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Fission pushes PLS forward in Athabasca
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Sokoman Iron sparks gold fever in central Newfoundland DISCOVERY
| First drill hole at Moosehead returns high-grade gold BY COLIN DESMOND
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okoman Iron (TSXV: SIC; USOTC: GDNDF) has struck gold with the first hole in drilling at its Moosehead gold project in central Newfoundland, 20 km west of the town of Grand Falls-Windsor. On July 30, Sokoman reported hole 18-1 cut 45 grams gold per tonne over 11.9 metres from 109 metres downhole. Significant assay results were also found up and downhole of the quartz vein. That vein lies between the previously drilled Western and Eastern trends at Sokoman’s Moosehead gold project, possibly indicating a new trend. Sokoman drilled hole 18-1 to test the up-dip potential of a historical intercept in 2003 by Moosehead’s See SOKOMAN IRON / 16
Workers on a drilling barge at Fission Uranium’s Patterson Lake South uranium project in northern Saskatchewan. PHOTO BY RICHARD QUARISA BY RICHARD QUARISA rquarisa@northernminer.com PATTERSON LAKE, SASK
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ission Uranium (TSX: FCU; US-OTC: FCUUF) is in the midst of a $6.4-million, midyear work program at its nearsurface Patterson Lake South (PLS) uranium project in northwestern Saskatchewan. It aims to complete the remaining geotechnical and resource drilling with an eye to tabling a pre-feasibility study in 2018’s fourth quarter. PLS contains the Triple R deposit: five mineralized bodies across a 3.2 km mineralized trend on the southwestern end of Saskatchewan’s
Athabasca basin — in a location that defies the once conventional wisdom on where to find uranium in the area. Until Fission discovered PLS, most believed uranium deposits resided on the eastern end of the basin, and that all the near-surface deposits had been found and explorers needed to look deeper. It makes sense: all of Canada’s current uranium production comes from the eastern side of the basin. Fission proved them wrong. It did so partly thanks to a highresolution airborne radiometric and magnetic survey it ran in 2009, using now proprietary technology developed by a private consulting group that detected a radioactive
“THERE’S NO OTHER LARGE, HIGH-GRADE URANIUM DEPOSIT NEAR-SURFACE IN THE BASIN.” ROSS MCELROY CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER, FISSION URANIUM
anomaly 3 km west of Patterson Lake, in a new area. “You need geophysics to paint the picture of the rocks below because there’s really no outcrop,” Fission president and chief operating of-
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ficer Ross McElroy says during a site visit to PLS. Fission discovered a high-grade, uranium boulder field through follow-up work on the anomaly. Through drilling, it traced the anomaly back to the west shore of Patterson Lake. It drilled the discovery hole, announced on Nov. 5, 2012, in what is now called the R00E zone. Since then, the project has grown considerably and its 17 mineral claims now cover 310 square kilometres. From west to east, the five mineralized zones that make up the Triple R deposit are: R1515W, R840W, R00E, R780E and R1620E. See FISSION / 2
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