Rokmaster Drills Strong Gold Mineralization of 5.09 g/t AuEq over 8.37 Metres Down Dip Of Historical Revel Ridge Resource Areas
Rokmaster Drills Strong Gold Mineralization of
5.09 g/t AuEq over 8.37 Metres Down Dip Of
Historical Revel Ridge Resource Areas
VANCOUVER, BC
,
Dec. 11, 2020
/CNW/ - Rokmaster Resources Corporation (TSXV: RKR)
(OTCQB: RKMSF) (FSE: 1RR1) ("Rokmaster" or the "Company") is pleased to report initial positive
assay results from its ongoing drill program at the Revel Ridge polymetallic gold-silver Project
("Revel Ridge" or the "Project") which demonstrate the continuity of gold mineralization in the Revel
Ridge Main Zone ("RRMZ"). The Revel Ridge project is strategically located in south central
British
Columbia
in an area of year-round road access and excellent infrastructure 35 km north of
Revelstoke
.
Highlights Include:
DDH RR20-11 assays 5.09 g/t AuEq over 8.37 metres. (Table 1). DDH RR20-11 conclusively
demonstrates that significant gold mineralization exists external to the current resource area and
remains open.
Drilling targeted mineralization external to the existing resource area to test continuity of gold
rich mineralization.
>
6,200 m
of drilling in 20 NQ diamond drill holes completed to date.
Drilling is ongoing and further results are pending from 19 holes.
Table 1: Significant core sample interval assay results*
DDH
From
To (m)
Interval (m)
Au g/t
Ag g/t
Cu %
Pb %
Zn %
Au Eq g/t
RR20-11
288.64
290.47
1.83
9.54
75.66
0.11
3.81
10.91
17.30
RR20-11
288.64
292.56
3.92
5.28
43.22
0.07
1.95
6.96
9.97
RR20-11
286.40
294.77
8.37
2.76
23.35
0.04
0.95
3.39
5.09
*
Assumptions used in USD for the gold equivalent calculation were metal prices of
$1561
/oz Gold,
$20.55
/oz Silver,
$1.07
/lb. Zinc,
$0.91
/lb. Lead and
$2.61
/lb copper with assumed 100% recovery.
The formula used to calculate gold equivalence is: AuEq = Au (g/t) + (Ag (g/t) x 0.013) + (Zn (%) x
0.47) + (Pb (%) x 0.4) + (Cu (%) x 1.26).
Reported widths of mineralization are drill hole intervals or core length recovered. Insufficient data
exists to permit the calculation of true widths of the reported mineralized interval at this time.
DDH RR20-11 intersected the RRMZ mineralization approximately 90 metres down dip from the last
hole drilled on this sectional plane and together with results of DDH RR20-12 (results to be released
upon availability) suggests that, on this section, RRMZ mineralization forms a near continuous
mineralized sheet with a currently known down-dip extent exceeding 600 metres. (Figures 1&2) DDH
RR20-11 samples were rushed ahead of other samples for assay to guide and delineate additional
down dip step-out holes planned outside the defined current resource areas.
John Mirko
, President and CEO and Rokmaster, commented: "Rokmaster's technical team
continues to be impressed with the style and strength of mineralization associated with the RRMZ
which is a structurally controlled, orogenic, gold enriched sulphide system with exceptional continuity.
Macroscale characteristics of mineralization within the RRMZ give no indication that system is
weakening at depth as the style and form of mineralization over the 600 vertical metres above the
DDH RR20-11 pierce point is effectively identical."
Rokmaster has completed >
6,200 m
of drilling in 20 NQ diamond drill holes in its inaugural 2020
diamond drill program. The drill program has been designed to target mineralization external to the
existing resource area. The results of DDH RR20-11 strongly confirm that gold mineralization of
significant grade and width exists well outside of the existing resource area and those zones
continue to be targeted by Rokmaster's technical team.
Due to the strength of these initial results from the Main Zone, Rokmaster is planning an expanded
surface and underground drill program for 2021. The expanded 2021 drill program will continue to
target the strongly gold enriched massive sulphides associated with the RRMZ, which remains open
both along strike and up and down dip.
In addition, with the resurgence of interest and increased price of both silver and base metals, the
strongly silver enriched Yellowjacket Zone ("RRYZ"), recognized as having the highest silver content
of any Kootenay Arc silver-zinc-lead deposit, will also be targeted with both the surface and
underground drill programs.
Images
Figure 1.
2020 Mapping and Compilation - Plan View
Figure 2.
Cross Section Through DDH RR20-11
Project and Drill Core Photos.
www.rokmaster.com/projects/revel-ridge
Quality Assurance/Quality Control.
