Rockridge Drilling Extends Fatou Gold Zone, Mali, West Africa
(firmenpresse) - VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA -- (Marketwire) -- 04/04/12 -- Rockridge Capital Corp. (TSX VENTURE: RRC) ("Rockridge"; the "Company") is pleased to announce results from further diamond drilling at the Fatou Main Gold Zone completed during the Fall 2011 campaign. Twenty drill holes totalling 4,166 metres were completed on 12 sections across the Fatou Main artisanal site. Results indicate that gold mineralization is continuous over significant widths over at least 800 metres strike length, and remains open along strike and to depth (Tables 1 and 2 below).
Highlights
Rockridge holds a 100% interest in the Fatou Gold Project exploration licence. Fatou is located in southern Mali, West Africa and the permit covers 250 square kilometres of highly prospective Birimian terrane, 90 kilometres south of the producing Morila Gold Mine and 50 kilometres west of Syama Mine in southern Mali.
Fatou Main Prospect
Mineralization at Fatou Main occurs as a series of steeply-dipping, sub-parallel north-trending gold "zones", associated with one or two broad zones of silicification following the contacts between Birimian metasedimentary and metavolcanic rocks and intermediate to felsic intrusive plugs. Several shoots of higher grade mineralization occur within these silicified zones, hosted in both the metasediments/metavolcanics and granitic rocks.
The results come from the second phase of diamond drilling at the Fatou Main Gold Zone, which commenced in late October, 2011. The 8-week program consisted of 20 infill holes totalling 4,166 metres. The objective of the program was to piece together the structure hosting many of the mineralized intervals discovered during previous campaigns to demonstrate the continuity of the gold mineralization. All samples were analyzed by fire assay at SGS Canada.
2012 Exploration Program
The current 2012 exploration program, comprising 20,000 metres of combined RC and diamond drilling, is based on the interpretation of airborne geophysical data and augmented by the results of a 9,000-metre auger drill program completed in December, 2011. That interpretation identified 12 target areas along 4 distinct trends: Fatou Main, Fininko, Buckle Area, and the Digan Shear Zone The program commenced in mid-January and is on-going, with one diamond drill and one reverse circulation drill operating around the clock.
The Fatou Main Gold Zone has been identified as a top priority target, with possible extensions to the northeast, northwest, and south.
The Fininko Gold Zone, previously identified through a 10-drill hole program, was confirmed by the airborne geophysical survey as a priority target, with a possible strike length of at least 10-kilometres.
The Buckle zone consists of a fold structure up to 2 kilometres in size outlined by carbonaceous sedimentary rocks along a northwest-directed shear zone adjacent to possible source granitoids. That northwest trending shear structure, the Digan Shear Zone, extends approximately 16 kilometres from the Buckle fold to the northern Fatou permit boundary and represents an excellent target for gold deposits.
There are additional targets identified outside the 4 main trends, including three bulk-tonnage targets identified in potassically-altered granitoids in the northeast of the permit.
Christopher J. Wild, P.Eng., is the Qualified Person for the Company under NI 43-101. All samples from the Fatou Main campaign reported herein were collected on site and sent to ALS-Chemex in Bamako for analysis. The Company inserts independent certified standard samples in addition to the blank and lab duplicate samples in each batch of 20 samples. The lab also inserts in-house blanks, standards, and duplicates with each batch. Data that falls outside the control limits are checked and repeated as required. Generally, a lower cut-off grade of 0.25 g/t and dilution less than or equal to 3.0 metres is used in compositing results for reporting, except where noted. Nineteen of the 20 drill holes were drilled at -55 degrees toward 270 degrees azimuth; the exception was drilled at -55 degrees toward 90 degrees.
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF ROCKRIDGE CAPITAL CORP.
Karl Kottmeier, President
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Rockridge Capital Corp.
Karl Kottmeier
President
(604) 678 8941
Rockridge Capital Corp.
Kirk Gamley
VP Corporate Development
(604) 678 8941
(604) 689-7442 (FAX)
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