Location and Access

The Fond Du Lac project covers the area of the territory of the Fond du Lac Denesuline First Nation, which is located on the eastern end of Lake Athabasca. Access is air or boat to Fond Du Lac, or by winter road from Stony Rapids, where there is also a year round airstrip. The project area is contiguous with CanAlaska's Poplar and Helmer projects, and contains an identified uranium resource.

Geology

The project area straddles the boundary between the Athabasca Basin and the underlying metamorphic domains. The Athabasca basin is composed of pebbly sandstone, conglomerate and minor shale to a depth of 0 -- 400 metres in the project area. The underlying rocks are highly metamorphosed to granulite facies, and are primarily orthogneisses and paragneisses of Archean age. Structurally there is a major crustal break in the Grease River Fault zone, with numerous splay faults.

There are numerous uranium rich boulder trains scattered across the reserve area on the south side of the lake, south of the community. The eastern most boulder train terminates in the vicinity of the Fond Du Lac uranium deposit, as sandstone hosted deposit, located above the shallow unconformity. This deposit was evaluated in the 1960's and 1970's, before the knowledge of Unconformity type deposits In the northern resrve blocks there are isolated uranium occurrences in the basement rocks.

Past Exploration and Development

During the 1960's extensive exploration was done by Eldorado Uranium Ltd, who defined a non 43 -101 compliant deposit of 1, 000, 000 pounds of U3O8 . at a shallow depths of up to 70 metres, but immediately from above the unconformity to the surface. The project was never developed, and was subsequently absorbed into the new Fond Du Lac Reserve Lands.