The announcement set out below replaces the announcement "West African Gold Licenses - Update" published on 28 November 2023 at 07.00 with RNS number 8266U. In that announcement there was no link displayed to Figure 1. The link is now displayed and all other text remains the same.
Red Rock Resources Plc
("Red Rock" or the "Company")
West African Gold Licenses - Update
24 January 2024
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 16th June 2023, 8th March 2023 and 18th 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
· One of four Red Rock applications totalling 1,404.86 sq km in an area south of the capital,
· 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
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
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
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The information below has been previously released. Further information on
The
All the three main groups of Northwest structures delineated in the Yaoure gold mine crosscut the
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
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
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