Uranium Star Corp. (OTCBB:URST) (FRANKFURT:YE5) (“Uranium Star” or “the Company”) announces it has completed a total of 56 trenches on its Green Giant Vanadium Project in Madagascar. The Company has confirmed a 18-kilometre mineralized strike length of vanadium and identified further high-grade mineralization.

Company Targets 200 Million Tonne Minimum Deposit

The results of the 2008 drilling program indicated that vanadium values within the near-surface oxide zone are enhanced over those from primary mineralization. The current trenching program aims to provide a detailed assessment of the widths and grade of this style of vanadium mineralization and ultimately use it to assist in designing a drill program. An extensive drill program is planned for later in the year that will allow Uranium Star to calculate a compliant resource statement that can be used in an economic assessment of the property. The Company’s objective in the upcoming drill program is to define a minimum of 200 million tonnes of appreciable vanadium mineralization.

Company Confirms Entire 18km Vanadium Strike Length is Mineralized

Bill Nielsen, P.Geo., Director of Uranium Star and Project Manager has just returned from Madagascar and has been able to verify that there is an extensive stratigraphic zone that hosts the majority of vanadium mineralization defined to date. This can be readily interpreted from Uranium Star’s airborne geophysical survey flown in 2007. The mineralized zone is interpreted to pinch and swell along its entire strike length of over 18 kilometres, as well as up and down dip.

Discovery Deposit Characteristics

Extensive trenching, using three mechanical excavators, was conducted over the entire length of the property, a distance of greater than 18 kilometers. Initial analytical results have been received from all the trenches utilizing the Company’s hand-held XRF units.

The XRF units being used are state-of-the-art exploration tools that are currently used for accurate, in-the-field analysis of rocks and soils. Past experience indicates that these units very adequately generate vanadium values that can be utilized with confidence. A comparison of the 2008 drill results between the XRF and commercial laboratory assays was very strong. All trench samples are being sent to the NATA accredited Genalysis Services Laboratory in Perth, Australia for verification of the XRF results.  A rigorous QAQC program is in place and being overseen by Taiga Consultants Ltd. to ensure accuracy of analytical results.

The XRF results from this trenching program have been consistent in clearly outlining the vanadium mineralization along the strike length of the property as was predicted by soil sampling, airborne geophysics (resistivity and electro-magnetics) and radiometric data. The Company is currently using a black shale hosted deposit model to explain this large vanadium occurrence and have hired  consultant Dr. C. Tucker Barrie, Economic Geologist at C.T. Barrie and Associates, to further enhance this deposit scenario.  Sediment-hosted vanadium deposits are rare, with less than 10% occurrence globally, and this unique situation has certain positive economic scenarios which the Company hopes to capitalize on as the project moves forward.

Outline of Mineralized Zones

At the south or Jaky Zone, 15 trenches were dug that extended over a 2.2 kilometer strike length with a 500 meter section having trenches established 100 meters apart. The XRF results indicate that the widest widths of mineralization on the property occur in this area. A high-grade core is apparent with grades in excess of 1.0% V₂O₅. Highlights include 0.65% V₂O₅ over 218 metres, including 1.30% V₂O₅ over 32 metres for trench TR-09-002, and 0.62% V₂O₅ over 270 metres, including 1.30% V₂O₅ over 45 metres for trench TR-09-039.

A 6.5 kilometer strike length of the mineralized trend located immediately north of the Jaky Zone that is largely overlain by a thin laterite cover was excavated at approximately 1 kilometer intervals. It has subsequently been determined that a number of these trenches were dug too far to the west and consequently missed the main mineralized trend. An eastern extension of Trench 45, however, clearly defined the vanadium zone.

North of the laterite cover lays the Manga Zone that was excavated over a strike length of 4.5 kilometers with 25 trenches. Trenches are 200 to 400 meters apart and again a high-grade core of  mineralization is observed. Highlights include 1.16% V₂O₅ over 30 metres for TR-09-044, and 0.92% V₂O₅ over 58 metres for TR-09-050.

Two kilometers north of the Manga Zone, a series of 12 trenches were established over a strike length of 2.7 kilometers to within 400 meters of the north boundary of the property. This is known as the Mainty Zone. As predicted from soil and geophysical results, the vanadium mineralization is diminishing in strength in the last trench to the north on this zone.

Approximately 2.5 kilometers to the west of the Mainty Zone lies the Fondrana Zone that was tested with two trenches. Graphitic rich sediment is prominent in this target area, which appears to be associated with a completely different stratigraphic level to that which host the main vanadium trend.

