Aventis Energy Announces Mobilization of Exploration Crews to the Corvo Uranium Project in Northern Saskatchewan
Aventis Energy (OTC:VBAMF) has initiated its 2025 exploration program at the Corvo Uranium Project in Northern Saskatchewan. The company mobilized crews on July 4, 2025, to conduct detailed mapping and sampling across historical uranium showings, including the Manhattan showing with historical grades of 1.19% to 5.98% U3O8.
The program includes ground-truthing historical uraniferous outcrops, analyzing recent airborne TDEM survey results, and planning an inaugural diamond drill program for Q1 2026. The Corvo Property is strategically located 45 km northeast of Atha Energy's Gemini Mineralized Zone and 60 km east of Cameco's McArthur River mine.
The company will conduct high-resolution ground gravity surveys and integrate historical data with new datasets to identify potential uranium mineralization targets. The project shows promise for shallow, high-grade basement-hosted uranium mineralization similar to the Rabbit Lake deposit.
Aventis Energy (OTC:VBAMF) ha avviato il suo programma di esplorazione 2025 presso il Progetto Uranio Corvo nel Nord della Saskatchewan. La società ha mobilitato le squadre il 4 luglio 2025 per effettuare mappature dettagliate e campionamenti su manifestazioni storiche di uranio, inclusa la zona Manhattan con grade storici di 1,19% a 5,98% U3O8.
Il programma prevede la verifica sul campo di affioramenti uraniferi storici, l'analisi dei risultati recenti di un'indagine aerea TDEM e la pianificazione di un primo programma di perforazioni diamantate per il primo trimestre 2026. La proprietà Corvo si trova strategicamente a 45 km a nord-est della zona mineralizzata Gemini di Atha Energy e a 60 km a est della miniera McArthur River di Cameco.
La società condurrà indagini di gravità terrestre ad alta risoluzione e integrerà i dati storici con nuovi dataset per individuare potenziali obiettivi di mineralizzazione di uranio. Il progetto mostra potenzialità per mineralizzazioni uranifere ad alta concentrazione e a bassa profondità, ospitate in basamento, simili al deposito di Rabbit Lake.
Aventis Energy (OTC:VBAMF) ha iniciado su programa de exploración 2025 en el Proyecto de Uranio Corvo en el norte de Saskatchewan. La compañía movilizó equipos el 4 de julio de 2025 para realizar mapeos detallados y muestreos en manifestaciones históricas de uranio, incluyendo la zona Manhattan con grados históricos de 1,19% a 5,98% U3O8.
El programa incluye la verificación en terreno de afloramientos uraníferos históricos, el análisis de los resultados recientes de una encuesta aérea TDEM y la planificación de un programa inicial de perforación diamantina para el primer trimestre de 2026. La propiedad Corvo está estratégicamente ubicada a 45 km al noreste de la Zona Mineralizada Gemini de Atha Energy y a 60 km al este de la mina McArthur River de Cameco.
La compañía realizará estudios de gravedad terrestre de alta resolución e integrará datos históricos con nuevos conjuntos de datos para identificar posibles objetivos de mineralización de uranio. El proyecto muestra potencial para mineralización de uranio de alta ley y poco profunda alojada en el basamento, similar al depósito Rabbit Lake.
Aventis Energy (OTC:VBAMF)는 2025년 탐사 프로그램을 캐나다 서스캐처원 북부의 코르보 우라늄 프로젝트에서 시작했습니다. 회사는 2025년 7월 4일에 팀을 투입해 과거 우라늄 노출지들을 상세하게 지도화하고 샘플링을 진행했으며, 여기에는 과거 등급이 1.19%에서 5.98% U3O8인 맨해튼 노출지도 포함됩니다.
프로그램에는 과거 우라늄 광상 현장 확인, 최근 항공 TDEM 조사 결과 분석, 그리고 2026년 1분기 첫 다이아몬드 시추 프로그램 계획이 포함됩니다. 코르보 부지는 Atha Energy의 제미니 광화대에서 북동쪽으로 45km, Cameco의 맥아더 리버 광산에서 동쪽으로 60km 떨어진 전략적 위치에 있습니다.
회사는 고해상도 지상 중력 조사를 실시하고 과거 데이터와 새로운 데이터 세트를 통합하여 우라늄 광화 가능성이 있는 목표를 식별할 예정입니다. 이 프로젝트는 Rabbit Lake 광상과 유사한 얕고 고등급의 기반암 내 우라늄 광화 가능성을 보여줍니다.
