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February 14 2007 – Purepoint Uranium Group Inc. (TSX:PTU.V) announced today that it has completed a detailed helicopter borne VTEM survey over the entire Red Willow property and has received all assays from the till and boulder sampling completed during Fall 2006. Results have delineated 9 discrete exploration targets on the property including 4 zones of radioactive boulders. Boulder sampling succeeded in extending the historic Long Lake boulder train zone further up-ice and returned assays up to 11,000 ppm U (1.30% U3O8). These new boulders were found buried within basal glacial till which indicates they were derived from a nearby source. Three additional zones of radioactive boulders were discovered proximal to newly defined EM conductors and returned assays up to 9670 ppm U (1.14% U3O8).
The detection of similar radioactive boulder trains was instrumental in the discovery of the Rabbit Lake Mine (located 17 kms due south of Red Willow), the Key Lake Mine and the Cluff Lake Mine.
“Initial interest in this property stemmed from its regional geological setting” said Scott Frostad, Vice President Exploration, Purepoint Uranium Group Inc. “A straight line can be drawn through the Millennium, McArthur, Cigar, Midwest and JEB ore bodies and then right though this property. The results of our new surveys coupled with the numerous historic uranium showings make this region every bit as promising as our Turnor Lake project.”
Highlights:
- Over 20 kilometers of previously untested EM conductors were outlined by the airborne VTEM survey;
- Long Lake is coincident with a strong EM anomaly and believed to be the source of radioactive boulders (up to 1.30% U3O8) and uranium enrichment in till down-ice of the lake;
- An EM conductor has been outlined immediately up-ice of overburden hole #333 (Gulf Minerals, 1973) that intersected values up to 0.31% U3O8 in the till;
- A refinement of the EM conductor at Radon Lake, a waterbody with high concentrations of radon, indicates previous drilling did not adequately test this target;
- Three new zones of radioactive boulders named the Biotite Boulders, Lyon Lake, and Long Lake North Zones, returned maximum assays of 1.14% U3O8, 1.02% U3O8 and 0.27% U3O8, respectively;
- Three new claims have been staked to cover an EM anomaly discovered during the VTEM airborne survey;
- Two field camps are currently operating at Red Willow to allow line cutting, electromagnetic, induced polarization and gravity surveys to be conducted over target areas in preparation for drilling.