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Interview with Ross McElroy, Director & CEO of F3 Uranium

Our previous interview: https://www.cruxinvestor.com/posts/f3-uranium-tsxvfuu-the-discovery-that-rewrote-uranium-exploration-rules-10839

Recording date: 4th October 2026

F3 Uranium Corp. (TSXV:FUU) has reorganised its leadership around a team that has worked together for two decades. Ross McElroy, a geologist with almost 40 years in uranium and a co-founder of Fission Uranium, is now Chief Executive Officer. Dev Randhawa becomes Executive Chairman and steps back from day-to-day management to focus on networking and promoting the company. Raymond Ashley, F3's original exploration manager and later President, now concentrates almost entirely on technical work following the departure of VP Exploration Sam Hartmann in early September. McElroy describes the change as a reallocation of complementary skills rather than a fix for any specific problem.

The company's asset base sits in the PLN project in the western Athabasca Basin, a land package McElroy puts at about 42,000 hectares. The JR Zone hosts an Indicated resource of 11.8 million lb U3O8 at 4.41%, including a high-grade domain of 10.8 million lb at 12.23%. McElroy is frank that this pod has probably been delineated as far as it will go. On its own, he says, it is a little short of what is needed to justify advanced studies. Athabasca deposits often occur as multiple pods, however, and he would not be surprised to find more along the A1 conductor trend.

The more important development may be happening next door. NexGen Energy's Arrow and Paladin Energy's Triple R are advancing towards production, and McElroy expects at least two mills, new roads and possibly provincial grid power to reach the area. That infrastructure lowers the critical mass a deposit needs to be economic. He sees JR as a potential satellite feed for a producer such as Paladin, or as an attraction for a company looking to consolidate the district.

Exploration focus for the next 12 to 18 months will be the Tetra Zone, discovered in April 2025 about 13 km south of JR. The discovery hole returned 22.5 m at 0.26% U3O8, including 1.0 m at 2.50%, and follow-up hole PLN25-219A returned 3.0 m at 1.19%. McElroy acknowledges that true high-grade uranium has yet to be found. Drilling has shown that Tetra sits where the north-south trend hosting JR meets an east-west trend parallel to the Triple R and Arrow corridor, both of which are known to host high-grade mineralisation.

Drilling continues with a single rig until about the end of November. The fall programme, originally planned at 4,000 to 4,500 m, is now expected to reach 5,000 to 7,000 m. The winter programme will be planned in December and announced that month, with drilling from January or February. F3 reported $21.3 million in cash as at 25 August 2026.

On the corporate side, a planned 10:1 consolidation would reduce roughly 750 million shares to about 75 million. McElroy hopes this will help broaden the institutional shareholder base. He also sees attracting strategic interest as a central part of his role, pointing to the land position, the JR resource and the Tetra discovery. Key risks include Tetra failing to deliver a high-grade core, JR's dependence on third-party infrastructure, potential dilution and weak sentiment towards uranium equities.

View F3 Uranium's company profile: https://www.cruxinvestor.com/companies/f3-uranium-corp

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