Red Rock Resources PLC
("Red Rock" or the "Company")
Update of Major Interests - Follow Up
6 November 2024
Red Rock Resources Plc, ("Red Rock" or "the Company"), the natural resource exploration and development company with interests in gold, base metals, battery metals, and hydrocarbons principally in
"Red Rock expects the most important near-term developments to be:
o Gold production in
o Release of arbitration result in the DRC
o Further updates on New Ballarat Gold Corporation"
Red Rock Chairman Andrew Bell comments that: "As anticipated, we begin November with mobilisation to site in
In
Further equipment and six month's spares and supplies is expected to be despatched to arrive mid- to late-January, allowing the operations to be stepped up.
The Company expects to meet the timing targets set out in the announcement of 7th October 2027.
DRC: Red Rock spent two weeks In Kinshasa in the course of October working to conclude the pending arbitration and meeting with Governmental agencies to discuss a major and potentially cash-generative joint venture project. A framework agreement for co-operation on this latter was signed with our longstanding partner and representative Mr Patrick Tuseku Tshianu, the principal of Koto DRC SARL.
New Ballarat Gold Corporation (Australian gold assets):
Extensive coincident antimony and arsenic soil anomalism is confirmed at O'Loughlin's gold project south of Ballarat in
The Company is pleased to report significant antimony and arsenic anomalism has been detected in soil and rock chip geochemistry at its advanced O'Loughlin's gold project, south of Ballarat,
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Figure 1 As and Sb anomaly at O'Loughlins
The strong association of gold with arsenic has been well understood from historical mining in the Ballarat region, however this recent discovery of anomalous antimony is new. The discovery opens the possibility that gold mineralisation identified at O'Loughlin may have a different genesis to the orogenic gold mined at Ballarat and Bendigo. The Red Rock technical team now considers the age of mineralisation to be similar to the deposit styles of Fosterville[1] or Sunday Creek[2] rather than the more traditional Ballarat- Bendigo style of the region.
In 2022, five shallow diamond core drill holes were completed by Red Rock under these workings. A mineralised structure was intersected with spur veins returning a maximum interval of 0.4m @ 12.34g/t Au despite significant core losses due to broken and rubbly ground[3]. Current geological interpretation expects the mineralised structure will enrich in gold and antimony at depth on intersecting hinge folds. (Figure 2)
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Figure 2 Cross section Interpretation of O'Loughlins
Future exploration will now be directed towards better defining the key structures of the area at surface, particularly the fold hinges including plunge and from this a more targeted drill programme will be recommended.
About O'Loughlin's
Originally identified by CRA in 1980's as a significant exploration target, little follow up work has been undertaken prior to Red Rock's strategic licence acquisition[4]. Initial field mapping and soil sampling by Red Rock supported CRA's target potential and in 2022 the company drilled five shallow holes intersecting a mineralised structure. Further work was completed to better target the potential for enrichment given the significant size of the arsenic anomaly. With the strength of the antimony price in the market O'Loughlin's demonstrates a potential for both gold and antimony mineralisation once the structure is enriched.
About Red Rock gold projects in
In addition to the recent exploration success at O'Loughlin's, Red Rock has two "ready to drill" brownfields exploration plays in Berringa[5] and Ajax[6]. These projects have a combined exploration target size of over 1mil ounces. Additionally, over 10 other projects in the tenement package are ready to advance to the next stage[7].
QUALIFIED PERSON STATEMENT
The technical information in this report is compiled by David Holden, BSc, MBA, MEM, who is a member of the Australian Institute of Geoscientists and a Consultant to Red Rock Australasia Pty Limited. He 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."
This announcement contains inside information for the purposes of Article 7 of the Market Abuse Regulation (EU) 596/2014 as it forms part of
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
Bob Roberts 0203 8696081 Broker Clear Capital Corporate Broking
Beaumont Cornish Limited ("Beaumont Cornish") is the Company's Nominated Adviser and is authorised and regulated by the FCA. Beaumont Cornish's responsibilities as the Company's Nominated Adviser, including a responsibility to advise and guide the Company on its responsibilities under the AIM Rules for Companies and AIM Rules for Nominated Advisers, are owed solely to the London Stock Exchange. Beaumont Cornish is not acting for and will not be responsible to any other persons for providing protections afforded to customers of Beaumont Cornish nor for advising them in relation to the proposed arrangements described in this announcement or any matter referred to in it.
[1] https://www.agnicoeagle.com/English/operations/operations/Fosterville-Gold-Mine/default.aspx
[2] https://www.southerncrossgold.com.au
[3] Red Rock Resources Release 12 April 2022
[5] Final Technical Report Berringa Gold Project MIN 4191 Oct 2014. J Fothergill Balmaine Gold Pty Ltd
[6] Red Rock Release 1st Aug 2022
[7] https://www.rrrplc.com/projects-and-investments/gold/red-rock-australasia/
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