Limited historic exploration over the Edmund Projects also includes 17 surface rock chip samples by Geopeko in the early 1980’s, which returned elevated Uranium values up to 0.12% U, and four (4) of the samples returning over 400ppm uranium. The rockchips are from locations mapped as Glenn Ross Shale, a member of the Kiangi Creek Formation. This formation has mapped base metal occurrences (Cu-Zn) approximately 20km east from where the rockchips were collected.
The uranium is associated with elevated base metals (Cu, Zn, Ag) as well as elevated phosphorus and vanadium. This may represent a stratabound mineralisation style uranium targets or red-bed style uranium target. The Kiangi Formation is mapped for at least 35km of strike within Bellavista’s tenements representing a very large target. Based on these highly anomalous uranium results, Bellavista has identified this as a priority regional target that warrants further investigation.