Skyharbour Resources
Ltd. (TSX-V: SYH) (OTCQX:
SYHBF) (Frankfurt: SC1P)
(“Skyharbour” or the “Company”), is pleased to announce that it has
entered into agreements with a private arm’s-length company,
Hatchet Uranium Corp. (the “Hatchet”), whereby Hatchet may acquire
an 80% interest in the Company’s 9,339 ha Highway Uranium Property
(the “Optioned Property”) and a 100% interest, subject to a
claw-back provision for Skyharbour, in the Company’s Genie, Usam
and CBX/Shoe Uranium Projects (the “Purchased Property”) totalling
66,358 ha, all located in the Athabasca Basin, Northern
Saskatchewan, Canada.
Highway, Genie, Usam, CBX and Shoe Project
Map:https://www.skyharbourltd.com/_resources/images/Hatchet-Property-Option.jpg
Jordan Trimble, President and CEO of Skyharbour,
commented “We are excited to enter into this partnership with
Hatchet Uranium Corp. as they advance and fund these exploration
properties going forward. We are confident in the capable team
behind Hatchet as they have plenty of experience in the Athabasca
Basin and we look forward to them unlocking value at these
projects. We continue to execute on our strategy by adding value to
our uranium project base in the Athabasca Basin through strategic
partnerships and prospect generation, as well as focused
exploration at our co-flagship Russell and Moore Projects.”
Terms of the Optioned Property:
The Optioned Property, Highway, consists of four
(4) mineral claims comprising approximately 9,339 hectares. Hatchet
may acquire an 80% interest in the Optioned Property by (i) issuing
common shares in the capital of Hatchet (“Shares”) having an
aggregate value of CAD $1,050,000; (ii) making aggregate cash
payments of CAD $245,000; and (iii) incurring an aggregate of CAD
$2,050,000 in exploration expenditures on the Optioned Property
over a three-year period, as follows:
Date |
Cash Payments |
Exploration Expenditures |
Value of Shares Issued |
On or before the first anniversary of Closing |
$25,000 |
$250,000 |
$25,000(1) |
On or before the second anniversary of Closing |
$20,000 |
$300,000 |
$25,000(1) |
On or before the third anniversary of Closing |
$200,000 |
$1,500,000 |
$1,000,000(1) |
TOTAL |
$245,000 |
$2,050,000 |
$1,050,000 |
(1) Deemed pricing of Shares is based on the
twenty (20) day volume weighted average price on the stock exchange
in which Hatchet shall list its Shares for trading, being either
the TSX Venture Exchange or the Canadian Securities Exchange
(“Deemed Price”) or the last sale price, if not listed on a stock
exchange at the time of issuance
In the event that the issuance of any Shares
pursuant to the above would result in the Company holding 10% or
more of the outstanding Shares of Hatchet, Hatchet will issue that
number of Shares which would result in the Company receiving 9.9%
of the issued and outstanding Shares post-issuance and will pay
cash in lieu of the Shares for the difference.
The obligations of Hatchet under the option
agreement are subject to the following conditions (i) Hatchet
completing a financing for minimum gross proceeds of $1,500,000,
(ii) the sale of the of the Genie, Usam and CBX/Shoe Uranium
Projects to Hatchet, and (iii) Hatchet having listed the Hatchet
Shares on the TSX Venture Exchange or the Canadian Securities
Exchange or having sold its interest to or combined with a
similarly listed issuer.
The Company shall retain a 2% net smelter
returns royalty from minerals mined and removed from the Optioned
Property, of which Hatchet may purchase one-half, being 1%, at any
time for $1,000,000.
Terms of the Purchased Property:
The Purchased Property consists of twenty-five
(25) mineral claims comprising approximately 66,358 hectares across
the Genie, Usam and CBX/Show projects. Hatchet may acquire a 100%
interest in the Purchased Property by, on the date of closing (the
“Closing Date”), paying the Company $25,000 and issuing to the
Company such number of units in the capital of Hatchet (“Hatchet
Units”) equal to 9.9% of the issued and outstanding Shares
immediately following issuance. Each Hatchet Unit shall be
comprised of one Share and one share purchase warrant, entitling
Skyharbour to purchase one additional Share for a period of three
years at a price that is a 25% premium to the deemed value of the
Shares in both years 1 and 2, and then increases to a 50% premium
to the issuance value of the Shares in year 3.
The Company shall retain a claw-back provision
whereby, within 90 days after the 3rd anniversary of the Closing
Date, the Company may elect by written notice to Hatchet of its
intention to purchase back a twenty-five percent (25%) interest in
the Purchased Property by, within 90 days of delivery of such
notice, incurring exploration expenditures or paying cash in lieu
of to fund future exploration, equivalent to fifty percent (50%) of
the total amount that Hatchet had spent during the term that is
three years from the Closing Date in exploration expenditures on
the Purchased Property. If Hatchet has not incurred any exploration
expenditures during the three years following the closing date,
then Skyharbour shall automatically receive the 25% interest in the
Property.
The obligation of Hatchet to acquire the
Purchased Property is subject to the following conditions (i)
Hatchet completing a financing for minimum gross proceeds of
$1,500,000, (ii) the closing of the Option of the Highway Uranium
Property from Skyharbour to Hatchet, and (iii) Hatchet having
listed the Hatchet Shares on the TSX Venture Exchange or the
Canadian Securities Exchange or having sold its interest to or
combined with a similarly listed issuer. If the conditions listed
in items (i) and (iii) above are not completed within 18 months,
Hatchet’s right to acquire the Purchased Property will terminate.
If, after 12 months, the conditions listed in items (i) and (iii)
above are not satisfied, Hatchet shall pay Skyharbour a monthly fee
of $10,000 until such conditions are satisfied or an aggregate of
$60,000 has been paid, whichever occurs first.
The Company shall also retain a 2% net smelter
returns royalty from minerals mined and removed from the Purchased
Property, of which Hatchet may purchase one-half, being 1%, at any
time for $2,000,000.
Highway Property Summary:
The Highway Uranium Project consists of
four claims covering 9,339 hectares, approximately 41 km south
of the Rabbit Lake Mine and 11 km southwest of Uranium Energy
Corp.’s (UEC, formerly UEX) West Bear U and Co-Ni Deposits. Highway
905 runs through the property, providing excellent access for
exploration and the project is in close proximity to regional
infrastructure. There has been limited modern exploration carried
out on the project but there is the potential for high-grade
basement-hosted and unconformity-related uranium
mineralization.
Highway Property
Map:https://www.skyharbourltd.com/_resources/images/Location-Map-Highway-Property.jpg
The project is underlain by Wollaston Supergroup
metasedimentary gneisses (pelitic to psammopelitic and psammitic to
meta-arkosic) folded around and overlying an Archean felsic gneiss
dome which outcrops in the southwestern portion of the property and
cores a northeast trending antiformal fold nose. The Highway
Project is located approximately 7 km east of the present-day
margin of the Athabasca Basin but is believed to have been covered
by Athabasca sandstone in the past.
Genie Property Summary:
The Genie property consists of five claims
totalling 16,930 ha, and is located approximately 48 km northeast
of Cameco’s Eagle Point Uranium Mine (Rabbit Lake Operation) and 40
km north of Wollaston Lake Post. The project is underlain by
Wollaston Superground metasedimentary gneisses and Archean
granitoids, with highly prospective pelitic to psammopelitic
gneisses (including graphitic varieties) and several north-trending
faults related to the Tabbernor fault system being mapped on the
property. The project lies outside the current extent of the
Athabasca Basin, but is believed to have been overlain by
now-eroded Athabasca sandstones in the past and has the potential
for high-grade basement-hosted and unconformity-related uranium
mineralization. The property is underlain by a series of linear
magnetic highs (interpreted as granitoids) and magnetic lows
(interpreted as metasedimentary gneisses), cross-cut by a highly
magnetic northwest-trending Mackenzie Diabase dyke.
