Pancontinental Uranium Corporation (TSX VENTURE: PUC) ("Pancon") is
pleased to report the closing of its non-brokered private placement
as well as the highlights of its Australian 50:50 Joint Venture
partner's, Crossland Uranium Mines Limited ("Crossland") (ASX: CUX)
Quarterly report for the period ending September 30.
CLOSING OF PRIVATE PLACEMENT
Pancon has now completed its previously announced private
placement of 5,000,000 units at a price of $0.125 per unit for
gross proceeds of $625,000. Each unit is comprised of one common
share in the capital of the Company and one common share purchase
warrant (a "Warrant"). Each Warrant entitles the holder thereof to
purchase one additional common share for a period of two years at a
price of $0.25 per share, provided that, if at any time, which is
more than four months and one day following the closing date, the
volume weighted average trading price of the common shares of the
Company, as traded on the TSX Venture Exchange, meets or exceeds
$0.40 for 20 consecutive trading days, the Company shall have the
right to accelerate the expiry date of the Warrants to a date which
is 30 days following the date of such notice. The securities issued
pursuant to the private placement are subject to a four-month hold
period.
The funds raised will fund exploration work and general working
capital. The financing remains subject to final acceptance by the
TSX Venture Exchange.
HIGHLIGHTS OF CROSSLAND's QUARTERLY REPORT
Chilling Project, NT
Significant mapping, geochemical sampling and spectrometer
surveys completed during the quarter, and air core, RC and diamond
drilling planned if, or when, the unseasonal wet allows access.
Charley Creek Project, NT
730 metres of diamond core drilling have been completed, with an
additional 1,000 metres planned, as the weather allows. Results of
analysis of 556 samples already submitted are expected shortly.
Field crew continues with spectrometer surveys, mapping and
petrographic studies.
Kalabity, South Australia
CUX has earned its 60% interest from PlatSearch NL and Eaglehawk
Geological Prospecting Pty Ltd. The Company is awaiting report from
metallurgical laboratory before any further work is planned.
OVERVIEW
During this period, Pancon reached the A$8 million expenditure
commitment and has earned its 50% interest in all of Crossland's
Australian uranium properties. Pancon and Crossland now each pay
50% of exploration costs and a fixed monthly overhead and equipment
usage charges.
Drilling proceeded at Cockroach Dam Prospect during the quarter,
and an intensive field program was mounted at Chilling to make up
for delays to the field season through late rains. Unseasonal rains
continued in the Charley Creek area throughout the Quarter, and a
return of rain was experienced in Chilling as well. This weather
has had an impact on field work in both areas. Some changes to
procedures and to the expectations from the season's field work
have resulted from this.
EXPLORATION DETAIL
Chilling Project, NT (EL22738, EL23682, EL24557, EL25076,
EL25077 and EL25078: EL a)27440, EL27441, EL(a)27442, EL27525,
EL(a)28314)
At the Chilling Project, Crossland's primary targets are
unconformity-related uranium deposits, the deposit style that hosts
most of the world's high grade uranium. Other target commodities
exist, such as gold, tin, copper, and cobalt. Other uranium deposit
styles are also possible.
In the Buchanan Window, an intensive program of geological
mapping, geochemical sampling and spectrometer surveys proceeded
throughout the quarter. This led to the firming up of 11 drill
sites and access to many of these has been established. The
geological mapping firmed up the comparison of the Buchanan Window
with the geological setting of the Rum Jungle embayment. Extensive
occurrences of hematite quartz breccia (HQB), and associated
displaced blocks of Tolmer Group sediments, have been noted. These
features are common in most unconformity-style deposits in the
district. Several occurrences of radiometric anomalies adjacent to
these structures are important targets of the planned drilling
program.
Spectrometer surveys and additional geochemical sampling and
geological mapping has also commenced at the Allia Window, which
hosts the MEMA prospect containing outcropping secondary uranium
minerals, as well as prominent late structural features that we
consider prospective for uranium. Data on the nearby Fletchers
Gully gold prospect, wholly within the Crossland- Pancon Joint
Venture tenements, is also being reexamined in view of current gold
prices. Sacred site clearance certificates for this area, requested
in March, have yet to be provided for areas of Chilling outside the
Buchanan Window, and this has prevented establishment of new access
tracks and drilling sites. At the time of writing, some progress
has been reported from AAPA on completing this work, but it is
doubtful now if these will be received in time to permit the
planned programs on these areas with the early start to the wet
season.
An aircore and RC drill program of over 3,000m, and diamond core
drilling of 1,400m had been planned to test various opportunities
at Chilling in 2010. At the time of writing, we have doubts that it
will be possible to execute this program with the onset of early
rains, and alternatives to our planned approach to the mix of
drilling and mode of execution are being re-evaluated in view of
the unseasonal access challenges. These include investigation of
equipment that would permit drilling to proceed to a limited degree
into the wet season with helicopter support. The costs and benefits
of this will need to be weighed carefully. Re- evaluation and
surface mapping of both March Fly and Eccles uranium prospects has
commenced and will proceed as long as field work can be sensibly
maintained.
