Mr.
Jordan Trimble reports
SKYHARBOUR TO CARRY OUT MULTI-PHASED, 2025 DRILLING CAMPAIGN TOTALLING 16-18,000 METRES AT ITS RUSSELL LAKE AND MOORE URANIUM PROJECTS, SASKATCHEWAN
Skyharbour Resources Ltd. has provided plans for fully financed, coming drill programs at its co-flagship Russell Lake and Moore uranium projects in 2025 totalling approximately 16,000 metres to 18,000 metres in 35 to 45 holes, representing the largest annual drill campaign ever carried out by the company.
At the 73,294-hectare Russell Lake uranium project, which is majority owned by Skyharbour as operator with minority joint venture partner Rio Tinto Exploration Canada Inc. (RTEC), the company is planning 10,000 metres to 11,000 metres of diamond drilling in 18 to 20 holes. This drilling will take place in multiple phases through the year, with mobilization and commencement planned within the next few weeks. Following the initial phase of drilling at Russell, Skyharbour plans to move the drill rig over to its adjacent 100-per-cent-owned, 35,705-hectare, high-grade Moore uranium project to complete the next phase of drilling. The company is planning to complete 5,000 metres to 7,000 metres of drilling at Moore throughout the year, which will consist of 18 to 24 holes. The combined 2025 drill campaign across Skyharbour's core projects is fully financed with the geologists and drilling crews working out of the exploration camp at the Russell Lake project, located along the road servicing Cameco's McArthur River uranium mine.
Jordan Trimble, president and chief executive officer of Skyharbour, stated: "The upcoming commencement of drilling at Russell and Moore marks the start of our most ambitious annual drilling campaign we have ever carried out. The fully funded [16,000-to-18,000-metre], multiphased program will provide steady news flow throughout the year as we advance the projects using systematic and proven exploration methodologies to follow up on the success of the 2024 drilling. We are confident in the exploration upside at both projects given the high-grade mineralization in recent drilling, along with the many highly prospective target areas hosting the geology necessary for high-grade uranium deposition. We also benefit from low-cost drilling and relatively shallow target depths at our Russell and Moore projects. Finally, Skyharbour will have plenty of additional news flow and catalysts from its prospect generator business consisting of partner companies advancing several of our other projects throughout the Athabasca basin. This year, the company is anticipating drilling and exploration at its partner-funded projects of Preston, South Falcon East, Falcon, South Dufferin, Highway and 914W."
Coming winter phase of diamond drilling at Russell Lake
Skyharbour will soon commence its 2025 drilling program at the Russell Lake project with plans for a first phase consisting of approximately 5,000 metres to follow up on notable recent exploration success and to test new targets developed by the geological team. The focus for this phase of drilling will be on the Fork and Sphinx targets within the broader Grayling target area as well as the M-zone Extension (MZE) target and the Fox Lake Trail target. This initial winter program will consist of 10 to 12 drill holes, with most of the targets being road accessible and near the exploration camp, bringing the drill costs down. Further details on the drilling are forthcoming, and geochemical assay results are pending from the drilling recently carried out in late 2024 at Russell.
The Fork target is a newly identified target to the southwest of the Grayling zone and on strike with Denison's M zone at its adjacent Wheeler River project. Last year, high-grade uranium was discovered at the Fork target in hole RSL24-02, which returned a 2.5-metre-wide intercept of 0.721 per cent U3O8 (triuranium octoxide) at a relatively shallow depth of 338.1 metres, including approximately 3.0 per cent U3O8 over 0.5 metre just above the unconformity in the sandstone (see news release dated July 19, 2024). This high-grade intercept is a new discovery that had very limited historical exploration due to a lack of reliable geophysical data and drill targets resulting from nearby power line interference. The mineralization is open in most directions, including along strike, and will be a high-priority target for this drill program.
Skyharbour also plans to drill targets in the M-zone Extension area along trend from the Grayling zone and Denison's M zone, where historical drilling intersected basement-hosted uranium mineralization. More recent drilling by Denison in 2020 at the M zone encountered uranium mineralization with significant faulting, core loss, geochemical anomalies and radioactivity encountered in other drill holes. Like the Grayling zone, the mineralization at the MZE target is hosted by a graphitic thrust fault within a significant magnetic low. It is also noted that cross-structures associated with Denison's Phoenix and Gryphon uranium deposits potentially trend onto the Russell Lake property within the M-zone Extension target area, further enhancing the prospectivity of this target.
