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How does In-home Senior Care in Marysvale, UT work?

Home is where the heart is. While that saying can sound a tad cliche, it's especially true for many seniors living in America. When given a choice, older adults most often prefer to grow older at home. An AARP study found that three out of four adults over the age of 50 want to stay in their homes and communities as they age. When you begin to think about why, it makes sense. Home offers a sense of security, comfort, and familiarity.

The truth is, as we age, we begin to rely on others for help. When a family is too busy or lives too far away to fulfill this role, in-home senior care is often the best solution. Home care services allow seniors to enjoy personal independence while also receiving trustworthy assistance from a trained caregiver.

At Always Best Care, we offer a comprehensive range of home care services to help seniors stay healthy while they get the help they need to remain independent. As your senior loved one ages, giving them the gift of senior care is one of the best ways to show your love, even if you live far away.

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Aging in Place: The Preferred Choice for Most Seniors

While it's true that some seniors have complicated medical needs that prevent them from staying at home, aging in place is often the best arrangement for seniors and their families. With a trusted caregiver, seniors have the opportunity to live with a sense of dignity and do so as they see fit.

In-home care makes it possible for millions of seniors to age in place every year. Rather than moving to a unfamiliar assisted living community, seniors have the chance to stay at home where they feel the happiest and most comfortable.

Here are just a few of the reasons why older men and women prefer to age at home:

Comfort
Comfort

How much does a senior's home truly mean to them? A study published by the American Society on Aging found that more than half of seniors say their home's emotional value means more than how much their home is worth in monetary value. It stands to reason, that a senior's home is where they want to grow old. With the help of elderly care in Marysvale, UT, seniors don't have to age in a sterilized care facility. Instead, they can age gracefully in the place they want to be most: their home. In contrast, seniors who move to a long-term care facility must adapt to new environments, new people, and new systems that the facility implements. At this stage in life, this kind of drastic change can be more harmful than helpful.

Healthy Living
Healthy Living

Institutional care facilities like nursing homes often put large groups of people together to live in one location. On any given day, dozens of staff members and caregivers run in and out of these facilities. Being around so many new people in a relatively small living environment can be dangerous for a seniors' health and wellbeing. When you consider that thousands of seniors passed away in nursing homes during the COVID-19 pandemic, opting for in-home care is often a safer, healthier choice for seniors. Aging in place has been shown to improve seniors' quality of life, which helps boost physical health and also helps insulate them from viral and bacterial risks found in elderly living facilities.

Independence
Independence

For many seniors, the ability to live independently with assistance from a caregiver is a priceless option. With in-home care, seniors experience a higher level of independence and freedom - much more so than in other settings like an assisted living community. When a senior has the chance to age in place, they get to live life on their own terms, inside the house that they helped make into a home. More independence means more control over their personal lives, too, which leads to increased levels of fulfillment, happiness, and personal gratification. Over time, these positive feelings can manifest into a healthier, longer life.

Cost and Convenience
Cost and Convenience

More independence, a healthier life, and increased comfort are only a few benefits of aging in place. You have to take into consideration the role of cost and convenience. Simply put, it's usually easier to help seniors age in place than it is to move them into an institutional care facility. In-home care services from Always Best Care, for instance, can be less expensive than long-term solutions, which can cost upwards of six figures per year. To make matters worse, many residential care facilities are reluctant to accept long-term care insurance and other types of payment assistance.

With Always Best Care's home care services, seniors and their families have a greater level of control over their care plans. In-home care in Marysvale, UT gives seniors the chance to form a bond with a trusted caregiver and also receive unmatched care that is catered to their needs. In long-term care facilities, seniors and their loved ones have much less control over their care plan and have less of a say in who provides their care.

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Affordable Care Plans

In-home care is a valuable resource that empowers seniors to age in place on their own terms. However, a big concern for many families and their loved ones is how much in-home care costs. If you're worried that in-home care is too expensive, you may be pleasantly surprised to learn that it is one of the most affordable senior care arrangements available.

Typically, hiring an Always Best Care in-home caregiver for a few hours a week is more affordable than sending your loved one to a long-term care facility. This is true even for seniors with more complex care needs.

At Always Best Care, we will work closely with you and your family to develop a Care Plan that not only meets your care needs, but your budget requirements, too. Once we discover the level of care that you or your senior need, we develop an in-home care plan that you can afford.

