Foremost Clean Energy Launches 5,000m Winter Drill Program after 0.87% U3O8 Discovery
Foremost Clean Energy started a ~5,000-metre winter diamond drill program at Hatchet Lake, building on a 2025 Tuning Fork discovery of 0.87% U3O8 over 0.45 metres within a 6.2-metre interval at the Athabasca unconformity. The winter campaign aims to test mineralization continuity, refine structural controls and target additional EM conductors.
1. Drill Program Commencement
Foremost Clean Energy has initiated a ~5,000-metre winter diamond drilling campaign at Hatchet Lake in northern Saskatchewan’s eastern Athabasca Basin, focusing on the Tuning Fork target area where systematic drilling is underway to expand known mineralization.
2. Tuning Fork Background and Objectives
The program builds on 2025 drill hole TF-25-16, which intersected 0.87% U3O8 over 0.45 metres within a 6.2-metre interval averaging 0.10% U3O8 at the Athabasca unconformity, aiming to test along-strike and down-dip continuity and to refine the structural and alteration framework controlling uranium emplacement.
3. Other High-Priority Targets
Additional drill-ready targets at Hatchet Lake South, including the Beta Grid conductive corridor, and at Hatchet Lake North’s Richardson SE zone will be evaluated, leveraging historical datasets and recent gravity surveys to pinpoint structurally complex, hydrothermally altered zones.