Cooke 1-3 Underground Assets

The primary mining horizons at Cooke Underground are the upper Elsburgs and VCR reefs. These reefs are hosted in a stacked package with reef thickness increasing from west to east across the lease area. While these ore bodies have been mined for 20 to 30 years, Rand Uranium has deployed a range of modern exploration and resource development tools designed to significantly expand the life of these operations.

The Cooke Underground shafts are shallow and have under-utilised infrastructure. This will allow for the expansion of the operations, should additional economic life-of-mine resources be defined.  The Cooke 1, 2 and 3 mines are serviced by a developed network of mining and civil infrastructure, with adequate electrical power and water readily available. The underground ore bodies are exploited by means of conventional hard rock mining methods involving drilling, blasting, scraping, tramming and hoisting.