Noronex (ASX:NRX) has appointed a contractor to undertake an upcoming drilling campaign at the company’s joint venture Etango North Uranium Project in Namibia.
Drilling will be conducted across several ‘high priority’ targets where an extensive ground spectrometry survey in 2025 identified uranium-thorium anomalies and confirmed extensions to the alaskite-hosted mineralisation that extends into Noronex’s landholding.
This campaign marks the company’s first sub-surface testing of the flat-lying alaskire sheets and domal closure identified last year.
Noronex conducted remote sensing lithostratigraphic interpretation across targets recently to refine the geometry. Noronex says this exploration campaign confirmed “favourable structural settings”.
CEO Victor Rajasooriar says appointing a drilling contractor is an “important milestone” for Noronex to advance toward drill testing.
“The targets defined from the spectrometry survey and AI-assisted modelling represent a compelling opportunity for a greenfields uranium discovery in one of the world’s premier uranium districts,” Rajasooriar says.
“We look forward to commencing drilling shortly and to progressing this project in parallel with our copper exploration programs in Namibia and Botswana.”
Etango North is a joint venture project, where Noronex may earn up to 80% interest in the asset.
The project is located in the centre of Namibia’s hard-rock uranium district, along strike from Bannerman Energy’s (ASX:BMN) Etango Project and proximal to the Rossing and Husab uranium mines.
Noronex is a copper explorer with advanced projects in the Kalahari Copper Belt, spanning Namibia and Botswana, and in Ontario, Canada.
Write to Maddison Elliott at Mining.com.au
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