"Extends High Grade 8 Zone Mineralization 300 feet down Plunge"
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SASKATOON, April 21 /CNW/ - Claude Resources Inc. (TSX-CRJ; NYSE Amex-CGR) today reported new drill results from its 8 Zone underground drill program at the Madsen Project, Red Lake, Ontario. Drilling continues to intercept high grade gold mineralization down plunge of the 8 Zone as well as confirming the development of a sub-parallel Footwall target. The four holes completed to date suggest that the 8 Zone structure may be improving with depth as demonstrated by the two deepest intercepts to date returning 0.97 oz/ton over 8.17 feet and 0.75 oz/ton over 25.92 feet.

Hole ID          From       Au      Length       Au     Length      VG
                  (m)    (oz/ton)    (ft)      (g/t)      (m)      Noted
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MUG-08-01       883.00     3.71      2.46     127.12     0.75        X
(FW Target)     971.80     0.12      4.70       4.03     1.42
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MUG-09-02b      891.25     0.63      1.48      21.52     0.45        X
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MUG-09-03       915.40     0.97      8.17      33.39     2.49        X
(incl)                     1.70      4.10      58.18     1.25        X
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MUG-09-04       909.55     0.75     25.92      25.77     7.90        X
(incl)                     4.14      3.12     141.80     0.95        X
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Claude launched Phase 1 of the underground program, from the 10th level in December 2008, targeting the 8 Zone system with a planned program of 12,000 meters of drilling. The program is designed to test the plunge and strike extensions of the 8 Zone as well as conceptual targets along the 8 Zone shear system. The assays reported today confirm the high grade mineralization 300 feet down plunge of historic mine infrastructure and suggests the potential for the development of parallel lenses. The system remains open down-plunge and along strike.

"Our continued success in intercepting high grade gold mineralization associated with abundant visible gold in Phase I of the underground program supports our belief in the potential of the 8 Zone system and the Madsen property," stated Brian Skanderbeg, Vice-President Exploration, Claude Resources Inc.

The 8 Zone consists of visible gold-bearing quartz veins and silica-flooded, biotite-talc altered basalts proximal to a major ultramafic contact. In addition, current drilling of the footwall environment suggests the development of at least one sub-parallell structure hosting gold mineralization.