Adkins (2015) reports that Western Uranium Corporation (WUC) engaged him to review the Sunday Mine Complex Project data, provide a Canadian National Instrument 43-101 complaint Technical Report describing the current status of the project, including a resource estimate. Mr. Adkins visited the property in the late 1970s and again on July 6, 2015. WUC is the owner and manager of the Sunday Mine Complex Uranium Project through its wholly owned subsidiary, Pinion Ridge Mining LLC (PRML).
The Sunday Mine Complex is an advanced stage property with a significant drilling and production history. Mining and drilling occurred contemporaneously from the 1950s through the mid 1980s. From the 1980s to the present, mining and drilling occurred only sporadically, typically when uranium or vanadium prices were high. The last mining interval was from 2006 to 2009, and based on the available records, only in 2009 did any drilling take place since mid-1980.
Past operators have generated abundant geologic and mining data. However, to date, only a small amount has been passed along to WUC and the author of this report. Geologically, the main hosts for uranium-vanadium mineralization in the Sunday Mine Complex
are fluvial sandstone beds assigned to the upper part of the Salt Wash Member of the Jurassic Morrison Formation, with minor production coming from conglomeratic sandstones assigned to the lower portion of the Brushy Basin Member of the Morrison Formation.
Mineralization from both members is present at the property, with the mine production coming from the Salt Wash Member. Beds generally strike NW-SE and dip SW, with some exceptions within fault bounded blocks adjacent to Big Gypsum Valley.
The author recommends concurrent parallel paths to further investigate the property, with
the objective of upgrading the resources to a higher level resource or reserve category.
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