Cosa Commences Airborne Geophysical Surveying at the Astro Uranium Project, Athabasca Basin, Saskatchewan
Cosa Commences Airborne Geophysical
Surveying at the Astro Uranium Project,
Athabasca Basin, Saskatchewan
Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - April 30, 2025) -
Cosa Resources Corp.
(TSXV:
COSA) (OTCQB: COSAF) (FSE: SSKU)
("
Cosa
" or the "
Company
") is pleased to announce that
airborne geophysical surveying has commenced at the Astro uranium project ("
Astro
" or the "
Project
").
This work is fully funded by Cosa's partner company, Global Uranium Corporation
(CSE: GURN)
(OTCQB: GURFF) (FSE: Q3J)
("
Global Uranium"
) per the option agreement (the "
Agreement
")
announced by the Company on April 9
th
, 2025, which gives Global the right to earn up to an 80% interest
in the Astro project over five exploration stages. As operator, Cosa has engaged Geotech Limited
("
Geotech
") to complete comprehensive coverage over Astro by utilizing their exclusive industry-leading
ZTEM system ("
ZTEM
").
Highlights
ZTEM survey and supporting work are fully funded by Global Uranium
Property-wide coverage is planned to identify all basement conductive trends within Astro and is
expected to significantly increase the amount of known conductive strike within the Project
Detailed interpretation to follow to identify preliminary follow up target areas potentially related to
structures and/or hydrothermal alteration
Astro is an expansive (>45,000 ha) eastern Athabasca project, within 30 kilometres of Cameco's
McArthur River uranium Mine and within 10 kilometres of CanAlaska's Pike Zone discovery
Survey Details
Property-wide ZTEM surveying planned to total over 1,460 line-kilometres is underway. Surveying is
expected to significantly advance the understanding of the Property and identify target areas for follow up
work by mapping conductive trends in the basement, potential zones of hydrothermal alteration in the
sandstone, and regional structures believed to be related to the nearby Fox Lake and McArthur River
uranium deposits. Historical ZTEM surveys cover less than 25% of the Project. By completing Project-
scale coverage, Cosa and Global aim to rapidly identify and prioritize the most prospective areas at
Astro.
Exclusive to Geotech, the ZTEM system is widely used within the Athabasca Basin as it boasts a
demonstrated industry leading ability to provide a wide range of frequency measurements with high
accuracy and resolution at depth. Condor Consulting Inc. ("
Condor
"), recognized experts in the field of
geophysical data processing and interpretation with extensive experience with both the ZTEM system
and the Athabasca Basin, have been retained to perform a detailed interpretation of the results.
Results of the survey and data inversion will guide follow up work, which is likely to include a combination
of cutting-edge Ambient Noise Tomography ("
ANT
") surveying and ground-based electromagnetic
("
EM
") surveys through the remainder of 2025 and into early 2026. The most prospective areas
identified from these surveys will be prioritized for drill testing as part of a phased exploration program.
About Astro
The Astro Project is located roughly 28 kilometres west of Cameco's McArthur River Mine, the world's
largest high-grade uranium mine, and approximately 10 kilometres west of CanAlaska Uranium Ltd.'s
Pike Zone, which boasts world-class intersections (Figure 1). Airborne geophysics completed in 2023 at
Cosa's neighboring Ursa project confirmed that untested conductive trends continue from Ursa onto the
Astro Project. Additionally, over 20 kilometres of conductive strike has been identified by historical
surveys at Astro, which has been tested by a single drill hole, EK-01. EK-01 failed to explain the strong
conductive response it was targeting, suggesting the hole was not ideally located. However, the
historical drill log notes favourable features in the sandstone including a brecciated and silicified interval
in the upper portion, decametre-scale intervals of illite-dominated clay mineralogy throughout, and
moderately bleached and slightly friable intervals in the lower 150 metres, features which are commonly
associated with unconformity related uranium deposits of the Athabasca Basin including McArthur River,
Cigar Lake, and Hurricane. Roughly 11 kilometres to the southwest of EK-01 and within 700 metres of
the Astro Project, strongly anomalous uranium geochemistry and pervasive hydrothermal alteration was
intersected in the lower to medial sandstone of historical drill holes CR-06 and CR-15. Drilling
completed by Cosa in 2024 failed to explain the source of the geochemical anomaly however ground-
based EM work completed by Cosa indicates that the targeted conductor likely trends onto the Astro
Project.
