Mr. Lester Esteban reports

TRACTION URANIUM AND FORUM ENERGY METALS IDENTIFY NEW CONDUCTIVE TRENDS FROM AIRBORNE GEOPHYSICAL SURVEY ON THE GREASE RIVER PROJECT, ATHABASCA BASIN

Traction Uranium Corp. and Forum Energy Metals Corp. have completed an initial review of an airborne magnetic, electromagnetic (EM) and radiometric survey on Forum's 100-per-cent-owned Grease River project, located along the north rim of the Athabasca basin, Saskatchewan. The survey was conducted over the entire Grease River claims, totalling 10,528 hectares, along the Grease River shear zone.

Highlights:

• East block:
  • The total domain EM data have outlined several prospective conductive trends along and north of the Grease River shear zone.
  • New data highlights the main fault orientations and offsets -- this survey has developed targets that can be the focus for future exploration programs.
• West block:
  • New magnetic and EM data have provided better resolution on the basement geology beneath this underexplored part of the Athabasca basin.

From May 11 to June 23, 2023, Axiom Exploration Group Ltd. carried out a helicopter-borne 30 Hz (hertz) Xcite TDEM (time-domain electromagnetics) survey and collected time-domain EM, magnetic and radiometric data simultaneously. A total of 1,421 line kilometres (613 line km on the West block and 808 line km on the East block) were surveyed at a 100-metre line spacing and a 1,000 m tie-line spacing. Initial data review has provided better resolution on the basement geology through the detailed magnetic and EM data. The survey has also outlined several conductive trends that require follow-up in the East block claims. Radiometric data will help map rock units in the East claim block and additional anomalies will be followed up with ground prospecting on both blocks. Next steps will be conducting ground prospecting work, as well as additional geophysical surveys (such as gravity, resistivity) to narrow down the top priority target areas in 2024. Historic prospecting near one of the conductors (SMDI 1577) located up to 0.65 per cent U3O8 (triuranium octoxide) in a grab sample composed of quartzite gneiss.

Traction entered into an option agreement with Forum, whereby Traction is entitled to acquire a 51-per-cent interest in the property by paying an aggregate of $250,000, issuing an aggregate of 1,625,000 common shares and financing an aggregate of $3-million in exploration expenditures on the property by Dec. 31, 2025. Forum is the operator during this first option period. Traction has the further option to earn up to 100-per-cent interest in the project by making $1.7-million in cash payments, 5.5 million share payments and $6-million in exploration up until Dec. 31, 2028. Forum would retain a 2-per-cent net smelter return (NSR) royalty and $8-million in milestone payments (see news release dated Feb. 7, 2023)

The Grease River project

The Grease River project is located within the north-central margin of the Athabasca basin near the community of Fond du Lac. The Grease River project consists of two separate claim blocks situated along the northeast-trending Grease River shear zone, a major intracontinental shear zone greater than 400 kilometres long. The nearby Fond du Lac unconformity uranium deposit was discovered within the shear zone by Amok Ltd. and Eldorado Nuclear Ltd. in the 1970s, and a historical resource estimate of one million pounds uranium at an average grade of 0.25 per cent U3O8 was disclosed. It was, however, not prepared in accordance with the requirements of National Instrument 43-101 -- Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects. While the company believes the historical estimate to be relevant and reasonable given the quality exploration of work completed by Amok/Eldorado, a qualified person has not completed sufficient work to verify and classify the historical estimate, therefore, the company is not treating the historical estimate as a current mineral resource. The company further notes that the Grease River project claims are located along trend of the deposit to the southwest and northeast. Limited exploration has been conducted in the Grease River project area.

The closest community is the hamlet of Fond-du-Lac, which is located between the two claim blocks. The southern claim block rests within the Athabasca basin and the northern claim block is outside the Athabasca basin. The Grease River shear zone is a major shear system that extends for over 400 km. Unconformity uranium deposits are structurally controlled, fluids from under the Athabasca sandstone basin carrying uranium along the faults. Forum and Traction see this structure as a possible major fluid conduit that has the potential to host a significant uranium deposit.

Further exploration will concentrate on the combination of the high conductive zones, low-magnetic fault intersections and radiometric highs, all delineated by the Axiom airborne survey. Further ground work is planned for 2024, which will establish drill targets.

Qualified person

The technical content of this news release has been reviewed and approved by Rebecca Hunter, PhD, PGeo, who is a qualified person as defined by National Instrument 43-101 -- Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects. The information provides an indication of the exploration potential of the property but may not be representative of expected results.

About Traction Uranium Corp.

Traction Uranium is in the business of mineral exploration and the development of discovery prospects in Canada, including its two flagship uranium projects in the world-renowned Athabasca region.

About Forum Energy Metals Corp.

Forum Energy Metals is a diversified energy metal company with uranium, copper, nickel and cobalt projects in Saskatchewan, Canada's No.-1-rated mining province for exploration and development, a strategic uranium land position in Nunavut and a strategic cobalt land position in the Idaho cobalt belt.

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