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Eclipse Metals Ltd (ASX: EPM) (Eclipse Metals or the Company) is pleased to announce the execution of a binding option and earn-in agreement with Boss Energy Limited (ASX: BOE) (Boss). Through the agreement, Eclipse and its wholly owned subsidiary North Minerals Pty Ltd have granted Boss Energy the option to earn up to an 80% interest the Liverpool Uranium Project, located in the highly prospective Alligator Rivers Uranium Field of West Arnhem Land, Northern Territory (the Project).This strategic alliance seeks to unlock the significant potential of the Project through a structured investment and exploration program.
Highlights
- Eclipse Metals and Boss Energy enter into a binding option and earn-in agreement to advance exploration at the Liverpool Uranium Project (the Project)
- Boss Energy is committing $250,000 to exploration during the 12-month option period
- Following the exercise of the option:
- Boss Energy has the right to earn up to an 80% interest in the Project by providing up to $8 million in exploration funding – divided into two stages – over a 7-year period; and
- As part of the staged earn-in, Boss Energy must spend a minimum of $ 1.5 million on exploration before it is able to withdraw from the agreement.
- Upon earning an initial 49% interest in the Project, Boss Energy will have the option to earn up to an 80% interest in the Project.
- Boss Energy and Eclipse Metals will form an unincorporated joint venture (JV) to explore and develop the Project
- Upon successful earn-in, Boss Energy will have the option to purchase an additional 10% interest from Eclipse, bringing its total interest in the Project to 90%, for $50 million.
- This strategic alliance enables Eclipse to focus on its rare earth assets in Greenland, while still maintaining its strong interests in the Australian uranium sector.
A summary of the material terms and conditions of the binding option and earn-in agreement is set out in Annexure A.
Commenting on the Company’s strategic alliance with Boss Energy, Eclipse Metals Executive Chairman Carl Popal said:
“Partnering with Boss Energy is a key milestone for Eclipse Metals and the advancement of the Liverpool Uranium Project.
“Boss Energy as a uranium producer will accelerate our exploration efforts, bringing us closer to unlocking the full potential of this highly prospective region.
“This strategic alliance allows Eclipse to enhance shareholder value in this long-held asset while sharpening our focus on critical mineral opportunities. Our key projects in Greenland, with their rich rare earth and industrial mineral potential, and other Australian assets remain central to our mission of contributing to the global critical minerals supply chain.”
ABOUT THE LIVERPOOL URANIUM PROJECT
The Liverpool Uranium Project comprises five exploration licences – EL27584, ELA31065, ELA31770, ELA31771, and ELA31772 – covering 1,229 square kilometers. Notably, the Devil's Elbow prospect within EL27584 has yielded high-grade surface uranium assays, including results up to 5.8% U₃O₈, as well as significant gold and palladium mineralisation (EPM announcement 20 April 2020).
The Company’s previous exploration programs focused on the area around the Devil’s Elbow, Terrace and Ferricrete uranium prospects, concentrating on high-priority areas defined by historical geochemical and radiometric anomalies within EL27584 and relatively unexplored ground south of the Ranger Fault.
The Devil’s Elbow prospects show strong similarities to the Jabiluka uranium and gold mine, which was discovered in 1971. Jabiluka is located 20km to the north of the Ranger Uranium Mine and about 75km west of the Devil’s Elbow. At Jabiluka, uranium and gold mineralisation occurs in an altered section of the Cahill Formation, near reverse faulting structures that are like those at the Devil’s Elbow prospect.
Figure 1: The Liverpool Uranium Project
STRATEGIC SIGNIFICANCE
This strategic alliance combines Eclipse's deep knowledge of the Project with Boss Energy's proven expertise in uranium exploration and production. The Alligator Rivers Uranium Field is renowned for its high-grade deposits, positioning both companies to capitalise on the region's significant potential.
Boss Energy intends to begin exploration activities on the Project during the 12-month option period, which will include mineral prospectivity mapping, target generation and validation of targets.
This strategic alliance underscores Eclipse's commitment to expanding its diverse portfolio of mineral projects, while aiming to create shareholder value, and contribute to the global supply of critical minerals.
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xU3O8 (uranium.io)
Investor Insight
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Overview
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The platform is designed to meet growing investor demand for exposure to uranium, a commodity that is a critical component of the global energy transition. As countries commit to reducing carbon emissions, nuclear energy is increasingly seen as a reliable and scalable source of low-carbon electricity. Governments across North America, Europe and Asia are ramping up their nuclear energy capacities, as part of their net-zero targets. This includes restarting idled reactors, constructing new reactors, and accelerating the development of small modular reactors.
