Sassy Resources Corporation announced that diamond drilling has commenced at the Highrock Uranium Project in the Key Lake region of Saskatchewan's Athabasca Basin. Sassy signed a staged option agreement with Forum Energy Metals in January 2022 under which Sassy may acquire up to a 100% interest in Highrock. Sassy is funding the 2022 diamond drill program while Forum is acting as project operator.

The Highrock Uranium Project is located just south and on trend of Cameco's Key Lake mine and mill site where over 200 million pounds of uranium was produced at an average grade of 2.3% U3O8 during Key Lake's mine life. The 2022 exploration is focused on the discovery of basement hosted mineralization similar to NexGen's Arrow deposit and Cameco's Eagle Point mine. Gravity surveys previously conducted by Forum at Highrock identified numerous gravity lows along a 10-kilometre-long graphitic conductor.

These may be zones of alteration associated with uranium mineral deposits. Eight widely spaced drill holes by Forum in 2016 tested only six kilometres of the conductor while four kilometres at the southern end of the property remain untested as well as the strongest gravity low at the north end of the project. Zones of chloritization, bleaching, elevated boron and other pathfinder elements in the north and central areas of the conductor were detected by this initial drill campaign.

2022 Highrock Drill Program: Initial drilling will focus on the North target immediately south of Cameco's Key Lake mine claim boundary. Only one drill hole in 2016 (DDH HR-08) tested the south end of a very strong gravity low where the main conductor trends to the northeast. Weak alteration along a strong conductor was encountered in this hole, plus elevated uranium (8 ppm), vanadium (442 ppm), copper (421ppm), nickel (125 ppm), lead (46 ppm) and boron (116 ppm).

Over one kilometre of this conductive trend and gravity anomaly to the northeast will be drilled. Targets have also been identified in the central and south areas of the property from DDH HR-06 to HR-07 and continuing four kilometres further to the southwest border of the property. Drill target selection will be refined as the program progresses until spring breakup or until the $1 million budget is spent under terms of the Sassy option agreement.