Candle Drill Hole Assays
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0.31% U3O8
over 3.2 m
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Includes 0.76% U3O8
over 0.9 m
Pitchstone
Exploration Ltd. (TSX-V: PXP; “Pitchstone”) is pleased to report
assay data for a previously noted zone of radioactivity in drill hole CD-14 on
the Candle property (News Release 07.39, July 5, 2007). Candle, located
between McArthur River and Cigar Lake mines in the eastern Athabasca Basin, is
a joint venture between Pitchstone (operator; 37.5%), Uranium One Inc. (TSX:
SXR; 37.5%) and JCU (Canada)
Exploration Company, Limited (25%).
A 3.2 m core
length from 647.1 to 650.3 m averaged 0.31% U3O8
including 0.9 m and 0.4 m sections that contained 0.76% U3O8
and 0.72% U3O8 respectively.
Diamond drill
hole CD-14, collared at -81�, intersected the unconformity between Athabasca
Group sandstone and basement rocks at a down hole length of 625.3 m. The
mineralization occurs within a 38.8 m length of altered and crushed sandstone, pelitic gneiss, semi-pelite and anatexite from 623.4 to 662.2 m that averaged 0.03% U3O8.
Many other metallic elements are also anomalous in this enriched zone.
Insufficient information is available to determine a true thickness of
mineralization.
CD-14 is only
the third hole drilled on a conductor that extends 2 km across Candle and
continues a further 4 km on the contiguous Darby property. The other
holes, CD-02 and CD-08, are 800 m south of CD-14; both of these holes intersected
narrow zones of weak mineralization (News Release 07.36, June 7, 2007).
CEO Ted Trueman noted that, “deposit discovery in the Athabasca Basin requires a systematic, step by
step process of acquiring data and building a model. The results of CD-14
represent a big step forward in this process on Candle. The extent of
this zone of alteration and metal enrichment is very encouraging.”
Considerable additional drilling will be required to follow up on these
results.
Steve
Blower, P.Geo.,
Vice President of Exploration for Pitchstone, is the Qualified Person for the
purposes of NI 43-101 with respect to the technical information in this news
release. Sample preparation and analyses were done by SRC Geoanalytical Laboratories, Saskatoon. A partial digestion with fluorimetric analysis was used for uranium
determinations. All samples containing greater than 100 ppm uranium were re-analyzed with ICP. Internal and
external standards, duplicates and blanks are used for quality
assurance/quality control.
Pitchstone is
actively exploring for uranium in four proven districts. The property portfolio
features eight projects in the eastern Athabasca Basin,
Saskatchewan, five of which are joint ventured with Uranium One Inc., with
the other three being 100% owned. In addition, there are five joint
venture projects with Triex in the Hornby Bay Basin, Nunavut and NWT, an exploration
partnership with Cameco and Motapa
Diamonds in the Franceville Basin, Gabon, and an
option on three projects in Namibia.
Pitchstone has a unique group of geologists with extensive uranium
exploration and production experience.
On behalf of
the Board,
E.A.G. (Ted) Trueman, CEO and Director
For
further information contact: Ted Trueman, CEO, (604) 630 5560, ted@pitchstone.net,
Mark
T. Brown, CFO, (604) 687-3520, mark@pitchstone.net,
or view www.pitchstone.net
Claire Stewart
Office Manager
Pitchstone Exploration Ltd.
315 - 1100 Melville Street
Vancouver BC V6E
4A6
604 630-5563 (Office)
604 630-5564 (Fax)
e-mail:
cstewart@pitchstone.net
www.pitchstone.net