VANCOUVER, BC, June 13,
2024 /CNW/ - GoldMining Inc. (the
"Company" or "GoldMining") (TSX: GOLD) (NYSE
American: GLDG) is pleased to report preliminary results from
reprocessing, inversion and modeling of historic geophysical
surveys on the Rea uranium project ("Rea Project"),
Western Athabasca Basin,
Alberta, Canada (see Figure 1).
The Rea Project is owned 75% by the Company and 25% by Orano Canada
Inc. ("Orano"). The large land package of approximately
125,328 hectares surrounds Oranoꞌs high-grade Dragon Lake prospect at its Maybelle River
project. World-class uranium deposits located 60 km to the
southeast of the Rea Project include Fission Uranium Corp.'s
("Fission") Triple R deposit and NexGen Energy Inc.'s
("NexGen") Arrow deposit, which are currently in
development.
Alastair Still, CEO,
stated: "The cost-efficient work by our technical team to
advance our highly prospective Rea Project is consistent with our
strategy of seeking to unlock further value for our shareholders.
Our team has applied modern reprocessing techniques, including
inversion modelling of the historic geophysical surveys. This work
has highlighted the most prospective areas for follow-up
exploration, outlined over 70 km within three distinct corridors,
each with several target areas displaying geophysical signatures
consistent with known Athabasca
Basin uranium deposits. We are extremely encouraged by the targets
we have generated within the Athabasca Basin, an area that contains some of
the world's largest and highest-grade uranium deposits. This work
enhances our activities that have and continue to focus on
unlocking value within our portfolio of gold and gold-copper
projects located throughout the Americas."
Rea Project Highlights:
- Reprocessing, inversion modelling and reinterpretation of
historic geophysical surveys have identified over 70
linear kilometres of basement conductive trends on the Rea
Project, interpreted as graphite-bearing shear zones which are
prospective for unconformity-style uranium mineralization in the
Athabasca Basin, in three
northwest trending corridors (see Figure 2):
- The Maybelle River Corridor (11 km) trending northward
from Orano's Maybelle River Project, which hosts shallow high-grade
uranium mineralization at the Dragon
Lake prospect.
- Five historic drill holes tested a portion of the Maybelle
River Corridor on the Company's Rea Project claims, intersecting
anomalous uranium values in two holes, and anomalous pathfinder
elements and pathfinder minerals including clay alteration and
dravite, which is a distinctive accessory mineral associated with
many major Athabasca uranium
occurrences, in three of the five drill holes.
- The Net Lake Corridor (20 km) has seen only wide
spaced drilling (comprising 20 historic holes), with five holes
intersecting anomalous uranium values and associated pathfinder
elements and minerals.
- The Keane Lake Corridor (40 km) is largely untested
except for two historic drill holes that intersected anomalous
uranium values in the south-central area of the Rea Project.
- Each of the three prospective corridors are interpreted as
potentially significant and deeply rooted basement structures,
which are known to be fundamental to the formation
of Athabasca uranium deposits. Drill-proven fault and shear
zones have been intersected on both the Maybelle River and Net Lake
corridors.
- Follow-up exploration programs are expected to include
additional geophysics to refine targets in advance of
drilling.
Geophysical Processing, Inversion
and Modeling
Unconformity-related uranium deposits in the Athabasca Basin are commonly associated with
conductive graphite-bearing shear zones. These zones are located in
basement rocks below the basin sedimentary formations and can be
detected and mapped via electrical geophysical methods. The shear
zones are typically overlain by broad hydrothermal alteration zones
in the overlying sandstone. Uranium mineralization is commonly
hosted in the sandstone at or near the unconformity, however, there
are several deposits such as Fission's Triple R and NexGen's Arrow
that are hosted within graphitic shear zones in the basement
rocks.
GoldMining recently commissioned Fathom Geophysics LLC to
process, invert and model historic airborne and ground geophysical
surveys that included: Versatile Time Domain Electromagnetics (EM)
and magnetic surveys flown in 2005; an Induced Polarization (IP)
survey completed in 2006; and a Full Tensor Gradiometry survey
flown in 2009. The results of this work were used to manually
produce a structural and lithological interpretation consistent
with the modelled geophysics and tectonic setting of the Rea
Project area (Figure 2).
The Net Lake Corridor (20 km) has been tested by 20
widely spaced drill holes with five of these holes intersecting
anomalous uranium and associated pathfinder elements such as
vanadium, nickel, cobalt and arsenic, and pathfinder minerals such
clay alteration and dravite.
