GoviEx Uranium kicks off 2025 exploration campaign at Muntanga

GoviEx Uranium Inc (TSX-V:GXU, OTCQB:GVXXF) is starting its 2025 field season at the Muntanga uranium project in Zambia.

The targeted exploration campaign aims to expand the project's resource base, extend the potential mine life, and identify new mineralized zones across both the Muntanga project and the Kariba Valley.

The current campaign will include approximately 3,500 metres of drilling across 35 planned holes.

Drilling will target four areas identified as high priority, including near-mine locations at Muntanga and a larger-scale opportunity at Kariba Valley, located about 70 kilometres southeast of Muntanga.

"After years of detailed feasibility and engineering work, we are super excited to refocus our geologic team on exploration and discovery,” GoviEx executive chairman Govind Friedland said.  

“The Muntanga project already stands on a solid resource foundation, but what really inspires us is the opportunity to grow it, both near the existing deposits and through Kariba Valley, which we believe could be a true game-changer. This is one of Africa's most underexplored uranium belts, and we're only just beginning to understand its true scale."

Priority drilling will begin at the Muntanga East target, where 10 shallow holes will follow up on historical intercepts around a radiometric anomaly located 5 kilometers from the planned open pit.

The area lies within the same Escarpment Grit Formation that hosts the current Muntanga resource. GoviEx has outlined a conceptual target of 2 million pounds to 4 million pounds of uranium at grades of 150 to 350 parts per million (ppm).

The program will also test areas near the Dibbwi deposit. Five holes are planned east of the existing pit shell to drill a radon anomaly along the projected mineralized trend, an area not previously tested due to the timing of historical surveys.

At Dibbwi South, trenching over similar radon anomalies will support mapping and sampling to guide potential follow-up drilling.

Within the Kariba Valley Mining License, GoviEx is focused on the Chisebuka prospect. The area has not seen drilling since early reconnaissance but shares geological characteristics with the Muntanga and Dibbwi deposits.

Modelling indicates a shallow, gently dipping mineralized body extending roughly 4 kilometres along strike and up to 1 kilometre across, with mineralization from surface to depths of around 110 metres. As such, a conceptual target of 20 million pounds to 30 million pounds of uranium at 150 ppm to 300 ppm has been outlined.

Initial work at Chisebuka will include 20 holes totalling 2,000 metres, with planned depths of 50 to 150 metres, to test mineralization extensions and inform future resource definition drilling.

Field activities, including drilling and trenching, are scheduled to begin next week. The results will guide the design of follow-up work later in the season.