Blue Sky Uranium Step-Out Drilling Program Confirms Expansion at Ivana Deposit, Amarillo Grande Project, Argentina
2018年10月9日 - 10:30PM
Blue Sky Uranium Corp. (TSX-V: BSK, FSE: MAL2; OTC: BKUCF),
"Blue Sky" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that
results from the recently completed reverse circulation (RC)
drilling program have confirmed the southern expansion of the Ivana
Uranium-Vanadium deposit on its wholly-owned Amarillo Grande
Uranium-Vanadium project in Rio Negro, Argentina.
Analytical results have been received to date
from all 61 holes drilled (totaling 1,043 metres) in the recently
completed RC drilling program. They demonstrate that the
Ivana Uranium-Vanadium deposit extends more than 1,000 metres to
the south of the current mineral resource (Thorson et al., April
18th 2018 filed on SEDAR). Highlight analytical results are
compiled in Table 1 below. Table 2 (here) contains all
significant intervals (>1m averaging >30ppm U3O8) as well as
drill hole location information. A map of drill holes is shown in
Figure 1 (here).
"We are pleased that drilling in the Ivana
uranium-vanadium deposit area has demonstrated it is open to
expansion outside of the current mineral resource,” stated Nikolaos
Cacos, Blue Sky President & CEO. “Blue Sky
continues to advance high-priority targets in the Ivana area while
progressing the processing design and metallurgical test work to
support a PEA.”
The Company continues to advance with its
ongoing mineralogical, metallurgical, and process engineering
studies at the Saskatchewan Research Council (SRC) under the
guidance of the Company’s Technical Advisor, Chuck Edwards P.Eng.
The objectives of the work at SRC include confirming the balance of
uranium and vanadium in the ore preparation, and optimizing the
leach extraction rate and recovery, in support of a Preliminary
Economic Assessment (PEA). The work will include QEMSCAN®
quantitative mineralogy testing and customized leach experiments.
Preliminary QEMSCAN® mineralogy was conducted in June and has aided
in the design of the current metallurgical and process testing.
Table 1. Amarillo Grande Highlight Drill
Hole Intervals
Hole # |
From (m) |
To (m) |
Interval (m)* |
U3O8 (ppm) |
V2O5 (ppm) |
AGI-0433 |
12 |
14 |
2 |
224 |
165 |
AGI-0434 |
10 |
13 |
3 |
131 |
103 |
including |
10 |
11 |
1 |
258 |
143 |
AGI-0437 |
17 |
18 |
1 |
172 |
100 |
AGI-0444 |
18 |
21 |
3 |
103 |
60 |
AGI-0455 |
18 |
19 |
1 |
107 |
43 |
AGI-0459 |
18 |
21 |
3 |
104 |
123 |
including |
19 |
20 |
1 |
183 |
137 |
AGI-0460 |
21 |
23 |
2 |
116 |
86 |
AGI-0464 |
14 |
15 |
1 |
380 |
98 |
*All holes were vertical and the intervals are
believed to represent true thickness.
Methodology and QA/QC
The drilling program is being carried out using
an FlexiROC D65 drill rig from Atlas Copco, an ore-control
track-mounted rig adapted to reverse circulation with triple
cyclone to reduce the dust loss during sampling and automatic
sampling. Samples are being sent to Bureau Veritas Minerals of
Mendoza, Argentina for preparation by drying, crushing to 80%
passing 10 mesh and then pulverizing a 250g split to 95% passing
150 mesh. Pulps are being sent to Bureau Veritas Commodities Canada
Ltd. for analysis of 45 elements by means of Inductively Coupled
Plasma Mass Spectrometry (ICP-MS) following a four-acid digestion
(MA-200). Samples over 4,000ppm uranium are re-assayed after
phosphoric acid leach by Inductively Coupled Plasma Electron
Spectrometry (ICP-ES). Approximately every 10th sample a blank,
duplicate, or standard sample is inserted into the sample sequence
for quality assurance/quality control (QA/QC) purposes. No
significant QA/QC issues were detected by the Company during review
of the data.
About the Amarillo Grande
Project The Company's 100% owned Amarillo Grande
Uranium-Vanadium Project in Rio Negro Province, Argentina is a new
uranium district controlled by Blue Sky. The Project includes
several major target areas over a regional trend, with uranium and
vanadium mineralization in loosely consolidated sandstones and
conglomerates, at or near surface. The area is flat-lying,
semi-arid and accessible year-round, with nearby rail, power and
port access. The Company’s strategy includes delineating resources
at multiple areas for which a central processing facility could
consolidate production. The Ivana deposit is the cornerstone
of the Project and the first area to have a NI 43-101 Inferred
Resource estimate, which includes 23.9 million tonnes averaging
0.036% U308 and 0.019% V2O5, containing 19.1 million pounds of U3O8
and 10.2 million pounds of V2O5, at a 100 ppm uranium cut-off.
Mineralization at Amarillo Grande has
characteristics of sandstone-type and surficial-type
uranium-vanadium deposits. The sandstone-type
mineralization is related to a braided fluvial system and indicates
the potential for a district-size system. In the surficial-type
deposits, carnotite mineralization coats loosely consolidated
pebbles, and is amenable to leaching and simple upgrading.
The near-surface mineralization, ability to
locally upgrade, amenability to leaching and central processing
possibility suggest a potentially low-cost development scenario for
a future deposit.
For additional details on the project and
properties, please see the Company’s website:
www.blueskyuranium.com.
Qualified PersonThe results of
the Company's drilling program have been reviewed, verified
(including sampling, analytical and test data) and compiled by the
Company's geological staff under the supervision of David
Terry, Ph.D., P.Geo. Dr. Terry is a Director of the Company and a
Qualified Person as defined in National Instrument 43-101.
The contents of this news release have been reviewed and approved
by Dr. Terry.
About Blue Sky Uranium
Corp.
Blue Sky Uranium Corp. is a leader in uranium
discovery in Argentina. The Company's objective is to deliver
exceptional returns to shareholders by rapidly advancing a
portfolio of surficial uranium deposits into low-cost producers.
Blue Sky has the exclusive right to over 434,000 hectares (equiv.
to 1,072,437 acres) of property in two provinces in Argentina. The
Company’s flagship Amarillo Grande Project was an in-house
discovery of a new district that has the potential to be both a
leading domestic supplier of uranium to the growing Argentine
market and a new international market supplier. The Company is a
member of the Grosso Group, a resource management group that has
pioneered exploration in Argentina since 1993.
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD
“Nikolaos Cacos”
______________________________________Nikolaos Cacos, President,
CEO and Director
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