In addition to our flexible care options, families should also consider the following resources to help offset potential home care costs:

Veteran's Benefits
Veteran's Benefits

Attendance and aid benefits through military service can cover a portion of the costs associated with in-home care for veterans and their spouses.

Long-Term Care Insurance
Long-Term Care Insurance

Many senior care services like in-home care are included in long-term care insurance options. Research different long-term care solutions to find a plan that provides coverage for senior care.

Private Insurance
Private Insurance

Home care can be included as part of a senior's private insurance plan. Read over your loved one's insurance policy carefully or speak with their insurance provider to determine if in-home care is covered.

Life Insurance
Life Insurance

Depending on the life insurance plan, you may be able to apply your policy toward long-term care. You may be able to use long-term-care coverage to help pay for in-home elderly care.


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During your Care Plan consultation with Always Best Care, your Care Coordinator will speak with you about in-home care costs and what options there may be to help meet your budget needs.

Compassionate Care. Trusted Caregivers

When you or your senior loved one needs assistance managing daily tasks at home, finding a qualified caregiver can be challenging. It takes a special kind of person to provide reliable care for your senior loved one. However, a caregiver's role involves more than meal preparation and medication reminders. Many seniors rely on their caregivers for companionship, too.

Our companion care services give seniors the chance to socialize in a safe environment and engage in activities at home. These important efforts boost morale and provide much-needed relief from repetitive daily routines. A one-on-one, engaging conversation can sharpen seniors' minds and give them something in which to be excited.

At Always Best Care, we only hire care providers that we would trust to care for our own loved ones. Our senior caregivers in Marysvale,UT understand how important it is to listen and communicate with their seniors. A seemingly small interaction, like a short hug goodbye, can make a major difference in a senior's day. Instead of battling against feelings of isolation, seniors begin to look forward to seeing their caregiver each week.

Understanding the nuances of senior care is just one of the reasons why our care providers are so great at their job.

Unlike some senior care companies, our caregivers must undergo extensive training before they work for Always Best Care. In addition, our caregivers receive ongoing training throughout the year. This training ensures that their standard of care matches up to the high standards we've come to expect. During this training, they will brush up on their communication skills, safety awareness, and symptom spotting. That way, your loved one receives the highest level of non-medical home care from day one.

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Taking the First Step with Always Best Care

The first step in getting quality in-home care starts with a personal consultation with an experienced Care Coordinator. This initial consultation is crucial for our team to learn more about you or your elderly loved one to discover the level of care required. Topics of this consultation typically include:

An assessment of your senior loved one

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An in-depth discussion of the needs of your senior loved one to remain in their own home

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Reviewing a detailed Care Plan that will meet your senior loved one's needs

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Our caregivers are trained to spot changes that clients exhibit, like mental and physical decline. As your trusted senior care company, we will constantly assess and update your Care Plan to meet any new emotional, intellectual, physical, and emotional needs.

If you have never considered in-home care before, we understand that you and your family may have concerns about your Care Plan and its Care Coordinator. To help give you peace of mind, know that every team member and caregiver must undergo comprehensive training before being assigned to a Care Plan.

When you're ready, we encourage you to contact your local Always Best Care representative to set up a Care Consultation. Our Care Coordinators would be happy to meet with you in person to get to know you better, discuss your needs, and help put together a personalized Care Plan specific to your needs.

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MAG Silver to acquire Deer Trail project in Utah

It is the first time these properties have been consolidated since the early 1980s, MAG Silver says, and it plans to start a fully permitted 6,500-metre surface drill program in early October. The company has based its initial targets on an integrated 3D Leapfrog Geo project that combines a large historic data set with MAG Silver’s CRD exploration model, in addition to new surface and underground mapping, core reclogging and geophysical reprocessing.The company said in a news release the veining and surrounding alteration at the...

It is the first time these properties have been consolidated since the early 1980s, MAG Silver says, and it plans to start a fully permitted 6,500-metre surface drill program in early October. The company has based its initial targets on an integrated 3D Leapfrog Geo project that combines a large historic data set with MAG Silver’s CRD exploration model, in addition to new surface and underground mapping, core reclogging and geophysical reprocessing.

