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DRC Copper and Cobalt Exploration Update
DRC Copper and Cobalt Exploration Update.
About this update from Red Rock Resources Plc
[{"type":"text","content":"\n \n \n RNS Number : 9715D\n Red Rock Resources plc\n 25 February 2020\n \n \n \n \n Red Rock Resources PLC\n \n \n (\"Red Rock\" or the \"Company\")\n \n \n DRC Copper & Cobalt Exploration Update\n \n \n \n \n \n 25 February 2020 \n \n \n \n \n \n Red Rock Resources Plc (LON:RRR), the natural resource development company with interests in gold, manganese and minerals, announces a second phase of exploration on license PR13513 in the Copperbelt in the south of the Democratic Republic of Congo (\"DRC\") 65 km SE of Lubumbashi and near the Zambian border. \n \n \n HIGHLIGHTS:\n \n \n · \n The license is prospective for copper and cobalt mineralisation, and an initial programme, the results of which were announced on 21 December 2018, identified two open-ended areas\n strongly anomalous for copper and cobalt\n \n \n \n \n \n · \n Based on these results, Mineral Exploration Associates SARL Consultants (Minex Consulting) has recommended a second phase of exploration\n \n \n \n \n \n · \n Pitting will be undertaken in the areas C and A in Figure 1 below, on north-south lines spaced at 100m intervals with pits 40m apart\n \n \n \n \n \n · \n Follow up trenching will be undertaken between pits where mineralisation is encountered or further lithostratigraphical information can be obtained\n \n \n \n \n \n · \n Geophysics will be undertaken over the north-west sector west of 589000 E and north of 866600 S\n , to be followed by pitting in area B once geophysical results have been interpreted\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Red Rock Chairman Andrew Bell comments\n \n : \"We obtained verypromising results from the initial exploration in a favourable geological setting, suggesting the presence of copper and cobalt mineralisation at depth.\n \n \n \n \n \n As the wet season ends, we want to take the opportunity to follow up these earlier results and find out more about the mineralisation and the lithological units in which it is contained. \n \n \n \n \n \n A controlled and modular programme will enable us to test hypotheses and step up activity quickly if justified. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n We are in one of the world's most prospective environments for the minerals we seek, working with skilled and experienced local partners, and approach this new phase of our activity in the DRC with con...