Atomic Minerals Options Colorado Plateau Hosted Harts Point Uranium Property to Kraken Energy
Atomic Minerals Corporation | 830 -1100 Melville Street | Vancouver, BC | V6E 4A6 | Telephone: (604) 644-6794
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For Immediate Release
PRESS RELEASE May 23, 2023
Symbol: TSX-V: ATOM
Atomic Minerals Options Colorado Plateau Hosted Harts Point
Uranium Property to Kraken Energy
Vancouver, British Columbia, May 23, 2023 –Atomic Minerals Corporation ("ATOMIC
MINERALS" or the "Company") (TSX Venture: ATOM) is pleased to announce the execution of
a definitive option agreement (the “Option Agreement” or the “Agreement”) with Kraken Energy
Corp. (CSE: UUSA) (“Kraken”). Kraken may acquire up to a 75% interest in the Harts Point Uranium
Property (Figures 1 & 2) in San Juan County, southeast Utah (“Harts Point” or the “Property”). The
Property is located in the center of the Colorado Plateau, referred to by some as “the Athabasca Basin
of the US” and is 64 kilometers (“km”) (40 miles) north of the White Mesa Uranium Mill, the only
fully licensed and operating conventional uranium mill in the United States.
The Property consists of 324 lode mining claims on Bureau of Land Management (“BLM”) ground
that covers an area of 2,622 hectares (“ha”) (6,480 acres) and drill permits are in place for up to 25
exploration drill holes upon payment of the US$58,000 bond to the BLM.
Atomic Minerals President & CEO Clive Massey commented, “We have begun to see the fruits of
our research efforts with the execution of the Kraken agreement. Kraken's top notch technical team
will work diligently to validate our geological model for Harts Point as a Lisbon Valley analog, as
we eagerly await the pending drilling campaign. Concurrently, we plan to initiate the permitting
process at our 10 Mile property, another Lisbon Valley analog, 80 kilometres to the northwest or we
plan to initiate the permitting process at our Dolores property, another Lisbon Valley analog, 52
kilometres to the east.”
Harts Point Property Highlights:
▪ World class uranium jurisdiction: located in the center of the Colorado Plateau, which has
produced over 328 million (“M”) pounds (“lbs”) U3O8 at 0.2 to 0.4% U3O8 since the 1950s1.
▪ Harts Point Anticline is Analogous to the Lisbon Valley Anticline: where the Lisbon Valley
Uranium District (Figure 1) hosted 17 large uranium mines which produced approximately
80M lbs U3O8 at 0.34% U3O8 from 1948 to 19882.
- The dimensions of these tabular sandstone-hosted uranium deposits range from 2 to 13
meters (“m”) (7 to 43 feet) thick, 100 to 3,048 m (328 to 10,000 feet) long, and 31
to 427 m (100 to 1,400 feet) wide3.
▪ Significant Historic Uranium Production:
- Several historic mines located 11 km (7 miles) west of the Harts Point Property
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produced approximately 280,000 lbs U3O8 at 0.3% U3O8 from the favorable Chinle
Formation host rock4.
- The Lisbon Valley Anticline is located 31 km (19 miles) to the east of the Harts Point
Property (Figure 1) produced approximately 80M lbs U3O8 0.34% U3O82.
▪ Historic Exploration: Three wide-spaced historic oil and gas wells on the Property
(Figure 2) along the east flank of the Harts Point Anticline show ‘off-scale’ radioactivity
within the favorable Chinle Formation host rock.
▪ Excellent Infrastructure: located approximately 64 km (40 miles) north of the White Mesa
uranium processing facility.
- There is excellent access throughout the Property, which is situated 45 km (28 miles)
from the town of Monticello, Utah.
