Majescor Acquires Diamond-Uranium Project from De Beers in the Eastern Arctic.MONTREAL -- Majescor (TSX TSX Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE before April, 2002) TSX Transfer from Stack Pointer to Index TSX True Space Extension VENTURE:MAJ) is pleased to announce that is has signed an agreement with De Beers Canada giving Majescor an option on De Beers' Baker Lake project located some 50 km west of the town of Baker Lake, in the eastern Arctic area of Nunavut. The project has both diamond and uranium potential and the agreement provides for separate options for the two commodities. De Beers acquired a large land position for diamond west of Baker Lake in 2004. They proceeded to carry out regional sampling for indicator minerals across the property, a continuation of the regional prospecting they had undertaken in the region in 1998. Part of the original property located immediately north of the Majescor/De Beers ground has recently been optioned to Cameco Corporation (see De Beers press release dated August 2, 2005). The land package under option to Majescor consists of 51 mineral permits covering over 9,000 square kilometers. Thirteen of the permits have been set aside for uranium exploration while the rest has been retained for diamond. De Beers will have spent an aggregate of some Can$1,240,000 in diamond exploration by the end of the year on the property of interest which lies on the Archean Rae craton The Rae craton is an Archean craton located in northern Canada north of the Superior craton. Ungava Peninsula The Ungava Peninsula, situated on the northeast portion of the Canadian Shield, is where the Rae Province connects with the Superior Province. . Six target areas were defined by the 2004 regional effort which generated more than 350 samples. Five of the targets were followed up in the fall of 2005 through more detailed till sampling and airborne geophysics. Counts upwards of 25; spinel spinel, magnesium aluminum oxide, MgAl2O4, a mineral crystallizing in the isometric system, usually as octahedrons. It occurs as an accessory mineral in basic igneous rocks, in aluminum-rich metamorphic rocks, and in contact-metamorphosed , garnet and ilmenite ilmenite (ĭl`mĕnīt), black mineral, iron titanium oxide, FeTiO3, crystallizing in the hexagonal system. It is sometimes found as tabular hexagonal crystals but occurs more commonly as small grains in igneous and metamorphic , were reported in 2004. Results for the 2005 work are expected by this coming December at which time the program for 2006 will be established by the partners. The 13 permits retained for uranium are either directly located on the projected southwest-trending extension of the Kiggavik Trend or contain known uranium showings which appear to be closely associated with the Snowbird snowbird: see junco. Tectonic Zone. The Baker Lake property rests on the eastern margin of the Thelon Basin and it has the potential to support an unconformity-style uranium deposit as it is bears striking geological similarities with the Athabasca Basin The Athabasca Basin is a region of Northern Saskatchewan and Alberta Canada that is best known as the world's leading source of uranium. It currently supplies about 30% of the world's uranium. The basin is located just to the south of Lake Athabasca. located 300 km to the southwest, in Saskatchewan. The latter hosts a number of high-grade unconformity un·con·for·mi·ty n. pl. un·con·for·mi·ties 1. Lack of conformity; nonconformity. 2. Geology A surface between successive strata representing a missing interval in the geologic record of time, and produced and subunconformity deposits. However, compared to the Athabasca Basin, the Thelon Basin is relatively under-explored and it has not yet been prospected using modern technologies as the bulk of work was mostly reconnaissance work done in the boom years of the 1970's and 1980's. The interest for the Thelon Basin has surged in 2005, especially with Cameco's deal with Uravan Minerals and De Beers. Cameco is one of the world's largest uranium producers. Cogema's Kiggavik uranium deposit, first discovered in 1977, contains some 48.5 t of U at an average grade of 0.405% U (see Diamonds North Resources press release September 22, 2005).Located less than 20 kilometers north of the property, it occurs on a 25 km long zone called the Kiggavik trend, whose southwest direction projects onto Majescor's property. Some seven occurrences and small deposits of uranium, known from the 1970's, form a northeasterly north·east·er·ly adj. 1. Situated toward the northeast. 2. Coming or being from the northeast. north·east trend in the southeastern corner of the property. This trend correlates with the Snowbird Tectonic Zone and the showings are hosted by rocks of the Baker Lake Group. They are epigenetic epigenetic /epi·ge·net·ic/ (-je-net´ik) 1. pertaining to epigenesis. 2. altering the activity of genes without changing their structure. and hosted mainly by sedimentary units. They include disseminations in sandstone and conglomerate, along arkosic lamellae lamellae (l n the nearly parallel layers of bone tissue found in compact bone. in siltstone siltstone Hardened sedimentary rock that is composed primarily of angular silt-sized particles (see silt) and that is not laminated or easily split into thin layers. , and in thermal aureoles of the lamprophyric dykes related to the volcanic units. The common metallic association is U + Cu + Pb + Ag. The terms of the agreement can be summarized as follows. For diamonds, the parties intend to form a 50:50 joint venture once Majescor has solely funded $1,240,000 in exploration by December 31st, 2008, starting in January. De Beers will be the operator at the onset. For uranium, Majescor can earn a 50% interest in the project by spending $400,000 until December 31st, 2008, Majescor being the operator. Majescor can further increase its interest to 80% in the uranium project by solely funding a further $240,000. "These deals consolidate Majescor's position as a major player in the diamond industry in Canada. We are also very pleased to pursue our strong alliance with De Beers in this country. The Baker Lake project has a great potential for both diamond and uranium and we are most fortunate that the large land package was assembled by De Beers in the promising Thelon Basin area before the current uranium rush began last year. We intend to spin-off or option the uranium project and concentrate on the diamond asset" says Andre Audet, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. and Chairman for Majescor. In other news, De Beers Africa has advised Majescor that it was abandoning the strategic alliance with Majescor in northern and central Madagascar in view of its large commitments elsewhere in Africa. Majescor retains a 100% ownership of this large land package, all indicator minerals-supported. The kimberlites recently discovered by Majescor in Madagascar are located well outside of the area of interest of the agreement with De Beers, on ground held in partnership with Madagascar Mining Development. Majescor is an exploration company with a large portfolio of diamond properties in Quebec, as well as projects in Nunavut, the Northwest Territories Northwest Territories, territory (2001 pop. 37,360), 532,643 sq mi (1,379,028 sq km), NW Canada. The Northwest Territories lie W of Nunavut, N of lat. 60°N, and E of Yukon. , Brazil and Madagascar. The Toronto Stock Exchange Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE) Canada's largest stock exchange, trading approximately 1,200 company stocks and 33 options. - Venture (TSX Venture) does not accept responsibility for adequacy or accuracy of this release. Majescor Resources Inc. (TSX VENTURE:MAJ) |
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