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Craig Nolan
Infini Resources has locked-in key contracting firms for the company’s maiden drilling program at its promising Reynolds Lake and Reitenbach Lake uranium projects in Canada’s globally-renowned Athabasca Basin.
The company is targeting a minimum 2500-metre diamond drilling campaign at its twin sites and will scale up the program if the drilling results warrant further interrogation with the drill bit.
Plans are for the drilling to test unconformity, basement-hosted uranium targets identified from the company’s airborne geophysical surveys and field programs conducted last year.
Leading Canadian drilling firm, Rodren Drilling, brings 47 years of exploration and drilling experience to the table, with a strong track record of delivering its services in the Athabasca Basin and remote geological environments.
Rodren will complete the diamond drilling program, designed to test priority targets associated with conductive horizons, structural corridors and geochemical anomalism unearthed across its project ground.
‘The scale of the EM conductors highlight the prospectivity of the system.’
Infini Resources chief executive officer Rohan Bone
Infini has also given the nod of approval to long-time Canadian geological services firm Archer Cathro & Associates to provide in-field geological expertise. The firm will supervise the drilling program, conduct geological logging, sampling and coordinate field program activities.
It also brings tremendous experience to the upcoming campaign, having worked in mineral exploration across northern Canada for more than 60 years.
Management says mobilisation of the two contracting firms will begin in mid-April and will start hammering into the highly anticipated drill campaign shortly thereafter.
Recent airborne electromagnetic (EM) interpretation completed by the company revealed conductive horizons, initially identified at the original Reitenbach Lake landholdings, extend some 20 kilometres into the company’s newly staked ground, outlining a 20km by 5km prospective uranium corridor.
Combined with existing conductors across the two project sites, the company has now mapped out 80 kilometres of total EM strike length across the broader area.
Management believes the conductors consist of graphitic schists and structurally controlled features, often considered prime ground for basement-hosted uranium mineralisation and typical of the Athabasca Basin’s unconformity-style systems.
Infini Resources chief executive officer Rohan Bone said: “The scale of the EM conductors, strong uranium geochemical anomalism and the high-grade Titus Showing together highlight the prospectivity of the system and provide compelling targets for drilling.”
Infini’s exploration manager, Nick Mitchell, said the targets have been defined through careful review of surface work and analysis of geophysical surveys completed last year, providing a strong technical foundation for the drill program.
The company will target its high-grade Titus Showing prospect, where a uraninite-bearing rock sample kicked up an impressive assay result of 1.9 per cent uranium oxide, along a prospective EM conductor hosted in an interpreted metapelitic unit, adjacent to a broad structural flexure.
Structural flexures refer to the geological phenomenon of rock bending, such as folds and crests that can create ore-trapping structures.
The Reynolds Lake and Reitenbach Lake projects together stretch across 766 square kilometres of contiguous ground on the eastern margin of the Athabasca Basin in northern Saskatchewan, a region known for unconformity-style uranium deposits.
Combined with its Boulding Lake project, also in the Athabasca region, the company controls a significant 1021 sq km of ground in the world’s leading uranium region, responsible for producing roughly 20 per cent of the global supply.
Along with the company’s promising Portland Creek project in Canada, where assays confirmed uranium mineralisation from recent drilling, Infini’s two Athabascan projects might just put the company on the path to becoming a highly successful uranium explorer.
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