Clarification NEWS!
Alpha Minerals corrects number of holes in NR headline
2013-02-25 12:39 ET - News Release
Mr. Ben Ainsworth of Alpha reports
ALPHA MINERALS INC.: CLARIFICATION TO HEADLINE
Alpha Minerals Inc. is clarifying the headline on the Feb. 25, 2013, news release; it should read "Alpha expands discovery zone to 50 metres wide with four step-out holes hitting 'off-scale' radioactivity."
The company published the headline "Alpha expands discovery zone to 50 metres wide with five step-out holes hitting 'off-scale' radioactivity" when the number of step-out holes should have read four. The discrepancy was due to drill hole PLS13-028 on line 090E on the lake, which was drilled 90 metres east of the November discovery area, showing a high count-per-second reading with the downhole probe, but no "off-scale" counts per second with the hand-held scintillometer.
It is believed that the "off-scale" mineralization in that section of drill core was ground up, and uranium mineralization was not recovered into the core barrel. This is not an uncommon occurrence when drilling friable or soft mineralization. Because the downhole probe measures a much larger volume of the rock (the gamma radiation due to the mineralization can pass through several inches of the rock surrounding the drill rods), this allows a high reading from the downhole probe that cannot be measured in the drill core by the hand-held scintillometer.
For accuracy and for consistency with the company's joint venture partner, Alpha Minerals amends its headline to read "Alpha expands discovery zone to 50 metres wide with four step-out holes hitting 'off-scale' radioactivity".
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