Aventis Energy (OTC:VBAMF) a lancé son programme d'exploration 2025 sur le Projet Uranium Corvo dans le nord de la Saskatchewan. La société a mobilisé ses équipes le 4 juillet 2025 pour réaliser une cartographie détaillée et des prélèvements sur des indices historiques d'uranium, y compris la zone Manhattan avec des teneurs historiques allant de 1,19% à 5,98% U3O8.
Le programme comprend la vérification sur le terrain des affleurements uranifères historiques, l'analyse des résultats récents d'une enquête aérienne TDEM, ainsi que la planification d'un premier programme de forage diamanté pour le premier trimestre 2026. La propriété Corvo est stratégiquement située à 45 km au nord-est de la zone minéralisée Gemini d'Atha Energy et à 60 km à l'est de la mine McArthur River de Cameco.
La société réalisera des levés gravimétriques terrestres à haute résolution et intégrera les données historiques avec de nouveaux ensembles de données afin d'identifier des cibles potentielles de minéralisation d'uranium. Le projet présente un potentiel pour une minéralisation uranifère de haute teneur et peu profonde, hébergée dans le socle, similaire au gisement Rabbit Lake.
Aventis Energy (OTC:VBAMF) hat sein Erkundungsprogramm 2025 beim Corvo Uranium Projekt in Nord-Saskatchewan gestartet. Das Unternehmen hat am 4. Juli 2025 Teams mobilisiert, um detaillierte Kartierungen und Probenahmen an historischen Uranvorkommen durchzuführen, darunter das Manhattan-Vorkommen mit historischen Gehalten von 1,19% bis 5,98% U3O8.
Das Programm umfasst die Überprüfung historischer uranhaltiger Aufschlüsse vor Ort, die Analyse aktueller Ergebnisse aus einer luftgestützten TDEM-Untersuchung sowie die Planung eines ersten Diamantbohrprogramms für das erste Quartal 2026. Das Corvo-Gelände liegt strategisch günstig 45 km nordöstlich der Gemini-Mineralisationszone von Atha Energy und 60 km östlich der McArthur River Mine von Cameco.
Das Unternehmen wird hochauflösende bodengestützte Gravimetrie-Untersuchungen durchführen und historische Daten mit neuen Datensätzen integrieren, um potenzielle Uranmineralisationsziele zu identifizieren. Das Projekt zeigt Potenzial für flache, hochgradige, im Grundgebirge beherbergte Uranmineralisierung ähnlich dem Rabbit Lake-Lagerstätten.
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- No modern drilling has been conducted on the property
- Historical data requires verification before reliance
- Inaugural drilling program not starting until Q1 2026
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, July 08, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Aventis Energy. (“Aventis” or the “Company”) (CSE: AVE | FRA: C0O0 | OTC: VBAMF), is pleased to announce that its 2025 exploration program (the “Program”) has begun on its Corvo Uranium Project (the “Corvo Property”, or the “Project”). The Company mobilized to the site on July 4, 2025, to begin a detailed mapping and sampling program across historical uranium showings and zones of interest.
Highlights:
- High-grade* Uranium at Surface: A prospecting, mapping, and geochemical sampling program is currently underway to ground-truth historical uraniferous outcrops including the Manhattan showing (1.19 to
5.98% U3O8) and SMDI showing 2052 (0.137% U3O8 and 2,300 ppm Th)1. - Integrated Target Development: The results of the recent airborne TDEM survey2 are currently undergoing geophysical inversion, interpretation, and modelling to prioritize target areas for inaugural drilling.
- Inaugural Drill Program: A diamond drill program is being planned for Q1 2026 to begin testing targets developed and ranked through the detailed programs that will be executed in 2025.
Mandeep Parmar, Interim CEO and Director of the Company, commented, “We are looking forward to completing a successful sampling and mapping Program. The team will work to confirm uranium grades and sample high priority targets. The Program will provide valuable insights which will all be vital to our targeting strategy for the maiden drill program.”
Figure 1. Regional map of the Corvo Property. The Project is located 45 km northeast of Atha Energy’s Gemini Mineralized Zone (“GMZ”) and 60 km due east of Cameco’s McArthur River mine.
