CASE STUDY

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May 2024

Using Co-operative Inversion to assist uranium targeting at the high-grade PLN Project in the Athabasca Basin

Located within the southwestern edge of the Athabasca Basin in Saskatchewan, F3 Uranium’s Patterson Lake North (PLN) property hosts the high-grade JR Uranium Zone. To navigate the complex basement-hosted mineralization of the A1 Main Shear Zone, CGI implemented an integrated geoscientific framework. This approach leveraged both newly acquired data and legacy datasets, ensuring that geological constraints directly informed geophysical inversions to produce highly accurate subsurface models.

CGI utilized a multiphysics suite, including SQUID EM, 3D DC Resistivity, and MobileMT, to refine the 3D geological model. By performing joint parametric inversions and geologically constrained density inversions, CGI helped F3 Uranium identify the conductive targets that led to the discovery of the JR Uranium Zone. Our iterative feedback loop - where petrophysical data from drill cores constantly refines inversion parameters - continues to delineate advanced drill targets along the A1/B1 transition zone, maximizing exploration efficiency in one of the world's premier uranium districts.

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PLN property map showing the CGI inversion model

Demonstrating the value of co-operative inversion:

Starting from ground TDEM data, CGI conducted parametric inversions incorporating knowledge of structural features from previous plate modelling. The resulting conducivity model (plus geological constraints such as the Athabasca unconformity) were used as a starting model for DC resistivity inversion, providing a final multi-physics voxel model that is consistent with all avaialble data.