ESO Uranium Completes VTEM Airborne Survey Completed, Drill Rig Mobilized at
Patterson Lake South Property, Saskatchewan
ESO Uranium Corp. and its 50-per-cent joint-venture partner, Fission Energy Corp., following completion of a VTEM survey covering the whole property area with 1,711 line kilometres, have commenced a 14-hole, 2,100-metre drill program at the Patterson Lake South (PLS) property.
The Property is located on the southwest edge of the Athabasca Basin in northern Saskatchewan. The drill program is a continuation of work to locate the bedrock source area of the large, high grade uranium boulder field discovery of June 2011, further exposed in a trenching program conducted in October 2011 (see news releases for July 27th and December 14th, 2011). The source is expected to occur in a shallow window of bedrock exposed where the overlying Athabasca sedimentary rocks have been scoured off the older metamorphic basement rocks by the erosion due to the advance of ice sheets over the area. The search area is ENE of the 5 km long uranium boulder field.
Drilling will test a number of geophysical targets related to well defined conductors of the Patterson Lake Conductor Corridor shown by the recent high precision VTEM survey and supported by on-going ground surveys with Time Domain Electromagnetic (TDEM) and a DC-Resistivity systems. Hardrock Diamond Drilling Ltd of Penticton, BC, has been contracted for the core drill program.
PLS is accessible by road, with primary access from all weather Highway 955 which runs north to the former Cluff Lake mine, (>60M lbs of U3O8 produced), and passes through the UEX-Areva Shea Creek discoveries that lie along a 3 km structure (with reported "all categories" of resources of almost 100 million lbs U3O8) located 50 km to the north, currently under active exploration and development.
B.Ainsworth P.Eng. SK/BC is the Qualified Person responsible for the technical disclosure contained in this news release.
On behalf of the Board of Directors of ESO Uranium Corp.
�Ben Ainsworth�
Vice President, Exploration
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ESO Uranium Corp.
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