TORONTO, ONTARIO – March 6, 2014 – Denison Mines Corp. (“Denison” or the “Company”) (TSX:DML)(NYSE MKT:DNN) today reported its results for the three months and year ended December 31, 2013. All amounts in this release are in U.S. dollars unless otherwise stated.
2013 Highlights
Completed a takeover of Rockgate Capital Corp. (“Rockgate”) by acquiring 89.7% of the outstanding shares of Rockgate by December 31, 2013 and the remaining 10.3% on January 17, 2014. The takeover added approximately $15.3 million in cash and investments, and bolstered the Company’s African portfolio of assets by adding Rockgate’s Falea project, located in Mali, and 100% interests in other properties located in Mali and Niger.
Completed 54,840 metres of diamond drilling, and performed geophysical surveying and linecutting on 18 properties in the Athabasca Basin.
Reported several high grade intersections at the Phoenix deposit on the Wheeler River property including WR-525 which intersected 43.8% U3O8 over 12.0 metres for a grade times thickness product (“GT”) of 525.6 %m, the highest GT of any hole drilled to date on the Wheeler River property. Mineralization was also intersected over a strike length of 330 metres at the recently discovered 489 Zone.
Granted Strateco Resources Inc. (“Strateco”) the option to earn up to a 60% interest in Denison’s Jasper Lake property in the eastern Athabasca Basin of Saskatchewan.
Recorded an impairment loss of $47.1 million against the Company’s Mutanga project located in Zambia and the Company’s Riou Lake project located in Canada.
Closed a CAD$15.0 million ($14.4 million) private placement of common shares issued on a “flow-through” basis, which will fund its Canadian exploration programs through to the end of 2014.
Completed the acquisition of (“Fission Arrangement”) Fission Energy Corp. (“Fission”) which included its 60% interest in the Waterbury Lake uranium project, its interests in all other properties in the eastern part of the Athabasca Basin, Quebec and Nunavut, as well as its interests in two joint arrangements in Namibia. Denison completed a mineral resource estimate for the J Zone deposit at the Waterbury Lake project in accordance with the requirements of National Instrument 43-101 (“NI 43-101”). The J Zone mineral resource, on a 100% basis, is estimated to be 291,000 tonnes grading 2.00% U3O8 containing 12,810,000 pounds of U3O8. All of the mineral resource is classified as indicated and reported above a cutoff grade of 0.1% U3O8.
Closed its plan of arrangement (“JNR Arrangement”) with JNR Resources Inc. (“JNR”) which increased Denison’s partial interests in five exploration properties to 100%, and added seven exploration properties to Denison’s property portfolio in Saskatchewan.