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IsoEnergy Stakes New Uranium Exploration Property in the Athabasca Basin
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n\n\n\nIsoEnergy Stakes New Uranium Exploration Property in the Athabasca Basin\n\n/* Style Definitions */\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCanada NewsWire\nVANCOUVER, Feb. 6, 2018\n\n\n\nVANCOUVER, Feb. 6, 2018 /CNW/ - IsoEnergy Ltd. (\"IsoEnergy\" or the \"Company\") (TSXV: ISO; OTCQX: ISENF) is pleased to announce that it has acquired through staking a new 100% owned property called Whitewater (the \"Property\"), in the Athabasca Basin region of Saskatchewan.    \n\nGarrett Ainsworth, a Director of IsoEnergy, comments: \"I'm very excited about this addition to the IsoEnergy property portfolio.  The Whitewater Property area shares some geological features with the southwest Athabasca basin region around the Rook 1 property, held by NexGen Energy Ltd. (\"NexGen\").  Supracrustal rocks of the Tantato domain at Whitewater have been described by several researchers as correlative with those of the Taltson domain that host NexGen's Arrow deposit at Rook 1.  Add to that, the presence of the uranium-fertile Grease River shear zone and numerous uranium occurrences, and you have all the ingredients of a highly prospective uranium exploration property.\"\n\nSteve Blower, Vice President of Exploration at IsoEnergy, comments: \"The addition of the Whitewater Property is a great example of the benefit of the Company's affiliation with NexGen, as we're able to leverage Garrett Ainsworth's experience discovering uranium mineralization in prospective, off-basin settings adjacent to the Athabasca Basin margin.\" \n\nWhitewater\n\nThe Whitewater Property was staked on January 16th and consists of 15 contiguous claims totaling 25,966 hectares located along the northern rim of the Athabasca basin.  Figure 1 shows the location of the Property relative to IsoEnergy's other Saskatchewan uranium exploration properties.  The entire Property is located just off-basin, therefore there is no sandstone cover.  At its closest point, the Whitewater Property boundary is within 5 kilometres of the edge of the Athabasca basin.  \n\nThe Property covers over 26 ki...