Rome Resources PLC (RMR) has released assays from the latest round of drilling at its Mont Agoma tin prospect in the North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Assays from the first two of five completed diamond core drill holes confirm significant widths of tin mineralisation across three discrete zones within the tin, copper and zinc zone.
Among the highlights were three metres at 0.27% tin from a depth of 46.5 metres, 3.9 metres at 1.24% copper from 71.2 metres, and 31 metres at 4.02% zinc from the first hole. The second hole encountered comparable mineralisation.
Increased tin grades and visible cassiterite - an ore of tin – were noted within the deeper intersection in one hole, supporting the company's geological model in which tin mineralisation increases at depths closer to the granitic source.
Early indications suggest that mineralisation at Mont Agoma aligns with the copper to tin mineralisation transition zone at San Rafael in Peru, with decreasing copper and increasing tin at greater depth.
Going forward the company will concentrate the drilling programme on evaluating how the mineralisation develops with depth of approximately 100 metres below current intercepts.
A total of 1,657 metres of drilling has been completed at Mont Agoma, for eight holes, with three ongoing.
Meanwhile, in hole 18, over 100 metres of visible copper has been identified.
Mineralisation remains open to the north, south and at depth.
''We are extremely encouraged by the widths and grades of tin mineralisation intersected in holes MADD016A and MADD017 which confirms tin, copper and zinc mineralisation within the upper levels of the mineralised zonation model where lower grade tin is expected in association with high grade copper,” said Paul Barrett, chief executive of Rome.
“With more than 200 metres width of confirmed sulphide mineralisation, it is becoming increasingly clear that we are unlocking a complex mineralised system with an increase in widths of tin mineralisation towards the base of the copper zone. Our ongoing deeper drilling campaign will soon reach similar depths where Alphamin's main resources are located.”
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Following the company’s recent £4.2 million fundraising with Stanvic Mining, it is in a strong position to follow up on these results and to press on with work at Kalayi. It’s encouraging to see the indications that grade increases at depth, and that the company is responding to this and planning to drill deeper.