Appia announces Alces Lake 2022 prospecting program discovers Massive Monazite at the West Limb radioactive anomaly returning up to 36 wt.% TREO
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NEWS RELEASE
Appia announces Alces Lake 2022 prospecting program discovers
Massive Monazite at the West Limb radiometric anomaly returning
up to 36 wt.% TREO.
TORONTO, ONTARIO, December 6, 2022 - Appia Rare Earths & Uranium Corp. (the “Company”
or “Appia”) (CSE: API, OTCQX:APAAF, Germany: “A0I.F”, “A0I.MU”, “A0I.BE”) is excited to
announce the receipt of assay results from the 2022 prospecting program at its wholly owned Alces
Lake Rare Earth Elements Property, Northern Saskatchewan.
Highlights from the program include:
36.11 wt.% TREO returned from samples of MASSIVE TO SEMI-MASSIVE MONAZITE
in outcrop at the West Limb anomaly, first discovered in 2022.
3.34 wt.% TREO returned from a mineralized biotite shear zone at the West Limb anomaly
4.34 wt.% TREO returned from VISIBLE MONAZITE in a shear zone at a previously
unexplored and un-named radiometric prospect south of the Magnet Ridge zone
2.03 wt.% TREO returned from VISIBLE MONAZITE discovered in the Western Anomaly
Vice President Exploration Irvine Annesley says “Continuing to find new occurrences of visible and
massive monazite on the Alces lake property show the property’s amazing potential. Multiple results
exceeding one percent total rare earth oxides from new targets, not explored before 2022, tells us we are
just scratching the surface at Alces Lake. With so much area left to explore we are excited about what
remains to be discovered and new targets to be drilled”.
Following up on the success of Appia’s 2021 geological field work, a team of two field geologists conducted
reconnaissance prospecting of previously unexplored or underexplored radiometric Th (and U) anomalies
during the 2022 field season. The team documented 13 new occurrences of visible monazite across the
central portion of the Alces Lake property. Grab samples of anomalously radioactive bedrock were
collected whenever possible. Of 34 outcrop grab samples, four returned grades exceeding 2 weight percent
Total Rare Earth Oxides (wt.% TREO) and greater than half exceeded 0.1 wt.% TREO.
With another successful year following up on the results of Alces Lake 2021 airborne radiometric survey,
Appia has engaged a geophysical contractor to expand the survey coverage to all of the 35,682-hectare
Alces Lake property.
Appia CEO Tom Drivas said “The 2022 prospecting results have shown just how effective and valuable a
tool the airborne radiometric data is. After the 2021 survey guided our team to excellent results from new
targets for the second season in a row, including the stunning 36.11 wt.% TREO sample in the West Limb,
we have decided to expand the survey to cover the entire property. This is an important step for unlocking
the full potential of Alces Lake as part of an emerging Rare Earth Elements district”.
Figure 1. Results and locations of 2022 prospecting sampling. Point labels identify the calculated wt.% TREO of each outcrop
grab sample, as further elaborated on in Table 1 below.
Figure 2. Current coverage of airborne radiometrics at Alces Lake. Appia has engaged a geophysical contractor to extend the
survey to the complete extents of the claim group at the beginning of the 2023 work program.
