Quebec, Canada
- Property area totals over 68 Square Kilometers
- Close in proximity to Nova Uranium (NUC-TSX-V) and Strateco Resources (RSC-TSX)
- Easy access to property, close to major highways and towns
Ivany Mining owns a 100% interest in a large group of claims situated in the area of Mont Laurier, Quebec, the property is located less than 200 kilometers northwest of Montreal and is easily accessible by both paved and gravel roads. The Mont Laurier properties were acquired after Nova Uranium and Strateco Resources made several discoveries in the area.
Ivany Mining has claims adjacent to Strateco and Nova uranium in a North/South trend. Previous exploration in the area has resulted in many uranium showings including a grab sample showing a result of over 70lbs/ton of U308. Also, there are estimations of sizable U308 reserves in the area, but theses reserves are pre NI-43 101 therefore not compliant. With the price of U308 recently climbing to $136 per pound, there has been renewed interesting the area. The close proximity to a major metropolitan city makes this project very attractive as exploration and mining costs are sharply reduced as compared to projects in remote areas.
Regional Mineralization
The Mont Laurier Uranium Exploration Camp area is one of many radioactive districts scattered throughout the Grenville Structure Province. Many of the Grenville radioactive occurrences (chiefly related to intrusives of granitic composition) are found in the southwestern extent of the structural province, extending from southwest Quebec into eastern Ontario.
Local Mineralization
The Property hosts at least 21 historical uranium showings, where syngenetic uranium mineralization is found in metamorphic pegmatites and granites. Some of these major mineral showings are comprised of a collection of smaller individual uranium occurrences.
As a general rule, syngenetic uranium deposits form as the result of high temperature igneous and/or metamorphic differentiation caused by the exclusion of uranium (and other radioactive elements) from the crystal structure of most rock-forming minerals. This type of uranium deposit is confined to high-grade metamorphic terrains, typically occurring within Achaean to early Proterozoic aged basement granite gneiss complexes.
Deposits are normally associated with major regional scale structural faults and/or structures related to the emplacement of deep-seated alkaline intrusive bodies. Host rock lithologies are generally granitic in composition, occurring as intricate dyke-sill complexes, varying in texture from aplitic to pegmatitic. Ore minerals typically include finely disseminated crystals of uraninite, uranothorite and allanite, with less common secondary minerals like, uranophane or pitchblende.
