Blue Sky Uranium Corp. (TSX-V:BSK) (FSE:MAL2)
(OTC:BKUCF)
, ("Blue Sky" or the "Company") is a
member of the Grosso Group and is the 100% owner of approximately
459,000 hectares (1,134,000 acres) of uranium and vanadium
concessions in Argentina in the southern provinces of Chubut and
Río Negro, Argentina.
Achievements
The Company’s flagship project, the Amarillo
Grande encompasses a significant new uranium-vanadium district in
the southern Argentina province of Río Negro, initially discovered
by BSK in 2006. Since then, BSK has systematically assembled
mineral rights covering more than 300,000 hectares along a +140 km
prospective mineral trend.
Three principal mineralized areas, including the
recently defined Ivana uranium‑vanadium deposit, and numerous
target zones have been identified along the Amarillo Grande trend
where all mineralization identified to date is at, or near
surface. Collectively, these highlight the significant
geological potential for multiple discoveries and development of a
new world‑class uranium-vanadium district.
The Ivana uranium-vanadium deposit, located at
the southeasternmost end of the Amarillo Grande trend, represents
the largest National Instrument 43-101 uranium mineral resource in
Argentina, and one of the largest uranium deposits ever discovered
in the country. The maiden resource estimate comprises
Inferred resources totaling 19.1 million pounds U308 and 10.2
million pounds of V205 (23.9 Mt averaging 0.036% U308 and 0.019%
V2O5, at a 100 ppm uranium cut-off; NI 43-101 Technical Report by
Thorson et al. filed on SEDAR dated April 18th, 2018).
The Amarillo Grande Project shares many
geological similarities with the Inkai district, Kazakhstan, which
produces approximately 7% of the world’s uranium, as well as the
surficial uranium districts of Namibia (Langer Heinrich) and
Western Australia (Yeelirrie and Lake Maitland).
A summary of key aspects of Blue Sky’s Amarillo
Grande Project that speak to its overall potential include:
- Expansive wholly-owned property covering a +300,000 hectares –
a new mineral district with high geological potential for multiple
discoveries;
- Discovery of new ~20 million pound maiden 43-101 compliant
uranium-vanadium resource at Ivana, the largest in Argentina and
open to further expansion in both directions along strike with
additional highly prospective targets identified in the surrounding
area;
- Preliminary Economic Assessment (PEA) underway;
- Leverage to both improving uranium price and already strong
vanadium price;
- Laterally extensive at or near surface uranium-vanadium
mineralization hosted in poorly consolidated sands and gravels -
potentially low mining cost with no drilling/blasting;
- Preliminary test work indicates that insitu mineralization can
be upgraded and recovered using simple and low-cost methods (see
news release dated February 7, 2011, January 22, 2018 and May 23,
2018) – potentially lowering transport and processing costs and
allowing for multiple extraction sites feeding a central processing
facility; and
- High recoveries with low cost and environmentally benign
alkaline leach (see news January 22, 2018) – potentially low
processing cost and environmental footprint.
The Uranium Market
Concerns over the global oil supply and global
warming have renewed interest in nuclear energy as it is a
carbon-free source of electricity with no CO 2 emissions.
Many industrialized nations are heavily dependent on nuclear power
generation and while nuclear power capacity grows uranium,
production continues to be below annual demand resulting in the
depletion of world uranium inventories.
During the period of 2015 to 2019 there will be
55 new reactors being built in 12 countries.1 This puts
pressure on the annual uranium base demand and just for 2018‑2019
the demand totals 382 million pounds yet only 141 million pounds
are projected to come from mine supply in 2018.2
The US uranium production for the first quarter
of 2018 was close to a 70-year low at 226,780 pounds 3– less than
what is needed for one reactor despite the US flagging uranium,
lithium, cobalt, vanadium along with a list of 35 other critical
minerals as “essential to the economic and national security” of
the US!
Despite the growing demand for uranium, prices
remain low and many of the large uranium miners have placed
projects on “care and maintenance” causing inventories over time to
be depleted leading us to conclude that uranium prices must
increase in order to meet and ensure a sustainable uranium supply
given the global demand for “clean” energy sources.