The following table defines the XRF results for V₂O₅ from the 56 trenches established. Results are displayed with trench locations established in sequence from south to north.

 

Trench #	Target	UTM	V2O5	length	UTM	UTM
		Northing	(%)	(m)	From	To
TR-09-001	Jaky	7336600	0.51	120	501300	501420
incl.		7336600	0.65	32	501326	501358
incl.		7336600	0.70	18	501372	501390
TR-09-038	Jaky	7336700	0.63	214	501278	501492
Incl.		7336700	0.75	61	501299	501360
Incl.		7336700	0.98	36	501375	501411
Incl.		7336700	0.99	19	501423	501442
Incl.		7336700	0.74	10	501456	501466
TR-09-002	Jaky	7336800	0.65	218	501300	501518
Incl.		7336800	1.30	32	501428	501460
Incl.		7336800	0.68	26	501460	501486
TR-09-039	Jaky	7336900	0.62	270	501312	501582
Incl.		7336900	0.85	24	501368	501392
Incl.		7336900	0.64	19	501392	501411
Incl.		7336900	0.66	28	501425	501453
Incl.		7336900	1.30	45	501453	501498
Incl.		7336900	0.61	24	501498	501522
TR-09-003	Jaky	7337000	0.63	248	501361	501609
Incl.		7337000	1.38	58	501481	501539
TR-09-054	Jaky	7337100	0.56	210	501426	501634
Incl.		7337100	1.24	46	501520	501566
Incl.		7337100	0.51	34	501566	501600
TR-09-004	Jaky	7337200	0.52	226	501427	501653
Incl.		7337200	1.01	50	501537	501587
TR-09-055	Jaky	7337300	0.57	80	501561	501641
Incl.		7337300	0.99	15	501580	501595
Incl.		7337300	0.66	10	501631	501641
TR-09-005	Jaky	7337400	0.44	12	501531	501543
TR-09-006	Jaky	7337660	0.44	74	501602	501676
Incl.		7337660	0.61	34	501632	501666
TR-09-007	Jaky	7337800	1.02	16	501756	501772
TR-09-011	secondary	7338000	0.52	48	502062	502110
Incl.		7338000	0.82	20	502072	502092
TR-09-012	Structure	7339200	0.57	36	502140	502176
Incl.		7339200	0.65	20	502148	502168
TR-09-013	Structure	7340990	0.21	52	502342	502394
Incl.		7340990	0.63	14	502424	502438
TR-09-048	Plateau	7341800	0.22	4	502477	502481
TR-09-047	Plateau	7342600
TR-09-046	Plateau	7343400	0.25	17	502861	502878
Incl.		7343400	0.34	28	502914	502942
TR-09-045	Plateau	7344400	0.45	147	503005	503152
Incl.		7344400	0.82	24	503126	503150
TR-09-040	Manga	7345600	0.46	116	503205	503321
Incl.		7345600	0.64	71	503260	503321
Incl.		7345600	0.79	11	503280	503291
Incl.		7345600	0.90	9	503303	503312
TR-09-041	Manga	7345800	0.56	163	503200	503363
Incl.		7345800	0.79	70	503268	503338
TR-09-042	Manga	7346000	0.41	189	503201	503390
Incl.		7346000	0.82	20	503310	503330
TR-09-043	Manga	7346200	0.42	197	503236	503422
TR-09-043	Manga	7346200	1.00	21	503322	503343
TR-09-043	Manga	7346200	0.54	37	503385	503422
TR-09-044	Manga	7346400	0.68	82	503339	503421
Incl.		7346400	1.16	30	503366	503396
Incl.		7346400	0.80	7	503407	503414
TR-09-014	Manga	7346575	0.57	74	503379	503453
Incl.		7346575	0.92	32	503397	503429
TR-09-015	Manga	7347000	0.57	25	503440	503465
Incl.		7347000	1.03	3	503477	503480
TR-09-016	Manga	7347200	0.83	12	503444	503456
TR-09-017	Manga	7347400	0.53	18	503448	503466
TR-09-049	Manga	7347600	0.48	110	503390	503500
incl.	Manga	7347600	0.87	34	503437	503471
TR-09-050	Manga	7347800	0.77	77	503447	503524
Incl.		7347800	0.92	58	503447	503505
TR-09-051	Manga	7348170	0.54	95	503427	503522
Incl.		7348170	0.95	29	503486	503515
TR-09-052	Manga	7348400	0.54	89	503442	503531
incl.	Manga	7348400	0.89	35	503491	503526
TR-09-053	Manga	7348600	0.43	55	503495	503550
incl.		7348600	0.70	9	503506	503515
incl.		7348600	0.50	21	503523	503544
TR-09-037	Manga	7348800	0.60	37	503499	503536
TR-09-036	Manga	7349000	0.39	50	503523	503570
TR-09-035	Manga	7349200	0.60	29	503569	503598
TR-09-034	Manga	7349390	0.58	60	503550	503610
TR-09-033	Manga	7349600	0.55	52	503556	503603
TR-09-032	Manga	7349780	0.45	48	503564	503612
Incl.		7349780	0.83	11	503574	503585
TR-09-031	Manga	7349980	0.51	28	503561	503589
TR-09-028	Manga	7350200	0.29	53	503504	503557
TR-09-027	Manga	7350386	0.33	90	503564	503654
Incl.		7350386	1.06	2	503633	503635
Incl.		7350386	0.88	4	503647	503651
TR-09-030	Mainty	7352600	0.59	8	503652	503661
TR-09-029	Mainty	7353400	0.75	47	503825	503872
Incl.		7353400	0.99	28	503836	503864
TR-09-023	Mainty	7353810	0.75	34	503990	504024
TR-09-024	Mainty	7354000	0.30	7	504194	504201
TR-09-022	Mainty	7354120	0.64	98	504134	504232
Incl.		7354120	0.69	16	504134	404150
Incl.		7354120	0.88	45	504163	504209
Incl.		7354120	1.09	28	504174	504202
TR-09-020	Mainty	7354200	0.46	143	504089	504232
Incl.		7354200	1.19	4	504104	504108
Incl.		7354200	0.77	42	504122	504165
TR-09-021	Mainty	7354300	0.69	100	504124	504224
Incl.		7354300	1.05	51	504140	504191
TR-09-019	Mainty	7354395	0.77	105	504147	504252
Incl.		7354395	0.91	82	504170	504252
Incl.		7354395	1.00	71	504170	504241
TR-09-018	Mainty	7354800	0.51	4	504361	504365
Incl.		7354800	0.84	6	504388	504394
TR-09-010	Mainty	7355010	0.84	30	504445	504475
TR-09-009	Mainty	7355200	0.29	74	504492	504566
TR-09-025	Fondrana	7355125	0.38	112	502025	502137
Incl.		7355125	1.15	4	502034	502038
Incl.		7355125	0.57	34	502093	502127
TR-09-026	Fondrana	7355325	0.63	140	502135	502275
Incl.		7355325	0.86	24	502140	502164
Incl.		7355325	0.84	21	502183	502204
Incl.		7355325	0.61	71	502204	502275

