Standard Uranium begins drilling at Corvo uranium project in Saskatchewan

Standard Uranium Ltd (TSX-V:STND, OTCQB:STTDF, FRA:9SU0) announced that drilling has commenced astatine its Corvo uranium task adjacent Wollaston Lake successful northeastern Saskatchewan, with tract crews arriving connected tract February 6 and drilling starting February 9.

The Corvo project, covering 12,364 hectares, is taxable to a three-year earn-in enactment statement with Aventis Energy Inc. Under the agreement, Aventis has the enactment to gain a 75% involvement successful the task by backing C$6 cardinal successful exploration expenditures implicit 3 years. Aventis is backing the existent drill program, which is being operated by Standard Uranium.

The institution said the wintertime drill programme is expected to see astir 2,500 to 3,000 metres of diamond drilling crossed 8 to 10 holes, with an anticipated duration of 5 to six weeks.

Initial drilling is focused connected the Manhattan people area, with further holes planned on prospective electromagnetic corridors supported by gravity survey data.

Standard Uranium noted that people areas were refined utilizing geophysical enactment completed successful 2025, on with caller prospecting, mapping, and aboveground radioactivity measurements.

The institution reported drawback samples with elevated uranium contented from aboveground enactment astatine the Manhattan area, though it cautioned that drawback samples are selective by nature.

The institution said people enactment for the 2026 drill run was conducted successful collaboration with Convolutions Geoscience Corporation and was based connected geophysical signatures, geological and structural setting, proximity to aboveground uranium occurrences, and caller tract mapping results.

"The squad and I are thrilled to denote that the drill is spinning connected the Corvo task for the archetypal clip successful much than 40 years, kicking disconnected our wintertime exploration season," Standard Uranium president and VP exploration Sean Hillacre said successful a statement.

"This programme besides marks the archetypal drill holes ever astatine the Manhattan showing, which returned uranium grades up to 8.10% U3O8 in aboveground samples from our prospecting programme successful 2025."