Red Rock released a very comprehensive update today, detailing progress being made at Migori (click here to view).

In view of the great amount of detail contained therein, we touched base with Andrew Bell (who is currently in Australia) and asked him if he would care expand on the update for the benefit of investors - and he was happy to oblige!

 

 

MM: What is the significance of today's update with regard to Migori?

AB:This brings together some disparate information and lets shareholders know we are investigating new prospects and different types of occurrences, identified in the old literature but never followed up. It is a part of a process, in a phase that has lasted nearly a year and is coming to an end. Let me explain what we are trying to do.Modern exploration at Migori, in the period since 1990, has focussed on finding medium sized, open-pittable, gold resources. Logically these explorers were drawn to the line of artisanal workings running along the southern part of the license from west to east. Typically, they stood back from these workings, where free gold was being won at surface, and drilled underneath them. There was some geophysics in the 1960s, and a survey in 1977, but this was used primarily to generate possible VMS targets – looking for repetitions of the old Falconbridge base metal mine at Macalder in the west of the license, and failed in that purpose. Given that the contour maps derived were based on visual flightlines, the accuracy would not have been of the precision necessary for proper targeting of the types of deposit sought.

We knew we had to do several things when we came in some 8 months ago. Let me explain what these were:

(a) to reactivate the camp and on-ground activity;

(b) to carry out sufficient exploration including drilling to restore confidence at national and local Government levels and restore support in the local community, and ensure the licenses were secure;

(c) to trace, and make use of the knowledge of, geologists who had worked on the ground there under previous operators; (d) to cover the ground on foot and look with fresh eyes at the entire belt;

(e) to read and understand, and relate to the ground features, the entire body of old literature;

(f) to capture, scan, digitise, and catalogue the old…

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