Overview
The Athabasca Basin in Saskatchewan presents distinctive discovery and exploration alternatives for firms seeking to enter the thriving uranium market. Uranium is poised for important development and the anticipated deficit within the provide facet will create alternatives available in the market. With new reactors frequently coming on-line to satisfy demand and a restricted variety of suppliers to fill it, seeking to high-value mining jurisdictions for uranium is likely one of the greatest methods for firms making an attempt to get forward of the group.
With robust backing from trade leaders, Purepoint is ready to advance its key initiatives whereas retaining shareholder dilution to a minimal.
- Publicity to district-scale uranium exploration within the Athabasca Basin
- Decreased monetary threat by strategic partnerships
- Operational management of exploration actions
- Aligned with renewed curiosity in uranium exploration from main producers
Firm Highlights
- Purepoint Uranium Group Inc. (TSXV: PTU) (OTCQB: PTUUF) is a centered explorer with a dynamic portfolio of superior initiatives inside the famend Athabasca Basin in Canada. T
- Probably the most potential initiatives are actively operated on behalf of partnerships with trade leaders together with Cameco Company, Orano Canada Inc. and IsoEnergy Ltd. Moreover, the Firm holds a promising VHMS venture at present optioned to and strategically positioned adjoining to and on pattern with Foran Company’s McIlvena Bay venture.
- Via a strong and proactive exploration technique, Purepoint is solidifying its place as a number one explorer in one of many globe’s most important uranium districts.
Key Tasks
Hook Lake Challenge
The Hook Lake property is positioned inside the Patterson Uranium district and has 9 claims totalling 28,598 hectares. The venture is collectively owned by Cameco, Orano Canada and Purepoint Uranium. Operated by Purepoint since 2007, the venture has seen important discoveries and exploration campaigns.
Highlights of discovery on the property embrace the Spitfire high-grade discovery which revealed 53.3 % uranium oxide over 1.3 meters, together with a 10-meter interval of 10.3 % uranium mineralization measurements. Three potential structural “corridors” have been outlined on the property, every consisting of a number of electromagnetic (EM) conductors confirmed by drilling.
In 2024, Purepoint accomplished 2,332 metres of drilling in 4 holes to check the success of the earlier 2023 drill program that uncovered a major 35-metre-wide boron halo surrounding a 0.08 % U3O8 uranium intercept over 0.4 metres at gap CRT23-05. Boron is a key pathfinder ingredient for uranium deposits. The 2024 drill program ended with the invention of the newly recognized Lightning Zone within the Carter Hall, returning 0.9 metres of 0.29 % U3O8 together with 0.3 metres of 0.68 % U3O8. related to a serious construction intersected by gap CRT24-10.
All of the 2024 drill holes have been collared northeast of CRT23-05, drilled in 2023, that intersected 0.08 % U3O8 over 0.4 metres inside a 15 metre vast graphitic shear zone with native brecciation and intense clay alteration.
All 2024 drill holes encountered elevated radioactivity.
Sensible Lake Challenge
Purepoint, as operator, holds a 27-percent possession of the Sensible Lake venture in three way partnership with Cameco Corp.
The Sensible Lake property consists of two claims with a complete space of 9,860 hectares located within the southwestern portion of the Athabasca Basin, roughly 60 km south of the previous Cluff Lake mine and 18 kilometers west-northwest of Purepoint’s Hook Lake JV venture.
Depth to the unconformity, the place it happens, is comparatively shallow at lower than 350 meters.
Aeromagnetic and electromagnetic patterns at Sensible Lake mirror an extension of the patterns underlying the Shea Creek deposits (indicated useful resource of 68 million lbs at 1.50 % U3O8; UEC PR Jan 2023) 55 kilometers north of the property. Exploration by Purepoint has firmly established the presence of anomalous uranium and hydrothermal alteration. Quite a few precedence goal areas, the place EM conductors are cross-cut by east-west buildings, are but to be drill-tested.
Just like the Kianna fault at Shea Creek, recognized uranium mineralization on the Sensible Lake venture is related to the intersection of the east-west Arthur Fault and north-south-striking fluid/chemical traps together with the Shearwater conductor and chloritized mafic orthogneiss. The prevalence of low-grade uranium mineralization alongside the Arthur Fault away from Shearwater conductor underscores the necessity to goal east-west buildings each on the intersection with conductive anomalies and magnetically interpreted lithological contacts.
Further east-west placing faults (Groomes Lake and Cristobal) have been interpreted from examination of airborne magnetic and electromagnetic surveys. These faults are spatially associated to robust EM conductors recognized in each airborne and ground-based geophysical surveys.
