Skyharbour’s Partner Azincourt Energy Begins Mobilizing for Winter Drill Program at East Preston Uranium Project
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March 19th, 2024
News Release
Skyharbour’s Partner Azincourt Energy Begins Mobilizing for Winter Drill Program at
East Preston Uranium Project
Vancouver, BC - Skyharbour Resources Ltd.’s (TSX-V:SYH) (OTCQX:SYHBF)
(Frankfurt:SC1P) (the “Company”) partner company Azincourt Energy (“Azincourt ”), is pleased to
announce that mobilization is set to begin later this week for the 2024 winter drill program at the East
Preston uranium project in the Athabasca Basin, Saskatchewan, Canada.
Project Location – Western Athabasca Basin, Saskatchewan, Canada:
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Winter 2024 Drill Program:
Azincourt is undertaking a drill program for the winter of 2024, consisting of up to 1,500 meters of
drilling in a maximum of five (5) diamond drill holes. The priority will be to follow up on the clay
alteration zone with elevated uranium that was identified in th e winter of 2023 with a focus on the
area of transition between the K and H Zones.
Drilling in 2023 identified an illite clay alteration halo extending from the top of Zone K to Zone H as
far as drill hole EP0053. Within this illite alteration zone, dravite and kaolinite are present in the north
end of Zone H. Illite and kaolinite are both indicators of hydrothermal alteration typically found within
alteration halos of unconformity uranium deposits. Dravite is a boron-rich clay which is found within
the larger clay package proximal to uranium mineralization in the hydrothermal system. Bot h illite
and dravite have been identified as being significant vectors for the 2022 JR Zone discovery by F3
Uranium approximately 60 km to the northwest of the East Preston project.
The program will utilize one helicopter supported drill rig and be based out of a local contractor camp,
with reduced disturbance due to the lack of an access road. Drill and crew mobilization is underway
with drilling expected to commence by the last week of March.
“Following up the clay alteration in the K - and H- Zones is a high priority”, commented Azincourt’s
VP Exploration Trevor Perkins. “This alteration is what would be expected where a uranium deposit
is present. This area between the K - and H zones is a zone we need to drill test further, and all
indications are that we are vectoring in on something. A significant number of deposits in the
Athabasca Basin have been found by identifying and chasing these types of alteration patterns,”
continued Mr. Perkins.
East Preston Targets:
The primary target area on the East Preston Project is the conductive corridors from the A -Zone
through to the G-Zone (A-G Trend) and the K -Zone through to the H and Q -Zones (K-H-Q Trend).
The selection of these trends is based on a compilation of results from the 2018 through 2020
ground-based EM and gravity surveys, property wide VTEM and magnetic surveys, and the 2019
through 2022 drill programs, the 2020 HLEM survey indicates multiple pr ospective conductors and
structural complexity along these corridors.
2024 Target Areas at the East Preston Uranium Project:
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Drilling has confirmed that identified geophysical conductors comprise structurally disrupted zones
that are host to accumulations of graphite, sulphides, and carbonates. Hydrothermal alteration,
anomalous radioactivity, and elevated uranium have been demo nstrated to exist within these
structurally disrupted conductor zones.
Permitting and Community Relations:
Permits are in hand to conduct exploration activities at the East Preston property through the summer
of 2026. Azincourt recognizes that the granting of these permits does not negate the rights of the
local communities for meaningful consultation as the project progresses. Azincourt looks forward to
a continued close working relationship and regular consultation with CRDN and other rights holders
to ensure that any potential impacts and concerns are addressed and that the communities can
benefit from activities in the area through support of local business, employment opportunities, and
sponsorship of select community programs and initiatives. Local businesses are engaged to provide
services and supplies and members of the Clearwater River Dene Nation and surrounding
communities have been directly employed on site or to provide support and services to keep the
camp and programs running. The involvement of the local communities is essential for continued
advancement of the East Preston Project.
About East Preston:
Skyharbour and Dixie Gold entered into an Option Agreement (the “Agreement”) with Azincourt
whereby Azincourt had an earn-in option to acquire a 70% working interest in a portion of the Preston
Uranium Project known as the East Preston Property. Azincourt earned a majority interest in the
project by completing CAD $2.5 million in staged exploration expenditures and making a total of CAD
$1 million in cash payments as well as issuing shares of Azincourt divided evenly between
Skyharbour and Dixie Gold. Azincourt now owns 85.8% as operator of the Project with Skyharbour
retaining a minority interest of 9.5% in the Project.
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.
The East Preston Project has 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 simp le 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).
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 David
Billard, P.Geo., a Consulting Geologist for Skyharbour as well as a Qualified Person.
About Skyharbour Resources Ltd.:
Skyharbour holds an extensive portfolio of uranium exploration projects in Canada's Athabasca
Basin and is well positioned to benefit from improving uranium market fundamentals with twenty-
nine projects, ten of which are drill-ready, covering over 587,000 hectares (over 1.45 million acres)
of land. Skyharbour has acquired from Denison Mines, a large strategic shareholder of the Company,
a 100% interest in the Moore Uranium Project whi ch 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 that re turned drill results of up to 6.0% U 3O8 over 5.9 metres including 20.8%
U3O8 over 1.5 metres at a vertical depth of 265 metres. Adjacent to the Moore Uranium Project is
Skyharbour’s recently optioned Russell Lake Uranium Project from Rio Tinto, which hosts historical
high-grade uranium drill intercepts over a large property area with robust exploration upside potential.
The Company is actively advancing these projects through exploration and drill programs.
Skyharbour has joint-ventures with industry-leader Orano Canada Inc., Azincourt Energy and Valor
Resources at the Preston, East Preston and Hook Lake Projects, respectively. The Company also
has several active earn -in option partners including: CSE -listed Basin Uranium Corp. at the Mann
Lake Uranium Project; CSE -listed Medaro Mining Corp. at the Yurchison Project; North Shore
Uranium at the Falcon Project; and TSX -V listed Tisdale Clean Energy at the South Falcon East
Project which is host to the Fraser Lak es Zone B Uranium and Thorium Deposit. In aggregate,
Skyharbour has now signed earn-in option agreements with partners that total to over $33 million in
partner-funded exploration expenditures, over $27 million worth of shares being issued and over $19
million in cash payments coming into Skyharbour, assuming that these partner companies complete
their entire earn-ins at the respective projects.
Skyharbour's goal is to maximize shareholder value through new mineral discoveries, committed
long-term partnerships, and the advancement of exploration projects in geopolitically favourable
jurisdictions.
Skyharbour’s Uranium Project Map in the Athabasca Basin:
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at www.skyharbourltd.com.
SKYHARBOUR RESOURCES LTD.
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