Atomic Minerals’ technical team identified Harts Point after spending the last number of years
reviewing the gamma logs and geology logs from the Utah and Colorado historic oil and gas drill
holes throughout the Plateau, looking for gamma kicks near the ba se of the favourable Chinle
formation in areas of increased thickness, ideally located along the nose of the salt anticlines. Their
thorough search identified Harts Point where three historic drill holes spaced approximately 4.5 km
(2.8 miles) apart carried basal Chinle gamma spikes.
Three historic holes located approximately 4.5 km (2.8 miles) apart carried basal Chinle Formation
gamma spikes between 1,200 feet to 1,400 feet below surface. Gamma ray logs from each of the three
holes showed spikes within the Moss Back Member which forms the basal section of the Chinle and
is the primary location for uranium mineralization in this formation throughout the area. The Upper
Indian District located 11 km (7 miles) west of the Harts Point Property (Figure 2) pro duced
approximately 280,000 pounds U3O8 at 0.3% U3O8 from the favourable Chinle Formation host rock4,
indicating the Chinle is prospective for uranium both to the northeast and west of Harts Point.
Terms of the Agreement:
Under the terms of the Agreement, the parties have entered into a definitive option agreement (the
“Option Agreement”), pursuant to which the Kraken may acquire up to 75% of the Harts Point
Property by meeting the following requirements:
▪ Kraken will be the operator and must incur US$1.5 million of eligible expenditures within 18
months from the date of the Option Agreement to earn a 65% interest.
▪ Kraken has the option to increase interest in the Property from 65% to 75% by incurring an
additional US$2.0 million of eligible expenditures within 30 months from the date of the
Option Agreement and issuing Atomic 2.0 million common shares of Kraken.
▪ Kraken will grant Atomic a 2.0% net smelter royalty (subject to a buy down to 1.0% for US$5.0
million).
▪ After the initial option (Kraken 65%: Atomic 35%) or the extended option (Kraken 75%:
Atomic 25%), a definitive Joint Venture Agreement will be formed.
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Figure 1: Harts Point Location Map within Colorado Plateau
Figure 2: Harts Point Property with Regional Uranium Occurrences
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References
1 Holger Albrethsen, Jr. and Frank E. McGinley (1982). Summary History of Domestic Procurement Under U.S. Atomic
Energy Commission Contracts, September 1982.
2 Chenoweth, W.L. (1990). Lisbon Valley, Utah's Premier Uranium Area, a Summary of Exploration and Ore Production.
Utah Geological Survey Open File Report 188, July 1990.
3 Gordon W. Weir and Willard P. Puffett (1981). Incomplete manuscript on stratigraphy and structural geology and
uranium-vanadium and copper deposits of the Lisbon Valley area, Utah-Colorado. Open-File Report 81-39. Pages 153 to
163. United States Department of the Interior
Geological Survey.
4 Chenoweth, W.L. (1993): The geology and Production History of the Uranium deposits in the White Canyon Mining
District, San Juan County, Utah, Utah Geological Survey Miscellaneous Publication 93-3.
The data disclosed in this news release is related to historical drilling results. Kraken has not
undertaken any independent investigation of the sampling, nor has it independently analyzed the
results of the historical exploration work in order to verify the results. Kraken considers these
historical drill results relevant as the Company is using this data as a guide to plan exploration
programs. The Company's current and future exploration work includes verification of the historical
data through drilling.
About the Company
Atomic Minerals is a Vancouver based publicly listed uranium exploration company trading on the
TSX Venture Exchange, with current assets in Saskatchewan’s Athabasca Basin and the Four Corners
region of the southwest United States. The Company is led by a highly skilled management and
technical team with numerous previous successes in the junior mining sector.
For additional information, please visit the Company's website at www.atomicminerals.ca
Qualified Persons
Mr. R. Tim Henneberry, P.Geo. (BC), is the "Qualified Person" under National Instrument 43-101
Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects ("NI 43-101") and is responsible for the technical
contents of this news release and has approved the disclosure of the technical information contained
herein.
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
“Clive Massey”
Clive H. Massey
President & CEO
For further information, please contact:
Dave Langlais
(778) 316-5105
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