Red Rock Resources plc has contracted Base Drilling and Mining Services Co. Ltd for a 2,000m reverse circulation (RC) drill programme at the Mikei gold project in Kenya.
The junior explorer also plans infill and step-out drilling to improve resource classification and size, and has the option to increase the programme.
Base Drilling is expected to mobilise to the site next week to drill an initial 20 holes from shallow to more than 200m depth.
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The company’s in-house team has completed a ground magnetic (GM) survey and initial interpretation at the MK prospect which is a future drill target.
Ground geophysics and mapping, including GM and induced polarisation (IP), on some targets in the eastern licence are currently being conducted.
Red Rock chairman Andrew Bell said that the company had renovated the Mikei camp and built an experienced technical team including some former employees who had worked on the area before 2014.
“We expect this infill and step out drill programme to give us some promising results, as well as testing the deeper mineralised zone.
“It is focussed on the KKM prospect where the 2021 MRE was most conservative in its adjustment downward of the 2012 MRE, and where there is most potential benefit from establishing the continuity and extent of the conceptual pit shell.
“We have great confidence in the prospects for expanding our resource through the exploration we are now beginning to undertake.”