Royal Road Announces Results from Final Three Scout Drill Holes at Its Luna Roja Skarn Gold Project; Nicaragua
Intersects 69m at 1.5 grams per tonne gold and confirms gold mineralization in 450m step-out
Toronto, October 1, 2019 - Royal Road Minerals Ltd. (TSXV: RYR) ("Royal Road" or the "Company") is pleased to announce final drilling results from its recently completed 17-hole scout diamond drilling program at its Luna Roja gold project in northeastern Nicaragua.
The Luna Roja project forms a part of the Company's Strategic-Alliance agreement (see press release; September 6, 2017) with Hemco Mineros Nicaragua ("Hemco" a subsidiary of Colombia's Grupo Mineros S.A. MINEROS:CB) and is located in the highly prospective Golden Triangle of northeastern Nicaragua, a region characterized by epithermal style gold veins, skarn and porphyry-style mines that have been in operation since the early 1900's. Hemco Mineros Nicaragua own and operate the Bonanza gold mine which is located approximately 26 kilometers to the northwest of Luna Roja. Royal Road Minerals is operator of the Strategic Alliance.
Royal Road and Hemco have completed an initial 17-hole, 2472 meter, scout drilling program at Luna Roja. This is the first drilling program to be completed on the project. Results have now been returned for all drill holes (see Table1; and press release; September 4, 2019, intersections are not true widths and the Company does not have sufficient information to make a determination of the true widths of the drill hole intersections of the mineralized zone). Significant intersections include:
LR-DDH-003 49m at 2.8 g/t gold (including 22m at 5.3 g/t gold)
LR-DDH-005 23m at 2.1 g/t gold
LR-DDH-008 18m at 2.7 g/t gold
LR-DDH-011 45m at 1.1 g/t gold
LR-DDH-012 49m at 2.4 g/t gold (including 18m at 5.4 g/t gold)
LR-DDH-013 80m at 1.1 g/t gold (including 10m at 2.8 g/t gold)
LR-DDH-016 69m at 1.5 g/t gold (including 15m at 2.5 g/t gold)
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The drilling program at Luna Roja aims to test the sub-surface extension of surface gold mineralization identified in saw-cut channel samples (see press release; September 25, 2018) which returned significant intersections including, 40.65 meters at 2.5 grams per tonne, 23.5 meters at 5.1 grams per tonne, 12.0 meters at 7.1 grams per tonne and 5.5 meters at 12.2 grams per tonne gold (channels are oriented perpendicular to strike). These drilling results indicate that gold mineralization remains open at depth (down to 150 meters vertical depth, LR-DDH-005) and open along-strike to the northwest and southeast. The southernmost and final drill hole of the program, LR-DDH-017 is located approximately 450 meters to the southeast of previous drilling and intersected 8 meters at 0.9 grams per tonne gold from surface. Geological mapping suggests that LR-DDH-017 was collared into a window of skarn mineralization located stratigraphically below an overlying sequence of marble and skarnoid rocks (see Figure 1). These drilling results, together with geological observations, suggest that gold mineralization at Luna Roja extends along an antiformal fold hinge, significantly southwards and under cover, for a total mineralized system of approximately 1400 meters in strike distance.
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Skarn-related gold mineralization at Luna Roja is associated with breccia, veining and selective replacement of carbonate rocks on the upper limb and in the hinge-zone of a northwest trending, thrust-related, inclined antiform (see Figure 1). Early-stage gold-bearing pyroxene garnet skarn occurs along selective carbonate units and aligned along a pressure-solution-cleavage particularly close to the hinge-zone of the mapped antiform. Pyroxene garnet skarn is overprinted by a generally higher-grade gold mineralized, magnetite, carbonate vein and breccia-related skarn. Gold is related with elevated tungsten, zinc and manganese.
