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Drilling confirms gold beyond 600 m at Plateau
Drilling confirms gold beyond 600 m at Plateau.
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n \n \n \n RNS Number : 2969E\n Rockfire Resources PLC\n 05 November 2020\n \n \n \n 5 November 2020\n Rockfire Resources plc\n (\"Rockfire\" or the \"Company\")\n \n \n Drilling confirms gold beyond 600 m at Plateau\n \n \n \nRockfire Resources plc (LON: ROCK) the gold and base metal exploration company, is pleased to announce the results of four additional diamond drill holes from the July to September 2020 drilling campaign at the 100%-owned Plateau gold deposit (\"Plateau\") in North Queensland, Australia.\n \n A cross section showing the drilled gold mineralisation extending at depth is provided via the following link.\n \n \n http://www.rns-pdf.londonstockexchange.com/rns/2969E_1-2020-11-4.pdf\n \n \n \n \n Highlights:\n \n · \n Gold continues to be intersected in each hole at Plateau, including, for the first time, below 600 m from surface. Higher-grade gold hits (+5 g/t Au) are being encountered more regularly and more frequent intervals of +1.0 g/t gold are being drilled below 400 m depth.\n \n \n \n \n \n · \n A high-grade gold interval of 0.74 m @ 16.9 g/t Au (half an ounce per tonne) has been intersected in diamond hole BPL026, lying within a strong zone of 4.5 m @ 3.0 g/t Au at\n380.26 m. This interval lies to the south and outside of the initial gold target zone. BPL026 also extended gold mineralisation in the previously reported BPL026 pre-collar to a total mineralised zone of 162.92 m @ 0.2 g/t Au.\n \n \n \n \n \n · \n Hole BPL041 has returned the highest-grade silver ever recorded at Plateau, with an interval of 18.86 m @ 29.7 g/t Ag (1.0 ounce/tonne), including 1.26 m @ 408 g/t silver (13.1 ounces/tonne) from 67.74 m.\n \n \n \n \n \n · \n Hole BPL041 has returned an excellent gold interval of 17.0 m @ 1.2 g/t Au, including a high-grade hit of 1 m @ 9.2 g/t Au at 409.0 m below surface. This interval is hosted within a very broad gold zone of 142.63 m @ 0.3 g/t Au from 269.00 m depth.\n \n \n \n \n \n · \n Hole BPL033 was drilled in the opposite direction to all other holes (from south to north), to confirm the dip of the mineralised contact and was not expected to return any gold values. This hole did, however, intersect 0.52 m @ 3.5 g/t Au at 542.13 m depth. This is within a wider interval of 6.45 m @ 0.5 g/t Au, which is interpreted to be splaying off the main gold zone a...