| NEW URANIUM PROPERTY - 78,525 HECTARES
STAKED EAST OF THE ATHABASCA BASIN WITHIN THE WOLLASTON DOMAIN,
SASKATCHEWAN
Belmont Resources Inc. (the “Company”) is pleased
to announce the completion of staking of 14 contiguous claims.
9 claims totaling 51,395 ha have been receipted. and 5 additional
claims in the same area, totaling 27,130 ha.are awaiting acceptance.
The staked claim block is located 50 kilometers east of the
Athabasca Basin, Saskatchewan, within the Wollaston and Peter
Lake Domain. More precisely, the area is commonly known as
the Compulsion Bay-Reindeer Lake area, 160 km east-northeast
of the Key Lake Mine, 110 km east of McArthur River (457 million
lb. U308 deposit), and 90 km east southeast of Cigar Lake
(232 million lb. U308 deposit). The claims are accessible
via helicopter, 80 km north from Southend and 25 km south
from Wollaston Lake, Saskatchewan. The west boundary of the
property is located approximately 40 km east of the gravel
road going from Southend to Stony Rapids, Saskatchewan.
The Company will be commissioning Raymond A. Bernatchez,
P. Eng. to write a NI 43-101, Technical Report as soon as
the property can be accessed for further prospecting and sampling.
The Company is considering joint venture partnerships to explore
and advance these claims.
The Athabasca Basin occupies an area of about 100,000 sq
km in northern Saskatchewan and accounts for approximately
30% of global primary uranium production. This uranium property
further complements the Company’s uranium projects located
in the Northwest Athabasca Basin near Uranium City, Saskatchewan
and the Central Mineral Belt of Labrador , and continues its
business strategy of becoming a prominent uranium development
Company.
The area was staked based on strong radiometric anomalies
identified in airborne surveys in a joint survey carried out
by the Saskatchewan Industry & Resources/Natural Resources
Canada (Geophysical Series-64-E-Compulsion Bay). The property
straddles along the northeast trending contact between the
Wollaston East Domain and the Peter Lake Domain. The Needle
Falls Shear Zone follows a northeasterly trend along this
contact and through the property.
The geology of the property is underlain with older (3.2-2.5
Ga) felsic granitoid rocks overlain by significant amount
of 2.5 to 1.83 Ga metasedimentary rocks. These rocks were
later intruded by 1.92-1.77 Ga felsic granitoid and migmatite
rocks of the Wollaston Group. The sedimentary rocks consist
of calc-silicate gneiss, marble, amphibolite, meta-arkose,
fine to medium, massive to foliated, to locally layered gneiss,
consisting of biotite, hornblende, diopside, muscovite, sillimanite,
garnet, cordierite, magnetite, pyrite, interlayered with meta-quartzite,
pelite and graphitic schist. Similarily, the Eagle Point and
Rabbit Lake Uranium deposits are located within Early Proterozoic
intermediate-felsic paragneiss, calc-silicate, meta quartzite
and graphitic paragneiss of the Wollaston Domain.
Four periods of exploration from 1963 to 1970, 1976 to 1979,
1981 to 1986 and 1995 to 1996 in the area NTS 64-E, were successful
in discovering numerous base metal (Zn-Pb-Cu-Ag) showings.
This exploration was also successful in discovering uranium
mineralization. However the main exploration efforts were
placed on base metals. Most of the work was of a preliminary
nature.
The uranium mineralization is contained in a variety of host
rocks, such as in pegmatites, silicified meta-sediments, fault
related shear zones, granite gneiss, quartz-biotite paragneiss
and graphitic pelitic schist. Uranium mineralization appears
to be structurally controlled within the basement rocks in
this area. The Needle Falls Shear Zone and the Tabburnor Structural
Shear System intersects each other in the central portion
of the property.
The geology and structure is similar to that reported on JNR
Resources Inc. nearby Yurchison, Way, and Pendleton Lake properties.
Maps allowing a view of the newly staked property will be
available shortly on the website.
This news release was reviewed and approved for technical
disclosure by Raymond A. Bernatchez, P.Eng., Consulting Geologist
of Atikokan, Ontario, an independent qualified person.
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