Rockland Retty Lake Cu-Ni-PGE Drilling Complete
22 June 2011 - 10:00PM
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Rockland Minerals Corp. (TSX VENTURE: RL) (the "Company") has
completed its 1,500 meter diamond drilling program on the Retty
Lake Cu-Ni-Pt-Pd Property located near Schefferville, Quebec. A
total of 10 holes were drilled to explore for zones of disseminated
and massive sulfide within the targeted middle peridotite sill in
the NW Retty Lake area. The core is being shipped off site to a
core processing facility to be saw cut and sampled.
Initial logging of the core has revealed widespread disseminated
sulfide mineralization with visible chalcopyrite (copper mineral)
within the lower portion of the middle peridotite sill. In several
instances, favourable "net-texture" sulfides were observed to be
crystallized within cumulate-texture peridotite. Two drill holes
found an unexpected rock type in place of the middle peridotite
horizon. Instead of the ultramafic peridotite, there was a
melanocratic gabbro, which indicates assimilation of the wall rock
by the peridotite intrusion. This typically happens adjacent to
feeder dykes, and suggests they may be nearby, although they have
never been described at Retty Lake. Mineralization was also drilled
in the upper sill, in addition to the widespread disseminated
mineralization found in the middle sill. This confirms the presence
of "stacked" mineralization at Retty Lake.
George F. Sanders, P.Geo, a director of the Company, and
Qualified Person under National Instrument 43-101 responsible for
the technical content of this news release, states: "We see highly
encouraging disseminated sulfide textures in hand samples of the
drill core from the Retty Lake Project, and we're only in the
beginning stages of unlocking the copper-nickel-platinum-palladium
potential of this district. Because this is the first drill core to
come from this area since the 1950's, we plan on doing a careful,
thorough job of sawing, splitting and sampling the core."
Photographs of Retty Lake drill core textures and a brief
geological write-up have been posted on Rockland's website at
www.rocklandminerals.ca.
The Retty Lake property is on-trend with four adjacent
copper-nickel-platinum group metal (PGM) lenses known as the "Blue
Lake Deposits" -- originally outlined by Hollinger North Shore
Exploration (Iron Ore Company of Canada) in the 1950's. Evidently,
the Blue Lake Cu-Ni-Pt-Pd deposits were formed at or near the basal
zone of the ("Middle") ultramafic peridotite, where the sill
intrudes sulfur-rich metasediments. This favourable stratabound
horizon runs for some ten kilometers or more, throughout the
Rockland property, in a northwest-southeast trajectory. Rockland is
looking forward to discovery of additional base metal - precious
deposits within its Retty Lake property. Rockland is earning a 100%
interest in the property from E.D. Black, Geologist.
We seek Safe Harbor.
On behalf of the Board of Directors
Rav Mlait, President and CEO
Rockland Minerals Corp.
Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services
Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX
Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or
accuracy of this release.
Contacts: Rockland Minerals Corp. Rav Mlait President and CEO
(604) 551-7831 604-676-2767 (FAX) info@rocklandminerals.ca
www.rocklandminerals.ca
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