Other Projects

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Figure 1 – Guadalajara I Geology

 

Berkeley's landholding in Spain currently totals over 290,000 hectares of exploration licences and applications (excluding the State Reserves), and covers all of the major known uranium occurrences in Spain.

Whilst the Salamanca Uranium Project and the Cáceres III and VI Projects have been the Company's main focus, considerable progress has also been made in collating and interpreting data on past exploration work for the broader portfolio.

Berkeley's other projects include:

Guadalajara I

This area is situated in the northeastern part of Guadalajara province, some 100 km from the provincial capital. It is located in hill country of the Iberian Cordillera at an elevation of some 1200-1250m (see Figure 1).

The permit covers 436 km² and includes a State Reserve on the zone with most of the sandstone hosted mineralisation.

The primary mineralisation consists of pitchblende and other unspecified black oxides. It is frequently associated with sulphides. Secondary minerals are relatively uncommon and include autunite, uranocircite, carnotite, torbenite and traces of zeunerite. The mineralisation is considered to be related to reduction-oxidation (redox) fronts.

Mineralisation extends in a belt for some 25 km between Luzon and Cobeta. The mineralised bodies are vaguely stratified, but have a lenticular or irregular shape. The length of individual bodies range from several tens to 1,200 metres. Width varies from 80 to 300m, and thickness from less than one metre to six metres.

Calaf

The Calaf tenements cover a strongly uranifierous, Tertiary lignite coal deposit within the Barcelona Province of Eastern Spain.  There are 3 main coal seams up to 3.5m thick defined up to 130m below the surface.  The coal has a moderate thermal value (averaging 4,300kcal) and contains between 225 to 660ppm U3O8.  Assessment of project by Berkeley is its very early stages.