Crew members navigate an ice ridge; near the completion of the
survey, pools of melt water and spectacular ice ridges were
created by rising daytime temperatures. The Canalaska survey was
carried out partly offshore on the ice of Lake Athabasca. Here
the crew augers through ice one metre thick before lowering
electrodes to the lake bottom. Phoenix survey crews were busy in
Northern Canada during the winter. Projects included a uranium
survey for Canalaska Uranium Ltd. and several diamond surveys.
Nuclear energy is experiencing a renaissance, driven by
increasing prices of hydrocarbons and concerns over greenhouse
gas emissions and global warming. This rapidly increasing
demand, as well as projected supply shortfalls, has created a
uranium exploration boom in the 100,000 sq.km Athabasca Basin of
Canada