Athabasca Exploration Update
Pitchstone
Exploration Ltd. (PXP-TSX.V) (“Pitchstone”) announces that 1,968 m
of NQ core drilling has been completed in three holes on the
Darby-Candle property. Hole DB-04 intersected two intervals of
broken, friable and bleached sandstone, and graphitic, pelitic
basement units. These features are common at uranium deposits in
the eastern Athabasca region. The basement in DB-04 is locally
fractured with clay gouge and graphite to 8%; graphite occurs as
disseminations and on fault planes. Holes DB-05 and DB-06
intersected granite-gneiss and pelitic basement units. Samples have
been submitted for geochemical analysis and results are pending.
In addition, a
recently completed pole-pole resistivity survey at the Waterfound
project has identified features that may represent structures and
alteration zones in the Athabasca Group sediments. These features
provide a focus for future drilling within a 1.6 km long zone of
anomalous radioactivity at the Athabasca Group unconformity.
Pitchstone is operator of the Darby-Candle and Waterfound properties
under an agreement with sxr Uranium One Inc. (TSX: SXR).
This release has
been reviewed by Steve Blower, M.Sc., P.Geo., Pitchstone’s Vice
President, Exploration - a Qualified Person as defined by National
Instrument 43-101.
Pitchstone is
actively exploring for uranium in three proven districts. The
property portfolio features eight projects in the eastern Athabasca
Basin, Saskatchewan, five of which are joint ventured with sxr
Uranium One Inc., with the other three being 100% owned. In
addition, there are five joint venture projects with Triex Minerals
in the Hornby Bay Basin, Nunavut and NWT, and an exploration
partnership with Cameco and Motapa Diamonds in the Franceville
Basin, Gabon. Pitchstone has a unique group of geologists with
extensive uranium exploration and production experience.
On behalf of the
Board,
E.A.G. (Ted)
Trueman, CEO and Director
For further
information contact: Ted Trueman, CEO, Pitchstone Exploration (604)
630 5560,
ted@pitchstone.net,
Dan Barnholden,
CEO, Blueprint Investor Relations Consulting (416) 625 2334,
dbarnholden@blueprintir.com,
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regarding future events. Such forward-looking statements involve
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which are beyond the Company’s control, that may cause actual
results or performance to differ materially from those currently
anticipated in such statements.
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