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26/02/2024 07:00

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RNS Number : 3942E  Oriole Resources PLC  26 February 2024

Oriole Resources PLC

('Oriole Resources' or 'Oriole' or 'the Company')

 

 Mbe Exploration Update

 

Oriole Resources (AIM: ORR), the AIM-quoted gold exploration company focussed
on West Africa, is pleased to provide an exploration update for its 90%-owned
Mbe gold project in Cameroon ('Mbe' or the 'Project'), where BCM International
Limited ('BCM') is currently earning up to a 50% interest in return for US$1
million in signature payments, of which US$550,000 has already been received,
US$4 million in exploration funding, and future resource-linked success-based
payments.

 

 

Highlights

 

·    In January, Oriole signed a definitive earn-in agreement with BCM to
invest up to US$4 million in exploration at Mbe (announcement dated 19 January
2024);

·    BCM's due-diligence review over the main 3-kilometre ('km') long
target ('MB-01') returned up to 256.74 grammes per tonne ('g/t') gold ('Au')
from outcrop sampling and 25.16 g/t Au from pit sampling (announcement dated
22 January 2024);

·    Structural mapping of the pits has been completed and results are
being compiled to help identify discrete data populations, and therefore
assist in determining the controls on gold distribution;

·    Infill soil sampling has now commenced at MB-01 at a sample spacing
of 100 metres ('m') x 25m, to better-constrain the anomalism prior to a
planned trenching programme in Q2 2024;

·    Infill soil sampling (100m x 50m spacing) is also planned over the
wider 12.5 kilometre-long zone of soil anomalism at Mbe, identified during the
semi-regional programme, to provide greater data resolution. This will
commence later in Q1 2024;

·    Results from these programmes will be reported as they become
available;

·    Under the terms of the earn-in agreement with BCM, the Company
anticipates receiving the remaining US$450,000 in signature payments by the
end of this month.

 

Oriole Resources CEO, Tim Livesey, said: "We are pleased to see the restart of
work at Mbe, where we believe we have identified targets indicative of a
corridor of gold mineralisation which runs across all five of our Eastern CLP
licences.

"As a potential new gold district, early indications from Mbe suggest a huge
opportunity is developing in this prospective area of Cameroon.

"We look forward to updating the markets on results as we receive them and
also sharing our plans for the remaining Eastern CLP licences, which remain
under Oriole's control and management."

 

Further Details

Mbe (312km(2)) is an early-stage project located within the broader 2,266km(2)
Eastern CLP package of contiguous gold-focussed licences in central Cameroon.
In 2022, Oriole completed semi-regional soil sampling (400m by 200m spacing)
that identified a c.12.5km-long zone of gold-in-soil anomalism, a series of
en-echelon zones that trend east-northeast (announcement dated 17 August
2022). Follow-up work during 2023 identified a cross-cutting
(northeast-trending) 3km-long geological zone, MB-01, containing areas of
high-grade gold mineralisation within an intensely-altered felsic unit.
Results of up to 134.10 g/t Au were returned from surface samples and
artisanal workings (announcements dated 30 January 2023, 27 February 2023 and
21 June 2023).

 

On 19 January 2024 the Company signed a definitive earn-in agreement with BCM
International Limited, a well-respected mining and civil engineering
contractor, related to an earn-in by BCM on Mbe. Accordingly, BCM is currently
earning up to a 50% interest in return for US$1 million in signature payments,
of which US$550,000 has already been received, US$4 million in exploration
funding, and future resource-linked success-based payments. To date, the
Company has received US$550,000 in signature payments from BCM, with the
balance of US$450,000 to be paid on or before 29 February 2024.

 

BCM's due-diligence review over the MB-01 target returned 155 out of 639
samples grading ≥1 g/t Au, 13 of which have graded ≥10 g/t Au. Of these
higher-grading samples, best results include 256.74 g/t, 133.44 g/t, 75.09
g/t, 33.66 g/t and 22.89 g/t Au from outcrop sampling, and 25.16 g/t, 23.97
g/t, 9.98 g/t, and 8.75 g/t Au from pit sampling (announcement dated 22
January 2024). A further 232 samples graded between 0.20 and 0.99 g/t
Au.  The team has recently completed structural mapping of the pits (5-10
metres deep and exclusively dug by artisanal miners) and results are being
compiled, to help with identifying discrete data populations and therefore the
controls on gold distribution.

 

Infill soil sampling is currently underway at MB-01, at a sample spacing of
100m x 25m, to better-constrain the anomalism there prior to a planned
trenching programme in Q2 2024.

 

 

Infill soil sampling (at a spacing of 100m x 50m) is also planned over the
wider 12.5 kilometre-long zone of soil anomalism at Mbe, that was identified
during the semi-regional programme, to provide greater data resolution.  This
will commence later in Q1 2024.

 

Results from these programmes will be reported as they become available.

 

 

Competent Persons Statement

The information in this release that relates to Exploration Results has been
compiled by Claire Bay (Executive Director, Exploration and Business
Development). Claire Bay (MGeol, CGeol) is a Competent Person as defined in
the JORC code and takes responsibility for the release of this information.
Claire has reviewed the information in this announcement and confirms that she
is not aware of any new information or data that materially affects the
information reproduced here.

 

 

** ENDS **

 

For further information please visit www.orioleresources.com
(http://www.orioleresources.com) , @OrioleResources on Twitter, or contact:

 

 Oriole Resources Plc                    Tel: +44 (0)23 8065 1649
 Tim Livesey / Bob Smeeton / Claire Bay

 BlytheRay (IR/PR Contact)               Tel: +44 (0)20 7138 3204
 Tim Blythe / Megan Ray

 Grant Thornton UK LLP                   Tel: +44 (0)20 7383 5100
 Samantha Harrison / Ciara Donnelly
 SP Angel Corporate Finance LLP          Tel: +44 (0)20 3470 0470

 Ewan Leggat / Harry Davies-Ball

 

Notes to Editors:

 

Oriole Resources PLC is an AIM-listed gold exploration company, operating
in West Africa. It is focussed on early-stage exploration
in Cameroon, where the Company has reported a Resource of 375,000 oz Au at
2.30g/t in the JORC Inferred category at its 82.2%-owned Bibemi project and
has identified multi-kilometre gold and lithium anomalism within the
district-scale Central Licence Package project. BCM International is currently
earning up to a 50% interest in the Bibemi and Mbe projects in return for a
combined investment of US$1.5m in signature payments (US$1.05m of which has
already been received), up to US$8m in exploration expenditure, as well as
JORC resource-based success payments.

 

At the more advanced Senala gold project in Senegal, AGEM Senegal
Exploration Suarl ('AGEM'), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Managem Group, has
recently completed a six-year earn-in to acquire an estimated 59% beneficial
interest in the Senala Exploration Licence by spending US$5.8 million. A
review of expenditure and discussions on the formation of a joint-venture
company are currently underway. The Company also has several interests and
royalties in companies operating in East Africa and Turkey that could
deliver future cash flow.

 

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