NexGen Energy has unveiled radioactivity results from its on-going summer 2015 drilling program on its 100% owned Rook I uranium property, Athabasca Basin, Saskatchewan, Canada.
The company has expanded the summer program by 5,000m to 30,000m in order to drill test the 210m southwest extension of Arrow to include a maiden NI 43-101 resource estimate in the first half of next year.
NexGen returned visible mineralization and off-scale radioactivity from all six drill holes at the Arrow zone.
Step-out drilling in AR-15-54c1 has intersected high grade mineralization in the A2 shear and widespread high grade mineralization was intersected in the A3 shear during step-out drilling in AR-15-56c1.
The company said the Arrow zone remains open in all directions and its focus for the rest of the summer season will be on defining the extensions of high-grade mineralization in both shear zones.
NexGen Energy vice-president of exploration and development Garrett Ainsworth said: "These latest results from our Arrow zone continue to impress us with four of the six reported drill holes encountering >61,000 cps radioactivity associated with dense accumulations of massive pitchblende.
"Of note, hole AR-15-54c1 drilled at a dip of -62° through the sub-vertical A2 high grade core zone, and returned 42 m of mineralization including 9.4 m of off-scale in the A2 shear demonstrating the high grade cores within Arrow continue to prove up well."
Rook I property also hosts the early-stage Bow discovery which is situated 3.7km northeast into the Athabasca Basin from Arrow.