Fly camp at Illiwa
Illiwa is the tenth consistently mineralized area drilled by U3O8 Corp. in the Kurupung Project, and lies near the northeastern margin of the Kurupung Batholith. Illiwa extends the area in which uranium-bearing structures have been found to 12 by eight kilometres – significantly extending the size potential of the project. Numerous targets that lie in the nine kilometre gap between the mineralized areas of Illiwa and Aricheng will be explored in due course.
Drill Hole Locations
A total of 1,325 metres in six bore holes have been completed in scout drilling to date on the Illiwa structure. Plan view shows the location of bore holes drilled at Illiwa on a ground magnetic map (cool colours – blue and green – mark least magnetic areas while warm colours – orange, red and pink – mark areas of more intense magnetism). The collar position of each hole is shown as a dot and the extent of each inclined hole is shown as a black line. U3O8 grade (%) is shown as a histogram along the trace of each bore hole.
Now that mineralization has been identified on the edge of the weakly magnetic blue corridor in the Illiwa area, the remainder of the corridor requires scout drilling. Bore hole Illiwa-006 tested an area of radioactivity at surface and did not reach the blue, demangnetized zone. An additional bore hole, drilled on section with hole Illiwa-006, will be required to test for uranium mineralization in the weakly magnetic corridor.
Long Section
Scout drilling at Illiwa to date has traced uranium over a strike length of 120 metres and to a depth of 150 metres. Mineralization remains open along strike and at depth. The Illiwa structure strikes northeast and dips to the southeast at an angle of about 70º. By analogy with similarly orientated mineralized shear zones such as Aricheng North, uranium is expected to be concentrated in shoots that are spaced at fairly regular intervals along strike and are separated by poorly mineralized gaps of up to 100m wide.
A provisional long section of the Illiwa structure shows the distribution of uranium grade-thickness values (the product of the width of the mineralized interval and its U3O8 grade in %) on a vertical projection of the structure. The circles are the approximate location at which each bore hole intersects the mineralization.
Assay Results
Summary of the principal mineralized intercepts cut in the six bore holes (1,325 metres) completed in the scout drilling at Illiwa.
* Note: lbs/st is an abbreviation for pounds per short ton.
1 short ton = 2,000lbs or 0.907 metric tonnes.