Three diamond drills on barges on Patterson
Lake were used by the Fission Uranium-Alpha
Minerals joint venture to test for uranium
mineralization at the Patterson Lake South
Project in the Athabasca Basin of northern
Saskatchewan. Photo courtesy Fission
Uranium-Alpha Minerals.
The PLS uranium corridor has been
traced 1,020 metres along strike within
which the five individual zones of highgrade uranium mineralization have been
intersected in drill holes. The R00E Zone
has been fence-drilled over an area of 135
metres along strike by 50 metres in width
and the R390E Zone has been fence-drilled
over an area 120 metres along strike and 40
metres in width; and in late September was
extended to a strike length of 255 metres
based on scintillometer readings with offscale radioactivity of eight holes.
The R585E, R780E and R945E zones have
had limited drilling, but where high-grade
uranium or off-scale radioactivity was
intersected with mono-metallic type mineralization and with geophysical signatures
indicating similar type strike lengths and
widths to R00E and R390E can be inferred.
The best intersection to date was from drill
hole PLS13-075 in the R390E zone which
included 54.5 metres grading 9.08% U3O8
including a 21.5-metre interval grading
21.76% U3O8. More importantly, this intersection is from a vertical hole 68 to 90 metres
in depth and, like most of the uranium-bear20 www.resourceworld.com
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