Hole WAT10-099, the third hole to be completed to date at Fission’s summer drill program, was collared 10mt north of Hole WAT 10-079 (7.5mt grading 1.89% U308), intersected 5mt of highly radioactive mineralization at the unconformity including, 3 intercepts totaling 0.9mt of ‘off-scale’ (cps >9,999) radioactivity.
The two vertical step-out holes targeting the J Zone, hole WAT10-098A and now WAT10-099, have extended the mineralized boundary to the north of the previously known mineralization delineated during the winter 2010 drilling program and have reaffirmed the continuity and strength of the unconformity mineralization, the company said.
Separately, WAT10-097, an angled hole, which was drilled for structural and geologic information purposes, was completed from land and oriented to the southeast of the J-Zone.
Hole WAT10-099 encountered moderate to very strong clay alteration from 160mt to 231mt, with the most intense alteration associated with mineralization at or near the unconformity (196.3).
The company added that a broad interval of continuously anomalous and variable radioactivity was intersected from 191.5mt-202mt, with the strongest radioactivity within a 5mt interval from 195mt-200mt. Within this interval, three separate intercepts recorded >9999 cps for a combined width of 0.9mt of ‘off-scale’ radioactivity.
WAT10-099 was drilled from a barge set-up collared 10m north of hole WAT10-079 and completed to a depth of 305mt.
