Azincourt Uranium Inc. and its joint venture partner and operator, Fission 3.0 announced that a $1.0 million, 8 to 10 drillhole winter diamond drilling, radon survey and ground geophysical program, focusing on high priority targets, has commenced at their PLN Property. A Radon in Water survey, using the same frozen ice conditions approach used successfully at Fission Uranium Corp.'s adjacent Patterson Lake South (PLS) project, is included in the program and will assist in refining drill target locations over Hodge Lake, Harrison Lake and Broach Lake target areas. Bryson Drilling has been awarded the contract to drill 8 - 10 diamond drill core holes in 2500 meters to 3000 meters of drilling.

Drill holes to test areas include north-northwest trending central conductive meta-sedimentary belt, geophysical anomalies under Hodge Lake and Prospective north-northwest trending conductor. A radon in lake water survey to measure radon covering 3 areas in 400 samples. The survey will comprise primarily samples of measurements of radon in water at Hodge Lake, Harrison Lake and Broach Lake.