Coming winter phase of diamond drilling at Moore
Skyharbour plans to conduct a second phase of drilling consisting of 3,000 metres to 3,500 metres in nine to 12 holes at its Moore project upon completion of the initial phase of drilling at Russell. Drilling at the Maverick corridor will focus on identifying new trends and extensions within untested portions of its 4.7-kilometre strike length. Additional drilling is planned within the Maverick Main and East zones to concentrate on refinement and expansion of the currently identified mineralized zones. The Maverick Main zone is characterized by basement-hosted and unconformity-hosted mineralization with a highlight interval drilled previously by Skyharbour of 6.0 per cent U3O8 over 5.9 metres at 265 metres depth, including 20.8 per cent U3O8 over 1.5 metres in hole ML-199. More recently, Skyharbour announced a drill result grading 4.61 per cent U3O8 over 5.0 metres starting at 265.5 metres downhole, including 3.0 metres of 7.30 per cent U3O8 (see news release dated July 11, 2024). Skyharbour is planning to drill test other regional targets at the project as well, with further details on the drilling forthcoming. Additionally, geochemical assay results are pending from the drilling recently carried out in late 2024 at Moore.
Russell Lake uranium project overview
The Russell Lake project is a large, advanced-stage uranium exploration property totalling 73,294 hectares strategically located between Cameco's Key Lake and McArthur River projects and adjoining Denison's Wheeler River project to the west and Skyharbour's Moore uranium project to the east. The northern extension of Highway 914 between Key Lake and McArthur River runs through the western extent of the property and greatly enhances accessibility while a high-voltage power line is situated alongside this road. Skyharbour's acquisition of a majority interest in Russell Lake creates a large, nearly contiguous block of highly prospective uranium claims totalling 108,999 hectares between the Russell Lake and the Moore uranium projects. Several notable exploration targets exist on Russell, including the Grayling zone, the M-zone Extension target, the Little Man Lake target, the Christie Lake target, the Fox Lake Trail target and the newly identified Fork zone target. More than 35 kilometres of largely untested prospective conductors in areas of low magnetic intensity also exist on the property. Skyharbour is the operator and owns a majority interest in Russell Lake, having formed a joint venture partnership with RTEC at the project.
Moore uranium project overview
The Moore project consists of 12 contiguous claims totalling 35,705 hectares located 42 kilometres northeast of the Key Lake mill, 15 kilometres east of Denison's Wheeler River project and 39 kilometres south of Cameco's McArthur River uranium mine. Unconformity-style, high-grade uranium mineralization has been discovered on the Moore project along the Maverick conductive corridor. In addition to the Maverick zones, the project hosts other mineralized targets with strong discovery potential which the company plans to test with future drill programs. The project is fully accessible through winter and ice roads, which simplifies logistics and lowers costs, while most of the property is accessible in the summer as well.
Qualified person
The technical information in this news release has been prepared in accordance with the Canadian regulatory requirements set out in National Instrument 43-101 and reviewed and approved by Serdar Donmez, PGeo, vice-president of exploration for Skyharbour as well as a qualified person.
About Skyharbour Resources Ltd.
Skyharbour holds an extensive portfolio of uranium exploration projects in Canada's Athabasca basin and is well positioned to benefit from improving uranium market fundamentals with interest in 36 projects covering over 614,000 hectares (over 1.5 million acres) of land. Skyharbour has acquired from Denison Mines, a large strategic shareholder of the company, a 100-per-cent interest in the Moore uranium project, which is located 15 kilometres east of Denison's Wheeler River project and 39 kilometres south of Cameco's McArthur River uranium mine. Moore is an advanced-stage uranium exploration property with high-grade uranium mineralization in several zones at the Maverick corridor. Adjacent to the Moore project is the Russell Lake uranium project, in which Skyharbour is operator with joint venture partner RTEC. The project hosts widespread uranium mineralization in drill intercepts over a large property area with exploration upside potential. The company is actively advancing these projects through exploration and drilling programs.
Skyharbour also has joint ventures with industry leader Orano Canada Inc., Azincourt Energy and Thunderbird Resources at the Preston, East Preston and Hook Lake projects, respectively. The company also has several active earn-in option partners, including Canadian Securities Exchange listed Basin Uranium Corp. at the Mann Lake uranium project; TSX Venture Exchange listed North Shore Uranium at the Falcon project; UraEx Resources at the South Dufferin and Bolt projects; Hatchet Uranium at the Highway project; CSE-listed Mustang Energy at the 914W project; and TSX-V-listed Terra Clean Energy at the South Falcon East project. In aggregate, Skyharbour has now signed earn-in option agreements with partners that total to over $36-million in partner-financed exploration expenditures, over $20-million worth of shares being issued and $14-million in cash payments coming into Skyharbour, assuming that these partner companies complete their entire earn-ins at the respective projects.
Skyharbour's goal is to maximize shareholder value through new mineral discoveries, committed long-term partnerships and the advancement of exploration projects in geopolitically favourable jurisdictions.
We seek Safe Harbor.
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