The company said in a news release the veining and surrounding alteration at the Alunite Ridge area “has long been suspected to be the surface expression of buried porphyry molybdenum-copper mineralization centre(s), which is supported by high-grade molybdenite-bearing quartz veins found recently by MAG in unsampled historic core.”

“MAG’s model suggests that these inferred intrusions are the source for continuous mineralization traceable to (and from) the Deer Trail mine CRD mineralization. Notably, this CRD-skarn-porphyry copper-molybdenum continuum is well expressed by the nearby giant Bingham Canyon porphyry copper district, which is of similar age and lies on the same regional fault system as Deer Trail.”

Peter Megaw, MAG Silver’s chief exploration officer, noted in the press release that Deer Trail has been on his “exploration radar since 1982 as it displays the most important characteristics of a large porphyry-related CRD system,” and that the company’s exploration team “is excited to see what unfolds over the next few months as we begin drilling for more extensive high-grade silver-gold-lead-zinc CRD and skarn mineralization below the historic mine.”

In order to earn its 100%, MAG must make a total of $30 million in escalating annual expenditures ($2.8 million has been spent as of the end of June) and $2 million in royalty payments ($150,000 has been paid as of the end of June) over the next ten years.

The company says drill and underground sampling results, “confirmed visually and by resampling,” support published production records from the Deer Trail mine of about 250,000 tons grading 3-42 grams gold per tonne; 350-465 grams silver per tonne; 3-5% lead; 1-2% zinc; and 0.6% copper. It also says that Deer Trail lies directly on the Tushar Fault splay of the regional Wasatch Fault system, which separates the Colorado Plateau and Great Basin geological provinces.

“This fault system hosts the giant Bingham Canyon porphyry copper-skarn CRD district 225 km to the north and several important CRDs including Tintic and Park City, Utah and Pioche, Nevada to the north and south respectively,” the company stated in its press release. In addition, the historic mine “cuts a number of ‘feeder’ faults that channeled mineralizing fluids from depth into the thin replaced limestone beds and ‘bleeder’ faults that channeled spent mineralizing fluids into the fringes of the system,” the Sept. 1o news release stated.

News of the deal sent MAG Silver’s Toronto-listed shares up 14¢ to close at $20.88 per share on Sept. 10.

At presstime, its shares were trading at C$21.03 within a 52-week trading range of C$5.33 and C$24.21 per share.

The company has 93.2 million commons shares outstanding for a market cap of about C$2 billion.

(This article first appeared in The Northern Miner on September 11)

ATV Adventures: Marysvale offering more opportunities to ride OHVs this year

Marysvale is situated at the heart of the Paiute ATV Trail System, which is a good reason to visit if you ride an OHV. Their signature event is the Paiute Trail Jamboree scheduled this year for Aug. 9-12, but there are more reasons now to ride trails out of Marysvale.If this ATV Adventure writer wasn’t asleep at the switch, you would have heard about the Mama Bear Run held on Mother’s Day weekend in plenty of time. However, there is still time to plan for the Papa Bear Run on Father’s Day weekend, June 17.Thes...

Marysvale is situated at the heart of the Paiute ATV Trail System, which is a good reason to visit if you ride an OHV. Their signature event is the Paiute Trail Jamboree scheduled this year for Aug. 9-12, but there are more reasons now to ride trails out of Marysvale.

If this ATV Adventure writer wasn’t asleep at the switch, you would have heard about the Mama Bear Run held on Mother’s Day weekend in plenty of time. However, there is still time to plan for the Papa Bear Run on Father’s Day weekend, June 17.

These two rides are planned as poker runs — the Mama Bear Run starts in Circleville and the Papa Bear Run starts in Marysvale. They both run the same route, but they start at different staging areas. There will be catered meals for breakfast and dinner available for purchase when you register.

Poker hands can be purchased for $5 per hand or five hands for $20. You don’t need a poker face to play this version, but participants will be playing for some great prizes. The fun of a poker run is the beautiful country you ride through to draw your hands.

Now back to their signature event. There are no registration fees for the Paiute Trails Jamboree. Registration does not include choosing the rides you want to take. There will be a large ride signup board posted at 7 a.m. on Wednesday in the park. Rides are chosen on a first come, first served basis.

