Orora Zone Strike Extended to 150 m

VANCOUVER, BC--(Marketwired - September 13, 2017) - UEX Corp. (TSX: UEX) ("UEX" or the "Company") is pleased to announce the results of the summer drilling program at the Christie Lake Project.

The summer program's main goal was to expand the high-grade ÅŒrora Deposit, discovered during the winter 2017 exploration campaign. Highlights from the winter discovery program included hole CB-109, which intersected 22.81% U₃O₈ over 8.6 m from 475.1 to 483.7 m, and hole CB-116A, which returned 20.00% U₃O₈ over 8.5 m from 471.0 to 479.5 m. True widths are estimated to be between 80-85% of core length.

Our team completed ten holes during the summer program totaling 4,541 m. Eight of these holes tested the area along strike to the southwest of the ÅŒrora Zone, one hole tested the deposit's down-dip extent, and one hole tested along strike to the northeast.

Hole CB-122 intersected 2.37% eU₃O₈ over 2.2 m from 476.40 to 478.60 m at the southwest end of the ÅŒrora Deposit, suggesting that the deposit may still be open along strike to the southwest of hole CB-121, where the trend of the graphitic package appears to deviate away from and to the southeast of the ÅŒrora fault structure.

Seven of the ten holes encountered uranium mineralization, extending the ÅŒrora Zone to a strike length of 150 m (see Figure 1). The ÅŒrora Deposit is located within the 1.5 km long Yalowega Trend, host of the Paul Bay and Ken Pen Deposits. UEX will continue to explore along this anomalous uranium-bearing trend.

Radiometric Equivalent Grade ("REG") results of the seven holes that extended the ÅŒrora Deposit to the southwest during the summer program are shown in the table below. Assay results for all seven of these holes are currently being analyzed at the Saskatchewan Research Council's Geoanalytical Laboratory in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

For the locations of the existing mineralized intersections at the ÅŒrora Deposit, please refer to Figure 1.

Now that the summer program has been completed, UEX will be focusing its efforts on completing three-dimensional models of the Paul Bay, Ken Pen, and ÅŒrora Deposits in preparation for our maiden NI-43-101 resource. The three-dimensional modeling of ÅŒrora will also assist the UEX geologists in identifying possible deposit extensions for testing during the upcoming winter program.

About Radiometric Equivalent Grades

The eU₃O₈ grades were estimated in-situ within the drill holes using calibrated down-hole radiometric gamma probes. Samples from all holes have been collected for assay analysis to confirm these equivalent grades. The samples will be analyzed at the Geoanalytical Laboratory at the Saskatchewan Research Council in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, with results expected in the coming weeks. The details on how eU₃O₈ was calculated from the probe grades were outlined in our press release of May 24, 2016.

About the Christie Lake Project

UEX currently holds a 30% interest in the Christie Lake Project and is working under an option agreement to earn up to a 70% interest. The Project is located approximately 9 km northeast and along strike of Cameco's McArthur River Mine, the world's largest uranium producer. The P2 Fault, the controlling structure for all of the McArthur River deposits, continues to the northeast beyond the mine. UEX believes that through a series of en-echelon steps the northeast strike extension of the P2 Fault not only crosses the Project but also controls the three known uranium deposits on Christie Lake, the ÅŒrora, Paul Bay and Ken Pen Deposits.

The Paul Bay and Ken Pen Deposits are estimated to host a combined 20.87 million pounds of U₃O₈ at an average grade of 3.22% U₃O₈ and were discovered in 1989 and 1993 respectively. This is a historic resource estimation which does not use resource classifications consistent with NI 43-101. The historical resource estimate was presented in an internal report titled Christie Lake Project, Geological Resource Estimate completed by PNC Tono Geoscience Center, Resource Analysis Group, dated September 12, 1997. The historical resource was calculated using a 3 D block model using block sizes of 2 m by 2 m by 2 m, and block grades interpolated using the inverse distance squared method over a circular search radius of 25 m and 1 m height. Specific gravities for each deposit were averaged from specific gravity measures of individual samples collected for assay. UEX plans to complete additional infill drilling on the deposits during the option earn-in period to upgrade these historic resources to indicated and inferred. A qualified person has not done sufficient work to classify the historic estimate as current mineral resources or mineral reserves. UEX is not treating the historic estimate as current mineral reserves or mineral resources and the reader is advised not to rely upon this historical estimate as a resource estimate.

