ESO Uranium With Fugro for Megatem on Cluff

This news item came across our TMCnet news feeds today, and I took note of it solely for the beauty of the headline:

ESO Uranium Corp Contracts Fugro Airborne For Megatem II Survey On Cluff Project

Others have argued for filtering out "irrelevant" news from our site -- but just look what kinds of items we would miss out on!

This release is really about uranium mining in the Athabasca Basin of Saskatchewan in Canada. As I understand it, ESO Uranium Corp., a mining outfit, is commissioning a survey to locate uranium resources. I believe Megatem II is a technology used for aerial survey to locate underground resources. This excerpt describes something about how the technology will be used in this project:

"The Megatem II system has substantially greater power and depth penetration than systems used in the past and uses advanced data processing capable of defining conductor locations and conductivity parameters. The survey will fly nearly perpendicular to the known conductors axis, and will consist of 2,000 line kilometers flown on 400 meter line spacings. It will cover the Cluff basement structure which will provide information on areas associated with three groups of uranium mineralized boulders containing up to 19.3% U3O8 and 2.9 g/t gold."

AB -- 10/05/05