Australian resource investment house Artemis Resources Ltd ("Artemis"), through its Niger Joint Venture company Uranium Exploration SA ("UREX") has commenced a field exploration programme at its highly prospective Trendfield uranium project in Niger, West Africa.To facilitate this exploration program Artemis has assembled a world class team of geologists and geophysicists. The field team is on-site and the program is expected to be completed within 12 weeks. UREX has already completed a detailed review of the airborne magnetic and radiometric survey flown over TAG 2 and TAG 4 Joint Venture ground in Niger. This survey was undertaken by Fugro Geophysics.As a result of this review the JV will conduct the following exploration activities: - the flying of a detailed airborne EM survey to search for conductive horizons which are often associated with economic concentrations of uranium; detailed geological mapping and geochemical sampling. On completion of the field work all relevant data will then be integrated with historical data already obtained by the Company, with the most promising targets to then be drill tested as early as possible.Significant infrastructure has been established in the exploration region as a result of 30 years of continuous uranium production. The geophysical review has also confirmed the presence of several radiometric anomalies within the JV ground.