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Like gold and silver before it, uranium is entering a phase of financialization — with physical holding trusts, ETFs, and now platforms like uranium.io offering direct physical uranium ownership via xU3O8, making it more accessible to a wider set of investors.
As traditional financial markets converge with digital innovation, tokenized assets are becoming a preferred vehicle for commodities investing. Uranium.io’s use of the Etherlink blockchain ensures secure, real-time trading with minimal friction — a distinct advantage in an increasingly digitized investment landscape.
Development of the uranium.io platform is led by the team at London-based Trilitech, a group of entrepreneurs and technologists driving blockchain innovations.
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Company Highlights
- Uranium.io is a pioneering platform for buying and selling uranium, providing direct ownership of physical uranium via a blockchain-powered token xU3O8.
- Built on Etherlink, powered by Tezos technology, enabling transparency, low fees, energy efficiency and programmable compliance.
- FCA-regulated digital asset custodian, Archax, holds physical uranium in trust on behalf of token holders.
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- Capitalizing on nuclear energy’s role in clean energy transition and the financialization of critical minerals.
Technology Platform
Uranium.io is built on a secure, decentralized technology stack that integrates blockchain infrastructure, digital asset custody, and real-world commodity supply — delivering unprecedented access and transparency to the uranium market. The platform bridges traditional commodities trading with Web3 innovation, allowing users to seamlessly acquire, hold and trade physical uranium via xU3O8 tokens.
Blockchain Infrastructure: Etherlink, Powered by Tezos
At the heart of xU3O8’s digital asset engine is the Tezos blockchain, a highly secure, energy-efficient and self-amending Layer 1 protocol. Tezos is uniquely suited to power real-world asset tokenization due to its low transaction costs and energy efficiency; on-chain governance and smart contract flexibility; and enterprise-grade security and decentralization.
Tezos’ track record with real-world assets, including tokenized real estate and art, positions it as an ideal foundation for the secure, scalable digitization of uranium ownership.
Digital Custody: Archax
To ensure that each xU3O8 token is backed with physical uranium, uranium.io is supported by Archax, a London-based, digital asset custodian and exchange regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. Archax provides regulated asset custody, KYC/AML-compliant onboarding, and real-time asset reconciliation.
Archax brings institutional-grade governance and accountability to the storage and oversight of physical uranium, ensuring that investor holdings are not just theoretical but physically secured.
Physical Supply: Curzon Uranium
Access to physical uranium is facilitated by its partnership with Curzon Uranium, a specialized uranium trading and logistics firm. Curzon acts as the platform’s uranium provider, sourcing, purchasing and delivering uranium from trusted upstream suppliers to secure storage.
Curzon’s decades of experience in uranium procurement adds physical credibility and market depth to the xU3O8 ecosystem — making the platform more than just a digital asset project, but a fully integrated uranium trading platform.
Physical uranium storage: Cameco
The physical uranium ore concentrate (U3O8) is securely stored at a regulated storage facility, operated by Cameco, one of the three globally recognized uranium conversion and storage providers. For transparency, Proof of Reserves is always available on the website and is updated with monthly statements from Cameco.
Together, Tezos, Archax and Curzon Uranium form the digital, custodial and physical backbone of the uranium.io platform. This trio of technologies and partnerships ensures a secure, compliant and efficient path for investors to gain physical uranium exposure — fractionalized, tokenized and tradable 24/7 on a global scale.
Terra Clean Energy Corp. Plans Summer Drill Program at South Falcon East
The Company is planning an extensive drill program for the summer of 2025, consisting of approximately 2,500 meters of drilling. The purpose is to test an area highlighted in the Winter 2025 program where it is interpreted that a north-northwest trending brittle structure, a north dipping structure with strong clay alteration, and mineralized pegmatites with hydrothermal hematite alteration hosted in graphitic pelitic gneiss all intersect. This puts many of the indicators identified as being key components for higher grade uranium mineralization all in the same location.
