Appia Rare Earths & Uranium Corp. (CSE:API, OTCQB:APAAF) laid out its plans to develop its Alces Lake rare earths property in an upcoming work program.
The firm has mobilized a field crew at the property in northern Saskatchewan, it said in a statement.
Appia is planning a five-phase program which includes prospecting and sampling, followed by drill target selection and airborne gravity-magnetics-radiometrics that will identify high-priority areas on the property.
The 2023 work season will be highly focussed on determining high-priority drill targets along the mineralized structural corridor, Appia president Stephen Burega told investors.
The firm will select targets based on their radiometric signature, Burega added, and followed up by extensive ground-truthing with spectrometers and a handheld XRF unit.
Burega told shareholders that the reason is to “ensure our drill campaign tracks the continuity of mineralization controlled by this important structural corridor.”
“It is hoped that new surface zones will contain high-grade REE mineralization as well as near-surface bulk tonnage variable-grade mineralization will be discovered with the potential to increase total volume/tonnage on the property,” Burega added.
Mobilization of the field crew will take place over the next two weeks, the company said.
Exploration permits for the proposed Phases I and II are approved, and those of Phases III and IV will be submitted shortly.
Alces Lake encompasses some of the highest-grade total and critical rare earth elements (REEs) and gallium mineralization in the world, hosted within several surface and near-surface monazite occurrences that remain open at depth and along strike.
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