This initial program will be followed by two further programs of diamond drilling at the Fond Du Lac ‘West’ and Fond Du Lac ‘Main’ projects.
The FDL project, is a 50/50 joint venture between CVV and Fond Du Lac Mineral Resources, a company owned by the Fond Du Lac Denesuline First Nation.
A Reverse Circulation drill (RC Drill) from Northspan Exploration of Kelowna BC will be used to test a series of geochemical and radon anomalies peripheral to the known deposit to a depth of 100m to 150m.
This RC drill is a reconnaissance tool to test the selection of geophysical and geochemical targets that CanAlaska has outlined in the vicinity of the Fond Du Lac uranium deposit.
A similar drill unit from Northspan has recently been deployed successfully for the identification and testing of kimberlite diamond targets in Nunavut.
In March, 2011, the company will mobilize a second diamond drill contracted from DJ Drilling of Aldergrove BC to undertake further exploration at Fond Du Lac.
The drill will first core a series of holes on the Western portion of the Fond Du Lac project, following the trend of the historic ‘Adair’ zone.
In 2009, CanAlaska had revisited this occurrence and identified the trench area and geological trend, and recovered new trench samples grading up to 1.42% U3O8 over 0.5m.
The diamond drill will then concentrate on CanAlaska’s previous (2009) intersection of 40.4m at 0.32% U3O8 located in basement rocks, just east of the shallow Fond Du Lac uranium deposit.