Qualified Persons and Data Acquisition

Technical information in this news release has been reviewed and approved by Roger Lemaitre, P.Eng., P.Geo., UEX's President and CEO and Trevor Perkins, P.Geo., UEX's Exploration Manager, who are each considered to be a Qualified Person as defined by National Instrument 43-101.

About UEX

UEX (TSX: UEX) (OTC PINK: UEXCF) (FRANKFURT: UXO) is a Canadian uranium exploration and development company involved in fourteen uranium projects, including three that are 100% owned and operated by UEX, one joint venture with AREVA Resources Canada Inc. ("AREVA") that is 90.1% owned by UEX and is under option to and operated by ALX Uranium, as well as eight joint ventures with AREVA, one joint venture with AREVA and JCU (Canada) Exploration Company Limited, which are operated by AREVA, and one project (Christie Lake) under option from JCU (Canada) Exploration Company Limited and operated by UEX. The fourteen projects are located in the eastern, western and northern perimeters of the Athabasca Basin, the world's richest uranium belt, which in 2015 accounted for approximately 22% of the global primary uranium production. UEX is currently advancing several uranium deposits in the Athabasca Basin which include the Christie Lake deposits, the Kianna, Anne, Colette and 58B deposits at its currently 49.1%-owned Shea Creek Project (located 50 km north of Fission's Triple R Deposit and Patterson Lake South Project, and NexGen's Arrow Deposit) the Horseshoe and Raven deposits located on its 100%-owned Horseshoe-Raven Development Project and the West Bear Deposit located at its 100%-owned Hidden Bay Project.

About JCU

JCU is a private company that is actively engaged in the exploration and development in Canada. JCU is owned by three Japanese companies. Amongst these, Overseas Uranium Resources Development Co., Ltd. ("OURD") acts as the manager of JCU. JCU has partnerships with UEX, AREVA, Cameco, Denison and others on uranium exploration and development projects in the Athabasca Basin of Northern Saskatchewan including Millennium and Wheeler River and the Kiggavik project in the Thelon Basin in Nunavut.

Forward-Looking Information

This news release may contain statements that constitute "forward-looking information" for the purposes of Canadian securities laws. Such statements are based on UEX's current expectations, estimates, forecasts and projections. Such forward-looking information includes statements regarding UEX's drill hole results, the likelihood of REG and scintillometer results being confirmed by assays, mineral resource and mineral reserve estimates, outlook for our future operations, plans and timing for exploration activities, and other expectations, intentions and plans that are not historical fact. Such forward-looking information is based on certain factors and assumptions and is subject to risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from future results expressed or implied by such forward-looking information. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from UEX's expectations include uncertainties relating to interpretation of drill results and geology, reliability of REG results produced by the Company's down-hole probing system, scintillometer results, assay confirmation, additional drilling results, continuity and grade of deposits, participation in joint ventures, reliance on other companies as operators, public acceptance of uranium as an energy source, fluctuations in uranium prices and currency exchange rates, changes in environmental and other laws affecting uranium exploration and mining, and other risks and uncertainties disclosed in UEX's Annual Information Form and other filings with the applicable Canadian securities commissions on SEDAR. Many of these factors are beyond the control of UEX. Consequently, all forward-looking information contained in this news release is qualified by this cautionary statement and there can be no assurance that actual results or developments anticipated by UEX will be realized. For the reasons set forth above, investors should not place undue reliance on such forward-looking information. Except as required by applicable law, UEX disclaims any intention or obligation to update or revise forward-looking information, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

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