Core samples from identified uranium bearing zones in five diamond holes have been cut, pulverized and analyzed with a Niton portable XRF analyzer, with a peak intersection of 10m @ 1,038ppm U3O8 encountered in MKDD0009 at a depth of 75m.
Samples from the five holes analyzed to date containing significant uranium are being prepared for dispatch to the SGS laboratories in South Africa for formal assaying by pressed pellet XRF.
The Mkuju Uranium project adjoins Mantra Resources’ Mkuju River project, where a Mineral Resource of 101.4 million pounds @ 422ppm U3O8 has been defined at the Nyota prospect, located 30km NE of the current drilling program at Likuyu North.
The intersection in MKDD0009 is significant for the company as it is the first primary mineralization drilled with a thickness of at least 10m @ >1,000ppm.
Formal identification of this primary uranium mineral will be conducted at SGS laboratories in South Africa.
The current drilling program will be concluded in the next two to three weeks, with another three or four diamond holes to be completed during this time.
The remaining holes will attempt to extend the primary uranium mineralization intersected in MKDD0009.
An airborne geophysics program is planned for early 2011 to assist in planning for the 2011 field season, scheduled to commence in February.
