# Blue Sky Uranium Advances Ivana Project with Metallurgical Test Program and Feasibility Engineering Agreements

Canonical Atlas analysis: https://atlas-extractions.minestarters.com/news/blue-sky-uranium-advances-ivana-project-with-metallurgical-test-program-and-feas--1ad376dd-d664-47ba-a7fa-d1505459ad7c

Original source: https://money.tmx.com/en/quote/BSK/news/6143988962803331/blue-sky-uranium-advances-ivana-project-with-metallurgical-test-program-and-feas

Publisher: tmx

Original announcement: 2026-05-11T11:00:00.000Z

Analysis by Minestarters Atlas

Atlas analysis published: Unknown date

Atlas analysis updated: Unknown date

- Company: Blue Sky Uranium Corp.

- Ticker: BSK

- Exchange: TSX

- Region: Rio Negro Province, Argentina

- Primary commodity: Uranium

- Secondary commodities: Vanadium

- Document categories: Metallurgy, Agreement transaction

- Extracted: 2026-09-15 14:51:51 UTC

Narrative sentiment: 0.60 · Bullish

## Minestarters Atlas summary

Blue Sky Uranium's joint venture operator, IMSA, has signed service agreements with M3 Engineering & Technology and the Saskatchewan Research Council \(SRC\) to support the Ivana Uranium-Vanadium Project. These agreements will facilitate metallurgical testing and feasibility engineering to optimize recovery and support future economic studies.

Reasoning: The announcement marks a significant technical milestone by securing specialized expertise to de-risk the metallurgical and engineering aspects of the Ivana project.

- Positive factor: Execution of service agreements with world-class engineering and metallurgical firms \(M3 and SRC\)

- Positive factor: Advancement toward Pre-Feasibility and Feasibility level studies

- Positive factor: Comprehensive metallurgical testing program including bottle roll leaching and mineralogical characterization

Facts used in scoring: 2

## Classification and evidence

**Mill Route**

Polarity: neutral

Definition: Processing via mill or concentrator \(CIL, CIP, tank leach, flotation\).

Why it applies: The program includes beneficiation, agitated leach testing, and solvent extraction circuits.

Evidence · text

> may lead to additional Phase II work including agitated leach testing, solvent extraction circuits

**Single Domain Only**

Polarity: negative

Definition: Testing limited to one composite or domain — representativeness not established.

Why it applies: only one composite was tested

## Extracted facts

Stored fact records: 2. Some facts used in scoring do not have a stored record.

## Metallurgical Results (2)

### bottle roll

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Ivana Uranium-Vanadium Project · uranium

#### Identity

- Project: Ivana Uranium-Vanadium Project
- Commodity: uranium
- Region: argentina
- Reported Region: Rio Negro Province, Argentina
- Ticker: BSK

#### Test Work

- Program Status: preliminary
- Test Type: bottle roll
- Sample: three composite samples representing low-grade, medium-grade, and high-grade mineralization

#### Lab

- Laboratory: Saskatchewan Research Council \(SRC\)

#### Review

- Needs Review: No
- Historical: No

#### Dates

- Event date: 2026-05-11T00:00:00.000Z

Reasoning: Initial Phase I metallurgical testing is commencing with 900kg of mineralized material.

- Positive factor: Comprehensive testing program including mineralogical characterization and beneficiation

Evidence · text

> The metallurgical program will include detailed mineralogical characterization, beneficiation testing including scalping and attrition scrubbing, bottle roll leaching tests

### bottle roll

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Ivana Uranium-Vanadium Project · vanadium

#### Identity

- Project: Ivana Uranium-Vanadium Project
- Commodity: vanadium
- Region: argentina
- Reported Region: Rio Negro Province, Argentina
- Ticker: BSK

#### Test Work

- Program Status: preliminary
- Test Type: bottle roll
- Sample: three composite samples representing low-grade, medium-grade, and high-grade mineralization

#### Lab

- Laboratory: Saskatchewan Research Council \(SRC\)

#### Review

- Needs Review: No
- Historical: No

#### Dates

- Event date: 2026-05-11T00:00:00.000Z

Reasoning: Metallurgical program specifically targets vanadium recovery optimization.

- Positive factor: Testing includes extraction kinetics and reagent consumption for vanadium

Evidence · text

> analysis of uranium and vanadium extraction kinetics and reagent consumption

## How Atlas produces this analysis

Minestarters Atlas uses automated extraction to summarize mining announcements, identify reported measurements, and classify supporting evidence. Sentiment reflects the extracted narrative and classification rules; it is an interpretation, not a reported measurement. Evidence quotes and context are provided where available. Missing data, low-confidence results, and review flags indicate limitations. Check the original publisher announcement before relying on an interpretation.