{"id":1143067,"date":"2019-10-09T18:48:28","date_gmt":"2019-10-09T23:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mining.com\/?p=1004040"},"modified":"2019-10-09T18:48:28","modified_gmt":"2019-10-09T23:48:28","slug":"nexgen-releases-new-assays-from-arrow-drilling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=1143067","title":{"rendered":"NexGen releases new assays from Arrow drilling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vancouver-based&nbsp;NexGen Energy&nbsp;has released new assays from its phase one drill program at the Arrow uranium deposit on the southwest rim of the Athabasca Basin. The highest results were 33.78% uranium oxide over 12.0 metres and 32.88% over 8.0 metres.<\/p>\n<div class='d-flex justify-content-center'>\n<div id='div-gpt-ad-1561499308230-0'><script>googletag.cmd.push(function() {googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1561499308230-0');});<\/script><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The 20 recent holes were drilled as part of the feasibility stage study at the company\u2019s Rook I project. The work was done to in-fill the A2 high grade domain and boost the boost reserves.<\/p>\n<p>Highlights from the A2 domain include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hole AR-19-225c1&nbsp;intersected&nbsp;0 metres&nbsp;at 11.36% uranium oxide, including&nbsp;12.0 metres at 33.78%;<\/li>\n<li>Hole AR-19-221c1&nbsp;intersected&nbsp;0 metres at 10.39% uranium oxide,including&nbsp;8.0 metres at 32.88;<\/li>\n<li>Hole AR-19-224c1&nbsp;intersected&nbsp;0 metres at 15.36% uranium oxide, including&nbsp;14.0 metres at 22.69;<\/li>\n<li>Hole AR-19-222c1&nbsp;intersected&nbsp;0 metres at 4.12% uranium oxide, including&nbsp;13.0 metres at 17.14; and<\/li>\n<li>Hole AR-19-227c2&nbsp;intersected&nbsp;0 metres at 2.93% uranium oxide, including&nbsp;3.0 metres at 22.66%.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>NexGen says it is fast tracking the feasibility study based on resources and has begun the environmental assessment for Rook I. The company has also filed an initial licence application for site preparation and construction.<\/p>\n<p>The Arrow deposit has an indicated resource of 256.6 million lb. of uranium oxide contained in 2.89 million tonnes grading 4.03% uranium oxide, including the A2 high grade core of 181.0 million lb. contained in 460,000 tonnes grading 17.85%. The inferred resource contains 91.7 million lb. of uranium oxide contained in 4.84 million tonnes grading 0.86%.<\/p>\n<p><em>(This article first appeared in the&nbsp;<\/em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.canadianminingjournal.com\/\" ><em>Canadian Mining Journal<\/em><\/a><em>)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The highest results were 33.78% uranium oxide over 12.0 metres and 32.88% over 8.0 metres.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[369],"tags":[43],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143067"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/88"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1143067"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1143318,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143067\/revisions\/1143318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1143067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1143067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1143067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}