Worldwide Potential for Vanadium

The Company has recently announced a major vanadium discovery in Madagascar, and is now preparing for the project’s advancement.  Vanadium is a strategic mineral that when added to steel creates a product that is lightweight but extremely high in tensile strength and wear resistance.

Solar, wind and geothermal power will not be fully effective without an efficient way to store it in a commercialized and scalable manner.  Vanadium has exceptional qualities in battery technology applications.  It has the ability to absorb and release huge amounts of electricity instantaneously, and will play a pivotal role in the emergence of battery power and energy storage.

About the Company

Uranium Star Corp. is a rapidly emerging exploration company with assets in Madagascar (Vanadium) and Northern Quebec (Uranium). Its shares are traded on the OTCBB under the symbol URST and on the Frankfurt Exchange under the symbol YE5. 

Bill Nielsen, P.Geo., Director and Project Manager is the qualified person for this report.

Taiga Consultants Ltd. is supervising Uranium Star’s exploration activities under the direction of Claude Aussant, P.Geo, on the Green Giant Vanadium Project in Madagascar.

For more information on the Green Giant Project and up-to-date pictures from the field, please visit our website at www.uraniumstar.com

Contact:

Brent Nykoliation Vice President of Business Development Uranium Star Corp. Toll Free: 800.818.5442 or 416.364.4911 Email: bnykoliation@uraniumstar.com

Kirk McKinnon, President & CEO Richard Schler, Chief Operating Officer & CFO

 

WARNING: The statements made in this news release may contain forward-looking statements that may involve a number of risks and uncertainties. Actual events or results could differ materially from expectations and projections set out herein.