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Nuclear Fuels Inc
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Nuclear Fuels acquires TenSleep project in Wyoming

2025-03-03 17:11 ET - News Release

Mr. Gregory Huffman reports

NUCLEAR FUELS ACQUIRES TENSLEEP URANIUM PROJECT WITH ATHABASCA BASIN-STYLE MINERALIZATION IN WYOMING'S POWDER RIVER BASIN

Nuclear Fuels Inc. has acquired the TenSleep uranium project, located approximately 10 miles (16 kilometres) west of the town of Kaycee, in Johnson county, Wyoming. The TenSleep project is a unique uranium project in Wyoming, displaying geological characteristics similar to the deposits in Saskatchewan's prolific Athabasca basin rather than the typical roll front sandstone-hosted uranium deposits of the United States. Athabasca or unconformity uranium deposits occur along the contact of two different rock types in the vicinity of one or more high-angle faults providing the pathway for the mineralizing fluids to deposit uranium along the contact. These deposits are typically larger and higher-grade than roll front types. The company is currently developing an exploration program with drilling planned for late 2025 or early 2026.

Greg Huffman, chief executive officer, stated: "The TenSleep uranium project represents an exciting addition to Nuclear Fuels' portfolio given it is located less than 20 miles from our priority Kaycee uranium project in Wyoming, and is known to host uranium mineralization based on historical production and exploration work. The fact that uranium mineralization at TenSleep occurs in a geological setting similar to the very high-grade unconformity-hosted uranium orebodies in Saskatchewan's Athabasca basin, yet has never been explored with this model in mind, presents an excellent opportunity for the discovery of an exciting new type of potentially in situ recovery amenable uranium in Wyoming."

Specific highlights include:

  • The Jeri-Marie mine was an underground operation located on the TenSleep project, extracting uranium ore via an adit in the late 1950s.
  • Outcropping uranium mineralization on the TenSleep project is associated with the contact between basal sandstones of the TenSleep formation and the younger overlying Phosphoria formation, an organic-rich marine unit containing siltstone, sandstone, limestone and dolomite enriched in a number of elements including uranium. Similar unconformity geological contacts are important host environments for the high-grade uranium orebodies found in Saskatchewan's Athabasca basin, commonly referred to as unconformity-type uranium deposits.
  • The TenSleep formation is approximately 380 feet thick and composed of fine- to medium-grained sandstone. Exploration drilling on the TenSleep project in the early 1970s demonstrated that both the upper and lower contacts of the TenSleep formation host uranium mineralization believed to be leached from the Phosphoria formation above. The high-grade unconformity-type uranium deposits of the Athabasca basin also occur at the lower contact of a thick sandstone sequence.
  • The majority of the historic drilling was shallow in nature to test only the upper zone of mineralization, only 10 holes penetrating the entire TenSleep formation. Eight of the 10 deeper holes were pervasively mineralized or anomalous at the lower contact (unconformity) of the TenSleep formation.
  • The lower contact of the TenSleep formation represents an exciting target for additional unconformity-style mineralization, an exploration concept which has not been previously targeted at the TenSleep project.
  • In situ recovery offers a minimally intrusive, ecofriendly and economically competitive approach to mineral extraction, replacing the need for conventional mining.

The TenSleep uranium project

The company acquired the road-accessible TenSleep uranium project through the staking of 188 mineral claims and the granting of two state mineral leases, for a total area of approximately 3,000 acres.

Uranium mineralization on the project was originally discovered, explored and extracted on a small scale at the shallow underground Jeri-Marie mine by private operators in the late 1950s. Aquarius Resources Inc. conducted the first modern exploration drilling on the project in 1971 and 1972 with its joint venture partner Northwestern Energy Company, a subsidiary of Montana Power Company. The historic drill program consisted of at least 111 drill holes, with 17 holes drilled for stratigraphic information and 10 holes testing the entire approximately 380-foot-thick TenSleep formation. This drill program identified two zones of uranium mineralization, one at the top of the TenSleep formation along the unconformable contact (that is, the boundary between rocks of different ages) with the younger Permian-aged Phosphoria formation, and a second zone at the basal unconformable contact of the TenSleep formation with the limestones of the Mississippian-aged Madison limestone.

Following the recognition and development of the unconformity model of uranium deposition in the Athabasca basin later in the 1970s, Cherokee Exploration Inc. staked the TenSleep project in 1978. In early 1980, it acquired copies of the available data from the Aquarius drilling, including maps, cross-sections and logs for 96 holes, totalling 36,000 feet. Based on these data, the Cherokee reports from the early 1980s were the first to recognize the potential for unconformity-style uranium mineralization at the TenSleep project and recommended an exploration program targeting this unconformity-hosted model. However, these recommendations were never followed up on due to market conditions. Nuclear Fuels is currently reviewing the historical data for the TenSleep project to develop an exploration program that would include delineating the extent of the unconformity-style uranium known to occur at both the top and bottom contacts of the TenSleep formation. Additional testing would include assessing the uranium mineralization for its amenability to in situ recovery.

The technical content of this news release has been reviewed and approved by Mark Travis, CPG, a contractor to the company, a qualified person as defined in National Instrument 43-101.

About Nuclear Fuels Inc.

Nuclear Fuels is a uranium exploration company advancing early-stage, district-scale in situ recovery amenable uranium projects toward production in the United States. Leveraging extensive proprietary historical databases and deep industry expertise, Nuclear Fuels is well positioned in a sector poised for significant and sustained growth on the back of strong government support. Nuclear Fuels has consolidated the Kaycee district under single-company control for the first time since the early 1980s. Currently planning its 2025 drill program following successful 2023 and 2024 drilling, the company aims to expand on historic resources across a 35-mile trend with over 430 miles of mapped roll fronts defined by 3,800 drill holes. The company's strategic relationship with enCore Energy Corp., America's clean energy company, offers a mutually beneficial pathway to production, with enCore owning an equity interest and retaining the right to back in to 51-per-cent ownership in the flagship Kaycee project in Wyoming's prolific Powder River basin.

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