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Fission Uranium CEO discusses the PLS discovery
MK: I think you're running at around a 92% success rate on your drill holes at PLS: what exactly has allowed Fission to achieve such a high rate of exploration success?
DR: Well we have a shallow deposit at PLS, and since there are boulders in the area you can fly it with geophysics. The biggest thing, however, is our use of radon gas surveys.
So we use three different technologies to narrow down where we are going to drill. We're flying surveys to identify the conductors, then you turn to resistivity to pinpoint the alteration, and lastly, you use radon gas to find out exactly where to go.
We know all uranium comes from graphitic conductors, but not all graphitic conductors host uranium. So how do you identify these targets? Well, you have to find the alteration rock, and since we conduct our radon gas surveys in winter, the shallow water in Patterson Lake is actually frozen. That way the gas has limited places to go, which helps limit those false anomalies. That's really allowed us to make these discoveries with a lot less drill density then you'd need on the eastern side of the Basin.