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From 26th June 2025 RNS... essentially they are doing the PFS in parallel with the infill drilling.... this WILL get mined.

METALLURGICAL SAMPLING

The drill core from drilling by Rockfire during 2023 and 2024 has recently been sampled for collection of core for use in metallurgical test work. A total of 100 samples for a combined weight of 128.4kg of core has been collected and will be sent to Wardell Armstrong International, part of SLR Consulting for comminution and metallurgical test work. Samples collected include high grade (73.4kg), low grade (25.85kg) and waste rock (29.15kg), which will be used to complete the following components.

· Crushing Work Index (CWI) to determine the type and number of crushers which will be required to adequately crush the ore from underground for feed into the grinding circuit

· Grinding Work Index (GWI) to determine the type of grinding and power consumption to grind the ore to a size suitable for feed into the flotation circuit

· Unconfined Compressive Strength (UCS) tests to determine the strength of the rocks surrounding the ore to ensure the surrounding ground maintains a safe environment once an underground void is created from the extraction of the mineralised ore

· Point Load (PL) tests which are like UCS tests but rely on a reduced surface area of load. This measures the rock strength prior to failure and is used to ensure a safe underground working environment

· Ore sorting test work. This work is important to determine the suitability of the ore to various optical, laser and physical separation techniques prior to the grinding stage. Methods of separation may include colour, magnetism, specific gravity, particle sizing and reflectivity. The outcomes of this test work may minimise the throughput of waste material and increase the overall grade of material to be fed into the flotation circuit

· Flotation test work, which will utilise a locked (closed) system and will determine recoveries using multiple passes though the flotation circuit

· Rockfire is being advised by Wardell Armstrong, part of SLR Consulting on test work which is required for the recovery of germanium as a valuable by-product of the anticipated zinc production

PLANNED WORK

· Metallurgical tests will commence as soon as possible to ensure timely delivery of results prior to the commencement of the scoping/pre-feasibility phase.

· Drilling of up to 30 infill diamond holes is planned to lift the resource confidence to the Indicated category of the JORC Code.

· Drilling permits are awaited, and the market will be informed once these are approved.

Ballard... they flog some tailings in New Mexico. Useful none the less. They are not valued at £100m for the Cobre operation. The Tungsten asset is very high-grade but they are NOT in production

Predictions are always hard.... I feel ROCK is now like SML at .4p/.5p.... SML was over 5x Mcap of ROCK the other day...not now.

1p is 80 something Million... end game here is multiples of that. There will be further raises though. I feel here it could go .4-.5p very easily. But when is of course hard to say. Endgame surely above 3p....

Hard thing is knowing when the market will explode. SML caught me by surprise. This will too. SML raised at 1.4p and the SP raced to 4.4p in the two weeks after. Was hard to watch ...Lol

Main thing is to get some stock while it is so irrationally cheap. GLA

Flipping heck... trying not to post a lot but ballard.... wot are you on!!

You cannot compare SML and ROCK. Period. I was in SML 0.3p to 1.2p. Very good. Should have held etc blah blah. Tungsten is not that common and so lots of interest. They will do very well but that is a deep greenfield site and there is a long way to go. It might do 10p and I hope it does for all.

ROCK have a MASSIVE existing JORC. This site has been mined and there are existing workings. It is not near major towns etc. A lot of the mineralisation is not that deep and is very high grade ... with LOTS of Silver (price has trippled since maiden JORC). Lots of Germanium.... not common at all. Gallium too and now barium as a Gold pathfinder...

Geology well understood here so processing will be too. Long-lead PFS studies already actioned for mine design and processing circuits etc. In those senses ROCK is way ahead of SML. Hence ACAM already in.

Most of my SML profit is in here.

Have a great Day!

I have 'quite a few ECR' shares ... but have recently held off adding.... the recent pull back from .4p given the progress and X vids and all you post below... I have been unable to stop myself having another million.

The 'runway' here as you say is compelling. However long it takes to get the first production numbers, it won't be that long. Or the first sale of gold to the offtake partner...

Then you have the cashed up level post recent raise, tax free revenue underway at Raglan, application for the second and bigger revenue producing asset at Blue Mountain and the massive compelling multi-element licence at Lolworth.... Mon Dieu!

Probably as happy as I could be.

Management holding many shares. Options at 0.5p and 0.75p... and a penny representing £33 million MCap which seems entirely reachable with elevated gold price and further exploration potentials.

JV at Creswick...fine. BUT, when cash allows (soon?) I expect a further deep drilling campaign at Balieston because Antimony is certainly one of the elements of extreme choice. If they had good hits below the .3m 30% Sb strike at the end (146m from memory) of one of the previous holes...or gold hits too (Southern Cross) it would get awfully messy here in a good way.

So yeah.... quite a nice position.

I am trying not to watch it all time now. Come back in 6 months...

Just as an aside... I am a guy who sold EEE at 0.8p after quite a long hold. And then their fortunes changed.... just a bit. Not saying you will get that here but you never know. Experience tells me this. Which leads to the P word. Patience.

OMG. The MCap will likely be justified by Gorge alone this year.... patience though is required

The idea that Juno is somehow 'Over' is complete nonsense as there is much yet to explore.

Callum knows... posters here not so much... except those buying recently perhaps. GLA

Tesla... I don't post often on this one but respect to your post. I have not had negatives like you describe but have had losses that are hard to take.... so I know. Respect again to your post.

In the current climate, I personally think the drill results show that this is too good a resource to ignore. Thus I have a few at these prices and surely the story will continue. We will see!

Loving it!! I am smiling too :-)

RNS inbound methinks…

Gold $4630 and starting to rise again. Price action has been mad. Someone making a lot of $$$

However Gold over $4000 is epic for ECR. Obviously over $5000 or $6000 even better but as a start up producer the gold price environment is just great.

MM's will use this if they can but SP will be more dependant on our newsflow.... as we have seen by the relative lack of reaction to the recent gold price spike. All looking good for me and the washplant is indeed a serious bit of kit!!

And a BOD who own lots of shares… skin in the game…

Options at .5 and .75p..

It’s incredible TS. Even being optimistic I did not foresee this gold price so soon.

Amazing timing and silver too. I’m in ROCk (naughty) and silver there in the mix.

Just so exciting!!

It’s incredible TS. Even being optimistic I did not foresee this gold price so soon.

Amazing timing and silver too. I’m in ROCk (naughty) and silver there in the mix.

Just so exciting!!

Your main issue is you are a sad miserable c bomb with a massive chip

Still holding 50 million plus thanks

Happy gold over 5K

Now please F O

OMG Silver $108 !!!!!!!!! I will treat myself to a second coffee.... mega

Great RNS.... GREAT timing.... Gold $5090 Silver $108 .... OMG

Pleased to hear all board visiting Raglan for the initial 'Kick-Off'. Unsurprised to hear the reasoned approach to initial works to optimise the way they go forward.

Super excited to hear of Blue Mountain plans in due course.

Currently, this is all unfolding in the best of times !!!!! Hooray!

Wow. Great article !!!

Also SILVER approached $100 !!!!

I noticed that too.... no sign of the Gold Price run easing off either.... mmmm

...it will though... currently $83.70 and I do think $100 is on the cards...

... and gold $4580... silver $83 plus... !!!!