Drill Tracker Weekly: NexGen Intersects Longest Radioactive Interval to Date at Rook 1

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NexGen Energy (TSXV:NXE)

Price: $0.455

Market cap: $77 million

Cash estimate: $4.7 million

Project: Rook 1

Country: Canada

Ownership: 100 percent

Resources: N/A

Project status: exploration drilling

• NexGen Energy announced assays from the most continuous interval of high-grade radioactivity to date at its basement-hosted uranium discovery at the Arrow Zone. The 100-percent-owned Rook 1 project is located in the Southwestern Athabasca Basin 2.1 kilometers north of Fission Uranium’s (TSX:FCU) Patterson Lake project.

• Angled drilling intersected steeply dipping zones of basement-hosted mineralization in the A2 shear zone, including 11 meters grading 8.95 percent U3O8 within a wider zone of 70 meters of 2.2 percent U3O8 starting at a depth of 522 meters. An additional hole intersected 16.5 meters averaging 2.46 percent U3O8, including a 3-meter interval of 12.85 percent U3O8 followed by a second interval of 40 meters of 2.88 percent U3O8 starting at 621 meters. Assays remain pending for drill hole AR-15-41, which returned two zones totaling 24.52 composite meters of off-scale mineralization.

• The A2 zone has now been outlined over an 88-meter strike length and a 340-meter vertical extent with an estimated true width ranging from 11 to 27 meters. The larger A3 zone extends over a 73-meter strike length, a 420-meter vertical extent and a significantly wider true width ranging from 30 to 78.6 meters. The two zones remain open in all directions.

• The Arrow discovery was initially announced on February 19, 2014, when drilling on the edge of the gravity low intersected narrow, brecciated shear zones with one intercept that returned 5.75 meters grading 0.37 percent U3O8 in RK-14-21. 

Discovery hole (February 2014): 5.75 meters at 0.37 percent U3O8

Current holes: 16.5 meters at 2.46 percent U3O8, including 3 meters at 12.85 percent U3O8; 40 meters at 2.88 percent U3O8; 24.52 meters off-scale radioactivity

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Relevant Disclosures Applicable to: Drill Tracker Weekly

1. The research analyst or a member of the research analyst’s household owns and/or has options to acquire shares of the subject issuer. At the date of this release the author, Wayne Hewgill, owns shares in the following company: Fission Uranium Corp. (TSX.FCU)
2. Integra Gold Corp. (ICG) is currently under coverage at Mackie Research Capital by analyst Peter Campbell
3.  In March 2014, Peter Campbell visited the Lamaque Gold Project in Val-d’Or, Québec. Travel to and from the site in Val d’Or were paid by Integra Gold Corp. 

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