Genie Property
Map:https://www.skyharbourltd.com/_resources/images/Location-Map-Genie-Property.jpg
Previous work on the Genie project includes
limited diamond drilling (three historical drill holes, of which
one was abandoned in overburden) and a variety of airborne and
ground geophysical surveys, prospecting, geological mapping, lake
sediment and overburden sampling, and soil sampling. Most of this
exploration work took place between 1966 to 1980, prior to the
advent of modern geophysical methods and geological models, but in
2014 part of the Genie property was covered by a helicopter-borne
DIGHEM magnetic, electromagnetic, and radiometric survey. The
survey showed a strong central EM conductor following a
magnetically inferred contact on the two northeastern most claims,
which is locally disrupted by several moderately conductive N-S
trending structural breaks, inferred to be faults. This strong
conductor is highly prospective for uranium mineralization, and
drilling done in 1969 and 1971 has confirmed the presence of
graphitic and sulfide-containing pelitic gneisses on the property.
Lake sediment samples also collected at Genie during the 2014
exploration program, contained up to 63.3 ppm U, further showcasing
the prospectivity of the property.
Usam Property Summary:
The Usam Project consists of twelve claims
totalling 40,041 ha and is located approximately 16 km northeast of
Cameco’s Eagle Point Mine (Rabbit Lake Operation). The project has
numerous EM conductors that are associated with significant
magnetic lows of the Wollaston Domain. While the project is outside
the current confines of the Athabasca Basin, the area was overlain
by Athabasca sandstones historically. Basement rocks on the
property include Wollaston Supergroup metasediments and Archean
granitoid gneisses, with highly prospective pelitic to
psammopelitic gneisses (including graphitic varieties) making up
the largest proportion of the basement rocks. Several
north-trending faults related to the Tabbernor fault system
cross-cut the property.
Usam Property
Map:https://www.skyharbourltd.com/_resources/images/Location-Map-Usam-Property.jpg
Previous work on the project includes diamond
drilling (12 holes), lake sediment sampling, soil sampling,
geological mapping, ground and airborne geophysics, marine seismic,
prospecting, and other geochemical sampling, the majority of which
was done in the 1980’s and 1970’s. Modern exploration of the
property has been limited to geophysics and ground prospecting. As
such there is a significant untested potential on the project.
Trenching on Cleveland Island uncovered up to 0.31% U3O8 in
mineralized pegmatite, and diamond drilling on Gilles Island
intersected anomalous uranium, indicating that the basement rocks
underling the Usam property are fertile sources of uranium in
addition to containing pegmatite- and granite-hosted U-Th-REE
mineralization. There are also several sedimentary-hosted base
metals (i.e. Cu and Zn) showings on the project and in the
surrounding area, which show similarities to the sedimentary-hosted
Cu mineralization previously discovered by Rio Tinto and its
partners at the Janice Lake Project further southwest in the
Wollaston Domain.
CBX/Shoe Property Summary:
The CBX property has been recently expanded
through staking to include five additional claims adjoining
the previously staked CBX and Shoe properties, which have been
combined to include a total of seven claims covering 8,777
hectares. The 609 ha Shoe property has remained unchanged, with
both CBX and Shoe now consisting of eight non-contiguous claims
totalling 9,386 hectares.
CBX/Shoe Property
Map:https://www.skyharbourltd.com/_resources/images/Location-Map-CBX-Shoe-Properties.jpg
The new claims lie approximately 6.5 km to 25 km
northeast of the Eagle Point uranium mine and cover the northern
shore of Wollaston Lake including parts of Cunning Bay. Outcrop
exposure on the property is poor, but historical mapping and
drilling shows that the newly expanded CBX project is underlain by
a mixture of Wollaston Supergroup metasedimentary gneisses,
Hudsonian intrusives, and Archean felsic gneisses of the Western
Wollaston Domain. Similar lithologies host uranium mineralization
at the Rabbit Lake operation, including the Eagle Point deposit,
and other uranium deposits in the Athabasca Basin and surrounding
regions. The CBX and Shoe properties have had historical
exploration, including airborne and ground geophysical surveys,
lake sediment, soil, and spruce geochemical surveys, till sampling,
prospecting, geological mapping, and a marine seismic survey, but
the majority of this work took place in the 1960’s to 1980’s, with
limited modern exploration work being carried out on a small
portion of the CBX and Shoe properties.
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 David Billard, P.Geo., a Consulting Geologist for
Skyharbour as well as a Qualified Person. Mr. Billard has verified
the data disclosed, which includes a review of the sampling,
analytical and test data underlying the information and opinions
contained herein.
