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Fission Uranium announced the discovery of a new zone at depth 25 meters north of R600W. Additional results from seven holes in the 780E zone have expanded the footprint and filled in gaps in the high-grade core of the zone.
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Fission Uranium (TSX:FCU)
Price: $1.00
Market cap: $386 million
Working capital: $29 million
Project: Patterson Lake
Country: Canada
Ownership: 100 percent
Resources: Indicated: 79.6 million pounds at 1.58 percent U3O8 Inferred: 25.8 million pounds at 1.30 percent U3O8
Project status: Resource definition, PEA in summer 2015
- Fission Uranium announced the discovery of a new zone at depth 25 metres north of R600 W. Additional results from seven holes in the 780E Zone have expanded the footprint and filled in gaps in the core high-grade core of the 780E zone. The 100% owned Patterson Lake South project is located in the southwestern Athabasca Basin in Saskatchewan. The near surface basement hosted deposit is well situated along the all-weather gravel road to the Cluff Lake Mine.
- Highlights from the 600W zone included an isolated interval at 307 metres depth of 2.5 metres of mineralization well within the less commonly mineralized semi-pelitic gneiss grading 3.26% U3O8. The intersection is important as it opens up the potential for a new parallel high-grade zone to the north of the main zone in R600W. Based on sections provided on the Company’s web site, the steeply dipping interval will be significantly narrower than the estimated true thickness of 10 metres in the main 600W zone.
- Additional drilling in the 780E Zone included a number of high-grade intervals including; 8.0 metres grading 11.91% U3O8, 3.0 metres of 15.33% U3O8 and 4.0 metres of 14.72% U3O9. The drilling has extended the high-grade core by 10-15 metre increments in several directions
- In January 2015, the Company announced a preliminary 43-101 compliant indicated resource estimate of 79.6 million pounds at a grade of 1.58% U3O8 including high-grade core of 44.2 million pounds at 18.21% U3O8. The 43-101 resource also included an inferred resource estimate of 25.8 million pounds grading 1.30% U3O8. The Drill Tracker Chart for Fission plots the previous drillholes based on the starting depth of the mineralization showing the abundant number of near surface holes above 150 metres depth.
- The near surface basement hosted mineralization is contained within four separate zones extending over 2.25 kilometres of strike length. The 780 Zone is located beneath the relatively shallow 6 metre deep Paterson Lake. The basement hosted mineralization is expected to have more competent wall rocks that the unconformity hosted deposits which have historically had water control issues along the more porous sandstone contacts.
Discovery Hole Patterson Lake South (Nov 2012) 8.5 meters at 1.07 percent U3O8
Discovery Hole 600W (March 2015): 9.0 meters at 14.74 percent U3O8
Current Holes (New Zone in 600W): 2.5 meters at 3.26 percent U3O8
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