RCR Rockcliff drills 8.01 m of 3.11% Cu at Snow Lake
Dec. 8, 2009 (Stockwatch) --
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Tuesday December 08 2009 - News Release
Mr. Ken Lapierre reports
ROCKCLIFF HITS MORE HIGH GRADE COPPER MINERALIZATION AT SNOW LAKE
Drilling on the Rail zone has intersected additional high-grade copper mineralization on Rockcliff Resources Inc.'s Snow Lake VMS project located in central Manitoba. Hole RL09-45 intersected 8.01 metres of stringer sulphides grading 3.11 per cent copper, 0.30 gram per tonne (g/t) gold and 5.1 g/t silver including 2.75 m grading 5.16 per cent copper, 0.59 g/t gold and 8.0 g/t silver. The hole was drilled in an area south of the historic Rail VMS deposit where recent down-hole geophysics on previously drilled copper-rich holes detected a large untested conductor south of and on strike to the Rail zone. Drilling has now increased the Rail zone mineralization (copper, gold, zinc and silver) to approximately 700 m of strike length and up to approximately 450 m deep. The Rail zone remains open in all directions and is hosted within juvenile arc rocks of the Snow Lake camp. All VMS mines within the camp are hosted in juvenile arc rocks of the Flin Flon greenstone belt. Drilling will continue on the Rail zone early in the new year.
Highlights from previous holes (RL07-01 to RL09-38) completed by Rockcliff on the Rail zone at the Rail property can be viewed on the company's website. Highlights from the recent drill holes RL09-39 to RL09-46 are in the table and include:
- 1.48 m grading 2.58 per cent copper, 1.50 g/t gold, 2.67 per cent zinc and 10.5 g/t silver (RL09-40);
- 2.28 m grading 3.37 per cent copper, 0.79 g/t gold, 1.31 per cent zinc and 12.5 g/t silver including 1.11 m grading 6.12 per cent copper, 1.78 g/t gold, 2.09 per cent zinc and 22.6 g/t silver (RL09-41);
- 4.05 m grading 2.29 per cent copper, 0.38 g/t gold, 0.15 per cent zinc and 5.1 g/t silver including 1.83 m grading 2.89 per cent copper, 0.53 g/t gold, 0.09 per cent zinc and 6.2 g/t silver (RL09-44);
- 10.12 m grading 2.61 per cent copper, 0.51 g/t gold, 0.08 per cent zinc and 4.4 g/t silver including 8.01 m grading 3.11 per cent copper, 0.30 g/t gold, 0.08 per cent zinc and 5.1 g/t silver including 2.75 m grading 5.16 per cent copper, 0.59 g/t gold, 0.10 per cent zinc and 8.0 g/t silver (RL09-45).
To date, a total of 4062.5 m in 14 surface drill holes (RL09-33 to RL09-46) have been completed and reported in this drill phase on the Rail property. The Rail zone intersected in holes 33, 34, 35, 44, 45 and 46 was copper rich and drilled south of the historic Rail deposit.
The Rail zone intersected in drill holes 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42 and 43 was copper-gold rich and drilled north of the historic Rail deposit. The Rail zone has been drilled to a present strike length of 685 m and to depths of up to 450 m and remains open in all directions. The zone consists of stringers and massive sulphide lenses of pyrite, pyrrhotite, chalcopyrite (copper-rich) and sphalerite (zinc-rich) hosted within a favourable five-kilometre-long trend of prospective juvenile arc rocks located on the property. An expansion of the surface grid north of the present drilling will begin shortly once ground conditions are frozen. This will allow additional geophysics and drilling to be completed in an untested area north of the company's northernmost holes which intersected mineralization up to 4.74 m grading 9.02 per cent copper, 3.46 g/t gold, 1.62 per cent zinc and 36.5 g/t silver (RL09-37; please refer to news in Stockwatch on Nov. 10, 2009).
Drilling on the Rail zone is planned to continue after the Christmas break in the new year. Additional drilling in 2010 on the Snow Lake project will include areas with VMS and gold potential and will be reported once drill targets are finalized.
Significant assay results from drill holes RL09-39 to RL09-46 are in the table. The lengths reported are drill intersected core lengths and do not represent true widths.
Borehole From To Length Copper Gold Zinc Silver
(m) (m) (m) % g/t % g/t
RL09-39 115.26 115.66 0.40 3.13 0.27 1.33 10.4
RL09-40 162.81 166.83 4.02 1.14 0.60 1.17 5.1
includes 162.81 164.29 1.48 2.58 1.50 2.67 10.5
RL09-41 101.50 103.78 2.28 3.37 0.79 1.31 12.5
includes 102.06 103.17 1.11 6.12 1.78 2.09 22.6
RL09-42 164.53 168.62 4.09 1.28 0.39 0.32 5.0
includes 164.53 165.00 0.47 3.97 0.35 0.63 11.8
includes 167.91 168.62 0.71 4.49 2.02 1.05 19.9
RL09-43 127.33 131.43 4.10 0.64 0.24 0.51 4.1
includes 127.33 128.02 0.69 2.27 1.17 0.92 11.4
RL09-44 352.35 356.40 4.05 2.29 0.38 0.15 5.1
includes 353.26 355.09 1.83 2.89 0.53 0.09 6.2
RL09-45 400.84 410.96 10.12 2.61 0.51 0.08 4.4
Includes 402.95 410.96 8.01 3.11 0.30 0.08 5.1
includes 405.99 408.74 2.75 5.16 0.59 0.10 8.0
RL09-46 516.94 520.17 3.23 0.75 0.16 0.01 2.2
includes 519.38 520.17 0.79 1.87 0.50 0.03 4.4
Rockcliff has the exclusive right to earn a 100-per-cent interest in the Rail property from Hudson Bay Exploration and Development Company Ltd. (HBED), a wholly owned subsidiary of HudBay Minerals Inc. If Rockcliff earns its interest in the Rail property, HBED will receive a 2-per-cent net smelter return royalty. If Rockcliff earns a 100-per-cent interest in the Rail property, HBED then has the right to acquire up to a 65-per-cent interest in the Rail property. Please refer to news in Stockwatch on March 23, 2007, for further details. Martin Stoyko
Investment Advisor
Northern Securities Inc.
Suite 1110,
400 Burrard Street,
PO Box 7
Vancouver, B.C. V6C 3A6
Tel: (604) 668-1745
Fax: (604) 668-1816
Email: mstoyko@northernsi.com
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