Start environmental base line study..!!! Alpha Minerals Agrees to JV Budget for Patterson Lake South, Athabasca Basin, Drill Program
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwired - May 21, 2013) - Alpha Minerals Inc. (TSX VENTURE:AMW)(FRANKFURT:E2GA) ("Alpha" or "the Company") and its 50% Joint Venture partner Fission Uranium Corp. (formerly Fission Energy Corp.) are pleased to announce that a $6.95 million summer and fall drill program has been set by the companies for their Patterson Lake South ("PLS") property on the southwest side of Saskatchewan's Athabasca Basin.
This next drill program will focus on continuing delineation of the three uranium zones discovered to date at Patterson Lake South (Zones R00E, R390E and R780E), as well as testing the highest priority radon anomalies developed from the winter 2013 surveys. The summer drill program will utilize two diamond-core drill rigs and an RC rig and three barges.
The radon survey targets were important in the discovery of the first high-grade step out holes drilled at zones R390E and R780E at Patterson Lake South, which included hole PLS13-038 (Alpha news February 19, 2013). The recently announced radon survey results (Alpha news May 6, 2013), an extension of the previous radon survey by Radonex Ltd. at the Patterson Lake South Property, was highlighted by the confirmation of 11 discrete radon anomalies.
Other additional work during this period will include:
- Sampling for the purpose of metallurgical testing.
- A start will be made on establishing an environmental base line study in order to have independent data recovered over a sufficient time period for future environmental reporting purposes.