"These final drilling results are a fitting close to what has been an exciting initial scout drilling program at Luna Roja" said Dr Tim Coughlin, Royal Road's President and CEO. "The gold in drill hole LR-DDH-17 provides the size potential and evidence we need to extend geophysics southwards and target the skarn below the overlying sequence of marble rocks. In addition, we will be giving some thought to depth extensions and to where the source intrusion for the skarn mineralization is located, as so far we have not been able to conclusively map it on surface. All-in-all we are set-up for an exciting follow up drill program at Luna Roja"
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The information in this news release was compiled, reviewed and verified by Dr. Tim Coughlin, BSc (Geology), MSc (Exploration and Mining), PhD (Structural Geology), FAusIMM, President and CEO of Royal Road Minerals Ltd. and a qualified person as defined by National Instrument 43-101. Royal Road Minerals employees are instructed to follow standard operating and quality assurance procedures intended to ensure that all sampling techniques and sample results meet international reporting standards. More information can be found on Royal Road Minerals web site at www.royalroadminerals.com
Quality Assurance and Quality Control:
Diamond drill core is cut in half over 1-meter downhole intervals using a core saw. Samples are prepared and assayed by independent and ISO accredited laboratories of Bureau Veritas Minerals (BVM) and their local subsidiaries. Bagged 1-meter samples are collected from site and delivered to BVM sample preparation laboratories in Managua. Samples are prepared using the BVM codes PRP70-250 plus PUL85, where samples are crushed to 70% less than two millimeters, a riffle split of 250 grams is collected and then pulverized to better than 85 per cent passing 75 microns. Prepared sample pulps are then sent for analysis to BVM labs in Vancouver Canada. Gold is analyzed by fire assay with an atomic absorption finish and a measurement range of 0.005 to 10 ppm. Samples over 10-ppm gold are re-analyzed by fire assay with a gravimetric finish. Multielement concentrations are analyzed by four-acid digestion and inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer. Samples over 10,000ppm Cu, Zn, Pb or Mn and 200 ppm W, are re-analyzed with four acid digestion and Inductively Coupled Plasma Emission Spectrometer (ICP-ES). Commercially prepared standards (gold-copper pulps), blanks (pulps and coarse chips) and field duplicates are inserted into the sample stream by Royal Road Minerals for a total of 15% QA/QC to ensure sample precision. In the case of duplicate analyses of a sample, the average of both analyses is used as the final reported value. Unless otherwise stated, gold grades are not capped for calculation of length-weighted averages.
Cautionary statement:
This news release contains certain statements that constitute forward-looking information and forward-looking statements within the meaning of applicable securities laws (collectively, "forward-looking statements") including statements relating to the Hemco-Mineros Alliance and those describing the Company's future plans and the expectations of its management that a stated result or condition will occur. Such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause the actual results, performance or achievements of the Company, or developments in the Company's business or in the mineral resources industry, or with respect to the Hemco-Mineros Alliance, to differ materially from the anticipated results, performance, achievements or developments expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements include all disclosure regarding possible events, conditions or results of operations that is based on assumptions about, among other things, future economic conditions and courses of action, and assumptions related to government approvals, and anticipated costs and expenditures. The words "plans", "prospective", "expect", "intend", "intends to" and similar expressions identify forward looking statements, which may also include, without limitation, any statement relating to future events, conditions or circumstances. Forward-looking statements of the Company contained in this news release, which may prove to be incorrect, include, but are not limited to, those related to the Hemco-Mineros Alliance, Hemco-Mineros, and the Company's plans exploration plans.
The Company cautions you not to place undue reliance upon any such forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date they are made. There is no guarantee that the anticipated benefits of the Hemco-Mineros Alliance and the Company's business plans or operations will be achieved. The risks and uncertainties that may affect forward-looking statements include, among others: economic market conditions, anticipated costs and expenditures, government approvals, and other risks detailed from time to time in the Company's filings with Canadian provincial securities regulators or other applicable regulatory authorities. Forward-looking statements included herein are based on the current plans, estimates, projections, beliefs and opinions of the Company management and, in part, on information provided to the Company by Hemco-Mineros, and, except as required by law, the Company does not undertake any obligation to update forward-looking statements should assumptions related to these plans, estimates, projections, beliefs and opinions change.
For further information please contact:
Dr. Timothy Coughlin
President and Chief Executive Officer
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+44 (0)1534 887166
+44 (0)7797 742800
info@royalroadminerals.com
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