WHITE BEAR AREA

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WB3 Trench Detail Map

Doucette and WB3 Trench and Sample Map

HE2 Trench Detail Map

Radiometric Prospect Map

He 2 Area

Preliminary Airborne Mag Map

Doucette & #3 Showings

Doucette - #3 Prospect Areas

Results from ground prospecting in the White Bear River area have shown highly encouraging uranium assays in a favourable geological setting. These areas are being advanced to the drill stage with geological mapping, soil sampling, geophysical surveying and subsurface radon gas emission test surveys.

The Doucette Prospect consists of numerous angular boulders scattered over a distance measuring several hundred metres across the strike of the local stratigraphy. Two samples collected about 200 metres further south of the Doucette Prospect from similar rocks contained 0.15% U3O8 and 0.06% U3O8. The host to Doucette consists of stratiform uranium mineralization in metamorphosed sedimentary and volcanic rocks. Sixteen composite rock chip samples returned values ranging from 0.13% to 1.32% U3O8. Six of the samples contained in excess of 0.67% U3O8. Three angular boulders from the #3 prospect returned values from five samples including 0.564% U3O8, 0.512% U3O8 and 0.714% U3O8. A bedrock sample from the #2 prospect ran 0.108% U3O8.

A close spaced grid of magnetic surveying on the White Bear area covered both boulder fields at the Doucette and #3 uranium prospects, which are separated by about 500 metres. The northern and southern portions of the grid show a low level, flat response, while a central 300 metre wide belt shows a very active magnetic response. The active magnetic response covers a portion of the Doucette Prospect and extends for 300 metres further up ice. The magnetic signatures in this area are consistent with the measured response of the uranium bearing rocks of the Doucette Showing and may represent the source rock of this uranium mineralization. Scattered uranium soil anomalies located within and down-ice from the magnetically active bedrock support this possibility. Anomalous soil values, ranging from 3 to 14 times background (background is 1 ppm uranium), are also found from the main boulder discovery area over at least 300 metre strike length.

Well-defined magnetic trends in the airborne survey data trace the potential host unit for more than 4 kilometres to the east of the Doucette prospect. Prospect DT-1 was discovered while carrying out detailed prospecting along this magnetic trend close to The White Bear River. A radiometric boulder located 3.5 kilometres east from Doucette is immediately adjacent to and downhill from the eastern extension of the linear magnetic high and gave 3,000 cps and assayed 0.15% U3O8. The host rock of this prospect is a biotite banded quartzite, similar to the host rock of the Doucette prospect. Fold patterns and fault structures interpreted from the magnetic data may represent important loci for concentrating uranium mineralization.

Using hand-held scintillometers, the Company's prospecting crew located radiometric boulders corresponding to airborne anomalies He1 and He2. Two boulders on He2 gave readings of 18,500 and 20,000 counts per second (cps) which are the highest recorded to date on the Hermitage Project area.

Significant uranium oxide minerals such as autunite were identified as coatings and fracture fillings on these boulders. A number of other boulders with radiometric counts ranging from 2,000 to 4,000 cps were located on Anomaly He2. Several lower count radioactive boulders with 800 cps were recorded on Anomaly He1. The radiometric boulders consist mainly of impure quartzite, which has been metamorphosed from sandstone. Iron-rich minerals comprise 10-15% of the quartzite. The anomalies are located about three kilometres southwest of the Doucette uranium prospect.

Assay results from He2 included maximum values of 2.79% and 1.64% U3O8 recorded from boulders and six other significant rock chip samples from boulders assayed from 0.15% to 0.28% U3O8, while five samples had anomalous values from 429 ppm to 762 ppm. After receiving high scintillometer counts in an overburden area, a hole was dug to about 0.5 metres where the high count boulder was located. A sample from a buried boulder ran 3.1% U3O8.

At anomaly He1A, three of the eleven sample results from widely scattered boulders assayed 0.20%, 0.24%, and 0.28% U3O8 and four others returned values from 0.06% to 0.14% U3O8. Several further widespread radiometric boulders were located around the He1A prospect, two assayed 0.27% and 0.13% U3O8. The host rock is also a biotite bearing quartzite, similar to other uranium prospects in the area.

Anomaly He9 consists of numerous scattered outcrops of biotite quartzite with radiometric counts ranging from 500 to 2,800 cps. The area of anomalous outcrops is 100 metres by 700 metres in size. At anomalies He18A and He1A, scattered boulder clusters have radiometric counts ranging from 1,000 to 2,700 cps and 500 - 3,000 cps, respectively. The boulders are angular and considered to be close to bedrock.

At the site of airborne radiometric anomaly He18A, two small angular boulders assayed 0.35% U3O8 and 0.07% U3O8. These boulders are considered to be close to source. The He18A anomaly covers an expansive, grassy hillside with no outcrops located about 2 kilometres northwest of the He2 prospect. The uranium bearing boulders at the He18A are metamorphosed sandstones containing biotite and muscovite.