While there are no fees for the jamboree, you will need to buy meal tickets as a part of registration, which is open and online at https://paiutejam.com. The schedule of events has an active “Registration” button. Click on that and you will see the menus for the meals and this year’s event schedule. Registration can also be accomplished at https://www.facebook.com/UTVJAM.

After you arrive and pick your rides, there will be a self-guided poker run between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. Hands can be purchased at the park. Events before the opening ceremonies at 6 p.m. include bingo and drag racing. Dinner is at 6:30 p.m.

Thursday begins with breakfast at 7 a.m. Rides start at staggered times with dinner in the evening at 6 p.m.

Right in the middle of this jamboree, which is Friday, there are no rides scheduled. They hold something called “Events on the Park.” If you haven’t witnessed this for yourselves, you are left to imagine what it is like. Even watching is something totally different than experiencing the event itself.

The first event is the “Blind Man’s Obstacle Course.” The driver is blindfolded and the passenger verbally guides the person through an obstacle course. This can be frustrating to the participants, but fun to watch.

This is followed by “UTV Soccer.” UTV drivers push a 6-foot-tall ball around a field on a timed event to get the ball through the goal posts. There is only one machine at a time to avoid catastrophic collisions. It looks easy until it is your turn.

The “King of the Trail” event is a timed event to test driving skills on an obstacle course. This is followed by a kid’s mud run and a belly flop contest into the yuckiest mud pit you can imagine. People actually stand in line to do this.

The “Events on the Park” make this a one-of-a-kind jamboree. Saturday is a day of riding with closing ceremonies and the awarding of door prizes at the 6 p.m. dinner.

Rounding out the riding season in Piute County will be the “Halloween Howl” on Oct. 28. This ride will also be a poker run with prizes awarded at the end of the ride.

True to the season, the route will take riders through a haunted section of the Fish Lake National Forest. Awards will be given for the spookiest machines and for the best Halloween costumes. Participants are asked to bring Halloween treats to share in a trunk-or-treat event that will be a part of the Howl.

These events emphasize the social part of riding in Utah’s great backcountry and tap into our basic desire to belong. When you go, take plenty of water, keep the rubber side down and plan on howling with the best of them.

Contact Lynn R. Blamires at [email protected].

ATV Adventures: Riding high on the Aquarius Plateau

The Aquarius Plateau is the highest timbered plateau in North America, peaking at 11,328 feet at Bluebell Knoll on Boulder Mountain. Running for about 100 miles along the northern edge of the Grand Staircase, the Aquarius Plateau was formed by tectonic plate uplift on the Colorado Plateau.The fact that it is timbered at such a high elevation is noteworthy. High above Marysvale, Utah, sit the Tushar Mountains. By the time you reach 11,400 feet at the pass, you are well above the timber line.Boulder Mountain is known locally as B...

The Aquarius Plateau is the highest timbered plateau in North America, peaking at 11,328 feet at Bluebell Knoll on Boulder Mountain. Running for about 100 miles along the northern edge of the Grand Staircase, the Aquarius Plateau was formed by tectonic plate uplift on the Colorado Plateau.

The fact that it is timbered at such a high elevation is noteworthy. High above Marysvale, Utah, sit the Tushar Mountains. By the time you reach 11,400 feet at the pass, you are well above the timber line.

Boulder Mountain is known locally as Boulder Top Mountain. It is easy to see why when you traverse its lofty boulder-strewn meadows. As the story goes, a cartographer who loved fishing named the mountain Boulder Mountain. He named a nearby mountain Thousand Lake Mountain. Boulder Mountain has a lot of boulders, but it also has a lot of lakes. The cartographer curiously gave the Boulder Mountain name to the one that has many lakes and fishing opportunities, while he gave the other mountain, which has very few lakes and much craggy terrain, the Thousand Lake name. Doesn’t that sound fishy?

We staged our ride at Giles Hollow off Forest Road 178 about eight miles southwest of Bicknell. The elevation there is 8,000 feet. Following Pine Creek for a ways, we began to climb.

The trail was more of a road, but it took us through forests of pines and aspen that were ablaze in fall colors as the morning sun flashed through their quaking leaves.

By the time we passed the Boulder Top peak, we were at 11,280 feet, only 29 feet below its peak. About a half mile later we passed Bluebell Knoll, the highest point on the Aquarius Plateau.

