VANCOUVER, BC, Dec. 4, 2023
/PRNewswire/ - GoldMining Inc. (the "Company" or
"GoldMining") (TSX: GOLD) (NYSE American: GLDG) is pleased
to announce plans for advancing the Rea uranium project (the
"Rea Project" or the "Project"), Western
Athabasca Basin, Alberta,
Canada.
The Rea Project is owned 75% by the Company and 25% by Orano
Canada Inc. ("Orano"). The large land package of
approximately 125,328 hectares surrounds Oranoꞌs high-grade
Dragon Lake deposit on the
Maybelle River project. World-class uranium deposits located 60 km
to the southeast of the Rea Project include Fission Uranium Corp.'s
("Fission") Triple R deposit and NexGen Energy Inc.'s
("NexGen") Arrow deposit which are currently in
development.
Highlights:
- Uranium prices have risen to US$80.25 per pound for the first time since 2008
and uranium is the best performing energy commodity in 2023.
- The Athabasca Basin is home to
the world's richest uranium mines and contains some of the largest
and highest-grade uranium deposits and is currently estimated to
contribute approximately 15% of the annual world-wide uranium
production at grades 10 to 20 times the global
average.1
- The Company acquired the Rea Project as part of its acquisition
of Brazilian Gold Corporation ("BGC") in 2013 and prior to
many of the major discoveries made in Western Athabasca basin such as the Triple R
and Arrow deposits.
- The Project is located in an underexplored area that has seen
renewed exploration activity as a result of recent near surface,
basement hosted, high-grade discoveries in the nearby Patterson
Lake area (Fig. 1: Rea Location Map). The Project contains two
prominent uranium targets for follow-up exploration.
- The Rea Project is located 175 km north-northwest of
Fort McMurray, Alberta in one of
the largest landholdings in the Western
Athabasca Basin, a region that has experienced increased
exploration activity in recent years.
- The Rea Project surrounds Orano's Maybelle River project that
hosts shallow (<200 m) uranium
mineralization at the Dragon Lake
deposit. Dragon Lake occurs within
the north-northwest striking Maybelle River
Shear Zone ("MRSZ"), which extends an additional 11
km north wards across the GoldMining's Rea Project claims.
- High-grade uranium discoveries by NexGen and Fission are
located along a regional shear zone in the Patterson Lake area
highlights the potential for large shear zones, such as the MRSZ on
the Rea Project, to host multiple deposits.
Alastair Still, CEO, stated:
"With GoldMining's portfolio of gold and gold-copper projects
located throughout the Americas, it may come as a surprise to some
that the Company owns the large and prospective Rea uranium project
located in the Western Athabasca
Basin, Canada. We are working to
reactivate our exploration efforts and plan to work with local
stakeholders as we develop a phased approach to daylight value from
this largely unrecognized asset. In the coming months, we will make
further announcements on our plans to target a major regional shear
zone 9 kilometers along strike of the high-grade, near-surface
uranium mineralization at the Dragon
Lake deposit. Given that NexGen's Arrow and Purepoint
Uranium Group's Spitfire discoveries are hosted within a similar
regional shear zone approximately 7 and 13 km northeast of
Fission's Triple R deposit, we believe that there is good potential
to find additional deposits along the MRSZ."
Rea Uranium Project
The Rea Project2 consists of 16 contiguous
exploration permits covering approximately 125,328 hectares
surrounding Oranoꞌs Maybelle River project, which hosts the
relatively shallow, Dragon Lake
deposit. The Rea Project is located approximately 175 km
north-northwest of Fort McMurray,
Alberta, which is serviced daily by commercial flights from
Edmonton and Calgary. Access to the Project is by winter
roads connecting Fort McKay and Fort
Chipewyan, or by charter flights.
Historic exploration programs were completed by Eldorado Nuclear
Ltd. and Uranerz Exploration and Mining Limited from the mid-1970ꞌs
to the late 1990ꞌs on ground now mostly covered by the Rea Project.
The programs included various geochemical surveys, boulder
prospecting, airborne and ground geophysics and diamond drilling
(137 drill holes totaling 28,751 m).
