Uracan and Forum Provide Update on Drilling at Clearwater Property on Southwest Extension of Patterson Lake Trend
VANCOUVER, Nov. 7, 2016 /CNW/ - Uracan Resources Ltd. (TSX.V:URC) ("Uracan") and Forum Uranium Corp. (TSX.V:FDC) ("Forum") are pleased to announce an update on the ongoing drill program on Forum's 100% owned Clearwater Project, on trend from Fission Uranium's Triple R deposit and Nexgen Energy's Arrow Deposit in the Athabasca Basin, Saskatchewan.Uracan will earn its initial 25% interest in the property upon the completion of the current drill program.In addition, the previously announced exploration drilling program (as described in Uracan's September 29th, 2016 news release) will be extended.Please see below for further details.
Mongo Lake Area
The Mongo area is interpreted to be on strike with the structure hosting the Triple R deposit. Drilling to date on the Mongo Lake area (drill holes CW-17 and CW-18) of the property (please refer to maps on the Uracan website www.uracan.ca for more details on the Mongo Lake area) have encountered predominantly mafic gneisses, locally weakly graphitic, that have been cut numerous times by felsic granitic dykes and moderately radioactive (thorium bearing) mafic dykes with probing peaks of up to 2345 counts per second. These mafic dykes have been reactivated by subparallel brittle shear zones. The upper section of the drill holes also contains intervals of secondary hematite alteration, both along fracture surfaces and locally within the matrix and lithological boundaries.
Several intervals of moderate bleaching of the drill core have also been noted. Clays in the bleached zone have been analyzed by Forum's TerraSpec (TSP 350-2500) instrument, and have come back as mostly illite, a clay associated with hydrothermal alteration and common around all of the eastern Athabasca basin uranium deposits and at NexGen Energy's Arrow deposit.Samples of the bleached and clay altered core will be geochemically analysed in the near term to confirm the nature and type of other clay minerals present.
The combination of elevated radioactivity, bleaching with illite clay and secondary hematite associated with brittle shear zones and local graphitic zones are encouraging as these indicate that altering and radioactive fluids were active in the area.Further drilling is planned to follow up these initial encouraging results, both along strike on the southern conductor and on a parallel conductor 400m to the north. A further target (the Lili area) on a strong, steeply dipping VTEM conductor that has a strike length of several kilometres, parallel to the Clearwater intrusive complex may also be tested.
Radioactivity within the mafic dykes in CW-17 has a probing peak of 1081 cps over 0.1 meters between 197.6 and 197.7 meters downhole, within an overall radioactive interval of 779 cps over 0.8 meters between 197.4 and 198.2 meters.CW-18 contains mafic dykes with a probing peak of 2345 cps over 0.2 meters between 136.5 and 136.7 meters within an overall radioactive interval of 1206 cps over 0.6 meters between 136.3 and 136.9 meters.Preliminary spectrometer results indicate that the radioactivity in the mafic dykes is predominantly related to thorium with lesser uranium present.
All drill holes are probed for radiometrics along their entire drilled length using a Mt Sopris HLP-2375 total count natural gamma scintillometer probe.The radioactive zones have been measured using a hand-held Radiation Solutions Inc RS-135 spectrometer to determine the ratios of Thorium and Uranium in a preliminary fashion.Samples of these drill core intervals will be submitted for analysis by SRC Laboratories.
The reader is cautioned that probe and scintillometer readings are not necessarily uniformly or directly related to the presence of, or uranium grades of, the rock sample measured.These readings should only be used only as a preliminary indication of the presence of radioactive materials.
Key Area
Four diamond drill holes have also been completed in the Key area of the project testing gravity lows or EM conductors.While the alteration of the basement rocks was very strong with up to 30m of dissolved and missing core, most of this is interpreted to be caused by surficial weathering, evidence for this given by associated kaolinite clays.The drill holes that targeted EM conductors intersected graphitic structures with evidence of numerous tectonic episodes; unfortunately no significant uranium mineralization was noted in this area.
Uracan will earn a 25% interest in the Clearwater property at the end of the current drill program by spending $1.5 million (approximately $900,000 spent to date), a 51% interest in the Clearwater property by spending $3 million in exploration over three years and up to a 70% interest by spending $6 million over five years.The Clearwater Project covers a total of 9,912 hectares adjoining Fission Uranium's Patterson Lake South claims to the southwest.Forum will be the Project operator until Uracan earns its 51% interest, after which Uracan may elect to become the operator.
Marc Simpson, P.Geo., Uracan's President and CEO is the Qualified Person that has reviewed and approved the contents of this news release on behalf of Uracan.
ABOUT URACAN RESOURCES LTD.
Uracan Resources Ltd. (TSX.V:URC) is a Canadian-based exploration company focused on exploring for uranium deposits in Saskatchewan and Quebec, Canada.
In July 2014, Uracan signed an agreement with Forum Uranium whereby Uracan can acquire up to a 70% interest in the Clearwater Property near the southwestern margin of the Athabasca Basin, immediately adjacent to Fission Uranium's Patterson Lake South discovery.Forum is the 100% owner of the Clearwater Property.
In early 2013, Uracan signed an agreement with UEX Corporation, whereby Uracan acquired the option to earn from UEX a 60% participating interest in the Black Lake Property along the northern margin of the Athabasca Basin.UEX currently holds a 90.92% interest in the Black Lake Project with AREVA Resources Canada Inc. ("AREVA") holding the remaining 9.08% interest.
Uracan continues to review additional opportunities worldwide to capitalize on management's exploration and financing capabilities.
ON BEHALF OF URACAN RESOURCES LTD.
"Marc Simpson"
Marc Simpson
President and CEO
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