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Loranger

Athabasca Basin, Saskatchewan

Actual Picture of the Loranger Project

Current Work (2024)

Appia Rare Earths & Uranium Corp. advanced its exploration efforts at the Loranger property, adjacent to the Athabasca Basin, with a diamond drilling program launched in June 2024 targeting geophysical indicators near the Tabbernor Fault system. By July, the program had completed 714 meters of drilling, yielding 42 samples with significant findings, including radioactive pegmatites, visible monazite, and graphitic electromagnetic conductors with scintillometer readings up to 1,500 cps, suggesting uranium mineralization potential. In September, analysis confirmed uranium and rare earth element (REE) mineralization in three exploratory targets, highlighting the property’s dual-commodity potential with electromagnetic conductors extending 2.2 to 2.5 km, positioning Loranger as a key asset in Appia’s portfolio.

2022

  • The survey extended and discovered some new electromagnetic (EM) conductors, and provided additional structural geophysical characteristics of these conductors.
  • EM lineaments exceeding 10 km in contiguous strike length are identified.
  • EM conductors are offset by younger features.
  • The property will be drill ready once targets are confirmed and permits are submitted/accepted.

2020

  • A composite sample length of 65.75 metres returning 0.018 wt% U3O8 from within Area 51 of the Eastside property and
  • A 1.0 metre channel sample line returning 0.471 wt% total rare earth oxide (“TREO”) from Area D of the Loranger property.

2019

February - April

Drilled eight holes (1,063 m total). Holes LOR-19-02 to LOR-19-03 found 0.066 wt% U3O8 over 0.7 m at 105.5 m depth and 0.032 wt% U3O8 over 3.15 m at 96.75 m depth. LOR-19-01 to LOR-19-04A showed uranium in 900 m along a new area. LOR-19-08 found uranium “depletion” due to fluid fault network, indicating mobilization and re-deposition. (June 18, 2019 New Release)

Historical Reports

Winter 2017 Drill Hole U3O8 Assay Results
W 2017 Drill Hole Summaries

Historical Work

2017

June

Conducted 117 km of ground prospecting and radiometric surveying across four priority drill areas. The survey found boulders with similar features to those around high-grade uranium deposits, identifying 154 radioactive boulders and outcrops with radioactivity levels from 500 cps to 8,500 cps. (Source: News Release, July 26, 2017)

2017

February - April

Drilling (holes LOR-17-001 to LOR-17-007) on the Property yielded important findings. LOR-17-001 to LOR-17-003 focused on a gravity low without radioactive anomalies. LOR-17-004 to LOR-17-007 revealed significant radioactive pegmatite lenses from surface to 260 m depth, extending known radioactivity  750 m southwest along RCV area. (See Apr 12, 2017 News Release).

2017

January - February

Appia had MWH Geo-Surveys conduct a ground gravity survey over 45.2 km of 94.0 km primary corridors from VTEMTM Max Time-Domain EM/magnetic survey. Results show gravity lows at breaks in conductive corridors and cross-cutting structures. Some lows resemble Athabasca Basin high-grade uranium deposits (e.g., NexGen’s Arrow, Rio Tinto’s Roughrider). (See Feb 23, 2017 News Release).

2016

March

Staked 6 mineral claims (24,755 ha.) for the Loranger property

2016

August

Staked 3 additional mineral claims (5,970 ha.) contiguous to the SW of Loranger

2016

October

Appia hired Geotech Ltd. for helicopter VTEMTM Max survey (715 line-km) finding 94 km primary corridors similar to Athabasca uranium deposits. Results: (See Dec 13, 2016 News Release).

Historic Exploration

Historic exploration for uranium over the Loranger property has occurred over three separate timeframes; from 1968 to 1969, 1978 to 1979 and 2007. 

Appia Energy Corp. changed its name to Appia Rare Earths and Uranium Corp. in October, 2021

Assessment Report Year Work Summary
Great Bear Uranium Corp.
64E14-0027 2007 Airborne aeromagnetic, XDS-VLF-EM and radiometric survey
Assessment Report Year Work Summary
Denison Mines Ltd./Denmontan Resources Limited/SMDC (JV)
64E13-0038 1978 Airborne EM (INPUT) and magnetic survey
64E13-0039 1978 Ground geological, scintillometry, soil gas radon, radion-in-water, sediment and
lake bottom geochemical surveys
*EXPLORATION HIGHLIGHTS on RCV Grid No. 2*
  1. Discontinuous radioactive pegmatite bodies are mapped over a strike-length of 1 mile
  2. Elevated soil gas radon anomalies (up to 9x higher than background) show strong correlation with EM conductors
  3. Drill water
Ground EM (VLF and Max-Min) and magnetometer geophysical surveys
*GEOPHYSICS HIGHLIGHTS on RCV Grid No. 2*
  1. EM survey identifies the presences of multiple conductors
64L03-0015 1978 6 DDH (WP-78-01 to WP-78-06) for 649.2 m on RCV Grid No. 2
*DDH HIGHLIGHTS on RCV Grid No. 2*
  1. 0.031 wt% U3O8 over 6.4 m at 24.3 m vertical depth in DDH WP-78-01
  2. Drill water from WP-78-01 returned radon gas in water concentrations of 65,000 Pc/L
64L03-0018 1979 Ground EM (Max-Min) surveys on 11 grids
11 DDH (WP-79-01 to WP-79-11) for 1,389.6 m of which 7 DDH are drilled on RCV Grid No. 2 for a total of 931.5 m
*DDH HIGHLIGHTS on RCV Grid No. 2*
  1. 0.011 wt% U3O8 over 13.1 m at 94.3 m vertical depth in DDH WP-79-06
  2. 0.034 wt% U3O8 over 5.9 m at 59.0 m vertical depth in DDH WP-79-07 includes maximum assays of 0.066 wt% U3O8 over 0.61 m
Marline Oil Corporation
64E-0005 1979 Airborne radiometric and VLF-EM surveys
Assessment Report Year Work Summary
New Continental Oil Company of Canada Limited/Royal Canadian Ventures Limited (JV)
64E14-0009 1968 to 1969 Airborne radiometrics, EM and magnetics
Geological mapping, ground prospecting and scintillometry
Ground EM and magnetometer surveys over 2 grids
Great Plains Resources Ltd.
74H-0005 1968 Airborne radiometric survey

Geology & Mineralization

  • Radioactivity and uranium mineralization were identified at surface as discontinuous pegmatites in the
    RCV Grid No. 2 area. 
  • Sub-surface uranium mineralization and anomalous radioactivity was intersected in 10 out of 13 DDH at RCV Grid No. 2.  See “Historic Exploration” for noteworthy DDH intersections.  The uranium mineralization is hosted in pegmatites and graphitic structures
  • Rock types identified on the property include, in geochronological order from youngest to oldest; Hudsonian pegmatite, Proterozoic metasedimentary gneisses (arkosic to psammopelitic to pelitic [+/- graphite] and quartzite), and Archean granitoid gneiss.  This basement rock sequence is identical to that of other known high-grade uranium deposits in the Wollaston Domain.
  • The property boundary is approximately 21 km E of the current day Eastern Athabasca Basin margin.  Athabasca sandstone cover was important for the formation of economic uranium deposits.  Evidence suggests the property was covered by Athabasca sandstones during time of uranium deposit formation.
  • NE-trending graphitic shear/fault zones and N-S-trending Tabbernor faults are the two primary fault systems on the property.  Many Athabasca high-grade uranium deposits are associated with these reactivated structural systems. 

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