Purepoint Uranium Group Inc: Hook Lake Exploration Program Update
October 28 2008 - 9:48AM
Marketwired
Purepoint Uranium Group Inc. (TSX VENTURE: PTU) is pleased to
provide the following update on its first pass summer drill program
at the Hook Lake JV project. These program expenditures complete
Purepoint's earn-in of its initial 20% interest in this large
project owned by UEM Inc., a company in turn owned by AREVA
Resources Canada Inc. and Cameco Corporation. Purepoint may acquire
up to a 50% interest in the Hook Lake project.
The diamond drilling program saw completion of four holes with a
total of 1,527 m being drilled. Drill hole locations were selected
using step-wise moving loop electromagnetic (EM) survey data,
induced polarization data and VTEM data.
Highlights:
- Anomalous radioactivity (1,640 cps from downhole gamma probe)
was intersected within the Carter corridor by hole HK08-01.
- Prospective, altered graphitic rocks were intersected well
below the unconformity by holes HK08-03 and HK08-04. Follow-up
holes designed to intercept these graphitic rock packages along
strike and closer to the unconformity is warranted.
Hook Lake Project
The Hook Lake Project consists of six claims totaling 26,051
hectares staked by UEM over ten years ago in the southwestern
Athabasca Basin, approximately 80 kilometers southeast of the
former Cluff Lake mine. The depth to unconformity is very shallow,
ranging from zero to 350 metres.
Three prospective parallel structural "corridors" were defined
by UEM on the property, each corridor being comprised of multiple
EM conductors. Together, the three corridors contain over 55
kilometers of largely untested EM conductors. The extensive
multiple conductor system displays evidence of a complex
post-Athabasca Group structural history and structural
disruption.
Four diamond drill holes for a total of 1,527 metres were
completed by Purepoint on the Hook Lake Project in July and August.
The program was conducted within the Carter and Patterson
corridors, where historical drilling consistently encountered
post-Athabasca brittle faulting and/or graphitic basement rocks
together with strong hydrothermal alteration indicative of
unconformity uranium deposits.
The first hole of the drill program, HK08-01, returned a peak
gamma probe result of 1,640 cps at a depth of 270.2 m, which
corresponded to a zone of brecciation with strong hematite
alteration. The hole encountered a strongly disrupted,
sericite-altered pelitic gneiss from the unconformity at 78 m to
the hole completion depth of 330 m. Background radiation is 140 cps
for the basement rock in this hole as measured from the downhole
gamma probe. HK08-02 was drilled approximately 800 metres SSW of
HK08-01 within the Carter corridor, with weakly graphitic pelitic
gneiss being found.
The third hole, HK08-03, targeted the Carter corridor
approximately 1.4 kilometres north of HK08-01 and intersected the
unconformity at a depth of 223 m. Chlorite altered, strongly
graphitic pelitic gneiss was encountered by this hole from 282 m to
the completion depth of 393 m.
HK-08-04 targeted the "W" conductor within the Patterson
corridor and intersected the unconformity at 190 m. Chlorite
altered, pyritic-graphitic pelitic gneiss was intersected by
HK08-04 at depth that hosted a brittle-ductile shear zone between
343 and 372 m.
About Purepoint
Purepoint Uranium Group Inc. is focused on the precision
exploration of more than 55 defined target areas on its six 100%
owned projects in the Canadian Athabasca Basin, and its two Basin
projects joint ventured with Cameco Corporation and UEM Inc. a
company owned equally by Cameco Corporation and AREVA Resources
Canada Inc. Established in the Basin well before the resurgence in
uranium, Purepoint is actively advancing this large portfolio of
multiple drill targets in the world's richest uranium region.
Scott Frostad BSc, MASc, PGeo, Purepoint's Vice President,
Exploration, is the Qualified Person responsible for technical
content of this release.
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Contacts: Purepoint Uranium Group Inc. Chris Frostad President
and CEO (416) 603-8368
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