Aventis Energy Receives Drill Permits and Initiates Ground Gravity Survey on the Corvo Uranium Project
Rhea-AI Summary
Aventis Energy (OTC: VBAMF) received 18-month drill and exploration permits for the Corvo Uranium Project on Nov 27, 2025. Work begins with a high-resolution 50 m x 200 m ground gravity survey of >29 km conductive strike (more than 5,000 measurement stations), mobilized Nov 24, 2025. A skid-assisted diamond drill program ~3,000 metres is planned to start in January 2026—the first drilling on Corvo in over 40 years—targeting the Manhattan Showing and newly identified radioactive occurrences. Surface grab samples previously returned up to 8.10% U3O8. The Project lies ~60 km east of McArthur River and ~45 km northeast of the Gemini Mineralized Zone.
Positive
- Received 18-month exploration and drill permits
- Planned 3,000 m diamond drill program beginning January 2026
- Ground gravity survey with >5,000 measurement stations
- Surface grab samples up to 8.10% U3O8
- >29 km of conductive strike targeted by new geophysics
Negative
- Historical sampling data remain unverified by the company
- Reported surface grab samples may not represent true underlying mineralization
- Permits limited to an 18-month window for initial programs
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Nov. 27, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Aventis Energy Inc. (“Aventis” or the “Company”) (CSE: AVE | FRA: C0O0 | OTC: VBAMF), is pleased to announce exploration permits have been received for the Corvo Uranium Project (“Corvo”, or the “Project”). Work programs under the 18-month permits (the “Permits”) will include high-resolution geophysical surveys and the Company’s first drill program on the Project beginning in January 2026 (the “Programs”).
The Company contracted MWH Geo-Surveys (Canada) Ltd. (“MWH”) to complete an extensive 50 m x 200 m ground gravity survey covering more than twenty-nine (29) kilometers of conductive strike length, which will aid in identifying density anomalies that may represent hydrothermal alteration systems coinciding with uranium fertile electromagnetic (“EM”) conductor trends. MWH mobilized to the Project on November 24, 2025, and the survey will be comprised of more than five thousand (5,000) individual gravity measurement stations.
Following completion of the gravity survey, a skid-assisted diamond drill program totalling approximately three thousand (3,000) metres is planned for January 2026, which will mark the first drill program on the Project in more than forty (40) years. Drilling will target high-priority areas including the never-before-drilled Manhattan Showing and other newly identified radioactive occurrences across the Project. Outcrop grab samples collected earlier this year returned uranium assays reaching a maximum of
Michael Mulberry, Chief Executive Officer of the Company, commented, “We are very pleased to have received drill permits for our Corvo Uranium Project. Receiving the Permits builds on our 2025 exploration program efforts which saw a helicopter-borne Xcite time domain electromagnetic and total field magnetic survey over Corvo, equipping us with invaluable information to continue our exploration efforts. The Permits provide us with the opportunity to complete a high-resolution geophysical survey and a drilling program.”
Figure 1. Regional map of the Project. The Project is located 60 km due east of Cameco’s McArthur River mine and 45 km northeast of Atha Energy’s Gemini Mineralized Zone (the “GMZ”).
2025 Exploration Programs
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 Project. 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 more than twenty-nine (29) kilometres of conductive trends on the Project.
Ongoing geophysical interpretation and modeling is being completed to integrate historical surveys with newly collected datasets, which will provide high-priority drill targets and significantly derisk the Project prior to modern drilling in 2026.
In July of 2025, Standard Uranium Ltd. as operator completed the Company’s first prospecting and mapping program on the Project with the objective of ground-truth sampling historical uranium showings including the Manhattan Showing, which returned results up to 59,800 ppm uranium (total digestion).2 The Company identified zones of off-scale** radioactivity (>65,535 cps on a handheld RS-125 Super-Spec) and collected hand samples which returned results ranging from
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 GMZ. Located just outside the current margin of the Athabasca Basin, the Project boasts shallow drill targets with bedrock under minimal cover of glacial till.
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 (“NI 43-101”).
Samples collected for analysis were sent to SRC Geoanalytical Laboratories in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan for preparation, processing, and ICP-MS or ICP-OES multi-element analysis using total and partial digestion and boron by fusion. Radioactive samples were tested using the ICP1 uranium multi-element exploration package plus boron. All samples marked as radioactive upon arrival to the lab were also analyzed using the U3O8 assay (reported in wt.%). SRC is an ISO/IEC 17025:2005 and Standards Council of Canada certified analytical laboratory. Blanks, standard reference materials, and repeats were inserted into the sample stream at regular intervals in accordance with Standard Uranium’s quality assurance/quality control (QA/QC) protocols. All samples passed internal QA/QC protocols and the results presented in this release are deemed complete, reliable, and repeatable.