We stopped at the knoll, noting its importance, towering as it did, 121 feet above us. We were at the top of the plateau and the trail we were riding stayed pretty close to 11,000 feet as we traversed the meadows across the top.

The top of the plateau featured open meadows dotted with boulders and pine-covered hills. Passing over the East Fork Boulder Creek, we saw that it fed Elbow Lake – one of the many lakes on Boulder Top that the cartographer/fisherman wanted to keep quiet. It was easy to see how the lake got its name.

Taking a side trail to the right, we passed the East Boulder Lakes and 12 more on the way to a spot that had been picked for lunch. It was on the shore of the beautiful Horseshoe Lake – the perfect place for a lunch break. There were 20 lakes beyond that, but the road ended there.

I didn’t find out until later that after the many rustic pioneer-named features we had passed on this amazing trail, we also went by Stink Draw. It was like listening to a piano concerto when the pianist hit a wrong note.

After enjoying our varied trail cuisine at the serenity of the lake, we went back to the junction and turned right, continuing our ride across the top. As if Stink Draw was not enough, we also had to pass by Stink Flats.

We passed Noon Lake and Big Lake and soon came to Pleasant Creek Meadow, where we found Pleasant Lake – wasn’t that nice? In the meadow, Boulder Mountain towered 362 feet above us. I know that is not impressive, but the remarkable part was that we were riding on a plateau so high that 11,000-foot mountains were mere hills.

Continuing from the meadow, we passed many more lakes until we came to the edge of a cliff that offered a stunning view. Autumn colors were laid out below us in a patchwork of yellows, greens and reds dotted with the deep blues of the mountain lakes. We could see Highway 12 snaking through this colorful palate toward Torrey and Bicknell.

We were directly above, looking down on Round Lake, Scout Lake and Long Lake. It seemed like there was no end to the myriad of lakes on this mountain.

Having taken in all of this wonderful scenery we could possibly handle, we turned around and headed back. This was an in-and-out ride, so with the exception of the side trail to Horseshoe Lake, we followed the same track back to the beginning.

This was a ride with beautiful scenery of about 62 miles in length. Should you go, take plenty of water, keep the rubber side down, and enjoy the beauty of the Aquarius Plateau.

Contact Lynn Blamires at [email protected].

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Reflections on the Thistle mudslide from a reporter who was there

Anchor and reporterThis is an editorial piece. An editorial, like a news article, is based on fact but also shares opinions. The opinions expressed here are solely those of the author and are not associated with our newsroom.THISTLE, UTAH — I began covering the Thistle Mudslide shortly after it began in April, 1983. When I arrived at the site in Spanish Fork Canyon, there was an...

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This is an editorial piece. An editorial, like a news article, is based on fact but also shares opinions. The opinions expressed here are solely those of the author and are not associated with our newsroom.

THISTLE, UTAH — I began covering the Thistle Mudslide shortly after it began in April, 1983.

When I arrived at the site in Spanish Fork Canyon, there was an effort underway to keep the Thistle mudslide away from Highway 6. Bulldozers and other heavy equipment climbed up of the slide trying to do just that.

I remember how tiny they looked from a distance, crawling across the giant slide like insects. It became clear very quickly that no effort made by we little humans was going to stop geology from happening. The slide was going to have its way, blocking the river and destroying the road and the railroad tracks.

Access through the canyon was cut off and floodwaters covered the town of Thistle, which had been a railroad junction and home to about 50 people.

A historic school at the intersection of Highway 6 and Highway 89 was among the drowned buildings in the town.

We worried about the danger as water from the river backed up behind the slide. If it had broken through the slide, it would have caused a catastrophic flood downstream in Spanish Fork Canyon. But it was months before a tunnel through the slide was able to drain the lake and relieve the danger.

“The town never recovered”

The town never recovered. Nor did the railroad spur, the Marysvale Branch that connected the D&RGW line to southern Utah.

The tracks were abandoned, while the Union Pacific tracks through the canyon were eventually rebuilt higher on the hillside.

Once the highway was reconnected at the spot now called Thistle Junction, we marveled at the sight of ruined homes standing in the water as we passed through on our way to Sanpete County.

We adapted to the landscape changed by the slide, but the lesson it taught is still there.

