Highlights
- Purecore Metals Inc. (CSE: PURE; FSE: J8Y; OTCQB: PPURF) has started a data compilation and technical review program at its Yurchison Uranium Property in Saskatchewan’s Athabasca Basin, held under an option agreement with Skyharbour Resources Ltd. (TSXV: SYH).
- The program merges historical and modern geological, geophysical, and geochemical data to rank priority drill targets; the release includes no new drilling, assay results, or resource estimate.
- Historical prospecting near old trenches on the property returned values of 0.09% to 0.30% U₃O₈, but those figures predate current resource-reporting standards and have not been verified by a current Qualified Person.
Purecore Metals Inc. isn’t drilling yet at its Yurchison Uranium Property. It’s digging through paperwork first. On September 15, 2026, the company said it has started a data compilation and technical review program on the Saskatchewan project, working to pinpoint where a future drill program should target.
Purecore holds an option to earn up to a 100% interest in Yurchison from Skyharbour Resources Ltd. (TSXV: SYH). The property spans 22 claims across roughly 35,029 hectares in the Athabasca Basin, about 75 kilometers south of Cameco Corporation’s (TSX: CCO; NYSE: CCJ) Rabbit Lake operation, one of the region’s longest-producing uranium mines.
What a “Data Compilation” Program Actually Means
Companies sometimes call this a desktop study: pulling together years of old geophysical surveys, drill records, and geochemical samples into a single, unified picture rather than collecting new field data. It’s a cheaper, faster step that often comes before a company commits budget to fresh drilling, and it lets geologists spot where several signals, such as a geophysical anomaly, a structural break, or a known uranium occurrence, line up in the same location.
CEO Peter Berdusco said Yurchison carries “decades of exploration history and a significant volume of modern geophysical data,” and that the program aims to bring that information together to sharpen the company’s understanding of the property and prioritize where to look next.
The Work Involved
The program covers six main tasks: digitizing historical data; merging historical and modern airborne geophysical surveys; reviewing past uranium occurrences and prospecting results; assessing the geological structures that may control mineralization; cross-referencing geophysical, structural, and geochemical anomalies against past exploration results; and ranking the property’s most promising areas.
Yurchison has already seen a 1,424 line-kilometer high-resolution airborne magnetic survey flown at tight, 50-meter line spacing, along with earlier VTEM data, a type of airborne electromagnetic survey used to detect underground conductive zones sometimes tied to uranium deposits, plus additional radiometric and VLF-EM surveys.
Historical prospecting near old trenches on the property returned uranium values ranging from 0.09% to 0.30% U₃O₈, according to the release. That data predates current resource-reporting standards: it comes from selective trench and prospecting samples rather than systematic drilling, hasn’t been verified by a current Qualified Person, and does not represent a current mineral resource estimate.
Geology and Access
Yurchison sits in the Wollaston Domain of northern Saskatchewan, underlain by Wollaston Supergroup metasedimentary gneisses, including graphite-bearing units next to older Archean granitic gneisses, a geological setting associated with uranium mineralization elsewhere in the Athabasca Basin. Highway 905 runs through the property, giving it road access that many Athabasca-area projects lack.
Most of the historical work at Yurchison was completed before 2000, and large parts of the property have seen little modern follow-up since. The current compilation is meant to close that gap before Purecore commits to new fieldwork.
The technical information in the release was reviewed by Dr. Dennis LaPoint, P.Geo., an independent Qualified Person under National Instrument 43-101.
Purecore also holds a 100% interest in the Bankier Property, a critical minerals project in British Columbia.
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