Fission Energy
Fission Energy Corp. is a Canadian based uranium exploration and development company with properties in Saskatchewan's Athabasca Basin, Quebec, and the Macusani District in Peru. In 2003-04 Fission assembled one of the largest exploration property portfolios in Saskatchewan's Athabasca Basin; home of the richest uranium deposits in the world. Fission's most valuable exploration asset is Waterbury Lake KEPCO Consortium Joint Venture, which is located in close proximity to Hathor's Midwest NE discovery ("Roughrider Zone") and the AREVA/Denison Midwest deposits.
Fission Energy surges after reporting significant radioactivity at Waterbury Lake
Shares in Fission Energy (TSX-V: FIS) soared more than 100% after the junior uranium exploration company reported that the second drill hole in a twenty hole campaign at the Waterbury Lake project had encountered significant radioactivity.
“Hole WAT10-063A was collared at 188 degree azimuth and -75.5 dip to a total depth of 344.0 meters. It is strongly clay altered and locally strongly fractured in the lower 70m above the unconformity. Immediately below the unconformity, the basement rocks are intensely clay and hematite altered,” Fission reported, “An interval of moderate to strong clay alteration can be traced in the basement to 266.2m. The first interval of elevated radioactivity measured from drill core is at 206.5m (300 to 4200 cps) and anomalous radioactivity continues throughout the drill core until 235.5m.”
“The 29.0m wide zone of alteration and elevated radioactivity can be described as >300 cps, with discrete intervals of high radioactivity (>2,500 cps). All intersections are down-hole, core interval measurements and true thickness is yet to be determined.”
Fission Energy cautioned that gamma-ray counts using a scintillometer do not directly or uniformly related to uranium grades, and should only be used a “preliminary indication of the presence of radioactive material.” Nonetheless, investors were clearly excited by the potential implications of the news, especially considering the close proximity of the drill hole to Hathor Exploration’s Roughrider uranium discovery on the adjacent license.
“The mineralization within hole WAT10-063A lies approximately 140m due west of Hathor's westernmost high-grade intersection within Hole MWNE-129 which is reported to have intersected 5.0m grading 15.65% U3O8,” Fission Energy noted, “It is believed that the mineralization in WAT10-063A is part of the same mineralized system reported in holes WAT09-055 (56m to the east of WAT10-063A) and WAT09-056 (47m to the south-east of WAT10-063A) (News Release September 21, 2009). Hole WAT10-063A is the western-most hole drilled within the mineralized Discovery Bay system, and the zone remains open at depth and along strike. This geophysics defined corridor remains prospective for approximately 2.5 to 3 km to the west of Discovery Bay.”
Fission Energy also confirmed that the core from the drill hole will be submitted to SRC Geoanalytical Laboratories for analysis.
The Waterbury Project is being explored by a joint venture between Fission Energy and the KEPCO consortium.
The KEPCO consortium is a group of Korean based companies, including Korea Electric Power, Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power, Korea Nuclear Fuel, Hanwha Corp, and uranium investment company, Gravis Capital.
The joint venture has set a budget of $2.68 million for the winter exploration program, which will include 7,500 meters of drilling (20 holes) and both Induced Polarisation (IP) and Electro-Magnetic (EM) surveys over 93 line kilometres.
Other Fission Energy articles
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05/08/09 Fission Energy begins hunt for extension to Hathor Exploration's Roughrider Uranium Zone
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24/04/09 Fission Energy to Target Ground near Hathor’s Roughrider Zone Extension Step-Out Hole
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16/12/08 Audio Interview with Devinder Randhawa, Chairman and CEO of Fission Energy
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17/04/08 Fission Energy:creating a reaction
Other Fission Energy news
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09/03/10 Fission Energy extends J-Zone strike length at Waterbury Lake uranium project
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05/03/10 Fission Energy says latest drill results extend J-zone at Waterbury Lake uranium project
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24/02/10 Fission Energy’s latest Waterbury Lake results show ‘off-the-scale’ radioactive mineralization
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22/02/10 Fission Energy delivers more exceptional results from Waterbury Uranium Project
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16/02/10 Fission Energy in demand again after reporting best uranium mineralization y
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11/02/10 Fission Energy reports promising uranium assay results from Waterbury Lake discovery hole
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10/02/10 Dundee Capital urges Fission Energy investors to be patient as it completes drilling on Waterbury uranium project
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09/02/10 Fission Energy believes J-Zone could represent new significant unconformity style uranium occurrence
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18/01/10 Fission Energy starts winter exploration program near Hathor Exploration’s Roughrider Uranium Deposit
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07/12/09 Fission Energy, KEPCO consortium plan 20-hole winter exploration program at Waterbury Lake uranium project
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