Appia Rare Earths & Uranium Corp. (CSE:API, OTCQB:APAAF) has announced the release of assay results from 2022 diamond drilling of the Wilson and AMP zones of the WRCB area at its 100%-owned Alces Lake rare earth elements (REES) property in Northern Saskatchewan.
The company said it received additional highly-mineralized results from new sections in the Wilson zone and doubled the strike length of the newly identified, underlying AMP zone to 300 metres (m), which continues to remain open down plunge and along strike. This zone extends south-southeast to Magnet Ridge, which occurs at the same structural level, but near-surface, it added.
"The identification of the AMP zone — a new exploration target with metallogenic targeting implications — is an important development at Alces Lake,” Appia vice president of exploration Irvine Annesley said in a statement. “This style of mineralization (ie mineralized anatectic melt rocks within high-strain melt-transfer zones) is common to all previously discovered targets at WRCB and opens new mineralization potential for our 38,522.43-hectare property."
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Wilson Zone Highlights from the program include:
- All newly-drilled mineralization intervals occur near surface from 15 to 85 meters depth;
- 8.98m at 9.46 weight percent (wt%) total rare earth oxides (TREO) including 0.87m at 17.1 wt.% TREO in hole 22-WRC-024;
- 7.02m at 1.37 wt.% TREO including 0.59m at 11.88 wt.% TREO in hole 22-WRC-022; and
- 2.92m at 7.99 wt.% TREO in hole 22-WRC-029; one of multiple mineralized intervals.
AMP Zone Highlights from the program include:
- Mineralization intervals occur from near surface to 200 meters depth and open in all directions;
- 12.13m at 0.33 wt.% TREO including 5.7m at 0.55 wt.% TREO from hole 22-WRC-016;
- 10.3m at 0.42 wt.% TREO including 4.3m at 0.61 wt.% TREO from hole 22-WRC-008;
- 8.83m at 0.36 wt.% TREO including 4.43m at 0.55 wt.% TREO from hole 22-WRC-003B;
- AMP Zone expands from that first reported June 1, 2022; and
- More drilling is warranted to the southeast along the >20 km structural corridor.
"Impressive high grades from new sections in the Wilson Zone continue to add volume to the WRCB's low- to high-grade REE mineralization,” Appia president Stephen Burega commented. “The Alces Lake 2022 exploration program provided new discoveries, expanded existing mineralization zones and delivered encouraging assay results for our exploration investment. From this, we added to our pipeline of drilling targets for 2023 and beyond."
Appia noted that final assays for its 2022 Alces Lake diamond drilling program have been received, compiled, and interpreted zone-by-zone and that further results will follow once all the results are finalized. The complete assay results are available in table format by clicking on this link.
Appia is a Canadian company in the rare earth element and uranium sectors. It is focused on delineating high-grade critical rare earth elements and gallium on the Alces Lake property, as well as exploring for high-grade uranium in the prolific Athabasca Basin on its Otherside, Loranger, North Wollaston, and Eastside properties.
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