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Vancouver, BC – August 21, 2014: Noka Resources Inc. (TSX-V: NX, FSE: 2NK) (“Noka is pleased to provide an update on the exploration plans for the Preston Uranium Property (the “Property”) being explored by the Western Athabasca Syndicate (the “Syndicate”). The Syndicate is planning a field program for September and October that will consist of geophysical and geochemical surveys to further refine high priority drill targets and identify new targets. The Preston Property is strategically located proximal to Fission Uranium’s expanding, high grade Patterson Lake South (“PLS”) discovery as well as NexGen Energy’s Arrow discovery.

Fission recently announced a new discovery of anomalous radioactivity in hole PLS14-255 where basement hosted conductors have been identified 17 km southeast of the main discovery area (see Fission’s news release dated Aug. 11, 2014). The Preston Property’s Fin target area is less than 2 km east of this newly reported discovery and the Syndicate holds the largest land position on strike to the south along the same conductive corridor. Numerous high priority targets at Preston are located on this fertile exploration corridor and will be a primary focus for the upcoming exploration this fall.

Preston Uranium Property Map and Regional Exploration Corridors:

The Syndicate recently reported highly encouraging results from a first-pass diamond drill program at Preston consisting of nine holes which confirmed the presence of widespread alteration, structural disruption and radioactivity that are typically associated with uranium deposits in the Athabasca Basin. The three initial drill target areas, out of a growing target base currently standing at fifteen, were selected by the Syndicate’s Technical Committee for drilling based on encouraging fieldwork results and coincident anomalies. The majority of uranium targets on the Property have not yet received any drill exploration.

Preston Uranium Property High Priority Target Areas: 
 

Additional drill testing of the various target areas is being planned including drilling at high priority targets that will be accessible when freeze-up occurs later this year. The Syndicate intends to conduct over $2 million in exploration and drill programs within the next twelve months at the Preston Property. Skyharbour Resources has recently been voted in as the new operator of the Western Athabasca Syndicate moving forward in place of the previous operator Athabasca Nuclear.

The Preston Uranium Property:

The 246,643 hectare Preston Uranium Property is the largest individual property proximal to Fission Uranium’s Patterson Lake South high-grade uranium discovery and the recent discovery made by NexGen Energy on the Rook-1 Project. The Syndicate is the largest land tenure holder in the southwest Athabasca Basin region including properties strategically situated to the southwest and to the northeast of the PLS and NexGen discoveries. Approx. $3,500,000 dollars in exploration has been carried out to date by the Syndicate on the Preston property and many priority targets remain for further follow up with both fieldwork and drill testing.

Management cautions, mineralization present on proximal properties is not necessarily indicative of mineralization on the Syndicate’s Property.

About the Western Athabasca Syndicate:

The Western Athabasca Syndicate is a strategic partnership formed between Skyharbour, Athabasca Nuclear, Lucky Strike and Noka to explore and develop a 287,130 hectare suite of uranium properties that is the largest land position along the highly prospective margin of the Western Athabasca Basin controlled by a single group. Under the terms of the agreement, each of the four companies has an option to earn 25% of the five uranium properties comprising the Western Athabasca Syndicate Partnership by making a series of cash payments, share payments, and incurring their pro-rata amount of the total $6,000,000 in exploration expenditures over the two-year earn-in term of the agreement. The properties were acquired for their proximity to the PLS discovery and interpreted favourable geology for the occurrence of PLS style uranium mineralization. The bulk of the Syndicate land package is bisected by all-weather Highway 955 which runs north through the PLS discovery on to the former Cluff Lake uranium mine.

The Athabasca Basin of Saskatchewan hosts the world’s largest and richest high-grade uranium deposits which have grades substantially higher than the world average grade of about 0.1% U3O8. The Patterson Lake area has received escalating exploration attention and claim acquisition activity as a result of the new, near surface discoveries made by Fission which includes the drill interval of 13.66% U3O8 over 38.0 metres in drill hole PLS14-129. Consistent high-grade, near surface U3O8 assays from Fission demonstrate the potential for high-grade uranium mineralization on the geologically prospective yet underexplored margins of the western side of the Athabasca Basin.

Qualified Person:

The technical information in this news release has been prepared in accordance with the Canadian regulatory requirements set out in National Instrument 43-101 and reviewed and approved by Richard Kusmirski, P.Geo., M.Sc., Skyharbour’s Head Technical Advisor and a Director, as well as a Qualified Person.

About Noka Resources Inc.:

Noka Resources Inc. is a junior exploration company with a focus on uranium in the prolific Athabasca Basin of Northern Saskatchewan. Noka’s exploration strategy is focused in relatively underexplored areas of the Athabasca Basin Region, targeting favourable geology and structure amenable to near surface, unconformity-style uranium mineralization.

With a total prospective land position of 493,236 hectares, Noka holds one of the largest geologically prospective land packages in the region through a 100% interest in the Clearwater (which includes the Carpenter Lake) and Athabasca North group of properties, an option to earn 100% interest in the Lodge Pole Point Project, as well as a 25% interest in the Western Athabasca Syndicate group of properties.

For further information, please contact Nav Dhaliwal, President, at [email protected] or visit www.nokaresources.com.

ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS

“Nav Dhaliwal”

Nav Dhaliwal
President and CEO
(604) 678-5308
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