Don Lake Project

The 1671 ha Don Lake Project is located 4km NNE of Uranium City in northern Saskatchewan. Uranium City is located on the north shore of Lake Athabasca, 536km NNW of LaRonge and is accessible via scheduled flights from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan and charter aircraft from Fort McMurray, Alberta. All season road access is available to Stoney Rapids then a 175km seasonal ice road to Uranium City via Fon-du-Lac. Uranium City is endowed with services such as hospital, lodging accommodations, groceries, fuel and airport.

The Don Lake claims were acquired in 2023, have no underlying royalties or encumbrances and are accessible by road from Uranium City. A detailed compilation and interpretation of available data from historical work programs has begun and will lead to recommendations for future work and more information for this webpage.

      • Saskatchewan
      • Available for option: No
      • Uranium

Project Highlights

  • Twelve SMDI uranium occurrences
  • Tenures cover past producing Beta Gamma Mine (SMDI 1394) and the Don Lake Uranium Deposit (SMDI 1393)
  • Historical drilling at A Zone returned values of 10.7% U3O8 over 0.3m and 2.14% U3O8 over 0.67m (AF 74N10-0422).
  • Trench samples up to 1.17% U3O8 over 1.98m (AF 74N10-0422).
Athabasca Basin Map - June 2026
Don Lake Compilation Map - 2026-08-19

Summary

The Don Lake uranium project is located near Uranium City, Saskatchewan, and hosts near surface uranium mineralization as well as a past producing uranium mine. In December 2023 Eagle Plains granted Xcite the exclusive right to earn up to an 80% interest in the Don Lake, Gulch, Lorado, Beaver River, Black Bay, and Smitty projects (see Dec 14 news release). The six projects comprising the Xcite option agreements cover 54 Saskatchewan Mineral Deposit Index (SMDI) occurrences and five past-producing uranium mines, and are 100% owned by Eagle Plains. The projects are prospective for Beaverlodge style, basement hosted and unconformity hosted uranium mineralization. 

Project Highlights

  • Twelve SMDI uranium occurrences
  • Tenures cover past producing Beta Gamma Mine (SMDI 1394) and the Don Lake Uranium Deposit (SMDI 1393)
  • Historical drilling at A Zone returned values of 10.7% U3O8 over 0.3m and 2.14% U3O8 over 0.67m (AF 74N10-0422).
  • Trench samples up to 1.17% U3O8 over 1.98m (AF 74N10-0422).

Eagle Plains Exploration

2026 Don Lake Field Program

2026 work was focused on the central and eastern part of the claims between the NE trending Boom Lake and Black Bay faults and the SE trending Townsend Fault. Fieldwork included soil sampling, prospecting, structural mapping, and scintillometer surveying. Geophysical work included 682 line-km of airborne radiometric and magnetic completed by Precision GeoSurveys, and 2.9 km2 of drone LiDar surveying. In addition, Condor Consulting was contracted to complete interpretation and modelling of 72 line-km of VTEM data collected in 2025.  

A total of 282 soil samples were collected east of the Black Bay Fault, a regional structure that is inferred to control uranium mineralization in the Beaverlodge camp. At the Midas Target, geochemical results defined a number of highly anomalous uranium values interpreted to define structural splays from the main fault zone.

At the Don Target area, a drone based LiDar survey was used to accurately locate historical trenches and workings. This was followed up with structural mapping, prospecting and sampling.  

The radiometric survey defined several features of interest including broad total uranium (eU) anomalies over the historic A, B and C Zone areas and Hawker Trench area (the Don Target), and the Midas Target area. West of the Boom Lake Fault, the survey located an additional radiometric anomaly coincident with the historic Beta Gamma Mine.

2026 Don Lake Drill Program

The 2026 drilling program will test for structurally-controlled uranium mineralization west of the Black Bay Fault, and north of the Townsend Fault, within the Don and Midas Targets. The holes are aligned to target the intersection between NE-trending and NW-trending structures. In the Don Target area, the drilling will test for extensions of high-grade uranium mineralization beneath the A, B, C Zone trenches and the Hawker trenches. At the Midas, drilling will target the source of the coincident 2026 uranium geochemical anomaly and the strong anomaly defined by the 2026 radiometric survey.  

The program will consist of 1500m of diamond drilling, with 14 holes from 6 different pad locations.  The 2026 drilling was contracted to Apex Drilling with crews based out of Uranium City. 