Astro hosts over 40 kilometres of magnetic low strike that has been untested by drilling, the vast majority
of which has not been covered by any modern EM survey. A patchwork of historical airborne and ground
EM surveys covering a portion of the contained magnetic low strike length has defined that conductive
trends are present within most surveyed areas. Notably, the Project is entirely unexplored for the
extension of regional structures related to both the McArthur River and Fox Lake uranium deposits,
located roughly 28 and 17 kilometres east of Astro, respectively. Cosa and Global Uranium will execute
a work plan designed to rapidly and efficiently canvas much of the Astro Project for early identification of
the most compelling and high-upside drill targets. The depth to the unconformity at Astro is estimated to
be between 850 and 975 metres.
Figure 1 - The Astro Project
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About Cosa Resources Corp.
Cosa Resources is a Canadian uranium exploration company operating in northern Saskatchewan. The
portfolio comprises roughly 237,000 ha across multiple 100% owned and Cosa-operated Joint Venture
projects in the Athabasca Basin region, all of which are underexplored, and the majority reside within or
adjacent to established uranium corridors.
In January of 2025, the Company entered a transformative strategic collaboration with Denison Mines
that has secured Cosa access into several additional highly prospective eastern Athabasca uranium
exploration projects. As Cosa's largest shareholder, Denison gains exposure to Cosa's potential for
exploration success and its pipeline of uranium projects.
Cosa's award-winning management team has a long track record of success in Saskatchewan. In 2022,
members of the Cosa team were awarded the AME Colin Spence Award for their previous involvement
in discovering IsoEnergy's Hurricane deposit. Prior to Hurricane, Cosa personnel led teams or had
integral roles in the discovery of Denison's Gryphon deposit and 92 Energy's GMZ zone and held key
roles in the founding of both NexGen and IsoEnergy.
The Company's core focus throughout 2025 is drilling at the Murphy Lake North Joint Venture. Murphy
Lake North is a 70/30 Joint Venture between Cosa and Denison respectively and is located at the
northern end of the Larocque Lake trend. The Project is within three kilometres of and on trend with the
Hurricane deposit. Initial drilling completed by Cosa during winter 2025 intersected broad zones of
hydrothermal alteration of the sandstone, associated with prospective basement structures interpreted
as the strike extension of those controlling the Hurricane deposit. An expanded follow up campaign is
currently in planning for the summer season.
About Global Uranium Energy Corp.
Global Uranium Corp. focuses on exploring and developing uranium assets primarily in North America.
The Company currently holds key uranium projects: the Wing Lake Property in the Mudjatik Domain of
Northern Saskatchewan, Canada; the Northwest Athabasca Joint Venture with Forum Energy Metals
Corp. and NexGen Energy Ltd. in the Northwest Athabasca region of Saskatchewan, Canada; and the
Great Divide Basin District Projects, the Gas Hills District Projects, and the Copper Mountain District
Projects in Wyoming, USA.
Technical Disclosure
Historical exploration results disclosed in this news release were sourced from the
Saskatchewan
Mineral Assessment Database
(SMAD). These results have not been verified by the Qualified Person
except as noted below and are relied upon for qualitative assessment of the Project only.
At present, the
Company does not intend to complete additional verification of historical results. SMAD sources for
Astro include 74-0015, 74H13-0009, 74H11-0113, 74G16-0010, 74H13-0015, and 74H13-0016.
Verification of historical drilling results included confirming the approximate collar location of historical
drill hole EK-01 from air photos. Verification of geophysical results is limited to verification of selected
local grid locations for SMAD files 74-0015 and 74H13-0009 and qualitatively assessing whether drilling
results from survey areas or along the interpreted strike can reasonably explain historical geophysical
interpretations.
Qualified Person
The Company's disclosure of technical or scientific information in this press release has been reviewed
and approved by Andy Carmichael, P.Geo., Vice President, Exploration for Cosa. Mr. Carmichael is a
Qualified Person as defined under the terms of National Instrument 43-101.
Contact
Keith Bodnarchuk, President and CEO
+1 888-899-2672 (COSA)
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