Pf29 May 2019 14:02
Now we have exposure to 4 more assets with our holding in Valore as well as the cash to advance our asset, We have four projects in Canada with which we are leveraging the upward movement in both uranium and gold prices. Two of these properties are in Canada’s Nunavut territory, including the Angilak uranium property, which is a 1,000-square-kilometer land package south of Baker Lake.
At Angilak we have spent over $55 million on discovery and delineation expenditures, most of which was conducted in the Lac 50 trend area. There, we have identified various stacked structures that carry uranium and other minerals. We have delineated a resource of approximately 0.69 percent U3O8 for a total of 43 million pounds, which is the highest grade in Canada outside of Saskatchewan, and amongst the highest in the world. This is a significant deposit with lots of expansion opportunities, and we think that the Angilak property has district-scale potential and could thus be of interest to partners in the future. In anticipation of this, we currently have three rigs on the property focusing on similar parallel structures to the Lac 50 trend that should help increase the project’s resource once the market turns.
Our second Nunavut project is our recently acquired Baffin gold property: a 4,000-square-kilometer land parcel that sits on a 114-kilometer belt. Historically, previous exploration groups have spent approximately $25 million on the project. We expect to leverage this past work in order to advance the project and delineate the resource.
In Saskatchewan, we have two more projects, both of which are focused on uranium exploration and are within 50 kilometers of the bulk of Canada’s uranium-mining and milling infrastructure. They also sit along an important geological structure. With a positive turn in the uranium sector, we hope to see more interest in these projects, spurring more work on the properties