A $15M bought-deal financing was anchored by existing institutional shareholders, with management focusing on scale to re-enter major uranium ETFs.

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Key Quotes

"The thesis behind Premier is simple — U.S. utilities need U.S. uranium, and the permitted, past-producing ground to supply it is increasingly consolidated."

— Bloor Street Capital interview with Jimmy Connor (Premier American Uranium media page, 2025)

"Investors should be watching the gap between spot and term uranium pricing — that's where the next leg of the trade lives."

— Red Cloud Financial Services webinar replay (Premier American Uranium, 2025)

Key Works

Corporate site outlining Premier's Wyoming (Uravan Mineral Belt, Great Divide Basin) and New Mexico (Marquez-Juan Tafoya) uranium assets and acquisition history.

Conversation between Healey and Greg Huffman, then CEO of Nuclear Fuels Inc., on U.S. uranium market structure ahead of the Premier / Nuclear Fuels combination.

Bloor Street Capital interview covering Premier's U.S.-focused growth strategy post Nuclear Fuels acquisition.

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