TSX-V: URC
VANCOUVER,
Dec. 14 /PRNewswire/ - Uracan
Resources Ltd. (the "Company") reports that further to its news
release of December 2, 2010, it is
pleased to announce the remaining assay results from drilling
completed during its 2010 fall drilling campaign. This
drilling focused on two areas of the property: the Costebelle A4
and CC11 zones, part of the Company's 100% owned North Shore
Project in Quebec. The CC11 zone represents a new discovery
for 2010, emphasizing the potential for the North Shore Property to
host additional significant uranium mineralization.
Highlights include 59.65 meters of 0.026%
U3O8 (265ppm or 0.53 lbs/t) in CA4-10-22 and 14.65 meters of
0.023% U3O8 (231ppm or 0.46 lbs/t) in CC11-10-02.
The 16 hole, 2,075 meter fall drill program was
designed to follow up exploration targets outlined during the
winter 2010 drill program at the A4 zone, as well as drilling
targeted surface sampling results from the 2010 work
program.
The CC11 zone drilling represents a new
discovery in the Costebelle claim area and is located approximately
3 kilometers east of the A4 zone. Mineralization at the CC11
zone is hosted by a mineralized pegmatite ranging up to 14.65
meters drilled length. Mineralization in drilling and surface
channel sampling has been defined over an 800 meter strike length
within a 1200 meter airborne radiometric anomaly. The
mineralized pegmatite appears to be dipping to the northwest at
CC11 based on surface mapping and drill results.
Drilling has also confirmed that uranium
mineralization at the Costebelle A4 Zone continues down dip from
the surface channel samples and previous drill holes. The
area with drill results received to date occurs along an
approximately 500 meter length within an overall potential strike
length of approximately 1,500 meters, as defined by airborne
radiometrics, surface mapping and channel sampling along with
previous drilling.
Mineralization is open along strike and to depth
starting from surface throughout this area. Mineralization
has been extended to approximately 200 meters down dip from the
surface outcrop mineralization.
Uranium mineralization at the Costebelle A4 zone
occurs as broad multiple stacked mineralized zones hosted by
pegmatite dykes and sills with drilled thicknesses ranging up to
59.65 meters as noted in winter and fall 2010 drilling. The
true thickness of these zones is unknown at this time but is
thought to be similar to drilled thickness as lithologies are noted
to be dipping shallowly to the west.
Costebelle A4 Drilling
A total of 1660.75 meters in 12 diamond drill
holes were completed during October and November 2010. Uracan's fall drilling objective
was to further identify the extent of mineralization encountered in
drill results and surface results outlined during both the winter
2010 drill program and the subsequent summer 2010 sampling
program.
Drilling continues to outline mineralization
extending to depth with similar widths and grades to those seen in
the previous drill program at the A4 zone.
A summary of selected mineralized zones from the
returned assays is included below:
Area |
Drill Hole |
From (m) |
To (m) |
Length (m) |
U3O8 % |
U3O8 ppm |
A4 |
CA4-10-22 |
17.6 |
77.25 |
59.65 |
0.026 |
265 |
A4 |
CA4-10-27 |
19.5 |
45 |
25.5 |
0.016 |
155 |
A4 |
CA4-10-27 |
53.5 |
63.9 |
10.4 |
0.019 |
185 |
A4 |
CA4-10-30 |
1.8 |
15.65 |
13.85 |
0.012 |
118 |
Costebelle CC11 Drilling
A total of 414 meters in 4 diamond drill holes
was completed during October and November
2010 at the CC11 zone. Drilling was targeted on
surface channel results outlined as part of a mapping and sampling
program on the area. Mapping, airborne and surface
geophysical work outlined a potential 1200 meter long pegmatite
body. Drilling was carried out over an 800 meter strike
length of this pegmatite.
The drilling encountered significant uranium
mineralization in all drill holes. The table below summarizes
the results from the drill program at CC11. The Company plans
to follow up this drilling this winter with further diamond
drilling to further define uranium mineralization in this area.
Area |
Drill Hole |
From (m) |
To (m) |
Length (m) |
U3O8 % |
U3O8 ppm |
CC11 |
CC11-10-02 |
7.85 |
22.5 |
14.65 |
0.023 |
231 |
CC11 |
CC11-10-03 |
10.1 |
14.2 |
4.1 |
0.027 |
272 |
CC11 |
CC11-10-03 |
24.3 |
37.7 |
13.4 |
0.015 |
149 |
A map showing the Costebelle A4 and CC11 drill
hole locations as well as drill hole coordinates and a complete
listing of assay results will be posted on Uracan's updated
website: www.uracan.ca.
QA/QC
Samples were shipped by Company personnel in
sealed containers to ALS Chemex Laboratories of Val D'Or, Quebec for analysis. Chemex is
the laboratory facility used for all assays from the North Shore
Property program. Samples are weighed and catalogued before
sample preparation. The samples are crushed to 70% less than
2mm, split and then pulverized to 85% of the sample being less than
75 µm. All samples are assayed using ICP-MS with analysis
completed for 47 elements.
A QA/QC program was implemented as part of the
sampling procedure for the drill program. Field duplicates,
field blanks and certified standards were inserted into the sample
stream with at least one blank, one duplicate and one standard
inserted per group of 20 samples sent to the laboratory. The
laboratory also has an extensive in house QA/QC system as part of
their quality control system.
About Quebec,
Canada
Quebec has been
voted as the Top Mining Jurisdiction in the World since 2007
by the Fraser Institute Mining Survey and has been in the top 10
since 2001: www.fraserinstitute.org.
About Uracan
Uracan Resources Ltd. is a uranium exploration
company, exploring for shallow, bulk tonnage style uranium
mineralization in Canada. Uracan is led by a team of proven
exploration and mine entrepreneurs and mine-builders. The
information in this news release has been prepared and reviewed by
Marc Simpson, P. Geo., the
Company's Qualified Person under National Instrument 43-101
standards.
Neither TSX Venture Exchange nor its
Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the
policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility
for the adequacy or accuracy of this release. The foregoing
information may contain forward-looking information relating to the
future performance of the Company. Forward looking
information is subject to a number of known and unknown risks,
uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual results to
differ materially from those anticipated in our forward looking
statements. Such risks and other factors
include, among others, the actual results of exploration
activities, changes in world commodity markets or equity markets,
the risks of the mining industry including, without
limitation, those associated with the environment, delays in
obtaining governmental approvals, permits or financing or in the
completion of development or construction activities, title
disputes, change in government and changes to regulations affecting
the mining industry, and other risks and uncertainties detailed
from time to time in the Company's filings with the Canadian
securities administrators (available at
www.SEDAR.com). Forward-looking statements are made
based on various assumptions and on management's beliefs, estimates
and opinions on the date the statements are made. Should one
or more of these risks and uncertainties materialize, or should
underlying assumptions prove incorrect, actual results may vary
materially from those described in the forward-looking information
contained herein. The Company undertakes no obligation to
update forward-looking statements if these assumptions, beliefs,
estimates and opinions or other circumstances should change, except
as required by applicable law.
SOURCE URACAN RESOURCES LTD.
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