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FISSION URANIUM CORP. (“Fission” or “the Company“) is pleased to announce the commencement of a $7.2M winter exploration program consisting of 11,800m in 35 holes of drilling and a 214 line-km airborne HeliSAM MMC (Magnetometric Conductivity) survey at its PLS property in Canada’s Athabasca Basin. The drill program will include 10,000m in 29 holes of core (DDH) drilling and 1,800m in 6 holes of Reverse Circulation (RC) drilling. Drill program highlights are as follows:
Pre-collaring of the DDH core holes by the RC drill rigs has already begun and core drilling is expected to commence in the last week of January.
An advanced, tight-spaced airborne HeliSAM MMC survey is designed to obtain high-resolution geophysical detail of the bedrock within a particularly prospective area of the Patterson Lake Conductive Corridor including the Triple R’s deposit and the 2.33km mineralized trend, with particular emphasis on hydrothermal clay alteration and structural controls to mineralization. The survey has the potential to identify specific areas with the greatest prospectivity of finding additional mineralization.
Ross McElroy, President, COO, and Chief Geologist for Fission, commented,
“We have entered a new and exciting phase at PLS, with three clear areas of focus. We will of course continue building on the resource size and associated economics of the Triple R deposit, which were established by the recently-completed Preliminary Economic Assessment (PEA). We will also be targeting further growth of the high-grade R600W zone with a view to adding it to an updated Triple R resource estimate later this year as well as further evaluating the eastern R1620E zone. In addition, we will drill test a number of highly prospective and promising exploration targets, including five on the PLG-1B conductor as a follow up to the strong, anomalous alteration and radioactivity we encountered in two holes during the summer 2015 program. Altogether an exciting time for the company, particularly with the CGN Mining deal expected to close on or before January 28, 2016.”
Key Technical Information
Prospective targets include:
The diamond drill coring contract has been awarded to Bryson Drilling, of Archeville, SK. RC Drilling, has been awarded to Northspan Explorations Ltd. of Kelowna, BC. The winter drill program follows six prior programs that have seen unprecedented success in the uranium sector and delivered a world class, large, shallow depth, high-grade uranium resource now known as the Triple R deposit.
PLS Mineralized Trend & Triple R Deposit Summary
Uranium mineralization at PLS has been traced by core drilling approximately 2.33km of east-west strike length in four separate mineralized “zones”. From west to east, these zones are: R600W, R00E, R780E and R1620E.
The discovery hole of what is now referred to as the Triple R uranium deposit was announced on November 05, 2012 with drill hole PLS12-022, from what is considered part of the R00E zone. Through successful exploration programs completed to date, it has evolved into a large, near surface, basement hosted, structurally controlled high-grade uranium deposit.
The Triple R deposit consists of the R00E zone on the western side and the much larger R780E zone further on strike to the east. Within the deposit, the R00E and R780E zones have an overall strike length of approximately 1.2km with the R00E measuring approximately 125m in strike length and the R780E zones measuring approximately 900m in strike length. A 225m gap separates the R00E zone to the west and the R780E zones to the east, though sporadic narrow, weakly mineralized intervals from drill holes within this gap suggest the potential for further significant mineralization in this area. The R780E zones are located beneath Patterson Lake which is approximately six metres deep in the area of the deposit. The entire Triple R deposit is covered by approximately 50 m of overburden.
Mineralization remains open along strike both to the western and eastern extents. Mineralization is both located within and associated with a metasedimentary lithologic corridor, associated with the PL-3B basement Electro-Magnetic (EM) Conductor. Recent very positive drill results returning wide and strongly mineralized intersections approximately 555m west of the Triple R deposit, have significantly upgraded the R600W zone to a very prospective area for further growth of the PLS resource.
An updated map can be found on the Company’s website at http://fissionuranium.com/project/pls/.
Samples from the drill core will be split in half sections on site. Where possible, samples will be standardized at 0.5m down-hole intervals. One-half of the split sample will be sent to SRC Geoanalytical Laboratories (an SCC ISO/IEC 17025: 2005 Accredited Facility) in Saskatoon, SK for analysis which includes U3O8 (wt %) and fire assay for gold, while the other half will remain on site for reference. Analysis will include a 63 element ICP-OES, and boron.
Patterson Lake South Property
The 31,039 hectare PLS project is 100% owned and operated by Fission Uranium Corp. PLS is accessible by road with primary access from all-weather Highway 955, which runs north to the former Cluff Lake mine and passes through the nearby UEX-Areva Shea Creek discoveries located 50km to the north, currently under active exploration and development.
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 on behalf of the company by Ross McElroy, P.Geol., President and COO for Fission Uranium Corp., a qualified person.
About Fission Uranium Corp.
Fission Uranium Corp. is a Canadian based resource company specializing in the strategic exploration and development of the Patterson Lake South uranium property – host to the world-class Triple R uranium deposit – and is headquartered in Kelowna, British Columbia. Fission’s common shares are listed on the TSX Exchange under the symbol “FCU” and trade on the OTCQX marketplace in the U.S. under the symbol “FCUUF.”
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD
Ross McElroy, President and COO
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