Skyharbour Partner Company Azincourt Receives Permits for Upcoming Drill Program at the East Preston Uranium Project
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January 8th, 2020
News Release
Skyharbour Partner Company Azincourt Receives Permits for Upcoming Drill Program at
the East Preston Uranium Project
Vancouver, BC - Skyharbour Resources Ltd. (TSX-V:SYH) (OTCQB:SYHBF) (Frankfurt:SC1P)
(the “Company”) is pleased to announce that its partner company Azincourt Energy Corp.
(“Azincourt”) has confirmed all relevant permits have been received for the upcoming 2020 winter
diamond drilling program at the 25,000+ hectare East Preston Uranium Project located 50km
southeast of Patterson Lake, in the Western Athabasca Basin, northern Saskatchewan, Canada.
Bryson Drilling has been contracted for the winter 2020 drill program, under the guidance and
supervision of Azincourt director Ted O’Connor, M.Sc., P.Geo, and Jarrod Brown, M.Sc., P.Geo,
Chief Geologist and Project Manager with TerraLogic Exploration.
Preston Uranium Project Map:
http://skyharbourltd.com/_resources/maps/SYH-Patterson-Lake.pdf
Road construction to the main camp began in December and work was on time and progressing
rapidly before the holiday break . Road opening resumed on Monday, January 6, with the main
crossing over the Mirror River scheduled for next week. The drill rig is expected to begin mobilization
sometime later this week with the commencement of the drill program anticipated to begin later in
the month.
As detailed in the December 4, 2019, Company news r elease, drill target prioritization has been
completed based on compilation of results from the 2019 winter drill program and 2018 and 2019
ground-based EM and gravity surveys, and property-wide helicopter-borne Versatile Time-Domain
Electromagnetic (VTEM™ Max) and magnetic surveys.
The proposed approximately CAD $1.2 million drill program will focus on prospective targets in the
Five Island Lakes area with 2,000m to 2,500m in up to 15 holes of diamond drilling at up to 10 pad
locations. The majority of proposed holes will test multiple subparallel EM conductors (A -zone and
B-zone conductor corridors) in an area of marked structural disruption. Portions of the A-zone were
drilled during the 2019 winter campaign verifying that the conductor hosts significant graphite in
strongly deformed (sheared) host rocks that offer both fluid pathways and a reducing host rock
conducive to uranium deposition.
Initial drilling is also proposed for the Swoosh zone, a 7+ km long east-west structural lineament with
strongly anomalous, spatially consistent geochemical anomalies (lake sediments, radon, soil) and
coincident magnetic and gravity geophysical anomalies. Two holes are proposed for this area near
the upstream terminus of the geochemical anomalies. This zone is located along strike approximately
5 km southwest of the A-zone.
2020 Drill Targets – East Preston Uranium Project
http://skyharbourltd.com/_resources/maps/2020-Drill-Targets-East-Preston-Uranium-Project.pdf
Option Agreement:
Skyharbour and Dixie Gold Inc. entered into an Option Agreement (the “Agreement”) with Azincourt
whereby Azincourt has an earn-in option to acquire a 70% working interest in a portion of the Preston
Uranium Project known as the East Preston Property. Under the Agreement, Azincourt has issued
common shares and will contribute cash and exploration expenditure consideration totaling up to
CAD $3,500,000 in exchange for up to 70% of the applicable property area over three years. Of the
$3,500,000 in project consideration, $1,000,000 will be in cash payments to Skyharbour and Dixie
Gold, as well as $2,500,000 in exploration expenditures over the three-year period.
Project Location – Western Athabasca Basin, Saskatchewan, Canada
http://skyharbourltd.com/_resources/maps/Project-Location-Western-Athabasca-Basin-
Saskatchewan-Canada.pdf
About East Preston:
Extensive regional exploration work at East Preston was completed in 2013- 14, including airborne
electromagnetic (VTEM), magnetic and radiometric surveys. Three prospective conductive, low
magnetic signature corridors have been discovered on the property. The three distinct corridors have
a total strike length of over 25 km, each with multiple EM conductor trends identified. Ground
prospecting and sampling work completed to date has identified outcrop, soil, biogeochemical and
radon anomalies, which are key pathfinder elements for unconformity uranium deposit discovery.
