Royal Road Minerals Ltd (TSX-V:RYR, OTC:RRDMF) has provided investors with an update on its exploration activities at the Jabal Sahabiyah copper-gold-polymetallic project located in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
The underlying rights to the project are held by Royal Road Arabia, a Saudi Arabian joint venture company owned on a 50-50 partnership basis by Royal Road and MIDU Company.
Royal Road said on Wednesday that fieldwork at Jabal Sahabiyah carried out by Royal Road Arabia (RRA) has focused on two exposed polymetallic gossans, Jabal Muwayqirah and Hanash North.
Recent fieldwork found the mineralization to be shallow-dipping, skarn-style zones of unknown overall thickness or repetition that have been refolded by shallow-dipping, shallow-plunging, isoclinal folds. This results in variably exposed repetitions of "ribbon-style" mineralized bodies, which it believes have significant lateral extent and near-surface potential.
Additionally, reconnaissance rock-chip samples collected by RRA have returned higher copper and significant gold results from Jabal Muwayqirah including up to 5% copper and 7.5 grams per ton of gold.
At the Hanash North target, the fold is interpreted to have repeated mineralization, exposing it again at the southwestern gossan area and concealing it under shallow cover towards the east.
Rock chip and soil sampling are currently underway at this target.
Tim Coughlin, Royal Road CEO, highlighted that it has been more than 50 years since exploration work was conducted at Jabal Sahabiyah and the commodity focus and our understanding of structural geology has changed profoundly since then.
“At Jabal Muwayqirah and Hanash North, we see structurally controlled exposures of potentially extensive mineralized zones that dip and plunge shallowly beneath recent gravels and cover sequence,” Coughlin said.
“This work, coupled with the advances our reconnaissance teams are making on grassroots exploration throughout the Arabian Shield, is further testament to its outstanding exploration potential.”
The company plans to conduct more structural mapping at Jabal Sahabiyah and complete grid-based auger soil sampling across both gossan areas to identify targets for drill testing by the year-end.