Charley Creek Project, NT (EL24281, EL 25230; EL25657,EL27283,
EL27284, EL27338, EL27358, EL27359, ELa28154, ELa28155, ELa28224,
ELa28226, ELa28281)
At the Charley Creek Project, Crossland is targeting
granite-related uranium; with calcrete and redox-related
palaeodrainage uranium targets; rare earth deposits, and layered
mafic intrusive- related copper, nickel and platinoids as other
targets.
Six holes and 730m of diamond core drilling were completed at
the Cockroach Dam Prospect during the quarter. Five holes were
completed at Cockroach East, while holes CED2010_006 and later will
be drilled at Cockroach Central. A further ten holes are planned in
the initial stage of the campaign. Both drilling and the consequent
processing of the holes has suffered delays because of the wet
weather, and at the time of writing results were awaited for some
556 samples that have been submitted to the assay laboratory.
Results for the first 132 of these are expected soon. Down hole
radiometric probe results have been used to assist in selecting
sampling intervals, and for planning from hole to hole as our
knowledge of the distribution of radioactivity increases. The
market is reminded of Crossland's long- stated policy of only
announcing assays of elemental uranium, not radiometric estimates.
This means there will be a lag of some weeks, usually about four
weeks, from drilling to announcement of results. The additional
delays we have experienced here have been partly due to impediments
to core processing caused by the wet weather, and laboratory load
issues.
Field crews continued work at Charley Creek during the quarter,
with gamma spectrometer surveys at Cockroach Dam prospect with up
to five instruments in use, geological mapping and petrographic
studies of the Cockroach Dam prospect area, and anomaly follow-up
over a broader area of Charley Creek.
The CLC clearance certificate covering our broader program
beyond Teapot Dam/Cockroach Dam is still awaited. This has
apparently been delayed by the weather as well. This also has the
consequence of postponing the commencement of a proposed employment
program for young aboriginals from the district, for which plans
have been developed.
Results are awaited for assays of a sample of alluvial heavy
minerals that has been subjected to concentration using heavy
liquids, a simple physical process applicable to segregated heavy
mineral grains from waste materials. It is expected that these will
have elevated Rare Earth values, particularly for heavy REE. This
will demonstrate if REE concentrations of interest can be produced
from alluvium at Cockroach Dam using simple and cheap physical
concentration methods, and is the first step in what may become a
significant REE exploration program if the results are successful.
Crossland sees the REE potential of the extensive volumes of
alluvium derived from certain phases of the Teapot Granite and its
host rocks as of considerable interest, but of secondary importance
to the uranium potential of the Cockroach Dam Prospect.
An extensive airborne geophysical survey of the recently-
expanded eastern portion of the Charley Creek Project area,
including the Cloughs Dam Joint Venture with Western Desert
Resources on EL25657, was slated for early October. This has been
postponed given the likelihood of weather interference. The survey
will proceed when the weather outlook is clearer.
Bloodwood, NT (EL27373)
The Bloodwood Project was recently acquired to follow up
favourable previous exploration for uranium, gold and base
metals.
No work was possible because of the inclement weather affecting
Central Australia.
Highland Rocks, NT (ELa's27374, 27375, 27571, 27572)
The Highland Rocks Project covers a setting conducive for
uranium and gold deposits extending onto Aboriginal Freehold land
near the Bloodwood Project.
A meeting scheduled to put our program proposals to Traditional
Owners had to be postponed until next year because of tensions in
the Yuendemu community.
Kalabity, South Australia (EL4461)
At Kalabity, Crossland's interest is through an agreement with
PlatSearch NL and Eaglehawk Geological Prospecting Pty Ltd to earn
a majority share in EL4461 (Formerly EL3297). Previous work has
identified widespread elevated values of uranium and other metals.
Recent work by Crossland has identified a new anomalous zone which
has been named the Tabita Prospect.
Samples of material with elevated uranium and vanadium values
from the trenching program completed earlier this year have been
submitted to a reputable metallurgical laboratory for test work to
determine if an upgraded product can be prepared by simple physical
means. If this is the case, then an expanded exploration program to
extend the mineralized zones at the Tabita Prospect will be
undertaken.
New Projects
Crossland continues to examine opportunities to expand its
project portfolio.
Burkina Faso, West Africa
1. Oursi Joint Venture
Crosscontinental has entered an interest-earning Joint Venture
with Southern Cross Exploration NL and Longreach Oil NL.
There is no activity to report.
2. Applications by Crosscontinental Burkina SA and related
parties
The progress with the additional applications lodged on behalf
of Crosscontinental is slow and it is difficult to allocate a
priority to work on these at present.
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 50:50 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 and Crossland hold an
impressive uranium 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. Charley Creek has the
potential for large, lower-grade, Rossing-type, granite-hosted
uranium deposits. The Kalabity project lies in a district of
historic uranium/radium mining that contains a variety of known
uranium deposit styles.
Pancon has earned 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
Cautionary Language and Forward Looking Statements
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which are subject to various risks and uncertainties that could
cause actual results and future events to differ materially from
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performance and results. Risks and uncertainties about the
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Contacts: Pancontinental Uranium Corporation Richard Mark
President and CEO 604-986-2020 or 1-866-816-0118 Pancontinental
Uranium Corporation Keith Patey Director of Communications
604-986-2020 or 1-866-816-0118 604-986-2021 (FAX)
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