The company said that this work demonstrates that most of the mineralized material from the ANIT can be significantly upgraded.
The technique involves simple and inexpensive wet screening to remove coarse pebbles that contain little or no uranium mineralization producing low-mass high-grade concentrates.
Upgrading has the potential to significantly reduce processing and transportation costs, making the development of several satellite deposits utilizing one central processing facility economically attractive.
It is estimated that approximately 70% of the uranium mineralization at ANIT is hosted by Gravel, Reddish Sand and Sand-Dominated material
The results to date are preliminary and are based on seven select samples of the main uranium-mineralized lithologies at ANIT.
The ANIT project, a low grade paleochannel target lies within the region where Blue Sky is exploring for other paleochannel and paleolake targets that have been identified within the large and vastly underexplored Rio Negro basin.
The Gypsum sample showed significant upgrade potential with the uranium grade increasing from 0.062% U to 0.14% U with greater than 82% recovery.
