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St. George Bay Potash Property



St. George's Bay Preliminary Resource Assessment Study (PDF 7.8mb)

On Tuesday May 20, 2008 Universal Uranium Ltd. acquired 816 claims in the St. George's Bay Basin of western Newfoundland. The claims boarder properties held by Altius Resources Inc., Sprott Resource Corp. and Vulcan Minerals. Please view map below for property position.
 
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REGIONAL GEOLOGY

The Bay St. George subbasin is the landward continuation in Newfoundland of the Maritimes Carboniferous Basin. The Maritimes Basin formed as a pull-apart basin in the dextral strike-slip regime of the post-Acadian Cabot Fault system (Bradley, 1982 from Kilfoil 1988), expressed in Newfoundland as the Long Range Fault which is located 8 to 10 km southeast of the present claims block.

The pre-Carboniferous basement in the Bay St. George subbasin is likely comprised of Precambrian age rocks ,Williams' (1978). Knight (1983) compiled the "Geology of the Carboniferous Bay St.George Sub-basin, Western Newfoundland" (1983) and divided the sedimentary rocks into three (3) groups, from base (oldest) to top (youngest) these are:

  1. the Anguille Group; Grey and red sandstones, conglomerates, black and grey shales,minor dolostones, and limestones. The sediments were deposited in lacustrine and fluviatile environments

  2. Codroy Group; Intercalated, coarse- to fine-grained red beds; evaporites including sulphate and chloride salts; limestones and dolostones, with some grey lacustrine siliciclastics and

  3. Barachois Group. Arkosic and subarkosic, grey to red sandstones and pebbly sandstones, red to grey siltstones, grey to black shale and coal beds. The lithologies are arranged in fining-upward sequences. Locally developed conglomerates occur along fault margins of the sub-basin.

POTASH AND SALT POTENTIAL

Economic evaporite deposits occur in the New Brunswick sections of the Maritimes Basin. Previous drilling in several areas of the St. Georges sub-Basin have revealed large thicknesses of evaporitic rocks hosting significant beds of potash and carnallite as demonstrated by the table presented below.

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                                        Thickness
Hole#	       FROM (M)	  TO (M)        (M)         K2O %
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HC # 1	        262.40	  276.30       13.90        6.3
HC # 3	        381.00	  389.40        8.40        7.95
PRONTO # 1	588.87	  596.80        7.92        9.70
PRONTO # 1	664.77	  672.69        7.92        6.23
PRONTO # 1	564.92	  570.59        5.67        6.50
PRONTO # 1	493.17	  498.35        5.18        4.5-5.0
PRONTO # 2	382.52	  387.25        4.72        7.20
PF # 2          551.69	  565.25        4.10        6.74
PRONTO # 2	239.27	  243.08        3.81       12.00
PRONTO # 2	539.80	  542.85        3.05       13.00
PRONTO # 1	551.08	  553.82        2.74        6.40
PRONTO # 2	395.78	  398.07        2.29        7.50
PRONTO # 2	565.25	  567.39        2.13       13.30
PRONTO # 1	727.56	  729.69        2.13        9.90
PRONTO # 1	375.51	  377.65        2.13        6.30
PRONTO # 1	548.03	  549.86        1.83        6.80
PRONTO # 2	473.05	  474.88        1.83       13.20
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Universal Uranium Ltd. plans to compile and re-interpret the historic geophysics data using modern techniques in preparation for undertaking additional geophysics surveys on its properties. Subsequent drilling will begin on the most favorable targets during the coming field season.
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