Reveille Resources (AQSE:REV), a uranium exploration company focused on Italian deposits, said on Monday it has engaged Dr Camillo Mario Pessina as a strategic consultant to support its exploration permit applications for the Novazza and Val Vedello projects in northern Italy.
Both applications are advancing through Italy's environmental impact assessment (VIA) process, the regulatory route Reveille must clear before it can drill.
Dr Pessina previously served as lead geologist for Val Vedello at AGIP Nucleare, giving him first-hand knowledge of the project's historic exploration work that Reveille can now draw on as it reassesses the site using current geological methods.
Novazza and Val Vedello sit within the Orobic uranium district in Lombardy, where Reveille cites historical drilling exceeding 87,000 metres and roughly 17 kilometres of underground development, alongside historical estimates of about 15.8 million pounds of U3O8 not reported under current internationally recognised standards.
Reveille said Dr Pessina has long believed Val Vedello's geological potential extends beyond what was historically appraised, having identified areas of interest during the original work that were left untested.
Executive director Ippolito Ingo Cattaneo described Dr Pessina as "in many respects, the father of the Val Vedello project" and said the company now has the chance to test his exploration concepts "using modern exploration methods and assess whether they could point to a materially larger mineralised system."
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Cattaneo said Reveille intends to begin drilling immediately once exploration licences are issued, with Dr Pessina's input expected to be valuable as the Val Vedello application proceeds through the VIA process in this initial phase.
Dr Pessina said he hoped to help "refine its understanding of Val Vedello's geology and mineralisation, and identify the questions that further work needs to address, including in the context of Novazza and the wider Orobic uranium district."