Purepoint plans to conduct stepwise shifting loop and stuck loop transient EM surveys on the Sensible Lake JV venture. Survey outcomes from the northern Groomes Lake conductor will probably be used to outline discrete targets for the subsequent step drilling.
Purepoint & IsoEnergy Joint Enterprise
Purepoint Uranium has fashioned a 50-50 three way partnership with IsoEnergy, combining 10 uranium exploration initiatives in Saskatchewan’s Athabasca Basin. Purepoint would be the operator for exploration actions, whereas IsoEnergy will take over if a useful resource is recognized.
This strategic transfer not solely validates Purepoint’s property but additionally positions the corporate to advance its most promising initiatives with lowered monetary threat.
- Joint Enterprise Portfolio– The Joint Enterprise will probably be comprised of 10 initiatives inside the japanese Athabasca Basin (Determine 1) together with:
- IsoEnergy’s Geiger, Thorburn Lake, Full Moon, Edge, Collins Bay Extension, North Thorburn, 2Z Lake, and Madison Tasks.
- Purepoint’s Turnor Lake and Purple Willow Tasks.
- Complementary and Potential Floor Overlaying the Larocque Pattern with Sturdy Discovery Potential – The Larocque Pattern (“Larocque Pattern”), is a vital regional construction that hosts the world-class Hurricane deposit and different notable high-grade occurrences, together with these on Cameco/Orano’s Daybreak Lake three way partnership. The pattern extends onto the Turnor Lake and Full Moon Tasks, positioning the Joint Enterprise alongside a confirmed hall for uranium mineralization, the place additional discoveries may very well be expedited (Determine 2).
- Strategic Synergy and Strengthened Positioning by Fairness Participation – IsoEnergy will subscribe for $1.0 million in concurrent fairness financing of Purepoint.Via this fairness stake, IsoEnergy will achieve publicity to Purepoint’s different extremely potential exploration initiatives within the Athabasca Basin, together with Hook Lake, which beforehand intersected a formidable 10 meters at 10.3% U₃O₈. In flip, Purepoint will profit from IsoEnergy’s monetary and technical assist, enabling each firms to work collaboratively to speed up venture improvement and drive long-term success.
- Preliminary Possession Construction and Working Phrases – IsoEnergy will initially maintain a 60% curiosity within the Joint Enterprise, whereas Purepoint will maintain a 40% curiosity. Every get together has the choice to regulate this possession to 50/50 inside six months by the train of mutually unique put/name choices.Purepoint will function the operator in the course of the exploration part of the Joint Enterprise properties. Upon the development into the pre-development part, IsoEnergy will assume operational management of the Joint Enterprise properties.
Administration Group
Chris Frostad – President and CEO
Chris Frostad is a founding companion bringing over 40 years of experience to his place as president and CEO. He led public firms in each the know-how and mining and metals industries.
All through his profession, Frostad has been instrumental in constructing a wide range of high-growth, early-stage, private and non-private firms.
Earlier than Purepoint, he held quite a few senior positions within the know-how trade together with CEO-in-residence of a Toronto-based enterprise capital agency. Frostad is a chartered accountant and a chartered skilled accountant who started his profession in worldwide taxation with Deloitte.
Scott Frostad – VP of Exploration
Scott Frostad’s expertise within the mining trade all through Canada spans over three a long time. He brings to his place as VP of exploration a background in mineral exploration with famend mining firms akin to Lac Minerals, Teck and Placer Dome. Most just lately, he was the environmental specialist for Cogema Assets and managed environmental points at each the Cluff Lake and McClean Lake Uranium Mines in Northern Saskatchewan.
Frostad is a graduate of Western College with a B.Sc. in geology and holds an M.A.Sc. in mining and mineral course of engineering from the College of British Columbia. He’s a member of the Affiliation of Skilled Engineers and Geoscientists of British Columbia and the Affiliation of Skilled Engineers and Geoscientists of Saskatchewan.
Ram Ramachandran – CFO
Earlier than his place as CFO with Purepoint, Ram Ramachandran brings an 11-year tenure as deputy director and affiliate chief accountant with the Ontario Securities Fee. Most just lately, Ramachandran offered advisory providers within the space of litigation/compliance to quite a few firms. To his credit score, Ramachandran conceived, developed and launched the Canadian Securities Reporting Advisor – a web based compliance device for public firms.
Jeanny So – Company Communications
Jeanny So has over 20 years of expertise in operations, investor relations, gross sales and advertising and marketing within the monetary trade and has executed company communication applications for a number of non-public and publicly-listed firms.