Blue Sky Uranium Corp. (TSXV: BSK) has launched a 1,200m RC exploration drilling programme at the Ivana East target, located 10km east of the Ivana deposit in the southernmost sector of the wholly owned Amarillo Grande Uranium-Vanadium Project in Rio Negro Province, Argentina (AGP).
“This target shows significant similarities to the geological environment that hosts the nearby Ivana deposit, representing a priority target for our goal of identifying a cluster of deposits in the area,” President and CEO, Nikolaos Cacos, said.
“This drilling programme at Ivana East is a continuation of the staged exploration drill testing of four high-priority targets close to the Ivana deposit; also including Ivana North, Ivana Central and Cateo Cuatro. Ivana North and Central have had their initial drilling program completed; Cateo Cuatro has a drill programme planned for future completion.
“Once initial drilling is complete at all four targets, further work will focus on areas identified as having geological conditions most similar to those at the Ivana deposit, and the best prospects for discovery of new mineral resources that could be incorporated into future plans for advancing the Ivana deposit.”
RC Drilling Programme Description
The Ivana East target was selected as a priority target as a result of assessing 15 years of geological data to identify and rank compelling targets with high potential for uranium-vanadium mineralization, similar to the company’s cornerstone Ivana deposit.
The exploration work completed since 2019, which includes (IP) pole-dipole tomography and seismic tomography refraction surveys, detected blind signatures between 10m and 30m in depth, similar to the Ivana deposit geological setting.
Based on the geological modelling of the target, the exploration team has delineated an RC drilling program comprising up to 1,200m in 24 first and second priority holes with 40m as the average depth. Second priority holes will be drilled contingent on first-priority hole results.
The goal of the programme is to test the presence of uranium mineralization deposited within high-porosity conglomerates and/or sandstones related to a basal channel environment. This sub-type of uranium sandstone deposit is the model defined for the Ivana deposit, where poorly or unconsolidated sediments with organic matter overlaying basement rocks represent the host rock for most of the contained uranium.
The drilling programme will be executed using a Morooka MST-1500 Crawler drill rig, using 51/2” hammer or tricone, and connected to a double cyclone to reduce the dust loss during sampling.
Holes will be drilled vertically and are expected to average 40m depth; samples will be collected every metre. Samples will be sent to ALS Argentina for preparation by drying, crushing to 70% <2mm, riffle splitting 250g and pulverizing to 85% <75 µm.
Pulps will be sent to ALS Peru for analysis of multi-elements using a ultra-trace method combining four acid digestion with Inductively Coupled Plasma (ICP) instrumentation. Digestion is performed on a 0.25g of sample to quantitatively dissolve most geological materials.
Approximately every 10th sample, a blank, duplicate, or standard sample is inserted into the sample sequence for quality assurance/quality control (QA/QC) purposes.
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