Azincourt completed a winter geophysical exploration program in January -February 2018 that
generated a significant amount of new drill targets within the previously untested corridors while
refining additional targets near previous drilling along the Swoosh corridor. Ground- truthing work
confirmed the airborne conductive trends and more accurately located the conductor axes for future
drill testing. The gravity survey identified areas along the conductors with a gravity low signature,
which is often associated with alteration, fault/structural disruption and potentially, uranium
mineralization. The combination/stacking of positive features has assisted in prioritizing targets.
The Main Grid shows multiple long linear conductors with flexural changes in orientation and offset
breaks in the vicinity of interpreted fault lineaments – classic targets for basement -hosted
unconformity uranium deposits. These are not just simple basement conductors; they are clearly
upgraded/enhanced prospectivity targets because of the structural complexity.
The targets are basement-hosted unconformity related uranium deposits similar to NexGen’s Arrow
deposit and Cameco’s Eagle Point mine. East Preston is near the southern edge of the western
Athabasca Basin, where targets are in a near surface environment without Athabasca sandstone
cover – therefore they are relatively shallow targets but can have great depth extent when
discovered. The project ground is located along a parallel conductive trend between the PLS-Arrow
trend and Cameco’s Centennial deposit (Virgin River-Dufferin Lake trend).
In early 2019 Azincourt conducted a small initial di amond drill program totaling 552m . The results
confirmed the prospectivity of the East Preston project, as basement lithologies and graphitic
structures intersected at East Preston were found to be very similar and appear to be analogous to
the Patterson Lake South-Arrow-Hook Lake/Spitfire uranium deposit host rocks and setting.
Qualified Person:
The technical information in this news release has been prepared in accordance with the Canadian
regulatory requirements set out in National Instrument 43 -101 and reviewed and approved by
Richard Kusmirski, P.Geo., M.Sc., Skyharbour's Head Technical Advisor and a Qualified Person.
About Skyharbour Resources Ltd.:
Skyharbour holds an extensive portfolio of uranium and thorium exploration projects in Canada's
Athabasca Basin and is well positioned to benefit from improving uranium market fundamentals with
six drill-ready projects. Skyharbour has acquired from Denison Mines, a large strategic shareholder
of the Company, a 100% interest in the Moore Uranium Project which is located 15 kilometres east
of Denison's Wheeler River project and 39 kilometres south of Cameco's McArthur River uranium
mine. Moore is an advanced stage uranium exploration property with high grade uranium
mineralization at the Maverick Zone with drill results returning up to 6.0% U 3O8 over 5.9 metres
including 20.8% U 3O8 over 1.5 metres at a vertical depth of 265 metres. Skyharbour has signed
option agreements with Orano Canada Inc. and Azincourt Energy whereby Orano and Azincourt can
earn in up to 70% of the Preston Project through a combined $9,800,000 in total exploration
expenditures, as well as $1,700,000 in total cash payments and Azincourt shares. Preston is a large,
geologically prospective property proximal to Fission Uranium's Triple R deposit as well as NexGen
Energy's Arrow deposit. The Company also owns a 100% interest in the Falcon Point Uranium
Project on the eastern perimeter of the Basin which contains a NI 43 -101 inferred resource totaling
7.0 million pounds of U 3O8 at 0.03% and 5.3 million pounds of ThO 2 at 0.023%. The project also
hosts a high-grade surface showing with up to 68% U3O8 in grab samples from a massive pitchblende
vein, the source of which has yet to be discovered. The Company's 100% owned Mann Lake
Uranium project on the east side of the Basin is strategically located adjacent to the Mann Lake Joint
Venture operated by Cameco, where high -grade uranium mineralization was recently discovered.
Skyharbour's goal is to maximize shareholder value through new mineral discoveries, committed
long-term partnerships, and the advancement o f exploration projects in geopolitically favourable
jurisdictions.
Skyharbour’s Uranium Project Map in the Athabasca Basin:
http://skyharbourltd.com/_resources/SYH_Landpackage_2014.jpg
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