RNS15 Apr 2025 07:11
RNS Number : 9894E
Oriole Resources PLC
15 April 2025
Oriole Resources PLC
('Oriole Resources' or 'the Company' or 'the Group')
Mbe Gold Project Delivers Further Gold Mineralisation in Cameroon -
23.10m at 0.71g/t Au from 76.00m, including 7.20m at 1.02g/t Au and 2.00m at 2.48g/t Au
Oriole Resources PLC (AIM: ORR), the AIM quoted gold exploration company focused on West and Central Africa, is pleased to provide an update on its 90%[1] owned Mbe orogenic gold project ('Mbe' or the 'Project') in Cameroon.
Highlights
· The maiden ('Phase 1') drilling programme at MB01-S is approximately 44% complete for a total of 2,895.10 metres ('m') drilled, with nine holes drilled (MBDD001-09) and a tenth hole (MBDD010) in progress.
· Results from holes MBDD005 and MBDD006, over 609.10m of drilling, have returned a further 30 gold ('Au') mineralised intersections (using a 0.20 gramme per tonne ('g/t') Au lower cut-off grade), including (see Figure 1 and Table 1):
MBDD005:
o 23.10m at 0.71g/t Au from 76.00m, including 7.20m at 1.02g/t Au and 2.00m at 2.48g/t Au
o 5.60m at 1.03g/t Au from 7.50m
o 1.00m at 1.87g/t Au from 38.30m
MBDD006:
o 13.80m at 0.61g/t Au from 103.10m, including 3.40m at 1.17g/t Au and 2.10m at 1.06g/t Au
o 7.30m at 0.51g/t Au from 8.30m, including 1.90m at 1.18g/t Au
o 1.00m at 1.12g/t Au from 60.90m
o 1.00m at 1.64g/t Au from 71.50m
· The system is confirmed to a depth of approximately 150m from surface on this drill fence line. The results continue to demonstrate wide zones of bulk-tonnage gold mineralisation, which should be open pit mineable, related to sulphide-rich quartz veins, veinlets and breccias that have developed predominantly within quartz-feldspar porphyry ('QFP') units.
· Samples from holes MBDD007 and MBDD008 are already on their way to Bureau Veritas in Côte d'Ivoire for fire assay analysis. Results for these drill holes are expected to be reported later this quarter.
· The programme is currently scheduled for completion in Q3-2025, and the Company anticipates publishing a maiden, pit-contained Mineral Resource Estimate ('MRE') in H2-2025.
Chief Executive Officer of Oriole Resources, Martin Rosser, said: "The latest Mbe drilling results continue to return significant widths of gold mineralisation. As we continue to build the 3-D picture of the geology and gold mineralisation, it supports our opinion that there could be a substantial volume of material delineated that is potentially amenable to a large-scale open pit mining method. As we approach the halfway mark in the planned programme's metreage, we very much look forward to reporting the next set of results."
Figure 1. Interpretative cross section for fence line N872682 at MB01-S, with a selected mineralised intervals from holes MBDD003 and MBDD004 (green labels; previously reported, announcement dated 24 March 2025) and MBDD005 and MBDD006 (blue labels; reported today). The