2025 Exploration Plans
The Company’s technical team mobilized to the Corvo Project on July 4, 2025, to undertake a detailed mapping, prospecting, and sampling program to ground-truth historical uranium showings at surface. Collected grab samples will be transported to Saskatchewan Research Council Geoanalytical Laboratories in Saskatoon, SK for geochemical analysis. Results will be released and incorporated into the first NI 43-101 technical report on the Project.
Supplementary geophysical surveys across the Project are being designed to further refine drill targets for an inaugural drill program. The Company plans to complete a high-resolution ground gravity survey across the main conductive trends on the Project, aiming to identify potential hydrothermal alteration halos which could be related to basement-hosted uranium mineralization.
Earlier this year, the Company contracted Axiom Exploration Group Ltd. in partnership with New Resolution Geophysics to carry out a helicopter-borne Xcite time domain electromagnetic and total field magnetic survey over the Corvo Property. The survey totalled approximately 1,380 line-kms with a traverse line spacing of 100 m and tie-line spacing of 1,000 m. The airborne TDEM survey outlines several kilometers of conductive anomalies and magnetic features in bedrock, effectively enhancing the resolution of the conductive trends on the Project.
The magnetic survey component of the TDEM survey contributes to definition of potential fault systems and structural trends not previously identified across the project related to historical uranium showings at surface and in historical drill holes.
Ongoing geophysical interpretation and modeling is planned throughout 2025 to integrate historical surveys with newly collected datasets, which will provide high-priority drill targets and significantly derisk the Project prior to modern drilling next year.
The Company believes the Project is highly prospective for the discovery of shallow, high-grade basement-hosted uranium mineralization akin to the Rabbit Lake deposit and the recently discovered Gemini Mineralized Zone. Located just outside the current margin of the Athabasca Basin, Corvo boasts shallow drill targets with bedrock under minimal cover of glacial till. Several outcrop showings of mineralized veins and fractures are present on the Project, notably the Manhattan Showing that returned historical sample results up to 59,800 ppm U at surface1 and has never been drill tested.
Figure 2. Summary map showing low/EM conductor trends on the Corvo Property and highlighting historical samples and drill holes with anomalous uranium and/or radioactivity, with first vertical derivative magnetics in the background.
*The Company considers uranium mineralization with concentrations greater than 1.0 wt% U3O8 to be “high-grade”.
**The Company considers radioactivity readings greater than 300 counts per second (cps) to be “anomalous”.
Qualified Person Statement
The scientific and technical information contained in this news release has been reviewed, verified, and approved by Sean Hillacre, P.Geo., President and VP Exploration of Standard Uranium Ltd. and a “qualified person” as defined in NI 43-101 – Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects.
Historical data disclosed in this news release relating to sampling results from previous operators are historical in nature. Neither the Company nor a qualified person has yet verified this data and therefore investors should not place undue reliance on such data. The Company’s future exploration work may include verification of the data. The Company considers historical results to be relevant as an exploration guide and to assess the mineralization as well as economic potential of exploration projects. Any historical grab samples disclosed are selected samples and may not represent true underlying mineralization.
References
1 - SMDI# 2052: https://mineraldeposits.saskatchewan.ca/Home/Viewdetails/2052 & Mineral Assessment Report MAW00047: Eagle Plains Resources Inc., 2011-2012
2 - Standard Uranium Provides Exploration Update Highlighting Results of Gravity and TDEM Surveys on Three Eastern Athabasca Uranium Projects, News Release, March 13, 2025. https://standarduranium.ca/news-releases/standard-uranium-provides-exploration-update-tdem-surveys-on-three-eastern-athabasca-uranium/
About Aventis Energy Inc.
Aventis Energy Inc. (CSE: AVE | FRA: C0O0 | OTC: VBAMF) is a mineral exploration company dedicated to the development of strategic projects comprised of battery, base and precious metals in stable jurisdictions. The Company is working to advance its Corvo Uranium & Sting Copper Project.
The Corvo Uranium property has historical drill holes intersected multiple intervals of uranium mineralization, notably along a strike length of 800 metres between historical drill holes TL-79-3 (
The Sting Copper Project covers approximately 12,700 hectares and recently had results of 54.8m at
References
Mineral Assessment Report 64E13-0054: Norbaska Mines Ltd., 1979-1980
SMDI# 2052: https://mineraldeposits.saskatchewan.ca/Home/Viewdetails/2052 & Mineral Assessment Report MAW00047: Eagle Plains Resources Inc., 2011-2012
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