Infini locks in key contractors for Canadian uranium push
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Craig Nolan
Infini Resources has appointed major contracting firms for the company’s first drilling program at the promising Reynolds Lake and Reitenbach Lake uranium projects in Canada’s world-famous Athabasca Basin.
The company is targeting a minimum of 2,500 meters of diamond drilling campaign at its twin sites and will expand the scope of the program if drilling results require further drilling with the drill bit.
Drilling is planned to test the unsuitability of uranium targets housed in the basement, determined from the aerial geophysical surveys and field programs the company carried out last year.
Rodren Drilling, Canada’s leading drilling company, brings 47 years of exploration and drilling experience to the table, along with a strong track record of providing services in the Athabasca Basin and remote geological environments.
Rodren will complete the diamond drilling program designed to test priority targets related to conductive horizons, structural corridors and geochemical anomalies uncovered at the project site.
‘The scale of the EM conductors highlights the potential of the system.’
Infini Resources CEO Rohan Bone
Infini also approved long-time Canadian geological services firm Archer Cathro & Associates to provide geological expertise at the site. The firm will oversee the drilling program and coordinate geological record keeping, sampling and field program activities.
He also brings tremendous experience to the upcoming campaign, having worked in mineral exploration in northern Canada for more than 60 years.
The management said that the mobilization of the two contracting companies will begin in mid-April and the highly anticipated exercise campaign will begin shortly thereafter.
Airborne electromagnetic (EM) interpretation recently completed by the company revealed that conductive horizons initially identified on the original Lake Reitenbach lands extend approximately 20 kilometers into the company’s newly mined area, outlining a possible uranium corridor of 20 km by 5 km.
The company mapped a total EM pulse length of 80 kilometers across the wider area, along with existing conductors at the two project sites.
Management believes the conductors consist of graphite shales and structurally controlled features, which are generally considered the primary base for basement-hosted uranium mineralization and are typical of unconformity-style systems of the Athabasca Basin.
Infini Resources CEO Rohan Bone said: “The scale of the EM conductors, strong uranium geochemical anomalies, and the high-grade Titus Show together highlight the potential of the system and provide compelling targets for drilling.”
Nick Mitchell, Infini’s exploration manager, said the targets were identified through a careful review of surface work and analysis of geophysical surveys completed last year, providing a strong technical basis for the drilling programme.
The company will target the high-grade Titus Show prospect, where a uraninite-bearing rock sample revealed an impressive 1.9 percent uranium oxide assay result along a possible EM conductor hosted in an interpreted metapelitic unit adjacent to a large structural bend.
Structural bending refers to the phenomenon of geological rock bending, such as folds and ridges, that can form ore-retaining structures.
Together, the Reynolds Lake and Reitenbach Lake projects span 766 square kilometers of contiguous land on the eastern margin of the Athabasca Basin in northern Saskatchewan, known for unconformity-style uranium deposits.
Together with the Boulding Lake project, also in the Athabasca region, the company controls a significant 1021 square kilometers in the world’s leading uranium region, responsible for producing approximately 20 percent of global supply.
Along with the company’s promising Portland Creek project in Canada, with analyzes confirming uranium mineralization from recent drilling there, Infini’s two Athabascan projects could put the company on the path to becoming a highly successful uranium explorer.
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