The drilling campaign at Rome Resources’ Kalayi prospect within the Bisie North tin project in DRC has shown widest and strongest intercepts to date.

The prospect represented the bulk of the total metres drilled, being 91%, where the company believes the presence of near surface high-grade tin mineralisation exists, with the potential for continued mineralisation at depth.

It is now expecting to receive the formal assays for the tin intercepts encountered, which will in turn be incorporated into the subsurface model. An updated mineral resource estimate, which could deliver a meaningful uplift, will be announced in due course.

Drilling operations for the campaign were completed at the beginning of April, following the drilling of 17 holes for a total of 3 050 m.

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Portable XRF results from the programme continue to support Rome Resources’ structural model for the deposit, with the presence of high-grade tin mineralisation encountered across multiple holes.

The highlights of the drilling campaign include multiple highly encouraging tin intercepts which have been provisionally assessed using a handheld XRF device.

To demonstrate the positive progression in overall tin richness of the various intercepts as the programme has evolved, intercept richness is presented as the product of intercept width and tin percentage, using existing assays for the previous campaign and XRF readings for the current campaign.

On this basis, the top five intercepts from the recent drilling campaign exceed the maximum richness recorded in any previous campaigns’ intercepts.

Paul Barrett, CEO of Rome Resources, commented: “The tin intercepts encountered in this recent drilling campaign underscore Kalayi’s potential as an extensive high grade tin deposit situated only 8 km from a mine producing over 7% of the world’s tin.

“While final assays are pending, these early indicators provide a compelling case for Kalayi’s economic potential and suggest a clear step forward compared to previous drilling campaigns.

“Over the coming weeks, as assays are received and incorporated into the geological model, we expect to advance the proposed mineral resource estimate update and continue to assess future development pathways for Kalayi, both technical and commercia.”