Uranium City Option Agreement

Under the terms of the agreements, Xcite Uranium Inc. may earn an 80% interest in each of the Beaver River, Black Bay, Don Lake, Gulch, Lorado, and Smitty projects by completing CDN$3,200,000 in exploration expenditures, issuing 750,000 common shares of Xcite and making cash payments to Eagle Plains of CDN$55,000 over four years, for an aggregate of CDN$19,200,000 in exploration expenditures, 4,500,000 shares and $330,000 in cash to Eagle Plains. Upon Xcite fulfilling the terms of any or all of the earn-in agreements, an 80/20 joint venture will be formed, with Eagle Plains retaining a carried interest in all expenditures until delivery by Xcite or its assigns of a bankable feasibility study. During the option earn in period, XRI will be appointed as operator, and EPL will manage the exploration programs under the direction of a joint technical committee. The projects are owned 100% by EPL, who will retain an underlying 2% NSR royalty on the each of the properties.

Details

History

Anomalous radioactivity at Don Lake was first noted by the Geological Survey of Canada in 1948, with the first claims recorded later that year by the Eldorado Mining and Refining Company. In 1950, Aurora Yellowknife Mines identified 28 radioactive occurrences on the property, including the 50-CC3-10 and 50-CC3-44 (SMDI 1383), Midas Cu-U Showing (1384) and Townsend Fault Uranium Showings (SMDI 1385).  The same year Eldorado completed three short diamond drill holes at the Don Lake Zone A showing (SMDI 1393), with hole D-1 returning 2.0% U3O8 over 0.6m from 49.7-50.3m (AF 74N10-0345).

Between 1948-1968, various operators conducted work within the current Don Lake tenure, including prospecting, scintillometer surveying, trenching and limited diamond drilling. Most of this work is poorly documented. The next significant work was by Matrix Exploration in 1969, who carried out prospecting, scintillometer surveying, trenching and the 1200m of diamond drilling in 37 holes at the Don Lake A, B, and C Zones. Trenching in the A Zone returned from trace values up to 8.57% U3O8 over 0.91m and 2.86% U3O8 over 0.61m. The best drill intercept was from Zone A, where hole 23 returned 10.7% U3O8 over 0.3m (AF 74N10-0422).  

Between 1971-78 August Hawker, Matrix Exploration and Kodiak Developments carried out prospecting, scintillometer surveys, trenching, and ground geophysics on various areas of the current Don Lake tenure. 

Parts of the property were covered by airborne geophysics flown by Greater Lenora Resources Corp in 1997 (EM) and by the Geological Survey of Canada and Saskatchewan Energy and Mines who contracted Sander Geophysics to obtain gamma-ray spectrometric, aeromagnetic and VLF-EM data in 2000, the last significant work on the property.

About the Beaverlodge Uranium District

The Beaver River, Black Bay, Don Lake, Gulch, Lorado, and Smitty projects are located in the Beaverlodge District near Uranium City in the Lake Athabasca region of Saskatchewan. Occurrences of uranium mineralization are abundant in the Uranium City area and have been explored and documented since the 1940s. The Beaverlodge camp was the first uranium producer in Canada, with historic production of approximately 70.25 million pounds of U3O8 between 1950-1982, from ore grades averaging 0.23% U3O8. The two largest producers were the Eldorado Beaverlodge (Ace-Fay-Verna) mine and the Gunnar uranium mine. The Beaverlodge area has seen limited uranium focused exploration since the early 1990’s.

The Uranium City area projects have potential for both Beaverlodge-style and basement-hosted uranium mineralization. 

Key features about the projects include:  

  • Outcropping, largely northeast-southwest-trending tectonic fabric;
  • Electromagnetic conductors that have been confirmed as graphite-rich pelites within or near major faults;
  • Anomalous uranium geochemistry and radioactivity associated with graphitic faults;
  • Compelling property-wide evidence for hydrothermal alteration;
  • Uranium mineralization with corresponding elevations in pathfinder elements.

These factors, along with the presence of a substantial uranium endowment in both basement rocks and Athabasca basin cover rocks, indicate excellent potential for economic uranium mineralization within the project. The mineralization, structures and alteration identified on the claims to date are strong indicators of the possibility of a nearby source for the uranium mineralization.

Eagle Plains’ management cautions that past results or discoveries on proximate land are not necessarily indicative of the results that may be achieved on the subject properties.

Eagle Plains - A Project Generator

Eagle Plains Resources is a project generator with several mineral exploration properties of merit that meet qualifying transaction requirements. We facilitate the listing process for capital pool companies and initial public offerings while providing technical expertise for exploration programs. Companies interested in co-operatively exploring any of our projects please contact: Chuck Downie at ccd@eagleplains.com or Andrew Wilson at abw@eagleplains.com or call 1 866 Hunt Ore (486 8673).

Updated August 19, 2026