Christopher M. Jones has been named the new president and CEO of Uranium Resources Inc. (URI), effective April 1.
The uranium mining company (Nasdaq: URRE) is based in Lewisville, Texas, but Jones will be based in a Denver Tech Center office, said Mat Lueras, the company’s vice president of corporate development.
Jones most recently was president and CEO of Vancouver, British Columbia-based Wildcat Silver Corp., and previously was COO and mining general manager at Albian Sands Energy. He has 30 years of mining-industry experience, URI said.
He holds an MBA degree from Colorado State University.
URI operates in Texas, New Mexico and South Dakota.