PLS mapNexGen Energy (NXE:TSXV) has completed their first phase of drilling on their Rook I project and announced a summary of their findings.  Rook I is 2.1km northeast of Fission/Alpha’s Patterson Lake South Discovery.  The program was designed to narrow down a large prospective target area, to determine if mineralization existed their and to better understand the geology of that uranium.  NexGen successfully completed all three of those tasks in a small, 3,000m initial drill campaign.  NexGen completed 12 drill holes, which were widely spaced (greater than 200m centers) testing a 1.6km by 1.2km area.  Three of the drill holes encountered mineralization on three separate parallel conductors.  Eleven of their twelve holes encountered fertile receptive basement graphitic lithologies below 48.7-82.6m depth.

The most significant hole drilled in their initial campaign was RK-13-05 which is believed to be located on the same conductor as the PLS3b conductor which hosts Fission/Alpha’s PLS discovery.  RK-13-05 intersected 2.7m with a maximum total gamma of 4,379cps over a wider 29m interval containing breccias, faults, fractures and a variety of veining.

Leigh Curyer, CEO of NexGen States, "This initial drilling program at Rook 1 has identified several large alteration and mineralisation systems. The program was specifically designed to confirm the geological interpretation of several geophysical surveys over a large area, to discover new mineralisation, and to provide a firm basis for tightly-targeted follow up drilling programs. It has achieved all three aims above expectation."

Although NexGen didn’t make a huge PLS-like discovery on its first pass, they have made, what some may call an initial discovery.  Much more work is needed, but they have narrowed the target areas down to a more manageable area for the phase 2 of drilling.  The company is budgeting a much larger winter drill campaign which should commence soon.

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