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CanAlaska Starts Airborne Surveys Near Key Lake Mine and Mill in Southeastern Athabasca Basin

CanAlaska Uranium Ltd. (TSX-V: CVV; OTCQX: CVVUF; Frankfurt: DH7) (“CanAlaska” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce it has commenced a series of high-resolution helicopter-supported airborne surveys on its 100%-owned Key Extension, Enterprise, Voyager, and Nebula projects (the “Projects”). The surveys will consist of a Versatile Time-Domain Electromagnetic Plus (VTEM Plus) survey, followed by high-resolution magnetics and radiometrics. The purpose of the surveys is to identify and prioritize basement conductors, characterize lithological and alteration variations, refine areas of interest for ground prospecting, and map the structural setting of the projects to support future drill targets. The Projects are located in the southeastern Athabasca Basin near the Key Lake Uranium Mine and Mill (Figure 1).

 

These surveys represent a critical step in the Company’s Key Lake area exploration strategy. The Company has deliberately built a strategic land portfolio in the infrastructure-rich southeastern Athabasca Basin region to explore for basement-hosted uranium deposits along corridors that show geological and structural similarities to the Arrow and Eagle Point basement-hosted uranium deposits. The first stage of this strategy is a VTEM Plus survey, which has already commenced, that will consist of approximately 2,481 line-km’s of helicopter-borne surveying at 200 metre line spacing across the Projects. Following completion of the VTEM Plus survey, a high-resolution helicopter-borne magnetics and radiometrics survey will be completed across the Projects that consists of approximately 8,861 line-km’s of surveying at 50 metre line spacing. The completion of these surveys will create a contiguous and levelled high-resolution geophysical data set across the four projects in the Key Lake area and will allow for drill target identification and prioritization.

The surveys are being conducted by Geotech Ltd. of Aurora, Ontario. Survey management and processing are being conducted by Condor Consulting, Inc. The surveys are expected to take approximately six to eight weeks to complete and final survey results are expected in Q3 of 2024.

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