
Traction Uranium Corp. (CSE: TRAC) (OTC: TRCTF) (FRA: Z1K) is pleased to provide the following diamond drill hole updates on the diamond drill program at the Company’s Key Lake South Property in northern Saskatchewan’s Athabasca Basin.
DDH Highlights:
Lester Esteban, Chief Executive Officer of the Company, stated, “We are extremely excited and impressed by our first diamond drill program at our KLS Property. We are seeing all the right stuff in the basement rocks that are ticking all the right boxes for basement-hosted mineralization. However, the shallow, near-surface overburden anomaly in KLS23-007 is stealing the show with a 6-metre zone of significant radioactivity with values up to 1,254 cps measured by downhole probing. Notably, the overburden is measured with the probe inside the diamond drill steel casing which may be subduing the cps readings. The down-hole probe results from KLS23-009, which targeted overburden beneath the “black soil”* anomaly discovered by our team in 2022 and assaying 0.93 wt.% U308**, returned readings up to 235 cps. In comparison, DDH KLS23-007, located about 1.0 km from the black soil anomaly, returned values up to 1,254 cps from a significantly wider interval within overburden, rendering this as a compelling target for follow-up exploration.”
* See Traction news release dated September 27th, 2022
** See Traction news release dated November 14th, 2022
The diamond drilling was completed on March 26, 2023, with logging and sampling expected to be completed by April 3rd. The geological team at Aurora Geosciences Ltd. will deliver the samples to the Saskatchewan Research Council for geochemical analysis following completion of the Winter 2023 Key Lake South Phase 1 drill program.
Carl Schulze, Senior Project manager with Aurora Geosciences Ltd. of Whitehorse, Yukon, states: “Recent core logging has identified several other zones of strong chlorite-epidote alteration, similar to the anomalous zone in DDH KLS23-007, within holes KLS23-005, 008 and 010. This indicates the alteration system occurs at multiple sites within the KLS Property. Of particular interest is a zone of similar alteration in the contact area between basement orthogneiss and underlying basement metasediments hosting graphitic fractures in DDH KLS23-008.”
Figure 1: DDH KLS23-001
Figure 2: DDH KLS23-002
Figure 3: DDH KLS23-002A (40.7m) Veined Redox Boundary
Figure 4: DDH KLS23-002A (57.75m depth) Clay-Epidote Zone
Figure 5: DDH KLS23-007, Core from Anomalous Zone (47.37 – 64.57m)
Figure 6: DDH KLS23-008 (146.4m depth). Hematitic breccia
Figure 7: DDH KLS23-008 (160.2 m depth): Quartz-garnet zone
Figure 8: DDH KLS23-008 (154.4m depth): Banded chlorite, garnet
Table 1: Drill collar data, KLS 2023 Program
Hole ID | Easting | Northing | Azimuth | Dip | EOH (m) |
KLS23-001 | 456672 | 6333542 | 270 | 60 | 197 |
KLS23-002 | 456640 | 6333973 | Vertical | 90 | 63 |
KLS23-002A | 456640 | 6333973 | 270 | 60 | 183 |
KLS23-003 | 456541 | 6334206 | 270 | 60 | 180 |
KLS23-004 | 456579 | 6334472 | 270 | 70 | 153 |
KLS23-005 | 456429 | 6334793 | 90 | 70 | 159 |
KLS23-006 | 455846 | 6334912 | 270 | 60 | 150 |
KLS23-007 | 455527 | 6334887 | 250 | 70 | 150 |
KLS23-008 | 455421 | 6334664 | 270 | 70 | 162 |
KLS23-009 | 455727 | 6333852 | Vertical | 90 | 150 |
KLS23-010 | 456001 | 6334119 | 90 | 70 | 141 |
KLS23-011 | 455629 | 6333484 | 200 | 70 | 150 |
Total | 1838 |
NOTES:
Cps* = “counts-per-second”, as measured with a downhole probe. The reader is cautioned that the Company uses downhole probe readings as a preliminary indication of the presence of radioactive materials (uranium, thorium and/or potassium), and that downhole probe results may not be used directly to quantify or qualify uranium concentrations of the rock samples measured.
The Company considers all downhole probe readings greater than 100 cps to be considered “elevated radioactivity”, with background radioactivity measuring between 50 to 100 cps.
All reported drill hole intervals are drill core lengths and do not represent thickness which have yet to be determined.
About the Property
The KLS Property is located approximately 6 kilometers to the southwest of the Key Lake uranium mill and in close vicinity to modern uranium mining facilities and highway transportation in northern Saskatchewan. Geologically, it sits at the southeastern edge of the Proterozoic Athabasca Basin..
About Traction Uranium Corp.
Traction Uranium Corp. is in the business of mineral exploration and the development of uranium discovery prospects in Canada, including its three uranium projects in the world-renowned Athabasca Region.
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