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.
Natural gamma radiation from rocks reported in this news release was measured in counts per second (“cps”) using a handheld RS-125 super-spectrometer and RS-120 super-scintillometer. Readers are cautioned that scintillometer readings are not uniformly or directly related to uranium grades of the rock sample measured and should be treated only as a preliminary indication of the presence of radioactive minerals. The RS-125 and RS-120 units supplied by Radiation Solutions Inc. (“RSI”) have been calibrated on specially designed Test Pads by RSI. Standard Uranium maintains an internal QA/QC procedure for calibration and calculation of drift in radioactivity readings through three test pads containing known concentrations of radioactive minerals. Internal test pad radioactivity readings are known and regularly compared to readings measured by the handheld scintillometers for QA/QC purposes.
References
1 News Release: Standard Uranium Confirms High-Grade Uranium Mineralization up to
2 SMDI# 2052: https://mineraldeposits.saskatchewan.ca/Home/Viewdetails/2052 & Mineral Assessment Report MAW00047: Eagle Plains Resources Inc., 2011-2012
3 News Release: Standard Uranium Announces Filing of NI 43-101 Technical Report on the Corvo Uranium Project, Northern Saskatchewan, https://standarduranium.ca/news-releases/standard-uranium-announces-filing-of-ni-43-101-technical-report-on-the-corvo-uranium-project-northern-saskatchewan/
*The Company considers uranium mineralization with concentrations greater than 1.0 wt% U3O8 to be “high-grade”.
**The Company considers radioactivity readings greater than 65,535 counts per second (cps) on a handheld RS-125 Super-Spectrometer to be “off-scale”.
***The Company considers radioactivity readings greater than 300 counts per second (cps) on a handheld RS-125 Super-Spectrometer to be “anomalous”.
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
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Forward-looking statements and forward-looking information relating to any future mineral production, liquidity, enhanced value and capital markets profile of Aventis, future growth potential for Aventis and its business, and future exploration plans are based on management’s reasonable assumptions, estimates, expectations, analyses and opinions, which are based on management’s experience and perception of trends, current conditions and expected developments, and other factors that management believes are relevant and reasonable in the circumstances, but which may prove to be incorrect. Assumptions have been made regarding, among other things, the price of uranium, copper, gold and other metals; costs of exploration and development; the estimated costs of development of exploration projects; Aventis’ ability to operate in a safe and effective manner and its ability to obtain financing on reasonable terms.
This news release contains “forward-looking information” within the meaning of the Canadian securities laws. Statements, other than statements of historical fact, may constitute forward looking information and include, without limitation, statements with respect to the Project and its mineralization potential; the Company’s objectives, goals, or future plans with respect to the Project; the Company's anticipated exploration programs at the Project; the expected benefits of receiving the Permits; and completion of the Programs. With respect to the forward-looking information contained in this news release, the Company has made numerous assumptions regarding, among other things, the geological, metallurgical, engineering, financial and economic advice that the Company has received is reliable and are based upon practices and methodologies which are consistent with industry standards. While the Company considers these assumptions to be reasonable, these assumptions are inherently subject to significant uncertainties and contingencies. Additionally, there are known and unknown risk factors which could cause the Company’s actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking information contained herein. Known risk factors include, among others: fluctuations in commodity prices and currency exchange rates; uncertainties relating to interpretation of well results and the geology, continuity and grade of uranium, copper, gold and other metal deposits; uncertainty of estimates of capital and operating costs, recovery rates, production estimates and estimated economic return; the need for cooperation of government agencies in the exploration and development of properties and the issuance of required permits; the need to obtain additional financing to develop properties and uncertainty as to the availability and terms of future financing; the possibility of delay in exploration or development programs or in construction projects and uncertainty of meeting anticipated program milestones; uncertainty as to timely availability of permits and other governmental approvals; increased costs and restrictions on operations due to compliance with environmental and other requirements; increased costs affecting the metals industry and increased competition in the metals industry for properties, qualified personnel, and management. All forward-looking information herein is qualified in its entirety by this cautionary statement, and the Company disclaims any obligation to revise or update any such forward-looking information or to publicly announce the result of any revisions to any of the forward-looking information contained herein to reflect future results, events or developments, except as required by law.
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