Overview
U3O8 Limited is a dedicated uranium exploration company with projects in Western Australia, Queensland, New South Wales and South Australia. The Company controls 41 exploration licences, 24 of which are granted and 17 of which are under application, for a total area in excess of 6000 square kilometres.
Many of the projects contain uranium mineralisation identified during the early phases of exploration in Australia and in particular, the uranium exploration boom of the late 1960's and early 1970's.
Most of the Company's projects are held 100% by U3O8 Limited, but one tenement in the Ashburton, namely Canyon Creek is held 90% by U3O8 Limited, and the Company is farming into nine tenements held by Northern Star Resources in the East Kimberley area of Western Australia.
The Company has initially concentrated its exploration on the shallow calcrete hosted uranium projects (Dawson-Hinkler Well, Wabli Creek) as they are easy to explore and delineate. But the Company will progressively explore the projects that have the potential to host the large unconformity style uranium deposits (e.g. Ashburton, Mad Gap, East Kimberley JV, Paddy's Well) as well as the sandstone hosted deposits (e.g. Westmoreland Extended).
Unconformity hosted uranium deposit types occur spatially close to major unconformities and are most commonly developed in intra-cratonic basins. A significant portion of the global uranium is mined from these types of deposits, including Ranger in Northern Territory of Australia and the Cluff Lake, McArthur River, Cigar Lake, Key Lake and Rabbit Lake deposits in Saskatchewan province of Canada. The unmined deposits of Koongarra, Jabiluka and Kintyre in Australia are also of this deposit type.
The surficial calcrete hosted uranium deposits are generally easier to located and explore as they have developed in semi-arid areas where the water table is at or near the surface. Deposits of this type represent about 5% of Australia's total resource and include Yeelirrie, Dawson-Hinkler, Lakeway, Centipede and Lake Maitland in Australia and Langer Heinrich in Namibia.
U3O8 Limited is also focusing on its Olary Creek project in South Australia, due to that states proactive attitude to uranium exploration and mining. The target at Olary Creek is palaeochannel hosted uranium mineralisation, similar to that being mined by in-situ leaching at the Beverley Mine in South Australia.
Many of the projects contain uranium mineralisation identified during the early phases of exploration in Australia and in particular, the uranium exploration boom of the late 1960's and early 1970's.
Most of the Company's projects are held 100% by U3O8 Limited, but one tenement in the Ashburton, namely Canyon Creek is held 90% by U3O8 Limited, and the Company is farming into nine tenements held by Northern Star Resources in the East Kimberley area of Western Australia.
The Company has initially concentrated its exploration on the shallow calcrete hosted uranium projects (Dawson-Hinkler Well, Wabli Creek) as they are easy to explore and delineate. But the Company will progressively explore the projects that have the potential to host the large unconformity style uranium deposits (e.g. Ashburton, Mad Gap, East Kimberley JV, Paddy's Well) as well as the sandstone hosted deposits (e.g. Westmoreland Extended).
Unconformity hosted uranium deposit types occur spatially close to major unconformities and are most commonly developed in intra-cratonic basins. A significant portion of the global uranium is mined from these types of deposits, including Ranger in Northern Territory of Australia and the Cluff Lake, McArthur River, Cigar Lake, Key Lake and Rabbit Lake deposits in Saskatchewan province of Canada. The unmined deposits of Koongarra, Jabiluka and Kintyre in Australia are also of this deposit type.
The surficial calcrete hosted uranium deposits are generally easier to located and explore as they have developed in semi-arid areas where the water table is at or near the surface. Deposits of this type represent about 5% of Australia's total resource and include Yeelirrie, Dawson-Hinkler, Lakeway, Centipede and Lake Maitland in Australia and Langer Heinrich in Namibia.
U3O8 Limited is also focusing on its Olary Creek project in South Australia, due to that states proactive attitude to uranium exploration and mining. The target at Olary Creek is palaeochannel hosted uranium mineralisation, similar to that being mined by in-situ leaching at the Beverley Mine in South Australia.