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Standard Uranium (STND.V) has taken another step forward in its hunt for high-grade Canadian uranium, this time thanks to a high-tech airborne survey over its Corvo project in Saskatchewan’s famed Athabasca Basin.
The company recently completed a Time-Domain Electromagnetic (TDEM) survey — think of it as a giant metal detector in the sky. This gear sends energy pulses into the ground and measures how different rocks respond. For uranium explorers, it’s one of the best ways to map out features below the surface that could point to a deposit.
And it worked.
The Survey Results
The high-resolution TDEM survey covered roughly 2,200 line-kilometres and returned highly detailed images of what’s happening beneath the Corvo property.
The big takeaway? A major east-northeast trending conductor corridor stretching across the northern part of the project.
These conductors are important because uranium deposits in the Athabasca Basin are often associated with fault zones and graphitic rocks that show up clearly in these surveys. In Corvo’s case, the results also highlighted a series of breaks and offsets along the conductor corridor, interpreted as faults that can create pathways for uranium-bearing fluids.
For geologists, that’s a prime exploration target — the kind of thing you follow up with boots-on-the-ground work and, eventually, drilling.
Why Finding Uranium Matters
Uranium is back in the spotlight globally. Governments are leaning on nuclear energy as they search for reliable, low-carbon power sources. China and India are building new nuclear plants, while Europe and North America are extending reactor lifespans and exploring new technologies like small modular reactors (SMRs).
This growing nuclear focus has driven uranium prices higher compared to just a few years ago, even with normal commodity ups and downs. For junior explorers like Standard Uranium, that means new discoveries or even promising targets can have outsized impact because the market is looking for future supply sources.
The Athabasca Basin is already known as the world’s premier hunting ground for high-grade uranium. Companies exploring there are hoping to replicate the success of giants like Cameco’s McArthur River and Cigar Lake deposits — two of the richest uranium mines in the world – and Standard has multiple bets on the table.
Next Steps
Standard Uranium is now preparing to follow up these results with detailed field programs, including mapping and sampling, designed to refine drilling targets. The combination of a strong, continuous conductor corridor, evidence of faulting, and supportive historic data gives the company a focused exploration path moving forward.
The company says these new targets are exactly what it hoped to find and will form the backbone of its next phases of work.
The Big Picture
The Athabasca Basin is to uranium exploration what the NHL is to hockey — the top players hang out there, and the grades are world-class. With the global uranium market heating up and nuclear power increasingly seen as critical to clean energy goals, and increasingly CANADA’S energy goals – explorers with strong targets in proven regions are drawing investor interest.
Standard Uranium’s Corvo project is still early-stage, but this high-resolution TDEM survey shows it has real potential and that they weren’t blowing smoke when they suggested that might be the case.
More importantly, the company has clear exploration targets and a straightforward plan to follow them up — exactly what investors want to see in a junior explorer.
Bottom Line:
Standard Uranium continues to do what they said they’d do; namely, the work.
— Chris Parry
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