Mr. Lester Esteban reports

TRACTION URANIUM REPORTS KLS WINTER DRILL PROGRAM ANALYTICAL RESULTS

Traction Uranium Corp. has released final analytical results of the winter 2023 diamond drilling program at the company's Key Lake South property (the KLS property). The KLS property is located in Northern Saskatchewan, approximately six kilometres southwest of Cameco's Key Lake uranium mill and along the south flank of the Athabasca basin. Traction has entered into an option agreement to earn an initial 51-per-cent interest in the property from UGreenco Energy Corp., to be increased to 75 per cent following satisfactory completion of further exploration requirements.

Highlights of 2023 geochemical results:

• All 2023 drill holes contained trace amounts of uranium averaging 4.33 parts per million over 419 samples.
• Most holes returned anomalous values for thorium and for rare earth elements (REEs).
• Although anomalous intercepts for REEs are listed for cerium (Ce), lanthanum (La), neodymium (Nb) and praseodymium (Pr), intercepts of anomalous values were also returned for most of the other 13 REEs at various locations within the 2023 program area.
• The majority of anomalous intercepts, including elevated REE values, were returned from intervals of pegmatite and pegmatoidal rocks. However, several intercepts originated from structural zones such as fault and shear zones, as well as near amphibolite dikes.
• The deepest intercept in hole KLS23-008, grading 239.00 ppm Th and 10.70 ppm U with anomalous Ce, La, Nd and Pr values, was taken from a quartz-rich zone within basement metasediments directly underlying the contact with overlying granitic orthogneiss.

The anomalous intercepts in hole KLS23-011 are all associated with zones of fracturing or brecciation. These are hosted both within orthogneissic and pegmatitic units, indicating structural control may play a role in mineralization along the south flank of Zimmer Lake.

Analytical results indicate that the majority of basement-hosted elevated gamma ray counts per second (cps) originated from anomalous thorium (Th) values. Most holes returned elevated to anomalous values for rare earth elements (REEs), typically, although not exclusively, associated with thorium.

Anomalous values for Th and REEs were returned from throughout the drilled area. The northwest property corner near Zimmer Lake, including the collar locations for KLS23-007 (see news release dated March 29, 2023), KLS23-008 and KLS23-011, may have higher mineral potential. These holes were collared along the previously interpreted contact of granitic orthogneiss to the southeast with basement-hosted metasedimentary rocks to the northwest.

Hole KLS23-007, which returned a 52.80-metre intercept of anomalous basement-hosted cps readings, also returned the longest significant intercept to date, of 52.80 m grading 113.99 ppm Th, 4.87 ppm U, 193 ppm neodymium (Nd), 420 ppm cerium (Ce), 54.86 ppm praseodymium (Pr) and 194 ppm lanthanum (La). This long intercept included four subintercepts within pegmatitic units, returning grades up to 277.29 ppm Th, 13.57 ppm U, 498.5 ppm Nd, 1,096 (0.11 per cent) Ce, 140.40 ppm Pr and 496 ppm La across 1.17 m.

Notes

Cerium is an element utilized within flat screen TVs, low-energy light bulbs, floodlights and as a pigment. Lanthanum is used for carbon lighting, utilized for studio lighting and cinema projection. Neodymium is crucial for the production of permanent magnets, utilized in electronic devices. Praseodymium is used as an alloy for the production of aircraft engines, and also for permanent magnets. REEs, having similar chemical properties to each other, tend to occur together and have become crucial for the advancement of high-technology instruments.

Overburden radioactivity follow-up program

At this time, the source and mineralogy of overburden-hosted anomalous cps values in holes KLS23-007 and KLS23-009 have not been determined (see April 5, 2023, Traction news release).

• DDH KLS23-007: Down-hole gamma ray probing intersected two zones of anomalous radioactivity:
  • Zone 1: Six metres (1.6 m to 7.6 m) within overburden, with values up to 1,254 cps.
• DDH KLS23-009: Down-hole probing detected an approximately 69-centimetre interval of anomalous radioactivity within overburden, extending from 0.023 metre to 0.716 metre with values ranging from 121 to 236 cps.

An overburden testing program is currently being developed to sample and test the shallow, near-surface overburden anomalies at KLS23-007 and KLS23-009. This will be designed to determine the geochemical signature of overburden-hosted mineralization causing the radioactivity detected by down-hole probing.

Also, it has not been determined whether bedrock intercepts throughout the 2023 drilling represent true widths of mineralized zones.

Geochemical assaying

Core samples were submitted to the Saskatchewan Research Council (SRC) geoanalytical laboratories in Saskatoon. The SRC facility is ISO/IEC 17025:2005 accredited by the Standards Council of Canada (scope of accreditation No. 537). The samples are analyzed using partial and total digestion inductively coupled plasma (ICP) methods, for boron by Na2O2 (sodium peroxide) fusion, and for uranium by fluorimetry. Analytical results listed here were determined by total digestion ICP.

About the property

The KLS Property is located approximately six kilometres to the southwest of the Key Lake uranium mill and in close vicinity to modern uranium mining facilities and highway transportation in Northern Saskatchewan. Geologically, it is located along southeastern edge of the Proterozoic Athabasca basin.

About Traction Uranium Corp.

Traction Uranium is in the business of mineral exploration and the development of uranium discovery prospects in Canada, including its three uranium projects in the world-renowned Athabasca region.

Qualified person

The scientific and technical content of this news release has been reviewed and approved by Carl Schulze, PGeo, who is a qualified person as defined by National Instrument 43-101 -- Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects and is a professional geoscientist in good standing with APEGBC, APGO and NAPEG and senior project manager at Aurora Geosciences Ltd. Mr. Schulze verified the data disclosed in this news release, including the sampling, analytical and test data underlying the data. Mr. Schulze was physically present during data collection and examined a significant portion of data obtained directly from drill core by hand-held probes, and was able to verify the data accordingly. No limitations were imposed upon the data verification process. The quality assurance/quality control program in relation to data collection and analysis consisted of viewing the down-hole gamma ray probe data from the down and up result and employing quality control measures comprising careful geotechnical and geological logging of all holes. This includes layout of sample intervals, typically but not limited to one-metre intervals, photographing the core and obtaining duplicate samples at a rate of one per 25 total samples in the sample stream. It is noted that the information herein provides an indication of the exploration potential of the KLS property but may not be representative of the actual extent of mineralization within the property.

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