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28/11/2023 07:00

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RNS Number : 8266U  Red Rock Resources plc  28 November 2023

Red Rock Resources Plc

("Red Rock" or the "Company")

 

West African Gold Licenses - Update

 

28 November 2023

 

Red Rock Resources Plc, the natural resource exploration and Development
Company with interests in gold, copper, cobalt, lithium and other minerals,
announces an update to the announcements of 16(th) June 2023, 8(th) March 2023
and 18(th) October 2021 in relation to the Company's operations in Côte
d'Ivoire.

 

Key points:

 

·    Decree issued granting second licence to Red Rock subsidiary LacGold
Resources SARLU

·    Initial licence term of 4 years

·    Licence covers 380.94 sq Km in the departments of Yamoussoukro and
others

·    One of four Red Rock applications totalling 1,404.86 sq km in an area
south of the capital, Yamoussoukro

·    Granted licences now total 725.44 sq km of prospective gold ground

·    Three more applications licenses in the north of the country about
1,122.88 sq km

·    Each application is located on a known regional shear zone where gold
mines are operating

·    Each application has significant artisanal mining occurring within
and around it

Red Rock Chairman Andrew Bell comments: "With the grant of a second licence
yesterday we now have critical mass in our licence application areas in the
gold province centred around Yamoussoukro.

 

We regard the granted licences, and those still in process of grant, as being
licences with good gold potential. We have already received an expression of
interest from a company wishing to discuss co-operation or a transaction, and
expect further interest.

 

The Government expects expenditure averaging some $280,000 p.a. over a four
year period. We have already incurred some $65,000 of costs, and expect to
carry out a modest first year programme focussed on examining opportunities
for an early move into production. Should opportunities arise for accelerating
development or increasing the scale of operations, a variety of funding
options are under consideration.."

 

Further Information on granted projects in Côte d'Ivoire. This information
can all be found in previous announcements, and is set out here for
convenience. Previous announcements also include information on licences still
under application.

 

FIGURE ONE

Map: application locations and the main gold deposits in Côte d'Ivoire.

 

The information below has been previously released. Further information on
Yamoussoukro following a detailed review and visit will be assembled and
released shortly.

The Yamoussoukro project is located 245 Km North of Abidjan, covering an area
of 380.94 km2. The project is roughly 10 kms Northwest of Yamoussoukro and
parallel to the Bandama river's Kossou Lake. The project is 12 kms Northeast
of the Yaouré gold mine and on the same Northeast trending shear zone. The
Yaouré gold deposit is hosted by Palaeoproterozoic basaltic rocks with
intrusions of granodiorite and lesser feldspar, quartz-feldspar and hornblende
porphyry dykes.

All the three main groups of Northwest structures delineated in the Yaoure
gold mine crosscut the Yamoussoukro project.

The Yaouré project area lies within the Eastern half of the informally named
Bouaflé Greenstone Belt in central Côte d'Ivoire. The belt is a NNE-trending
assemblage of Palaeoproterozoic volcanic, sedimentary and intrusive rocks of
the Birimian Supergroup. Rock types in the Yaouré district are, for the most
part, mafic volcanic rocks with minor chert, turbiditic metasedimentary rocks
and a fluvio-deltaic formation. The flysch-like turbiditic metasediments
consist of sandstone to argillite with graphitic and conglomerate horizons.
The fluvio-deltaic formation consists of sandstone, conglomerate, and
argillite. The volcano-sedimentary rocks were intruded by
tonalite-trondhjemite-granodiorite (TTG) type plutonic rocks and
undifferentiated granitoids. Mafic to ultramafic complexes are also found in
the Yaouré district.

Two gold occurrences and one alluvial gold occurrence are located on the
concession.

The Djekanou-Taabo project, located 148 Km North from Abidjan. The project is
21 km Northeast of the Agbaou Gold mine and 20 km East of the Bonikro,
Dougbafla and Hiré gold mines. The Bonikro-Hiré projects sit on the Southern
part of the Oumé-Fetékro Granite Greenstone Belts. The Djekanou-Taabo
project is located between the Fetekro Greenstone Belt and the North-South
Dimbokro faults.

Intrusive host rocks at Hiré and Bonikro gold mines have been dated at
2180+/- 6Ma and +/- 4Ma (U-Pb on Zircon), respectively. These plutonic bodies
acted as favourable sites for fluid flow due to their brittle rheological
characteristics.

The base formations of gneiss and volcano-sedimentary rocks were intruded by
tonalite-trondhjemite-granodiorite (TTG) type plutonic rocks and
undifferentiated granitoids. The Bonikro and Hiré gold mines are a part of
this granodiorite with NE shear zones similar to the local NE shear zones seen
at the Djekanou-Taabo project. The project covers an area of 345 sq Km.

Regional soil sampling (on a 800m x100m grid) carried out in 2005 by a
previous company, showed regional geochemical anomalies with:

 

•          1Km long up to 12 parts per billion surface gold
("ppb");

•          1.2Km long up to 12 ppb surface gold;

•          Peak values returned of 1236 ppb.

 

3.5 kms to the North of the project, an area has been defined as a small-scale
mining zone where intensive illegal and semi-industrial gold mines are
targeting quartz veins hosted in diorite and granodiorite with a general
strike of North-South.

 

 

GLOSSARY

 

Glossary

Diorite:             a coarse grained intrusive igneous rock, the
product of slow cooling.

Flysch:             a sequence of sedimentary rock layers that
progress from deep-water and turbidity flow deposits to shallow-water shales
and sandstones.

Gneiss:             metamorphosed granite.

Hornblende:    a group name for aluminous ultramafic rocks of generally
dark appearance

Granodiorite:    a coarse-grained intrusive igneous rock intermediate
between diorite and granite.

Mafic:              magnesium or iron-rich igneous rocks
containing some silicates.

Paleoproterozoic: the period 2.5-1.6 Ga, the first Era of the Proterozoic Eon;
period where the continents began to stabilise.

Rheology:        the science of the deformation of matter.

Tonalite-trondhjemite-granodiorite rocks or TTG rocks:   intrusive rocks
with typical granitic composition (quartz and feldspar) but containing only a
small portion of potassium feldspar.

Turbidite:           sedimentary rock composed of layered particles
that grade upward from coarser to finer sizes and so are thought to have
originated from ocean currents.

Ultramafic:       metamorphosed mantle rocks with very low silica
content.

This technical information in this announcement has been compiled by the
Company's consultant in Côte d'Ivoire, M. Koffi Gbamele, a Member of the
E-SGA and an Associate of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy
(AusIMM). M Gbamele is a member of a recognised professional organisation and
has sufficient relevant experience to qualify as a qualified person as defined
in the Guidance Note for Mining, Oil and Gas Companies published by AIM.

 

For further information, please contact:

Andrew Bell 0207 747
9990
Chairman Red Rock Resources Plc

Roland Cornish/ Rosalind Hill Abrahams 0207 628 3396           NOMAD
Beaumont Cornish Limited

Jason Robertson 0207 374
2212
  Broker First Equity Limited

Bob Roberts 0203
8696081
Joint Broker Clear Capital Corporate Broking

 
 
 

 

This announcement contains inside information for the purposes of Article 7 of
Regulation 2014/596/EU, which is part of domestic UK law pursuant to the
Market Abuse (Amendment) (EU Exit) regulations (SI 2019/310) and is disclosed
in accordance with the Company's obligations under Article 17.

 

 

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