drilling will be conducted about 70 kilometers Añelo. They are in charge of Mineral Energy Company SA. The company operates in Mendoza and Chubut, in addition to this province.
With an initial investment of about $ 2 million, the company Calypso through its subsidiary, Mineral Energy Argentina will begin its drilling program in the department of Neuquén Añelo in search of uranium.
The work will be denominated in the Central Block, about 60 kilometers from the town of Añelo and about 75 of Rincon de los Sauces and Campesino Norte, with a drilling program covered about 20,000 meters for the first block, averaging 520 to 580 meters deep on the first phase and 10,000 meters for the second block.
For drilling equipment will be used to "reverse air" type wagon mounted drill teams and led the field in a medium-sized trucks.
is to use a punch-type or D-40 UDR tracked and if needed injections be used (water-bentonite) or biodegradable.
The Central Block is the largest property, with 20 searches and a number of concessions covering a total of 202,869 hectares. The property comprises known districts of Cerro Mesa, prisons, and Chihuidos, located in the province of Neuquén. The style and geometry are those of a typical uranium recovery project "in situ" ("ISR"). All these districts are developed in the same stratigraphy that Rayoso Group of the Cretaceous (see Regional Geology Map) . These are channels filled continental sandstones with plant material and bitumen. The mineralization consists of copper and uranium oxide and varying amounts of silver and vanadium.
the company said that the laws of uranium are generally low but persistent and mineralized interval is sandstone hosted between banks impervious clayey siltstone.
"Banks have altered and mineralized, usually 6 to 10 meters thick and a slight dip, while the Chihuidos anticline runs through the center of the project area. The depths of the horizons of mineralization ranging from zero (in the places where we know that banks are located cropping) to around a maximum of 300 meters, "he said.
The firm is active in Argentina in large properties with high potential for uranium, located in the provinces of Chubut, Mendoza and Neuquen. It is one of the private companies for exploration Uranium in Argentina better positioned to move from exploration to production, as several of the properties include resources previously evaluated by the National Atomic Energy Commission (CNEA). Through local subsidiary Energía Mineral (Inc.) SA Calypso now controls more than 432,000 hectares or 4,320 km2, property and mining concessions in Argentina. In Mendoza, the former include uranium producers Huemul, Arroyo Seco and Water Launched in the district of Pampa Amarilla, La Pintada in the uranium production district of Sierra Pintada (presently on stand-by ", or standing), and Ranquil-Co.
In Neuquén, the properties include: the Central Block, including Chihuidos uranium districts and prisons, and the Campesino Bloque Norte, uranium-copper mineralization style-vanadium deposits of Colorado, (USA). WITH INFORMATION
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