Dornogovi District
The ten licences held by MUC
Mongolia in the Dornogovi District and the
surrounding areas cover approximately 21,195 ha.
The licences are about 200 km east of the Hairhan
and Haraat uranium deposits owned by Denison Mines,
and can be accessed by paved road to the township of
Choir, approximately 200 km south-south-east of
Ulaanbataar, and then by dirt track approximately
100 km to the southern most licence.
Little data is available for the
northern Dornogovi licences, other than for licence
number 9646X, where shallow trenches were excavated and
shallow drilling was undertaken. Russian drilling
profiles indicate uranium-enriched layers occurring at
around 20 to 30 m below the surface, and apparently
confined to palaeochannels. On average, the
uranium-enriched layer is reported as approximately 2.1
m thick, 70 m wide, and 800 m long along strike.
However, due to the lack of understanding with regards
to sampling and analytical techniques, SRK cannot verify
any results of the historic drilling programme. A
reconnaissance field review of trenches by geologists of
MUC Mongolia using a Russian scintillometer detected, on
average, twice times background uranium levels, and, up
to four times background from coarse red-yellow-brown
conglomerates. SRK interprets that the high four times
readings relate to uranium concentrated in limonitic
cements. In addition, a single trench displayed high
readings, up to nine times background, in association
with limonite stained clayey, silty sandstones.
Together, the identified stratigraphy from drilling and
reconnaissance surface detection by MUC Mongolia,
indicate at least elevated U values within licence
number 9646X.
The Dornogovi District licences
represent
MUC Mongolia plans to source
further available historic exploration data from
government records, implement a detailed reconnaissance
programme in order to verify this data and undertake
further exploration and drilling activities.