Update: Dundee Report , Feb 09, 2010
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Fission Energy Corporation (FIS-V: C$0.47, Not Rated) Idea of Interest February 9, 2010 David A. Talbot / (416) 350-3082 dtalbot@dundeesecurities.com Julia Carr-Wilson / (416) 350-3226 jcarr-wilson@dundeesecurities.com Highly Radioactive Intercepts Expand Footprint Conclusion: The discovery of additional highly radioactive and intensely altered units are beginning to provide some continuity at Fission Energy's Waterbury JV in the Athabasca Basin. Its project is located within 4km of over 62
million pounds of U3O8. Two of the three drill holes that were reported yesterday have high and off-scale scintillometer readings. This includes hole -66 where a 4m long zone of strongly radioactive material was intersected at the unconformity. All intercepts from the four radioactive holes drilled to date remain wide open in all directions. Fission appears to be adding the third dimension to what may become a high grade uranium discovery (assays pending). Hole -66 hosts a slightly deeper zone of elevated radioactivity in the basement rocks that appears to correlate well with the extensive high radioactivity that was reported from hole -63 two weeks ago. These two holes seem to define a potential zone stretching for 15m along a north-south direction - or what we would expect to be the width direction of a potential zone. We view this continuity as a positive, even at this early stage of exploration. Presence of unconformity and basement hosted radioactive units suggest the possibility of stacked uranium mineralization, although more work is required. This $26 million market cap stock is up 161% since the first highly radioactive counts were reported two weeks ago, and following a 25% correction yesterday after counts from holes -64, -65 and -66 were announced. These positive results seemingly did not live up to investor expectations and we were a little surprised by this strong market reaction. While radioactivity from these three holes doesn't appear to be as extensive as that found in hole -63, they aren't necessarily reflective of upside potential. We believe that investors must be patient and give this drill program more time to run its course for two reasons: 1) unconformity style uranium deposits are highly variable over short distances, and 2) drilling has yet to extend along strike. Hathor's (HAT-V: C$1.77, BUY, C$4.00 target) Roughrider deposit serves as perfect example. First off, variability must be overcome with a larger sample population. Roughrider uranium resources are subject to extreme variability as 56% of its pounds are hosted within just 10% of the tonnes. Delineation of high grade lenses within the deposit is the key to success. Individual intercepts are as high as 18% U3O8 over 13m but the deposit averages just under 3% overall. Holes drilled a mere 7.5m apart have reported very different results. We emphasize the need for sufficient drill hole population and adequate drill hole density is required when exploring for unconformity style deposits. Secondly, the trend is your friend. We interpret the potential Fission mineralization to be the western extension of Roughrider. The Fission holes lie 140m west of the 110m long Roughrider deposit, that lies 200m west of Hathor's hole - 170 (12.7% over 28m). This represents potential mineralization over a combined 450m of strike thus far. We also highlight that this trend transverses the Waterbury JV property for up to 3km to the west of Fission's current drilling and this is coincident with a resistivity low geophysical anomaly. While recent holes correlating well with each other in a N-S direction, additions along width would likely be limited in extent - Roughrider can be as narrow as 30-40m in places. Drilling should provide for a better chance of a meaningful expansion as drills begin systematic step outs along strike. The press release provided elevated scintillometer readings that correspond with what appears to be the black uranium mineral pitchblende. We caution investors not to link scintillometer readings directly to uranium grades, but only as an indicator that radioactive minerals are present. Until assays confirm our suspicions, we can only speculate that elevated radioactivity indicates the presence of U3O8. Until then we will continue to use the term "potential" - but we are optimistic. • (Table 1, Figure 1, Photo 1). Alteration
persists for over 57m including 24m of intense clay alteration above the unconformity. A wide zone was reported for 25.5m from 203.0 to 228.5m core depth, with high and off-scale counts located between 203.5 and 207.5m. • A zone of elevated radioactivity is
reported for 20m from 203.0 to 223.0m core depth, with high and off-scale counts located between 203.5 to 205m. • This radioactivity stretched from 211.5 to 222.5m core depth,
with a stronger 1m wide anomaly located at 211.5m depth. • Holes -64 to -
66 are sampled and likely on route to the lab as well. Hole -67 has been completed and was drilled from the same setup at holes -65 and -66. Drilling of hole -68 is almost done. It is testing the zone along the same section, located just to the north of holes -65 to -67. A total of 20 holes for 7,500m are planned. Click here to access our initial Fission Energy note from January 26, 2010.