Our state is shaped by geological processes that we do not control. We must remember that when we look at the fault scarps at the mouth of Little Cottonwood Canyon or the lava flows next to I-15 in Millard County.

The cities where we live were under 300 feet of water as recently as 16,000 years ago — within the time that people have lived here.

“One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth forever,” says Ecclesiastes. We will, one day, understand its sovereignty.

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Anfield to Acquire Marysvale and Calf Mesa Uranium Projects in Utah

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Jan. 03, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Anfield Energy Inc. (TSX.V: AEC; OTCQB: ANLDF; FRANKFURT: 0AD) (“Anfield” or “the Company”) is pleased to announce that it has entered into a definitive agreement with Nedeel LLC & BBL-2 LLC (“the Sellers”) to acquire a 100% interest in 65 unpatented mining claims and historical data of the Marysvale uranium project, located in Beaver County, Utah, and 100% interest in 26 unpatented mining claims and historical dat...

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Jan. 03, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Anfield Energy Inc. (TSX.V: AEC; OTCQB: ANLDF; FRANKFURT: 0AD) (“Anfield” or “the Company”) is pleased to announce that it has entered into a definitive agreement with Nedeel LLC & BBL-2 LLC (“the Sellers”) to acquire a 100% interest in 65 unpatented mining claims and historical data of the Marysvale uranium project, located in Beaver County, Utah, and 100% interest in 26 unpatented mining claims and historical data of the Calf Mesa uranium project, located in Emery County, Utah.

Corey Dias, Anfield’s CEO commented: “We are pleased to secure additional claims near our Utah projects, including the Shootaring Canyon Mill, and will continue to seek out prospective assets which fit into our two-fold strategy of acquiring both near term and longer-term uranium and vanadium assets which will fit into our overall production plan. The near-term strategy centers on our advanced Utah and Colorado uranium and vanadium projects – Velvet Wood, West Slope and Slick Rock – underpinned by our wholly-owned Shootaring Canyon mill, one of only 3 licensed conventional mills in the U.S. The longer-term production strategy includes the acquisition of complementary assets with potential to feed additional uranium and vanadium resource to our Shootaring Canyon mill. Much like our Artillery Peak acquisition, we believe that Marysvale and Calf Mesa will complement our existing assets and serve as part of our longer-term strategy.”

As consideration for the claims and associated data, the Sellers will receive US$60,000 in cash and 9 million common shares (the “Consideration Shares”) of Anfield. Completion of the acquisition of the Claims, and the issuance of the Consideration Shares, remains subject to the approval of the TSX Venture Exchange. Following issuance, the Consideration Shares will be subject to statutory restrictions on resale for a period of four-months-and-one-day. No finders’ fees or commissions are owing by the Company in connection with the acquisition of the Claims.

About Marysvale

Uranium was discovered in the Marysvale area in 1949 and produced approximately 1.4 million pounds, at a reported average grade of 0.22 %U3O8, of uranium between 1952 and 1967. Mined material was shipped to a government ore-buying station located in Marysvale, Utah (Trigon Exploration Canada Ltd, Technical Report on the Marysvale Property, Newton Mining District, Beaver County District, Utah, U.S.A., 2006).

The Project is located within the Marysvale volcanic field approximately 100 air miles west and north of the Shootaring Canyon mill.

Mineralization is hosted within hydrothermal veins associated with the “Central intrusive” and as supergene enrichment within altered rhyolitic volcanics. Historic mining was dominantly within the vein-type mineralization (Steven, T.A., Cunningham, and Machette, M.N., Integrated Uranium Systems in the Marysvale volcanic field, west-central, Utah, AAPG Studies in Geology No. 13).

Companies such as Energy Fuels Exploration Co. and Philips Uranium Corp. have held claims in the area, while both Philips and Trigon Exploration conducted drill programs.

Qualified Persons

Douglas L. Beahm, P.E., P.G., principal engineer at BRS Inc., is a Qualified Person as defined in NI 43-101 and has reviewed and approved the technical content of this news release.

