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- Xcite Uranium Inc. is a mineral exploration and resource development company focused on the acquisition, exploration, and evaluation of high-grade uranium and precious metal properties in Canada. The company primarily targets clean energy mineral assets within prolific geological jurisdictions, specifically the Athabasca Basin and Beaverlodge mining districts of northern Saskatchewan, as well as greenstone belts in Quebec. Xcite Uranium operates across the natural resource exploration sector, offering resource identification, diamond drilling, geological mapping, geochemical sampling, airborne geophysical surveying, and mineral asset development services. Its core exploration portfolio includes the Beaver River Uranium Project, comprising multiple mineral claims prospective for unconformity-related and basement-hosted uranium mineralization in the Athabasca Basin; the Gulch Uranium Property, covering historical high-grade uranium showings in the Uranium City district of northern Saskatchewan; and the Turgeon Lake Gold Project, targeting lode gold mineralization within the Abitibi Greenstone Belt in northwestern Quebec. The company directs its exploration activities toward delineating economic mineral deposits to supply the expanding global nuclear energy and clean fuel markets. In recent developments, the company executed a corporate rebranding and name change from Xcite Resources Inc. to Xcite Uranium Inc. to align its corporate identity with its primary strategic focus on the uranium sector. Concurrently, the company expanded its project portfolio through strategic option and property acquisition agreements covering prospective uranium claims in northern Saskatchewan, closed equity and flow-through private placement financing rounds to fund advanced geophysics and exploratory drill programs, and restructured its technical advisory and exploration teams to accelerate property evaluation across its Athabasca Basin asset base. Headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Xcite Uranium Inc. was incorporated in 2020 and trades on the Canadian Securities Exchange under the ticker symbol XRI.