Fission Energy Corporation February 9, 2010 Page 2 Figure 1: Drill map showing the location of the Fission Energy drill holes on its Waterbury JV in relation to Hathor's nearby Roughrider zone. Fission's potential discovery hole was -63A. Samples have been delivered to the lab, and assuming radioactivity equates to uranium at Waterbury (as it does at Roughrider), we might expect modest to high uranium grades over ~9.5m from hole -63, and over ~4m from hole -66. Source: Fission Energy Corporation Reports Photo 1 - Hole WAT10-66 drill core showing the interval of high radioactivity at the unconformity. Source: Fission Energy Corporation Reports Fission Energy Corporation February 9, 2010 Page 3 Table 1 - Summary of the hand held scintillometer readings from drill core from holes -64 to -66 (reported 8- Feb-10) and hole -63 (reported 25-Jan-10). Fission reported on 8-Feb-10 that it had detected elevated scintillometer results over 25.5m in hole WAT10-066, including 4m of high radioactivity. Anomalous and highly variable radioactivity was reported over 20m from hole WAT10-65B, including high radioactivity over 1.5m. Hole WAT10-64D encountered anomalous radioactivity over 11m with modest strength results over 1m. Fission reported on 25-Jan-10 that it had detected elevated scintillometer results over 29m in hole WAT10-063A (only partial results were provided in the press release). Hole From To Length Scint Counts Zone Number (m) (m) (m) (cps) Thickness WAT10-066 203.50 204.00 0.5 1,500 204.00 204.20 0.2 4,000 204.20 205.30 1.1 >9,999 205.30 205.50 0.2 4,800 205.50 206.00 0.5 7,100 206.00 206.50 0.5 5,000 206.50 207.00 0.5 6,100 207.00 207.50 0.5 3,700 207.50 208.00 0.5 1,750 210.00 210.50 0.5 3,100 210.50 211.00 0.5 2,440 217.00 217.50 0.5 1,000 217.50 218.00 0.5 1,600 218.00 218.50 0.5 2,100 218.50 219.00 0.5 400 219.00 222.50 3.5 <300 222.50 223.00 0.5 571 223.00 223.50 0.5 1,800 223.50 224.00 0.5 2,000 224.00 224.50 0.5 1,900 224.50 225.00 0.5 <300 225.00 225.50 0.5 800 225.50 226.00 0.5 4,500 226.00 226.50 0.5 6,500 WAT10-065A 203.50 204.00 0.5 4,400 204.00 204.50 0.5 >9,999 204.50 205.00 0.5 >9,999 WAT10-064D 211.50 212.00 0.5 1,200 212.00 212.50 0.5 2,000 WAT10-063A 214.00 214.50 0.50 4,200 0.5m
226.00 226.50 0.50 3,100 226.96 227.25 0.29 >9,999 228.00 228.50 0.50 3,400 229.50 230.10 0.60 3,100 230.10 230.45 0.35 >9,999 232.50 233.00 0.50 2,700 233.00 233.50 0.50 9,000 233.50 234.00 0.50 5,200 234.50 235.00 0.50 2,500 235.00 235.50 0.50 3,900 9.5m 4.5m 1m 9.5m 1.0m 1.5m Source: Fission Energy Reports and Dundee Capital Markets Fission Energy Corporation February 9, 2010 Page 4