UrAmerica in Chubut, Argentina - Discovering Uranium in Latin America

CHUBUT

Uranium Chubut

UrAmerica owns 13 exploration permits near CNEA's Cerro Solo mine, totaling 123,239 Ha with uranium discovery potential.

The exploration permits cover numerous radiometric anomalies detected by airborne surveys conducted in the 1960s and late 1970s in the Mesozoic San Jorge Gulf Basin by the National Nuclear Energy Commission (CNEA: Comisión Nacional de Energia Atomica).

This basin is the center of operations for many important international uranium exploration companies.

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An Uranium Exploration Production Project in Patagonia - reviewed by CNEA

UrAmerica's Exploration Permits in the San Jose Basin

Source: CNEA and UrAmerica

The entire stratigraphic column of the Cretaceous Chubut Group contains several formations with uranium deposits.

All of our permits contain the different lithologic levels seen below. Displayed on the right are the grade observed in the field by the respective outcrop.

Source: CNEA

Chubut sectorB Geology

UrAmerica has constructed its own maps and defined the mineral index for the zone.

The image above show the shape and contours of the Chubut basin where our permits are located. These deposits are sandstone and conglomerates, stratabound subhorizontally. In dark green is the Los Adobes Formation, the main mineralized body.

Due to the extension of the San Jorge basin we used technological studies to get specific information to join the permits in Sectors.
With the studies and our geologist´s visit to the area, we were able to:
1. define different deposits targets on the west and over the eastern side of the basin.
2. build a Ranking of the sectors, in order to focus our exploration plan.

Based on this ranking, we will carry out the next steps of our exploration program starting by sectors A and B on the west and sector F on the east.
On the west side (Sectors A and B) our permits are close to the basin border. Here we looked for braided channel design and very good presence of organic material (like Cerro Solo mine).
On the eastern side (SECTOR F) we looked for shallow mineralized levels with presence of U. On our geologist´s visit, we could see that this presence is very close to the surface. Once we confirm our findings, we can try the ISL system there.