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 twenty-nine projects, ten of which
are drill-ready, covering over 580,000 hectares (over 1.4 million
acres) of land. Skyharbour has acquired from Denison Mines, a large
strategic shareholder of the Company, a 100% 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 at the Maverick
Zone that returned drill results of up to 6.0% U3O8 over 5.9
metres, including 20.8% U3O8 over 1.5 metres at a vertical
depth of 265 metres (see news release dated February 27th, 2017,
titled: “Skyharbour Intersects 20.8% U3O8 over 1.5 Metres in First
Drill Hole at Maverick Zone and Discovers New High-Grade Uranium
Lens on Moore Lake Uranium Project”). Adjacent to the Moore Project
is the Russell Lake Uranium Project, in which Skyharbour is an
operator with joint-venture partner RTEC. The project hosts several
high-grade uranium drill intercepts over a large property area with
robust exploration upside potential. The Company is actively
advancing these projects through exploration and drill
programs.
Skyharbour also has joint ventures with industry
leader Orano Canada Inc., Azincourt Energy, and Thunderbird
Resources (previously Valor) at the Preston, East Preston, and Hook
Lake Projects respectively. The Company also has several active
earn-in option partners, including CSE-listed Basin Uranium Corp.
at the Mann Lake Uranium Project; CSE-listed Medaro Mining Corp. at
the Yurchison Project; TSX-V listed North Shore Uranium at the
Falcon Project; UraEx Resources at the South Dufferin and Bolt
Projects; Hatchet Uranium at the Highway Project and TSX-V listed
Terra Clean Energy (previously Tisdale) at the South Falcon East
Project which hosts the Fraser Lakes Zone B uranium and thorium
deposit. In aggregate, Skyharbour has now signed earn-in option
agreements with partners that total over $40 million in
partner-funded exploration expenditures, over $30 million worth of
shares being issued, and over $22 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.
Skyharbour’s Uranium Project Map in the
Athabasca
Basin:https://www.skyharbourltd.com/_resources/images/SKY_SaskProject_Locator_2024-02-14_V2.jpg
To find out more about Skyharbour Resources Ltd.
(TSX-V: SYH) visit the Company’s website
at www.skyharbourltd.com.
SKYHARBOUR RESOURCES LTD.
“Jordan
Trimble”________________________________Jordan TrimblePresident and
CEO
For further information contact myself or:
Nicholas ColturaInvestor Relations ManagerSkyharbour Resources
Ltd. Telephone: 604-558-5847 Toll Free: 800-567-8181 Facsimile:
604-687-3119 Email: info@skyharbourltd.com
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Forward-Looking Information
This news release contains “forward‐looking
information or statements” within the meaning of applicable
securities laws, which may include, without limitation, completing
ongoing and planned work on its projects including drilling and the
expected timing of such work programs, other statements relating to
the technical, financial and business prospects of the Company, its
projects and other matters. All statements in this news release,
other than statements of historical facts, that address events or
developments that the Company expects to occur, are forward-looking
statements. Although the Company believes the expectations
expressed in such forward-looking statements are based on
reasonable assumptions, such statements are not guarantees of
future performance and actual results may differ materially from
those in the forward-looking statements. Such statements and
information are based on numerous assumptions regarding present and
future business strategies and the environment in which the Company
will operate in the future, including the price of uranium, the
ability to achieve its goals, that general business and economic
conditions will not change in a material adverse manner, that
financing will be available if and when needed and on reasonable
terms. Such forward-looking information reflects the Company’s
views with respect to future events and is subject to risks,
uncertainties and assumptions, including the risks and
uncertainties relating to the interpretation of exploration
results, risks related to the inherent uncertainty of exploration
and cost estimates and the potential for unexpected costs and
expenses, and those filed under the Company’s profile on SEDAR+ at
www.sedarplus.ca. Factors that could cause actual results to differ
materially from those in forward looking statements include, but
are not limited to, continued availability of capital and financing
and general economic, market or business conditions, adverse
weather or climate conditions, failure to obtain or maintain all
necessary government permits, approvals and authorizations, failure
to obtain or maintain community acceptance (including First
Nations), decrease in the price of uranium and other metals,
increase in costs, litigation, and failure of counterparties to
perform their contractual obligations. The Company does not
undertake to update forward‐looking statements or forward‐looking
information, except as required by law.
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