Vancouver, British Columbia, November 15, 2022 – Cosa Resources Corp. (CSE: COSA) (“Cosa Resources” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce the start of an airborne geophysical survey on the Charcoal and Castor uranium projects. Both projects are 100% owned by the Company and located in the prolific Athabasca Basin in Northern Saskatchewan.
Keith Bodnarchuk, President & CEO, commented: “The start of our exploration program on the recently acquired Charcoal and Castor uranium projects is an exciting development for Cosa. The timing of the airborne geophysical survey is important because it will set the Company up for more advanced exploration in 2023. We look forward to advancing our current uranium assets and continuing to explore value accretive opportunities for our team and project portfolio.”
The Survey
Geotech Airborne Geophysical Surveys (Geotech Ltd.) has been contracted to fly a 1,540 line-km of Versatile Time-Domain Electromagnetic (VTEM™ Plus) and Horizontal Magnetic Gradiometer survey over the Castor and Charcoal projects. The VTEM™ Plus system will be flown over the project lands with flight lines spaced at 150m apart, providing high-resolution imaging of potential mineralizing systems associated with basement-hosted uranium deposits. The survey is now underway and will help to characterize the geology of the projects by locating conductive stratigraphy and alteration zones in areas of structural complexity. Surveying is expected to be complete within two to four weeks and data processing and interpretation of the results will follow immediately afterward.
The Projects
Charcoal
A large, 21,080 ha property, Charcoal is located 52 km northeast of Cameco Corp.’s Rabbit Lake – Eagle Point mine operations. The property sits within a prominent magnetic low anomaly that extends northeast from the mine (Figure 1). The magnetic low signature likely indicates the presence of prospective metasedimentary bedrock beneath the glacial till cover. Additionally, historical assessment records from the Government of Saskatchewan indicate the presence of numerous airborne electromagnetic conductors, possibly indicating the presence of graphitic metasediments and associated brittle faults, which are often associated with uranium mineralization in the Athabasca Basin. The property is 8 km up-ice from a historical radioactive boulder field. As Charcoal is beyond the basin edge, basement rocks extend to the top of the bedrock and there is no overlying sandstone.
Castor
Castor, like Charcoal, lies beyond the Athabasca Basin edge and therefore has no overlying sandstone cover. The property is located 55 km north of Cameco Corp.’s Rabbit Lake – Eagle Point uranium mine operations (Figure 1). Basement rocks extend to the top of the bedrock. Castor is located at the intersection of a prominent northeast trending magnetic low anomaly that is roughly parallel to the Eagle Point – Collins Bay magnetic low at Charcoal and an east-west trending magnetic low anomaly. This intersection may be an area of enhanced structural complexity that would be prospective for uranium mineralization.
Figure 1: Charcoal and Castor 2022 Airborne Geophysics Location
About Cosa Resources
Cosa Resources is a Canadian mineral exploration company based in Vancouver, BC and is currently focused on the exploration of its uranium and copper projects in northern Saskatchewan. The portfolio includes four uranium exploration properties; Ursa, Orion, Castor and Charcoal totaling 46,700 ha in the eastern Athabasca Basin. It also includes the Heron Project: three mineral claims approximately 180 km north of La Ronge, Saskatchewan that are prospective for sedimentary-hosted copper mineralization.
The team behind Cosa Resources has a track record of success in Saskatchewan, with a combined 45 years of experience in exploration, discovery, and development in the province.
Qualified Person
The Company’s disclosure of technical or scientific information in this press release has been reviewed and approved by Keith Bodnarchuk, P.Geo., President & CEO for Cosa Resources. Mr. Bodnarchuk is a Qualified Person as defined under the terms of National Instrument 43-101.
Contact
Keith Bodnarchuk, President and CEO
kbodnarchuk@cosaresources.ca
+1 888-899-2672 (COSA)
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