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Radioactivity Drilled at Gumboot
Pitchstone
Exploration Ltd. (TSX-V: PXP; “Pitchstone”) is pleased to announce a
significant intersection of radioactivity in a drill hole on the
Gumboot property in the eastern Athabasca Basin, Saskatchewan.
Gumboot is 100% owned by Pitchstone and is located about 20 kilometers
northwest of Cameco Corporation’s Cigar Lake uranium deposit.
Diamond drill hole
GB-04, the only hole drilled at Gumboot in 2008, encountered a 40
meter long interval of moderate to intense alteration and fracturing
in Athabasca Group sandstone a short distance above the basal
unconformity. Several zones of anomalous radioactivity were recorded
within this interval with a down-hole probe (Mount Sopris 2PGA-1000).
The maximum probe response was 13,017 counts per second (cps), at a
down hole length of 651.0 meters, within a 1.0 meter zone that
averaged 7,348 cps. Background radioactivity in sandstone as measured
with the probe is less than 200 cps.
Due to the high
degree of alteration, core coincident with the strongest probe
responses was not recovered and grades cannot be determined.
Athabasca uranium deposits are usually related to zones of strong
alteration and it is common to experience poor core recovery in
proximity to mineralization. Weak radioactivity was detected in drill
core with a hand held scintillometer within the 40 meter altered zone
and analyses of the cored material are pending.
Previous exploration
on Gumboot has outlined a strong 5 kilometer long conductor. This
feature has been previously tested with 2 historical holes and 3 holes
completed by Pitchstone (see location map at
www.pitchstone.net). All of these holes returned samples with
elevated uranium (to 0.10% U3O8 over 0.3 meter
in GB-01) and uranium pathfinder element values. Pitchstone considers
the intersection in GB-04 to be the most significant encountered on
Gumboot to date, however, several additional holes will be required to
substantiate the probe results and determine uranium grades.
Steve Blower, P.Geo.,
President of Pitchstone, is the Qualified Person for the purposes of
NI 43-101 with respect to the technical information in this news
release. Sample preparation and analyses are done by SRC
Geoanalytical Laboratories, Saskatoon. A partial digestion with
fluorimetric analysis is used for initial uranium determinations and
all samples containing greater than 100 ppm uranium are re-analyzed
with ICP. Pitchstone utilizes internally and externally submitted
standard reference materials for quality assurance and quality control
of the sample preparation and analyses.
About Pitchstone
Pitchstone is
actively exploring for uranium in four proven districts. The property
portfolio features ten projects in the eastern Athabasca Basin,
Saskatchewan, five of which are joint ventured with Uranium One Inc.
and five are 100% owned. In addition, there are four joint
venture projects with Triex Minerals in the Hornby Bay Basin, Nunavut,
an exploration partnership with Cameco and Motapa Diamonds in the
Franceville Basin, Gabon, and an option on three projects in Namibia.
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 Jag
Sandhu at 604 306 1950, or visit www.pitchstone.net
The TSX Venture Exchange does not accept
responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release. This
news release may contain assumptions, estimates, and other
forward-looking statements regarding future events. Such
forward-looking statements involve inherent risks and uncertainties
and are subject to factors, many of which are beyond Pitchstone’s
control, that may cause actual results or performance to differ
materially from those currently anticipated in such statements.
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