Table 1. Locations and Calculated Wt. % TREO of 2022 outcrop grab samples as displayed in Figure 1. Wt.% TREO = ([CeO2 ppm]
+ [Dy2O3 ppm] + [Pr6O11 ppm] + [La2O3 ppm] + [Nd2O3 ppm] + [Sm2O3 ppm] + [Eu2O3 ppm] + [Gd2O3 ppm] + [Tb4O7 ppm] +
[Ho2O3 ppm] [Er2O3 ppm] + [Yb2O3 ppm] + [Lu2O3] ppm + [Y2O3 ppm] ) / 10000
Easting (m) Northing (m) Elevation (m) Sample ID Type TREO (wt.%)
666087 6617079 492 8233 Outcrop 36.114
668489 6615445 433 8221 Outcrop 4.338
666087 6617065 492 8219 Outcrop 3.343
663441 6614728 447 8236 Outcrop 2.030
661297 6610836 516 8214 Outcrop 0.729
661922 6611569 453 8213 Outcrop 0.391
667723 6616654 488 8228 Outcrop 0.349
661962 6611612 461 8212 Outcrop 0.287
661289 6610831 516 8215 Outcrop 0.237
661445 6611280 452 8217 Outcrop 0.219
668464 6615569 441 8220 Outcrop 0.206
666243 6617494 488 8235 Outcrop 0.204
667713 6616673 489 8227 Outcrop 0.181
661444 6611310 448 8216 Outcrop 0.178
661910 6611203 409 8208 Outcrop 0.149
667717 6616682 489 8224 Outcrop 0.146
664174 6611294 439 8205 Outcrop 0.135
666186 6617430 486 8234 Outcrop 0.121
666078 6616950 490 8218 Outcrop 0.098
664336 6611228 442 8207 Outcrop 0.078
668309 6615660 435 8223 Outcrop 0.072
666087 6616621 462 8230 Outcrop 0.058
661946 6613288 422 8232 Outcrop 0.052
662006 6611207 415 8209 Outcrop 0.048
663869 6610986 496 8201 Outcrop 0.041
664124 6611240 436 8204 Outcrop 0.041
667689 6616663 489 8225 Outcrop 0.030
663885 6610980 497 8202 Outcrop 0.029
667700 6616652 488 8226 Outcrop 0.027
668520 6615530 442 8222 Outcrop 0.025
663854 6612821 419 8229 Outcrop 0.021
664340 6611257 437 8206 Outcrop 0.015
662185 6611372 438 8211 Outcrop 0.014
664446 6612794 369 8231 Outcrop 0.011
About the Alces Lake Project
The Alces Lake project encompasses some of the highest-grade total and critical* REEs and gallium
mineralization in the world, hosted within several surface and near-surface monazite occurrences that
remain open at depth and along strike.
* Critical rare earth elements are defined here as those that are in short-supply and high-demand for use in permanent magnets and modern electronic
applications such as electric vehicles and wind turbines (i.e: neodymium (Nd), praseodymium (Pr), dysprosium (Dy) and terbium (Tb)).
Appia resumed drilling at Alces Lake in mid-March 2022, with significantly deeper holes compared to the
100 holes (approximately 8,076 metres) drilled in 2021. Total meterage in 2022 was 17,481. This was
designed to allow Appia to determine continuity at depth and along the identified REE mineralization trends
as the Company works towards an initial resource estimate in accordance with NI 43-101 for the area. With
high-grade REE mineralization now identified in many locations within an area covering approximately 27
km2 of the Alces Lake block. the Company believes the project has the potential to be a world-class source
of high-grade critical rare earth bearing monazite.
The Alces Lake project is located in northern Saskatchewan, the same provincial jurisdiction that is
developing a “first-of-its-kind” rare earth processing facility in Canada (currently under construction by the
Saskatchewan Research Council, with the first stage scheduled to become operational in early 2023). The
Alces Lake project area is 35,682 hectares (88,173 acres) in size and is 100% owned by Appia.
To ensure safe work conditions are met for the workforce, the Company has developed exploration
guidelines that comply with the Saskatchewan Public Health Orders and the Public Health Order Respecting
the Northern Saskatchewan Administration District in order to maintain social distancing and help prevent
the transmission of COVID-19.
Grab samples were collected with the use of a rock hammer where possible and sample selection location
was determined by the use of handheld scintillometer. The area of highest scintillometer readings may or
may not have been sampled. All lithogeochemical assay results of grab samples were provided by
Saskatchewan Research Council’s Geoanalytical Laboratory, an ISO/IEC 17025:2005 (CAN-P-4E)
certified laboratory in Saskatoon, SK. All analytical results reported herein have passed internal QA/QC
review and compilation.
The technical content in this news release was reviewed and approved by Dr. Irvine R. Annesley, P.Geo.,
Vice President Exploration of Appia and a Qualified Person as defined by National Instrument 43-101.
About Appia Rare Earths & Uranium Corp.
Appia is a publicly traded Canadian company in the rare earth element and uranium sectors. The Company
is currently focusing on delineating high-grade critical rare earth elements and gallium on the Alces Lake
property, as well as exploring for high-grade uranium in the prolific Athabasca Basin on its Otherside,
Loranger, North Wollaston, and Eastside properties. The Company holds the surface rights to exploration
for 110,997 hectares (274,280 acres) in Saskatchewan. The Company also has a 100% interest in 12,545
hectares (31,000 acres), with rare earth element and uranium deposits over five mineralized zones in the
Elliot Lake Camp, Ontario.
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