The firm is deferring the first phase of the 40,000-barrel-per-day project Kirby oil sands project in northern Alberta, originally targeted for the fourth quarter of 2016.
Analysts were expecting 50-80 million pounds, but instead learned the uranium project holds over 105 million pounds in the indicated and inferred categories.
Quebec's highest court has refused to hear an appeal of a last year judgment that rejected a motion to dismiss the millionaire lawsuit against the miner's Iron Ore Co. of Canada (IOC).
December 2014 coal markets were mixed on the month, with eastern coal caught in the rout that has broadly affected energy commodities on slowing global economic growth and weak winter demand.