It is generally accepted that for higher grade uranium deposits in the Athabasca Basin you require several key indicators:
- Graphitic metasediments,
- Brittle reactivated basement structures,
- Reducing fluid (indicated by clay alteration),
- Oxidizing fluid (indicated by hematite alteration, transports uranium),
All these features have now been identified in the Fraser Lakes B deposit area. Where they are projected to intercept is considered a top priority target area for the discovery of a higher-grade unconformity related basement hosted uranium deposit and additional mineralized pegmatites. “The Athabasca Basin is one of the world’s foremost Uranium Basins accounting for some 20% of world uranium production. It has been well explored and understood for many years attracting billions of dollars of investment. For these reasons and the fact that our VP Exploration has worked extensively in the Basin and is excited about our findings that it is an immediate priority to follow up the very encouraging winter results this summer “said Greg Cameron CEO. ‘Finding an unconformity basin hosted deposit like Eagle Point or Rough Rider would be company changing” added Greg Cameron.
The upcoming program will be a helicopter supported drill program encompassing seven to ten diamond drill holes targeting an area approximately 120 to 150 m north of drill holes SF0063, SF0065, SF0066 and SF0067 which were completed during the winter program (Figure 2). The results of these drill holes were reported in press releases dated March 10, 2025 and April 1, 2025. The summer field program is anticipated to commence mid-June and run for approximately 4-5 weeks. The campaign will be executed by Terralogic Exploration Inc. under the supervision of Terra Logic staff and C. Trevor Perkins, Vice President, Exploration for Terra Clean Energy. Operations will be based out of a local contracting camp with helicopter support for the daily drilling operations. The expected budget for this program is anticipated to be $2.0 million.
”The results from the winter drilling program are very encouraging,” commented Trevor Perkins, Vice President of Exploration for Terra Clean Energy Corp. “We are excited to get back in there and test where the clay alteration intersects the mineralized zone and graphitic sediment package. This an exciting target as this can bring together many of the key features associated with the known basement hosted unconformity deposits in the basin”, continued Mr. Perkins.
Samples of the mineralized intervals from the winter program are outstanding. They have been submitted for analysis at the Geoanalytical Laboratory at the Saskatchewan Research Council in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Results are expected in mid to late May.
Figure 1: South Falcon East Uranium Project Location – Eastern Athabasca Basin, Saskatchewan, Canada
Figure 2: 2025 – Planned summer drilling area and completed winter drill holes at South Falcon East Uranium Project
About Terra Clean Energy Corp.
Terra Clean Energy (formerly Tisdale Clean Energy Corp) is a Canadian-based uranium exploration and development company. The Company is currently developing the South Falcon East uranium project, which holds a 6.96M pound inferred uranium resource within the Fraser Lakes B Uranium Deposit, located in the Athabasca Basin region, Saskatchewan, Canada.
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF TERRA CLEAN ENERGY CORP.
“Greg Cameron”
Greg Cameron, CEO
Qualified Person
The technical information in this news release has been prepared in accordance with the Canadian regulatory requirements set out in National Instrument 43-101, reviewed and approved on behalf of the company by C. Trevor Perkins, P.Geo., the Company’s Vice President, Exploration, and a Qualified Person as defined by National Instrument 43-101.
*The historical resource is described in the Technical Report on the South Falcon East Property, filed on sedarplus.ca on February 9, 2023. The Company is not treating the resource as current and has not completed sufficient work to classify the resource as a current mineral resource. While the Company is not treating the historical resource as current, it does believe the work conducted is reliable and the information may be of assistance to readers.
Forward-Looking Information
This news release contains forward-looking information which is not comprised of historical facts. Forward-looking information is characterized by words such as “plan”, “expect”, “project”, “intend”, “believe”, “anticipate”, “estimate” and other similar words, or statements that certain events or conditions “may” or “will” occur. Forward-looking information involves risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual events, results, and opportunities to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking information, including statements regarding the potential development of mineral resources and mineral reserves which may or may not occur. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from such forward-looking information include, but are not limited to, changes in the state of equity and debt markets, fluctuations in commodity prices, delays in obtaining required regulatory or governmental approvals, and general economic and political conditions. Forward-looking information in this news release is based on the opinions and assumptions of management considered reasonable as of the date hereof, including that all necessary approvals, including governmental and regulatory approvals will be received as and when expected. Although the Company believes that the assumptions and factors used in preparing the forward-looking information in this news release are reasonable, undue reliance should not be placed on such information. The Company disclaims any intention or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking information, whether because of new information, future events or otherwise, other than as required by applicable laws. For more information on the risks, uncertainties and assumptions that could cause our actual results to differ from current expectations, please refer to the Company’s public filings available under the Company’s profile at www.sedarplus.ca .
Neither the CSE nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the CSE) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
For further information please contact:
Greg Cameron, CEO
Terra Clean Energy Corp
Suite 303, 750 West Pender Street
Vancouver, BC V6C 2T7