The Maybelle River Corridor (40 km total length, 11 km on Rea
Project claims) hosts Orano's Maybelle River project, which
includes shallow (<200 m deep)
high-grade uranium mineralization at the Dragon Lake prospect. Dragon Lake, discovered in 1988, has
previously reported historic high-grade drill intersections
including 17.7% U3O8 over 5 m in MR-39 and 4.7% U3O8
over 1.7 m in MR-34.1 The
Maybelle River Corridor extends northwards for 11 km onto the
Company's 75% owned Rea Project claims, where five historic holes
have tested only 3 km of the northern extension of the prospective
corridor to date. The drilling intersected encouraging anomalous
uranium values in two of the holes, as well as clay alteration,
breccias and anomalous pathfinder elements in three of the
holes.
The Keane Lake Corridor (40 km) is largely unexplored,
except for two historic drill holes that intersected anomalous
uranium values in the south-central area of the Project.
Please see the technical report titled "Technical Report on the
Rea Property, Northeastern Alberta,
Canada", dated effective September
12, 2014, for details on the Rea Project and historic
results referenced herein.
1
Wheatley, K. and Cutts, C., 2013: Overview of the Dragon Lake
Uranium Prospect, Maybelle River Area, Northeastern Alberta,
Exploration and Mining Geology, Vol. 21, p 51-62, Canadian
Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum.
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Qualified Person
Tim Smith, P. Geo., Vice
President Exploration of GoldMining, has supervised the preparation
of and approved the scientific and technical information contained
herein. Mr. Smith is a qualified person defined in National
Instrument 43-101 Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects
("NI 43-101").
About the Rea Uranium
Project
The Rea Project consists of 16 contiguous exploration permits
covering approximately 125,328 hectares surrounding Oranoꞌs
Maybelle River project, which hosts the relatively shallow,
Dragon Lake prospect. The Rea
Project is located approximately 175 km north-northwest of
Fort McMurray, Alberta, which is
serviced daily by commercial flights from Edmonton and Calgary. Access to the Project is by winter
roads connecting Fort McKay and Fort
Chipewyan, or by air charter.
About GoldMining Inc.
The Company is a public mineral exploration company focused on
the acquisition and development of gold assets in the Americas.
Through its disciplined acquisition strategy, the Company now
controls a diversified portfolio of resource-stage gold and
gold-copper projects in Canada,
U.S.A., Brazil, Colombia, and Peru. The Company also owns more than 21.5
million shares of Gold Royalty Corp. (NYSE American: GROY), 9.9
million shares of U.S. GoldMining Inc. (Nasdaq: USGO), and 26.7
million shares of NevGold Corp. (TSXV: NAU). See www.goldmining.com
for additional information.
Notice to Readers
Technical disclosure in this news release regarding the Rea
Project has been prepared by the Company in accordance with NI
43-101. NI 43-101 is a rule of the Canadian Securities
Administrators applicable to the disclosure of scientific and
technical information concerning mineral projects. These standards
differ from the requirements of the U.S. Securities and Exchange
Commission ("SEC") and the scientific and technical information
contained in this news release may not be comparable to similar
information disclosed by domestic United
States companies subject to the SEC's reporting and
disclosure requirements.
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Forward-looking Statements
Certain of the information contained in this news release
constitutes "forward-looking information" and "forward-looking
statements" within the meaning of applicable Canadian and U.S.
securities laws ("forward-looking statements"), which involve known
and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause
the Company's actual results, performance and achievements to be
materially different from the results, performance or achievements
expressed or implied therein. Forward-looking statements, which are
all statements other than statements of historical fact, include,
but are not limited to, expected future work at the Rea Project,
the Company plans and expectations regarding the Rea Project and
statements regarding the Company's strategy to unlock value for
shareholders. Forward-looking statements are based on the
then-current expectations, beliefs, assumptions, estimates and
forecasts about the business and the markets in which GoldMining
operates. Investors are cautioned that all forward-looking
statements involve risks and uncertainties, including: the inherent
risks involved in the exploration and development of mineral
properties, fluctuating metal prices, unanticipated costs and
expenses, risks related to government and environmental regulation,
social, permitting and licensing matters, any inability to commence
and complete work as expected, the Company's plans with respect to
the Rea Project may change as a result of further planning or
otherwise, and uncertainties relating to the availability and costs
of financing needed in the future. These risks, as well as others,
including those set forth in GoldMiningꞌs Annual Information
Form for the year ended November 30,
2023, and other filings with Canadian securities regulators
and the SEC, could cause actual results and events to vary
significantly. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance
on forward-looking statements. There can be no assurance that
forward-looking statements, or the material factors or assumptions
used to develop such forward-looking statements, will prove to be
accurate. The Company does not undertake to update any
forward-looking statements, except in accordance with applicable
securities law.
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