GOOD NEWS FROM CLAUDE RESOURSES

SASKATOON, Feb. 17 /CNW/ - Claude ResourcesInc. (TSX-CRJ; AMEX-CGR) today reported initial results from its 2009 8Zone underground drill program at its Madsen Project, Red Lake, Ontario.

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Hole ID       From     Length     Au      Length     Au      VG Noted
(m)      (m)      (g/t)     (ft)    (oz/t)
MUG-08-01    883.00     0.75    127.12     2.46     3.71         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 12,000 meters of drilling. The assayreported today confirms the high grade mineralization 130 feet downplunge of historic mine development and is consistent with historicdrilling immediately above and below the 27th level that returned drillintercepts including 0.81 oz/ton over 14.4 feet, 2.76 oz/ton over 6.6feet, 2.22 oz/ton over 3 feet and 1.25 oz/ton over 3 feet.

Mineralization is hosted within a visible gold-bearing quartz veinsystem within a sequence of silica-biotite-talc altered basaltsproximal to a major ultramafic contact.

"The abundant visible gold and geologic setting of this firstintercept supports our belief that the 8 Zone is a high grade goldsystem. This is a positive first intercept of our 20 hole, Phase Iunderground drill program at Madsen," stated Brian Skanderbeg,Vice-President Exploration, Claude Resources Inc.

Madsen is an advanced exploration property containing extensiveinfrastructure including a 500 tonne per day mill with expansioncapacity, a permitted tailings management facility and a fivecompartment 4,000 foot operating shaft.

A Madsen property location map and cross section of the Madsen mineas well as photographs of the intercept are available on the Claude'swebsitewww.clauderesources.com.

Brian Skanderbeg, P.Geo. and M.Sc., Claude's Vice-PresidentExploration, is the Qualified Person who has reviewed and approved thisnews release. Drill core was halved and samples averaging 1.0 to 1.5meters were submitted to Accurassay Laboratories in Thunder Bay,Ontario, an ISO approved facility. Rigorous quality assurance andquality control procedures have been implemented including the use ofblanks, standards and duplicates (1 in 20 samples). Core samples wereanalyzed by a 30 gram gold fire assay with an atomic absorption,conventional gravimetric and/or screen fire techniques. Intercepts arereported as drilled widths and interpreted to vary between 75% to 90%of true widths.

Claude Resources Inc. is a public company based in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, whose shares trade on the TorontoStock Exchange (TSX-CRJ) and the American Stock Exchange (AMEX-CGR).Claude is a gold exploration and mining company. The Company's entireasset base is located inCanada . Since1991, Claude has produced approximately 835,000 ounces of gold from itsSeabee mining operation in northeastern Saskatchewan. The Company alsoowns 100% of the 10,000 acre Madsen property in the prolific Red Lakegold camp of northwestern Ontario.