CanAlaska Commences West McArthur Winter Drill Program Two Drills Focused on Expansion of High-Grade Pike Zone Uranium Discovery Unconformity Target Tests at Pike Zone Priority for First Drill Holes Multiple Eastern Athabasca Basin Drill Programs Ongoing for Winter 2023
CanAlaska Commences West McArthur Winter
Drill Program
Two Drills Focused on Expansion of High-Grade Pike Zone Uranium Discovery
Unconformity Target Tests at Pike Zone Priority for First Drill Holes
Multiple Eastern Athabasca Basin Drill Programs Ongoing for Winter 2023
Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - January 10, 2023) -
CanAlaska Uranium Ltd. (TSXV:
CVV)
(OTCQX:
CVVUF
) (FSE:
DH7N
)
("CanAlaska or the "Company") is pleased to announce its
mobilization of drill crews and equipment as part of the $10 million 2023 program on the West McArthur
Joint Venture project in the eastern Athabasca Basin. The 2023 West McArthur drill program will focus
on advancing the Company's new high-grade Pike Zone uranium discovery. The West McArthur project,
a Joint Venture with Cameco Corporation, is operated by CanAlaska that currently holds a 79.4%
ownership in the project (Figure 1). With cash of approximately $18 million the Company is fully funded to
complete its 2023 exploration programs. CanAlaska will fund the 2023 West McArthur program entirely,
further increasing its majority ownership in the project.
Figure 1 – West McArthur Project Location
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Scheduled for this month, two drills will focus on the new high-grade Pike Zone discovery. The primary
goals of the 2023 winter drill program are drill testing the Pike Zone unconformity target and continued
definition of the dimensions and controls of the Pike Zone basement mineralization. The first drillholes of
the season will target where the controlling-structure, hosted within a 40- to 50-metre-wide graphitic
horizon, intersects the ideal target at the unconformity (Figure 2). This target has not been drill-tested and
will be the main priority for the start of the program. In addition, during the winter 2023 drilling program,
the Company will begin to step out along strike from the Pike Zone to test the unconformity and
basement potential near the known mineralization (Figure 3). The first step-out target will under-cut
WMA073 which intersected a 40 metre wide strongly altered sandstone-hosted structure 200 metres
above the ideal unconformity target approximately 160 metres northeast of the Pike Zone. The Company
expects to complete the winter portion of the 2023 exploration program in early April.
Figure 2 – Three-Dimensional Interpretation of Mineralized Envelope at Pike Zone
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The Pike Zone discovery is located 20 kilometres southwest of Cameco's and Orano's McArthur River
uranium mine. The Pike Zone, discovered in July of 2022, lies along a structural corridor that hosts the
Company's 42 Zone as well as the nearby Fox Lake uranium deposit (68 million pounds U
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7.99%), immediately to the northeast, discovered by Cameco and Orano (Figure 1). During the 2022
drilling program, the Company reported multiple intersections of high-grade basement-hosted uranium
mineralization. The most significant drillholes in the Pike Zone are WMA067 and WMA072-3. WMA067
returned 2.4% U
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over 9.0 metres from 906.5 metres and WMA072-3 contained several high-grade
intersections over a 12.6-metre-wide zone highlighted by 3.98% U
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over 2.3 metres from 845.9
metres which contained a sub-interval of 25.40% U
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over 0.3 metres from 846.4 metres (see news
release dated November 16
th
, 2022). To date, uranium mineralization has been intersected between 20
and 100 metres vertically below the unconformity.
Figure 3 – 2023 West McArthur Project Work Areas
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Immediately following the winter drill program, the Company is planning a regional DCIP Resistivity
survey over the C10S conductive corridor which hosts the Pike Zone. The corridor is interpreted to be
over 15 kilometres in strike length and the Company believes there are multiple opportunities for
discovery around the Pike Zone as well as along this new 15-kilometre corridor. The DCIP Resistivity
program will map alteration and structure throughout the sandstone column along this trend and help
prioritize drill testing along the C10S corridor and in the immediate Pike Zone area. The Company is
planning additional drilling in the summer.
CanAlaska CEO, Cory Belyk, comments,
"I am very pleased the team can get back to drilling on the
Pike Zone early in 2023 with a fully funded two-drill program. Continued definition of the high-grade
Pike Zone discovery and drill testing of the associated unconformity target for the first time is a priority
for the team. In addition, preparations are under way for the Company's first ever drilling program on
the Key Extension project where drill targets have been identified that closely resemble those
associated with basement hosted uranium mineralization such as NexGen's Arrow and Cameco's
Eagle Point uranium deposits. The first quarter of 2023 will have a lot of news flow for CanAlaska and
its shareholders from two diamond drilling programs in the eastern Athabasca Basin, one of which is
focussed on high-grade uranium mineralization expansion."
Other News
The Company is preparing for its first drilling program on the Key Extension project, located in the
southeastern Athabasca Basin region near the Key Lake mine and mill complex. The 2023 Key
Extension drill program, planned to begin in February, will focus on exploration of newly defined targets
generated through a series of geophysical programs completed in 2022. The Company is completing
work on the Key Extension project under an option agreement with Durama Enterprises Limited
("Durama"), a private company, which has granted CanAlaska a right to earn up to 100% interest in the
project.
The Company will be attending the Vancouver Resource Investment Conference ("VRIC") on January
29
th
and 30
th
in Vancouver, BC and will have representatives at booth #435.
About CanAlaska Uranium
CanAlaska Uranium Ltd. (TSXV: CVV) (OTCQX: CVVUF) (FSE: DH7N) holds interests in
approximately 300,000 hectares (750,000 acres), in Canada's Athabasca Basin - the "Saudi Arabia of
Uranium."
CanAlaska's strategic holdings have attracted major international mining companies.
CanAlaska is currently working with Cameco and Denison at two of the Company's properties in the
Eastern Athabasca Basin. CanAlaska is a project generator positioned for discovery success in the
world's richest uranium district. The Company also holds properties prospective for nickel, copper, gold
and diamonds. For further information visit
www.canalaska.com
.
The qualified technical person for this news release is Nathan Bridge, MSc., P.Geo., CanAlaska's Vice
President, Exploration.
On behalf of the Board of Directors
"Cory Belyk"
Cory Belyk, P.Geo., FGC
CEO, Executive Vice-President and Director
CanAlaska Uranium Ltd.
Contacts:
Cory Belyk, Executive VP and CEO
Tel: +1.604.688.3211 x 306
Email:
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