Drilling Program Commences at Big Lake
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ASX Announcement
11 June 2025
Alligator Energy Limited ASX: AGE (Alligator or the Company) is pleased to advise that its follow-
up drill program at the Big Lake Uranium Project (Big Lake) in the Lake Eyre Basin, South Australia
is now underway after a hiatus due to persistent rain following the initial discovery success in 2024.
Highlights
• The Big Lake Project (Figure 1) encompasses the northern extensions of the proven uranium-
bearing sedimentary system that hosts the Beverley, Four Mile and Honeymoon ISR uranium
operations in South Australia and shares many of the key characteristics of world-class
hydrocarbon-related ISR uranium districts.
• In August 2024, frontier drilling at “Site 10” (Figure 2) delivered a significant exploration
success, intersecting substantial thicknesses of anomalous uranium mineralisation within
interbedded sand units of the Namba Formation.
• The discovery provided the first proof-of-concept for the presence of significant uranium
mineralisation within the Lake Eyre Basin sediments, validating the Company’s exploration
model and highlighting the potential for the basin to host a new sedimentary uranium district.
Alligator’s CEO and Managing Director Andrea Marsland-Smith stated: “Our Big Lake Project is
one of few greenfields uranium exploration opportunities that has emerged in Australia in the last
decade. Our discovery at Site 10 in 2024 provided the first tangible evidence that the Lake Eyre
Basin sediments can host uranium mineralisation, validating a geological model that has the potential
to unlock a completely new uranium district. Following the 2024 discovery, persistent wet weather
conditions limited our ability to return to Site 10, making this upcoming program particularly exciting
as we now have the opportunity to follow up the discovery and further assess its scale and potential.
We are entering a highly active phase of exploration, and this upcoming drilling program represents
an important step in assessing the scale and continuity of the Site 10 discovery while simultaneously
testing a pipeline of prospective targets across EL 6367. The success achieved by the team to date
reinforces our view that Big Lake has the potential to become a strategically important uranium
project within Alligator Energy's growing portfolio of advanced uranium assets”
Drilling Recommences at Big Lake Uranium
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Figure 1: Big Lake Uranium project location and exploration target area.
Figure 2: Drillhole location map (Site 10) showing uranium grades (ppm) encountered in AGE’s inaugural 2024 drilling
program. Aircore drilling in this area will be targeted to expand the mineralisation footprint.
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This released was authorised by the Board of Directors.
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Contacts
For more information, please contact:
Ms Andrea Marsland-Smith Mr Joe Sutanto
CEO & Managing Director CFO & Company Secretary
For media enquiries, please contact:
Jeffrey Sterlson
General Manager - Government Relations, Communications and Public Affairs
js@alligatorenergy.com.au
This announcement contains projections and forward-looking information that involve various risks and
uncertainties regarding future events. Such forward-looking information can include without limitation
statements based on current expectations involving a number of risks and uncertainties and are not guarantees
of future performance of the Company. These risks and uncertainties could cause actual results and the
Company’s plans and objectives to differ materially from
those expressed in the forward-looking information. Actual results and future events could differ materially from
anticipated in such information. These and all subsequent written and oral forward-looking information are
based on estimates and opinions of management on the dates they are made and expressly qualified in their
entirety by this notice. The Company assumes no obligation to update forward-looking information should
circumstances or management’s estimates or opinions change.
Information in this report is based on current and historic Exploration and Resource Drilling Results compiled
by Dr Andrea Marsland-Smith who is a Member of the AusIMM. Dr Marsland-Smith is employed on a full-time
basis with Alligator Energy as Chief Executive Officer, and has sufficient experience which is relevant to the
style of mineralisation and type of deposit under consideration (including 25 years in ISR uranium mining
operations and technical work) and to the activity she is undertaking to qualify as a Competent Person as
defined in the 2012 Edition of the ‘Australasian Code for Reporting of Exploration Results, Mineral Resources
and Ore Reserves. Dr Marsland-Smith consents to the inclusion in this release of the matters based on her
information in the form and context in which it appears.
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Alligator Energy Ltd is an Australian, ASX-listed, exploration company focused on uranium and energy related
minerals, principally cobalt-nickel. Alligator’s Directors have significant experience in the exploration,
development and operations of both uranium and nickel projects (both laterites and sulphides).
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