TORONTO, March 18, 2021 /CNW/ - Baselode Energy Corp.
(TSXV: FIND) (OTCQB: BSENF) ("Baselode" or the
"Company") is pleased to announce the acquisition of an
additional 12,000 hectares contiguous with the Company's Hook
project ("Hook" or the "Property") in the
Athabasca Basin area
("Athabasca") of northern
Saskatchewan, Canada. The
Property now comprises ~42,000 hectares in total. Hook is
100% owned by Baselode and is free of any option agreements or
underlying royalties.
"Our new Hook expansion now covers glacially-deposited boulder
trains with high-uranium grades hosted within pegmatites. Our
interpretation is that these boulders originated 4 km up-ice, in
areas we view as prospective for hydrothermal clay alteration, a
common feature mantling all Athabasca-style uranium deposits.
We know this region is fertile for high-grade uranium veins at the
surface, and this new land acquisition increases our potential for
discovering a high-grade and mineable uranium deposit," said
James Sykes, CEO and President of
Baselode.
The new Hook acquisitions cover interpreted structural corridors
with potential indications for localized hydrothermal alteration
and uraniferous boulder trains of interest. The northern
property extension covers a boulder train with numerous rounded and
angular radioactive pegmatoid boulders that returned grades up to
2.48 wt% U3O8 (SMDI 2043*). The
southern extension covers boulder trains with uranium
mineralization ranging from 0.28 to 3.49 wt%
U3O8 (SMDI 2037*).
The Company is planning a high-resolution airborne radiometric
and magnetic geophysical survey over the entire Property in
June. Radiometric anomalies will be prioritized and
followed-up with ground prospecting and detailed surface mapping,
where possible. All efforts will be made to find the historic
high-grade boulders and determine their source areas.
Historic work assessment of the Property is on-going. A drill
campaign is planned with target areas generated based on the
airborne and ground survey results and findings from the historic
work assessment.
The Hook property was acquired at the original staking cost from
Charles Beaudry, a company
director. The Company relied on section 5.7(a) of
Multilateral Instrument 61-101 - Protection of Minority Security
Holders in Special Transactions ("MI 61-101") as the exemption from
the minority approval requirements of MI 61-101 and TSXV Policy
5.9 in respect of the Hook property as neither the fair market
value of the subject matter of nor the fair market value of the
consideration for, to such director and officer exceeded 25% of the
Company's market capitalization.
*SMDI = Saskatchewan
Mineral Deposit Index
(https://www.saskatchewan.ca/business/agriculture-natural-resources-and-industry/mineral-exploration-and-mining/saskatchewan-geological-survey/saskatchewan-mineral-deposit-index-smdi)
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About Baselode Energy Corp.
Baselode currently
controls 100% of approximately 159,000 hectares in the Athabasca Basin area, northern Saskatchewan, Canada.
Baselode's Athabasca 2.0
exploration thesis is focused on discovering near-surface,
basement-hosted, high-grade uranium orebodies outside of the
Athabasca Basin. The exploration thesis is further
complemented by the Company's preferred use of innovative and
well-understood geophysical methods to map deep structural controls
to identify shallow targets for diamond-drilling.
QP Statement
The technical information contained in
this news release has been reviewed and approved by Charles Beaudry, P.Geo and géo., Director of
Baselode Energy Corp., who is a Qualified Person as defined in
"National Instrument 43-101, Standards of Disclosure for Mineral
Projects."
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