About Anfield

Anfield is a uranium and vanadium development and near-term production company that is committed to becoming a top-tier energy-related fuels supplier by creating value through sustainable, efficient growth in its assets. Anfield is a publicly traded corporation listed on the TSX-Venture Exchange (AEC-V), the OTCQB Marketplace (ANLDF) and the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (0AD). Anfield is focused on its conventional asset centre, as summarized below:

Arizona/Utah/Colorado – Shootaring Canyon Mill

A key asset in Anfield’s portfolio is the Shootaring Canyon Mill in Garfield County, Utah. The Shootaring Canyon Mill is strategically located within one of the historically most prolific uranium production areas in the United States, and is one of only three licensed uranium mills in the United States.

Anfield’s conventional uranium assets consist of mining claims and state leases in southeastern Utah, Colorado, and Arizona, targeting areas where past uranium mining or prospecting occurred. Anfield’s conventional uranium assets include the Velvet-Wood Project, the Frank M Uranium Project, the West Slope Project, as well as the Findlay Tank breccia pipe. A NI 43-101 PEA has been completed for the Velvet-Wood Project. The PEA is preliminary in nature, and includes inferred mineral resources that are considered too speculative geologically to have economic considerations applied to them that would enable them to be categorized as mineral reserves and, resultantly, there is no certainty that the included preliminary economic assessment would be realized. All conventional uranium assets are situated within a 200-mile radius of the Shootaring Mill.

Technical Disclosure

Table 1. Anfield’s existing conventional uranium-vanadium project portfolio resources.

ProjectLocationClassificationTons (kt)UraniumGrade(% U3O8)ContainedUranium(Mlbs U3O8)VanadiumGrade(% V2O5)ContainedVanadium(Mlbs V2O5)
Velvet-WoodUtahM & I8110.29%4.6--
Inferred870.32%0.6--
West SlopeColoradoIndicated2,4520.142%6.9--
Inferred2,452- -0.708%34.7
Historic*6560.26%3.51.49%19.5
Slick RockColoradoInferred2,5490.228%11.61.37%69.6
Frank MUtahHistoric*1,1370.101%2.3--
Findlay TankArizonaHistoric*2110.226%1.0--
Date Creek/Artillery PeakArizonaHistoric*2,6020.054%2.8

* The Company’s Qualified Person has not done sufficient work to classify these historic estimates as current mineral resources and Anfield is not treating such historical resources as current mineral resources.

Velvet-Wood: The PEA for Velvet-Wood was authored by Douglas L. Beahm, P.E., P.G. Principal Engineer, of BRS Inc., Terence P. (Terry) McNulty, P.E., D. Sc., of T.P. McNulty and Associates Inc. (May 31, 2016). Mineral resources are not mineral reserves and do not have demonstrated economic viability in accordance with CIM standards. GT cut-off varies by locality from 0.25%-0.50%.

West Slope: NI 43-101 resource estimate for the JD-6, JD-7, JD-8 and JD-9 properties, completed by BRS Inc. (effective March 2022); Historic resource estimate for the SR-11, SR-13A, SM-18 N, SM-18 S, LP-21 and CM-25 properties, completed by Behre Dolbear for Cotter Corporation (August 2007). Indicated and Inferred resources using GT cut-off of 0.1 ft% eU3O8; historic resources using cut-off of 0.05% U3O8.

Slick Rock: Historical resource estimate prepared by BRS Engineering, Inc. (effective April 2014). GT cut-offs range from 0.25%-0.50%

Frank M: Historic Technical Report for Frank M, prepared for Uranium One Americas, was authored by Douglas L. Beahm, P.E., P.G. Principal Engineer of BRS Inc., and Andrew C. Anderson, P.E., P.G. Senior Engineer/Geologist of BRS Inc., dated June 10, 2008. Frank M historic resource used a GT cut-off of 0.25%.

Findlay Tank: Historic Technical Report for Findlay Tank, prepared for Uranium One Americas, was authored by Douglas L. Beahm, P.E., P.G. Principal Engineer of BRS Inc., dated October 2, 2008. Findlay Tank historic resource used a grade cut-off of 0.05% eU3O8.

Artillery Peak: Artillery Peak Exploration Project, Mohave County, Arizona, 43-101 Technical Report, authored by Dr. Karen Wenrich, October 12, 2010. GT cut-off varies by locality from 0.01%-0.05%.

On behalf of the Board of DirectorsANFIELD ENERGY INC.Corey Dias, Chief Executive Officer

Neither TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.

Contact:Anfield Energy, Inc.Clive MostertCorporate [email protected]www.anfieldenergy.com

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