ValOre’s Second Core Rig Commences Drilling, with First Drill Intercepting Multiple Zones of Shallow Radioactivity at Dipole Uranium Target, Angilak Property

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VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Aug. 01, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- ValOre Metals Corp. (“ValOre”; TSXV: VO; OTC: KVLQF; Frankfurt: KEQ0, “the Company”) today provided an update on the 4,500 metre (“m”) core program at ValOre’s 100% owned 59,483-hectare Angilak Property Uranium Project (“Angilak”), located in Nunavut Territory, Canada.

“Two diamond drill rigs are now drilling at Dipole as part of a 4,500-metre program to test the Dipole and J4 West uranium targets,” stated ValOre’s VP of Exploration, Colin Smith. “The first rig has intercepted multiple shallow zones of strong radioactivity, including 12,000 CPS at 56 m vertical depth, and 9,361 CPS at 98 m vertical depth in drill hole 22-DP-002.

Highlights of First Two 2022 Core Holes:

  • Drill hole 22-DP-001: intersected a near-surface zone of radioactivity (4,000 counts per second (“CPS”) from 49.82 to 50.20 m) but was subsequently lost at 78 m hole depth. The hole terminated above the anticipated depth of the lower zone;

  • Drill hole 22-DP-002: drilled to target depth of 178 m from the same pad (tilted to a -75° dip from a -70°), and intersected 6 zones of radioactivity, including highlights of:

    • 12,000 CPS from 57.80 to 58.11 m

    • 9,361 CPS from 102.20 to 102.41 m;

  • Zones of radioactivity correlate well with mineralized intercepts in the up-dip 2022 Reverse Circulation (“RC”) drill holes and are characterized by intensely hematized and brecciated graphitic tuffs, hosted within a broader package of foliated basalt.

*Reported core interval lengths are estimated to represent 70% true width

To review more information regarding the 2022 RC drill program, CLICK HERE for news release dated May 9, 2022, CLICK HERE for news release dated June 2, 2022, and CLICK HERE for news release dated June 15, 2022.

About Angilak

The 59,483-hectare Angilak Property is situated in the mining- and exploration-friendly Nunavut Territory, Canada, and has district-scale potential for uranium, precious and base metals. Since acquisition, ValOre has invested over CAD$55 million on resource delineation and exploration drilling (89,572 metres in 589 drill holes), metallurgy, geophysics, geochemistry, and logistics across the large land package. This work supported the development of the significant Lac 50 Trend NI 43-101 inferred uranium resource estimate (“Lac 50”).

The Lac 50 NI 43-101 Technical Report (effective date March 1, 2013) defined an inferred resource estimate which represents Canada’s highest-grade uranium resource outside of Saskatchewan, and one of highest-grade uranium resources on a global basis. Highlights include: