SOUTH BIENVILLE

Helicopter-supported prospecting at the South Bienville property, Nunavik.

Uranium property in Nunavik

The South Bienville property is one of Azimut’s 100% owned uranium properties in west and central Nunavik, northern Quebec. It comprises 558 claims for a total surface area of 270.9 km².

Central Quebec Uranium Lineament

The South Bienville property and the three Minto properties are aligned along a regional-scale, lake-bottom sediment uranium anomaly that Azimut calls the "Central Quebec Uranium Lineament". This roughly north-south geochemical trend measures 350 km long by 10-30 km wide and correlates well with late Archean intrusions and crustal-scale structures. It was identified through Azimut’s predictive modeling that covered most of Quebec and Labrador.

The region has seen little uranium exploration in the past, but there are strong indications that it has significant uranium potential. The Dieter Lake deposit of Fission Energy Corp is hosted in Paleoproterozoic metasedimentary rocks 40 km east of the South Bienville property and has inferred resources of 11,000 tonnes U₃O₈ @ 0.063% U₃O₈ according to an estimate released in 2007.

Uranium mineralization

Field work in 2007 and 2008 at South Bienville provided 138 rock grab samples collected from outcrops (51) and boulders (87). Other outcrop samples returned assays up to 0.67% U₃O₈, and boulder samples yielded assays up to 0.77% U₃O₈. Uranium-bearing rock samples are spatially related to multi-kilometre helicopter-borne radiometric anomalies and lake-bottom sediment anomalies.

Mineralization is hosted mainly in pegmatite and granite. Uranophane (a secondary uranium mineral) was observed at several mineralized outcrops.

The U/Th ratios for 8 samples above 0.05% U₃O₈ range from 1 to 50. Scintillometer readings from mineralized outcrops with values above 0.05% U₃O₈ range from 4,200 to 15,000 cps.

Copper-silver mineralization

In addition to uranium mineralization, the prospecting program at South Bienville revealed a showing of chalcocite—a copper-bearing mineral—in a granite outcrop that yielded more than 40% copper and 12 g/t silver. Abundant hematite veinlets and lesser amounts of disseminated pyrite and pyrrhotite were also observed, as well as silicification. The showing is located in an area underlain by a major structure that correlates with a multi-kilometre copper anomaly in lake-bottom sediments, with values up to 316 ppm.

Relevant Press Releases

January 28, 2009
Azimut and Abitex discover mineralization with more than 40% Cu and up to 0.67% U₃O₈ at South Bienville, Nunavik, Quebec

October 30, 2007
Azimut and Central Uranium identify uranium targets on the South Bienville Property, northern Quebec

May 29, 2007
Azimut's update on 13 uranium exploration properties in Quebec

May 01, 2007
Azimut and Central Uranium sign 2 Letters of Intent for the Central Minto and South Bienville Properties, Northern Quebec