Resource Drilling Commences at Firawa Uranium Project in Guinea, West Africa
October 28 2008 - 2:00AM
UK Regulatory
MURCHISON UNITED NL
ACN 009 087 852
ASX CODE: MUR, AIM CODE: MUU,
Telephone: +618 9322 4071, Fax: +618 9322 4073
ASX, AIM and Media Release
28 October 2008
Resource Drilling Commences at Firawa Uranium Project in Guinea, West Africa
HIGHLIGHTS
* Follow-up drilling underway at the Firawa Uranium Prospect in Guinea, following on from the maiden
drilling undertaken in 2007.
* Current programme to comprise approximately 50 holes of diamond core drilling of up to 200m in
length for 4,000m in total.
* Drilling designed to delineate a JORC-Code compliant resource, following previously reported
drilling assay results of up to 1,325ppm Uranium.
International uranium company, Murchison United NL ("Murchison United" or the "Company") (ASX: MUR, AIM:
MUU), is pleased to announce that a program of follow-up resource drilling has commenced at its 100%-owned
Firawa uranium prospect in the Republic of Guinea, West Africa.
The current follow-up drilling programme follows recent successful drilling campaigns carried out by the
Company at the Bohoduo prospect in Guinea and the Bir En Nar prospect in Mauritania. It is designed to
build on the Company's initial drilling campaign carried out at Firawa in May 2007.
Preparations including topographic surveys and bulldozing were completed earlier this year prior to the wet
season. This drilling programme is expected to take approximately one month to complete and will comprise
approximately 50 holes of diamond core drilling of up to 200m in length for a planned total of 4,000m of
drilling.
The drilling programme is being carried out by Amco Construction, with assay samples to be dispatched for
multi-element analysis by ALS Chemex in Canada.
The programme was designed to follow up previous drilling undertaken in May 2007 within a highly
prospective 2km section of a previously identified uranium anomaly which extends more than 5km within the
Firawa exploration licences.
It is expected that the additional results from the current drilling programme will enable calculation of
an initial JORC Code compliant uranium resource for the Firawa prospect.
Figure 1 below shows the planned drill-hole locations as well as the locations of the holes drilled in
2007.
Fig.1 Firawa drilling programme, October 2008 (to view image, please open the following link in a new
window): http://media3.marketwire.com/docs/muu1028fig1.pdf.
The previous drilling undertaken in May 2007 comprised 29 RC drill holes for a total of 1,809m. The
drilling was undertaken in a deep laterite weathered soil profile. The uranium mineralisation follows an
East - West tectonic structure, interpreted as a fault zone, over a distance of five kilometres.
Highlights from the assay results for the 2007 campaign follow:
Drill Hole Intersection Section U3O8 Maximum 1m Section U3O8
RC Length (m) (m) (ppm) (ppm)
FRW12 10 39 - 49 652 1,325
FRW30 5 30 - 35 749 1,020
FRW35 12 13 - 25 771 995
FRW31 5 1 - 6 678 983
FRW14 6 39 - 45 715 883
FRW34 4 53 - 57 615 840
FRW33 20 22 - 42 524 726
FRW33 2 48 - 50 630 680
FRW3 6 66 - 72 480 716
FRW15 8 20 - 28 409 693
FRW9 14 20 - 34 555 680
Murchison United has secured an extensive portfolio of uranium exploration projects comprising some
15,458km2 of highly prospective tenements in Mauritania and Guinea, West Africa. Its objective is to
delineate significant new uranium deposits within these under-explored terrains.
Fig.2 Location of Murchison United's Guinea Projects (to view image, please open the following link in a
new window): http://media3.marketwire.com/docs/muu1028fig2.pdf.
Murchison United NL is an Australian-based no liability company whose principal activity is minerals
exploration. The Company has uranium exploration projects in Mauritania and Guinea in West Africa and
copper interests in the Millennium copper/cobalt leases in Cloncurry, Queensland and the Maroochydore
copper/cobalt project in Western Australia.
Shares in the company are listed on both the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX - MUR) and the AIM market (AIM
- MUU) of the London Stock Exchange.
Please call Mark Reilly with any queries.
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Mark Reilly
Managing Director
RFC Corporate Finance - Nomad
Stuart Laing Tel: +618 9480 2506
Fairfax I.S. PLC - UK Broker
Ewan Leggat / Laura Littley Tel: +44 207 598 5368
The information in this announcement that relates to exploration results is based on information compiled
by Mr. Bosse Gustafsson, who is a member of the European Federation of Geologists a Recognised Overseas
Professional Organisation ("ROPO"). Mr Bosse Gustafsson is a full time Technical Director of Murchison
United NL and is responsible for exploration activities in Mauritania and Guinea. Mr Gustafsson has
sufficient experience, which is relevant to the style of mineralisation and the type of deposit under
consideration and to the activity, which he is undertaking to qualify as a Competent Person as defined in
the 2004 Edition of the 'Australian Code for Reporting of Exploration Results, Mineral Resources and Ore
Reserve'. Mr Gustafsson consents to the inclusion in this report of the matters based on their information
in the form and context in which it appears.
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