These programs led to the discovery of Oranoꞌs Dragon Lake deposit in 1988. Since that time,
Orano has maintained a narrow zone of permits that cover the north
to southwest trending electromagnetic ("EM") conductor that
is directly associated with the Dragon
Lake deposit. The deposit was discovered in 1988 and
published high-grade drill intersections include 17.7%
U3O8 over 5 m
in MR-39 and 4.7% U3O8 over 1.7 m in MR-34.3
In 2005, a large land package surrounding the entire Maybelle
River project was acquired by BGC. BGC was acquired by Brazil
Resources in 2013. Brazil Resources was subsequently renamed
GoldMining Inc. in 2016.
Rea Project exploration programs completed during the period
from 2005 to 2012 included airborne magnetics, Time Domain
Electromagnetics ("TDEM"), gravity, ground geophysics and
diamond drilling (8 drill holes totaling 1,908 m). The programs were successful in mapping
the continuation of the TDEM conductor that is associated with the
MRSZ and the Dragon Lake deposit.
The conductor propagates both northwards and southwards onto the
Rea Project claims. In addition, several parallel conductors were
located to the east and west of the Maybelle prospect. The focus of
the 2016 ground TDEM survey focused on one of these conductors
defining an anomaly that is located 2 km west of the main MRSZ and
Oranoꞌs high-grade Dragon Lake
deposit. High-grade uranium discoveries by Fission and NexGen
located along a regional shear zone in the Patterson Lake area
highlights the potential for large shear zones, such as the MRSZ on
the Rea Project, to host multiple deposits.
The Company is currently refining and prioritizing exploration
targets and expects to announce details with respect to its
exploration plans at the Project in the coming months.
1 Please see World Nuclear
Association website at https://world-nuclear.org/.
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2 Please see
the technical report titled "Technical Report on the Rea Property.
Northeastern Alberta, Canada", dated effective September 12, 2014
(the "Rea Report"), for details on the Rea Project.
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3 Wheatley,
K. and Cutts, C., 2013: Overview of the Dragon Lake Uranium
Prospect, Maybelle River Area, Northeastern Alberta, Exploration
and Mining Geology, Vol. 21, p 51-62, Canadian Institute of Mining,
Metallurgy and Petroleum.
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Qualified Person
Tim Smith, P. Geo., Vice
President Exploration of GoldMining, has supervised the preparation
of and approved the scientific and technical information contained
herein. Mr. Smith is a qualified person defined in National
Instrument 43-101 Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects
("NI 43-101").
About GoldMining Inc.
The Company is a public mineral exploration company focused on
the acquisition and development of gold assets in the Americas.
Through its disciplined acquisition strategy, the Company now
controls a diversified portfolio of resource-stage gold and
gold-copper projects in Canada,
U.S.A., Brazil, Colombia, and Peru. The Company also owns more than 21
million shares of Gold Royalty Corp. (NYSE American: GROY), 9.8
million shares of U.S. GoldMining Inc. (Nasdaq: USGO), and 16.6
million shares of NevGold Corp. (TSXV: NAU). See www.goldmining.com
for additional information.
Notice to Readers
Technical disclosure regarding the
Rea Project has been prepared by the Company in
accordance with NI 43-101. NI 43-101 is a rule of the Canadian
Securities Administrators which establishes standards for all
public disclosure an issuer makes of scientific and technical
information concerning mineral projects. These standards
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Commission ("SEC") and the scientific and technical information
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statements involve risks and uncertainties, including: the inherent
risks involved in the exploration and development of mineral
properties, fluctuating metal prices, unanticipated costs and
expenses, risks related to government and environmental regulation,
social, permitting and licensing matters, any inability to commence
and complete work as expected, the Company's plans with respect to
the São Jorge project may change as a result of further planning or
otherwise, and uncertainties relating to the availability and
costs of financing needed in the future. These risks, as well as
others, including those set forth in GoldMiningꞌs Annual
Information Form for the year ended November
30, 2022, and other filings with Canadian securities
regulators and the SEC, could cause actual results and events to
vary significantly. Accordingly, readers should not place undue
reliance on forward-looking statements. There can be no assurance
that forward-looking statements, or the material factors or
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prove to be accurate. The Company does not undertake to update any
forward-looking statements, except in accordance with applicable
securities law.
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