Blue Sky Uranium is poised to deliver
exceptional returns to shareholders as it continues to advance its
uranium / vanadium discovery at
Amarillo Grande / Ivana, positioning the Company to
benefit from the anticipated uranium rebound market as it works
towards its goal of developing into a global supplier of
uranium / vanadium.
Qualified PersonsThe results of
the Company's drilling program were reviewed, verified (including
sampling, analytical and test data) and compiled by the Company's
geological staff under the supervision of David Terry, Ph.D.,
P.Geo. Dr. Terry is a Director of the Company and a Qualified
Person as defined in National Instrument 43-101. The contents
of this news release have been reviewed and approved by Dr.
Terry.
About the Amarillo Grande
ProjectThis new 140-kilometre-long uranium district was
first identified, staked and underwent preliminary exploration by
Blue Sky from 2007 to 2012 as part of the Grosso Group’s strategy
of adding alternative energy focus to its successful portfolio of
metals exploration companies. The proximity of several major
targets suggests that if resources are delineated a central
processing facility could be utilized. The area is flat-lying,
semi-arid and accessible year-round, with nearby rail, power and
port access.
Mineralization identified to date at Amarillo
Grande has characteristics of sandstone-type and surficial-type
uranium-vanadium deposits. The sandstone-type deposit is
related to a braided fluvial system comprising a potentially
district-size “roll front” system where uranium minerals occur in
porous poorly-consolidated sandstones and conglomerates. In
surficial-type uranium deposits, carnotite mineralization coats
loosely consolidated pebbles of sandstone and conglomerates.
Carnotite is amenable to leaching, and preliminary metallurgical
work indicates that the mineralized material can be
upgraded using a very simple wet screening method. The
near-surface mineralization, ability to locally upgrade,
amenability to leaching and central processing possibility suggest
a potentially low-cost development scenario for a future
deposit.
For additional details on the project and
properties, please see the Company’s
website: www.blueskyuranium.com
About Blue Sky Uranium
Corp.
Blue Sky Uranium Corp. is a leader in uranium
discovery in Argentina. The Company's objective is to deliver
exceptional returns to shareholders by rapidly advancing a
portfolio of surficial uranium deposits into low-cost producers.
Blue Sky holds has the exclusive right to over 434,000 hectares
(equiv. to 1,072,437 acres) of property in two provinces in
Argentina. The Company’s flagship Amarillo Grande Project was an
in-house discovery of a new district that has the potential to be
both a leading domestic supplier of uranium to the growing
Argentine market and a new international market supplier. The
Company is a member of the Grosso Group, a resource management
group that has pioneered exploration in Argentina since 1993.
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD
“Nikolaos Cacos”
______________________________________Nikolaos Cacos, President,
CEO and Director
For further information, please contact:
Corporate Communications Tel: 1-604-687-1828 Toll-Free:
1-800-901-0058
Email: info@blueskyuranium.com
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This news release may contain forward-looking
statements including but not limited to comments regarding the
timing and content of upcoming work programs, geological
interpretations, receipt of property titles, potential mineral
recovery processes, etc. Forward-looking statements address future
events and conditions and therefore involve inherent risks and
uncertainties. Actual results may differ materially from those
currently anticipated in such statements. Readers are encouraged to
refer to the Company's public disclosure documents for a more
detailed discussion of factors that may impact expected future
results. The Company undertakes no obligation to publicly update or
revise any forward-looking statements. We advise U.S.
investors that the SEC's mining guidelines strictly prohibit
information of this type in documents filed with the SEC. U.S.
investors are cautioned that mineral deposits on adjacent
properties are not indicative of mineral deposits on our
properties.
1 World Nuclear Association. May 14, 2018. Surge in new nuclear
helps build a sustainable global energy mix [Press Release].
Retrieved from
http://www.world-nuclear.org/press/press-statements/surge-in-new-nuclear-helps-build-a-sustainable-glo.aspx
.
2 Proven and Probable. May 22, 2018. UEC Recap of a Busy Week in
the Uranium Industry. Retrieved from
https://provenandprobable.com/uec-recap-of-a-busy-week-in-the-uranium-industry/
.
3 U.S. Energy Information Administration. May 2018. Domestic
Uranium Production Report, First-Quarter 2018. Retrieved from
https://www.eia.gov/uranium/production/quarterly/pdf/qupd.pdf .
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