Pancon/Crossland JV Acquires More Property to Expand Its Northern Territory, Australia Uranium Focus
August 03 2010 - 2:22PM
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Pancontinental Uranium Corporation (TSX VENTURE: PUC) ("Pancon")
and its joint venture partner, Crossland Uranium Mines Ltd
("Crossland") (ASX: CUX) advise that they have further expanded
their Central Australia uranium focus with the acquisition of an
exploration prospect near their flagship Charley Creek project in
the Northern Territory by the purchase of a private subsidiary of
ASX-listed Global Geoscience Limited (GSC), which is the registered
holder of an exploration opportunity known as the
Bloodwood-Highland Rocks Project.
The project area - located approximately 400 km north-west of
Alice Springs, in the vicinity of the joint venture's existing
Charley Creek Project - consists of one granted Exploration Licence
of 172 square kilometres, and four applications for Exploration
Licences on Aboriginal Freehold Land totalling 2,804 square
kilometres.
The addition of this Highland Rocks Project will complement the
Charley Creek Project, where drilling of the Cockroach Dam Prospect
in the Teapot Granite commenced this past week. Pancon and
Crossland's commitment to uranium exploration in Central Australia
makes further acquisitions of prospective ground in the region
attractive. The partner's regional presence, logistic support and
technical experience in this region allow cost-effective
exploration from the existing facilities at Charley Creek.
The acquisition of the new project area represents the
continuation of a long history of cooperation between Crossland and
Global Geoscience. The selection of the Bloodwood-Highland Rocks
area by Global Geoscience was made using its Proprietary IP. The
initial holdings at several of Crossland's projects were also
chosen using Global's IP.
Pancon and Crossland were attracted to the Bloodwood-Highland
Rocks area because:
-- The region is highly prospective for uranium mineralization, as
demonstrated by the presence of uranium deposits at Napperby and
Bigrlyi, and prospects such as Cockroach Dam, Crystal Creek, and
Macallan.
-- Previous exploration on these areas has been almost exclusively for
gold, however, limited uranium exploration at Bloodwood met with early
success.
-- There has been no uranium exploration in the area since the 1970's.
-- Regional airborne surveys would have been ineffective because of a thin
sand cover over much of the area.
-- Full coverage of modern geophysical data (magnetics and gravity) allows
for targeting of "productive" structures in the underlying basement
rocks.
Bloodwood features:
-- Granted exploration licence on pastoral leasehold land.
-- Ready for reconnaissance exploration.
-- Extensive airborne radiometric uranium anomaly correlates with mapped
NNW trending structures.
-- Mostly thin residual cover, meaning exploration is relatively
straightforward.
-- Up to 810ppm U3O8 in a shallow drill hole, and elevated radioactivity in
outcropping granite porphyry.
-- No follow-up of these results.
Highland Rocks features:
-- Covered by four exploration licence applications, and is located on
Aboriginal Freehold Land of the Lake Mackay Land Trust.
-- Mostly covered by a thin layer of sand, meaning almost no previous
uranium exploration.
-- Modern geophysical data suggests that parts of the area are underlain by
granitoid cut by major structures.
-- Similar rocks and structures host the nearby Macallan uranium prospect
held by Energy Metals
-- Gold and base metal explorers identified several zones of multi-element
geochemical anomalism (Au,Ag,As,Bi,Cu,Ni,U) in areas of residual cover.
These are considered favourable indicators for basement-hosted uranium
mineralization.
The terms of the Pancon/Crossland-Global Geoscience transaction
are:
-- Pancon/Crossland will acquire GSC's 100% interest in the projects
through the purchase of the private company holding the titles.
-- The partners have reimbursed GSC's historic costs of $30,000. GSC holds
an option to claw back a 20% interest in the titles by paying
Pancon/Crossland 40% of historic expenditure, exercisable for two years
after grant of title, up to a decision to mine.
-- If GSC elects not to claw back a 20% interest, it will receive a 2% NSR
royalty from production.
All technical information in this release has been reviewed by
Geoff Eupene, Qualified Person for Crossland and Pancon.
About Pancontinental Uranium Corporation
Pancontinental Uranium Corporation ("Pancon") is a
Canadian-based company focused on uranium discovery and
development. Through a joint venture with Crossland Uranium Mines
Limited ("Crossland") of Australia, Pancon has established one of
the strongest management teams in the uranium industry. This
management and operating team has unparalleled experience from
exploration, through development to operations, and includes people
who were instrumental in the discovery of two of the largest
uranium deposits in the world. Pancon holds an impressive
exploration portfolio with projects in prolific, mining friendly
districts. Active exploration is ongoing at three Australian
projects which include Chilling, Charley Creek, and Kalabity. The
Chilling project has the potential to host a mirror image of a
portion of the renowned Alligator Rivers Uranium Field containing
the large Jabiluka, Ranger and Koongarra deposits. Pancon is
earning a 50% interest in this significant uranium project
portfolio through the joint venture with Crossland through the
expenditure of A$8 million. Pancon and Crossland are also pursuing
exploration beyond Australia through an international subsidiary
company, Crosscontinental Uranium Limited, and immediate plans
include formulating an exploration program in Burkina Faso.
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Rick Mark, President & CEO
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