Dejour Completes Historical Exploration Data for the Maybelle and Gartner Uranium Properties in the Athabasca Basin

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May 3, 2005 – News Release

J Allan McNutt, Manager of Mineral Exploration and Qualified Person for this project, reports that a review of historical exploration data from the Saskatchewan government files has been completed for two of Dejour’s key uranium properties- Maybelle and Gartner- in the western Athabasca Basin. Dejour is encouraged by the results of these surveys as they suggest the properties are underlain by geology considered favorable for uranium mineralization. These two properties essentially surround claims blocks that were the subject of an exploratory drilling program by Cameco in the 1st quarter 2005.

The Maybelle property consists of three Saskatchewan claims along the Alberta border (16,473 hectares, 40,705 acres), and is located 65 km SW of the former Cluff Lake uranium mine. Exploration from 1978 to 1980 consisted of airborne electromagnetic, magnetic and radiometric surveys. It should be noted that the electromagnetic system used at that time was not powerful enough to penetrate the 100m to 600m of Athabasca sandstone on the property. These surveys did not outline any anomalies of interest and the property was allowed to lapse. However, the magnetic data suggests the property is underlain by basement metasedimentary rocks which may contain graphitic horizons, and is thus prospective for uranium mineralization. Dejour is planning an airborne geophysical survey using a deep penetrating system to test for graphitic conductors with which uranium mineralization is often associated.

The Gartner property consists of 5 claims (24,157 hectares, 59,692 acres) and is located 15 km east of the Maybelle property. Exploration from 1978 to 1980 consisted of airborne geophysical surveys which did not locate any anomalies and no followup work was done. In 1991 a GEOTEM electromagnetic and magnetic survey was flown which covers the majority of Dejour’s property. It located one weak electromagnetic conductor on the east side of the project and a series of weak to strong anomalies just west of the western boundary of the Gartner claims which appear to trend on to Dejour’s claims. These electromagnetic anomalies may be due to basement graphitic horizons. Dejour is planning a deep penetrating geophysical survey to better define the known conductors and also to cover the deeper parts of the property which may not have adequately tested by the GEOTEM survey.

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