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Update on drilling at Bilbale
Update on drilling at Bilbale.
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n \n \n \n Red Rock Resources PLC\n \n \n \n \n (\"Red Rock\" or the \"Company\")\n \n \n \n \n Update on Drilling at Bilbale, Burkina Faso\n \n \n \n \n Near Surface Gold Intercept of 20 Metres at 3.19 g/t\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 5 September 2022\n \n \n \n Red Rock Resources Plc. (\"Red Rock\" or \"the Company\"), the natural resource development company with interests in gold and base metals announces, further to the announcements of 6 January 2022 and 5 August 2022 progress and partial results from the reverse circulation (\"RC\") drill programme conducted by the Company's wholly owned subsidiary, Faso Greenstone Resources SARL (\"FGR\"), at the Bilbale licence in the south-west of Burkina Faso.\n \n \n \n Highlights\n \n :\n \n \n Ø\n 7 hole RC drill programme totalling 778 metres completed at Bilbale\n \n \n Ø\n Samples collected at 1m interval depths and sent with duplicates, standards and blanks for testing at Ouagadougou laboratory of SGS Burkina SA\n \n \n Ø\n Results from 447 samples from 4 hole programme at Djikologo target received from laboratory\n \n \n Ø\n At the BilR22-03 drillhole, best results included:\n \n \n o \n \n 20m at 3.19 g/t gold from 22 metres depth, including 3m at 8.17 g/t and 5m at 4.66 g/t\n \n \n \n o \n \n 8m at 2.28 g/t gold from 62 metres depth, including 3m at 4.72 g/t\n \n \n \n o \n \n 2m at 1.25 g/t gold from 118m to end of hole (hole ended in mineralisation)\n \n \n \n Ø\n At the BilR22-01 drillhole, results included:\n \n \n o \n \n 9m at 0.37 g/t gold from 6 metres depth, including 3m at 0.78 g/t from 12 metres depth\n \n \n \n Ø\n Results from a further 378 samples from 3 hole programme at Bilbale Artisanal Area target are awaited\n \n \n Ø\n Ground geophysics will now be carried out and will be followed by further drill testing in a later programme\n \n \n \n Red Rock Chairman Andrew Bell comments\n \n \n : \"After acquisition of the Bilbale licence, some geochemistry and mapping was carried out and then we moved directly to scout drilling in order to meet the licence's spending obligations as renewal was approaching.\n \n \n \n \n No ground geophysics was carried out, and we had to be guided by the pattern of previous artisanal activity and by the limited and large scale airborne geophysics in selecting the location of our drill holes.\n \n \n \n \n ...