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Angled drilling intersected one of the best high-grade intervals to date, with 50 meters grading 12.01 percent U3O8 starting at a depth of 435 meters.
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NexGen Energy (TSXV:NXE)
Price: $0.71
Market cap: $179 million
Cash estimate: $23 million
Project: Rook 1
Country: Canada
Ownership: 100 percent
Resources: N/A
Project status: Exploration drilling — resource H1/2016
- NexGen Energy announced initial results from the 2015 summer drilling program on the Arrow target on its 100% owned Rook 1 project. The project is located in the southwestern Athabasca Basin, 2.1 kilometres north of Fission Uranium’s (TSX.FCU) Patterson Lake project.
- Angled drilling intersected one of the best high-grade intervals to date with 50.0 metres grading 12.01% U3O8 starting at a depth of 435 metres including 18.0 metres at 20.55% U3O8 and 4.5 metres of 40.64% U3O8. The drilling is clearly defining the centre of gravity of the high-grade core of the deposit. The true width of the steeply dipping zones of basement hosted mineralization in the A2 Shear and A3 shear zone is estimated at 11-27 metres and 30-78 metres respectively.
- The Arrow zone has now been outlined in three separate shear zones with A2 and A3 being the most significant. The total area of the three zones extends over an area of 645 metres by 215 metres with a core strike length of 300 metres. The vertical extent starts at 100 metres depth extending to 920 metres. While drilling to the northeast continues to intersect mineralized intervals, the mineralization to date appears to be pinching out to the northeast. Additional drilling will be required to test the bounds of the zone.
- The Company has expanded its five rig summer program to 30,000 metres drilling program and is now targeting a maiden 43-101 resource by H2/2016. The Company is well financed with $23 million in working capital. Recent drilling at the Bow target 3.7 kilometres to the northeast of Arrow intersected one metre zone of 1.44% U3O8.
- Outside of the key Arrow zone, the summer drill program will include additional drilling in the Bow zone, as well as testing additional EM and radon anomalies. Drilling will also test a ground gravity low at the Spitfire target to the northeast of Bow.
Discovery hole (February 2014): 5.75 metres @ 0.37% U3O8
Current drilling: 50.0 metres @ 12.01% U3O8 including 18.0 metres @ 20.55% U3O8 and 4.5 metres @ 40.64% U3O8
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