On site personnel, representing Rokmaster Resources Corp.,
supervised all aspects of the drilling and sampling undertaken in the 2020 underground diamond drill
program. All samples have been collected from ½ NQ core, sawn with a diamond saw with the
sample intervals marked by technical personnel. A full QAQC program using blanks, standards and
duplicates was utilized to monitor analytical accuracy and precision. The samples were sealed on
site and shipped to MSA Labs in
Langley, British Columbia
. MSA is an ISO 17025 (Testing and
Calibration Laboratory) and an ISO 9001 (Quality Management System) Certified Laboratory. Core
samples were crushed to 2 mm and a 250 gram sub sample was pulverized with 85% of the sample
passing 75 microns. The sub sample was analysed using a combination of MSA Labs FAS211 for
Au and ICP–240 (4 acid digestion) for silver, base metals and other trace elements. FAS211 for
gold is an ore grade fire assay of a 30 g pulp with an AAS finish with a detection range between
0.01 and 100 ppm). ICP-240 utilizes four acid digestion and provides ore grade analytical data on
silver, base metals and 26 other elements.
To date in the 2020 underground drill program, >
6,200 m
of NQ drilling has been completed and 430
½ cut core samples have been shipped to MSA Labs. The turn-around-time of results has been
delayed by the protocols required to work under Covid 19 restrictions. Out of 20 drill holes the
assays from only 2 drill holes have been received. At the time of this press release, only the results
of DDH 20-11 have been QA/QC, interpreted and compiled. Subsequent drill results will be released
upon receipt of the analytical data from MSA Labs and following interpretation of all QAQC data.
The technical information in this news release has been prepared in accordance with Canadian
regulatory requirements as set out in National Instrument 43-101 and reviewed and approved by
Mark Rebagliati
, P. Eng., FEC, who is independent of Rokmaster.
On Behalf of the Board of Directors of
Rokmaster Resources Corp.
John Mirko
,
President & Chief Executive Officer.
Neither TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term in defined in the
policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this
press release.
About Rokmaster
Rokmaster controls a portfolio of three significant exploration and development projects all of which
are located in southern
British Columbia
in regions of excellent infrastructure. The three projects
include:
1
.
Revel Ridge.
Rokmaster is currently conducting an underground drill program at the Revel
Ridge project located in southeastern
British Columbia
35 km's N of the
City of Revelstoke
.
Revel Ridge is a high-grade gold and polymetallic orogenic sulphide deposit which has been the
subject of a PEA Technical Report dated
December 8, 2020
.
2
.
Big Copper.
Rokmaster controls the Big Copper property in the
Creston
area of
Southern
British Columbia
. Big Copper is a high-grade copper-silver occurrence hosted in mid-Proterozoic
rocks. Copper-silver mineralization has been traced for 3 km along strike and is exposed in a
series of adits and trenches over approximately 250-
300 m
of vertical relief. Big Copper likely
belongs to a class of stratabound replacement copper-silver deposits hosted within mid –
Proterozoic quartzitic sediments. The style and stratigraphic setting of mineralization at Big
Copper may be analogous to similar stratabound silver-copper deposits in
NW Montana
e.g. the
Troy mine (64 million tonnes of 0.74% Cu and 54 g/t Ag (Western Mining History, 2020) or
Hecla's
Montanore Mine, 112 million tonnes at 51.2 g/t Ag and 0.7% Cu (
Hecla
).
3
.
Duncan Zinc.
Duncan Zinc is a carbonate hosted silver-lead-zinc deposit located near Duncan
Lake in southern
British Columbia
. The deposit is hosted within a Cambrian age Badshot
Limestone which also hosts silver-lead-zinc mineralization at Teck's currently producing Pend
D'Oreille mine as well as past producers including the Blue Bell Mine, Reeves MacDonald,
Jersey-Emerald and HB mines. Mineralization at Duncan Lake forms in the crest and limbs of
the regional scale Duncan Lake anticline, where strong lead-zinc +/- silver mineralization has
been traced by surface and underground drilling for approximately
2500 m
. At Duncan Lake,
Rokmaster will be targeting > 30 Mt of >10% Pb+Zn+Ag. Historical background and a
geological synthesis of the Duncan Lake deposit is provided in a NI 43-101 report by
Lane, B.,
2018: Technical Report on the Duncan Lake Project.
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realize the perceived potential of the Company's properties; risk of accidents, equipment
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For further information:
For more information please contact Mr. John Mirko, CEO of Rokmaster
Resources, [email protected], Ph. 1-604-290-4647. An updated corporate presentation is
available on Rokmaster's website at www.rokmaster.com/projects/revel-ridge/
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