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Most recently, NexGen announced Tuesday its best-ever angled drill hole at Arrow to date, garnering more positive feedback from analysts. The company’s share price was up 13.24 percent by the end of the day.
Most recently, NexGen announced Tuesday its best-ever angled drill hole at Arrow to date, garnering more positive feedback from analysts. According to the company’s press release, angled drill hole AR-15-39 intersected 89.15 meters total composite mineralization, including 16.75 meters of off-scale radioactivity (>10,000 to >61,000 cps) within a 436.5-meter section.
Rob Chang from Cantor Fitzgerald believes that hole AR-15-39 “appears to share the same characteristics as AR-14-15, which discovered mineralization at depth on the A2 mineralized shear that was later traced shallower to hole AR-14-30, which is one of the best holes ever reported in the world.”
New promising discoveries
NexGen’s Tuesday report also states that the newly discovered high-grade intersection within the A3 mineralization shear in AR-15-39 has returned 9.75 meters of off-scale radioactivity (>10,000 to >61,000 cps), and represents a 200-meter down-dip extension from high-grade uranium assay intervals in drill holes AR-14-08 and -13.
“The importance of this new discovery of wide and concentrated high grade uranium mineralization from AR-15-39 within the A3 mineralized shear can’t be overstated,” Garrett Ainsworth, vice president of NexGen, said in the press release. “Visible uranium mineralization (9.75 m of off-scale radioactivity) discovered in the A3 shear with AR-15-39 is analogous to the uranium mineralization that was discovered in the A2 shear with AR-14-15 (4.8 m off-scale radioactivity) during the summer 2014 drill program. Vertical extent of mineralization has now been traced from as shallow as 100 m to depths of 820 m, which continues to show the impressive strength of the uranium mineralizing system that precipitated out into the Arrow zone.”
According to Haywood Securities, the results from hole Ar-15-39 “provide greater confidence that the scale and intensity of mineralization within the A3 shear is comparable to A2.”
More results yet to come
Analysts from both Cantor and Haywood are looking forward to the assay results from hole AR-15-39, as well as results from other outstanding holes from the winter drilling program at Arrow. To date, a total of 5,518.9 meters have been reported from the program, and so far 37 of 39 drill holes at Arrow have intersected uranium mineralization of greater than 500 cps.
When the company announced its plans for Arrow on January 5, 2015, it reported that a third drill would be deployed mid-January and would move northeast and southwest from Arrow along the Patterson Conductor Corridor, which is 7 kilometers in strike length through the western section of Rook 1. Tuesday’s release confirms that drilling has commenced at a high-priority radon target located 400 meters along strike to the northeast of the Arrow zone.
At close of day on Tuesday, shares of NexGen were trading at $0.39, up 13.24 percent. The company’s share price has gained approximately 18.5 percent over the past month.
Securities Disclosure: I, Kristen Moran, hold no direct investment in any of the companies mentioned in this article.
Editorial Disclosure: NexGen Energy is a client of the Investing News Network. This article is not paid-for content.
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