Royal Road Minerals Ltd (TSX-V:RYR, OTC:RRDMF) announced that it plans to kick off an initial 2,000-meter scout drilling at the Alouana copper-gold-polymetallic project in Morocco following promising infill soil geochemical sampling results.
The right to acquire the project is held by Royal Road Arabia (RRA) a 50%-50% Saudi Arabian joint venture between the company and investment holding firm MIDU Company.
Royal Road Minerals said drill permitting for Alouana is underway and advancing well.
This follows the completion of soil geochemical sampling, geological mapping, grab and channel rock-chip sampling and ground magnetics across the Alouana Main Area.
A total of 1,718 samples were collected, which revealed a 2-kilometer-long ridge-top copper anomaly in the Open Pit Zone (OPZ) and a new area, the Hilltop Zone (HTZ), which lacks historical workings.
This was followed up with infill sampling which expanded the HTZ westward to the OPZ.
"This new infill soil geochemical data has extended and connected the already intriguing HTZ westward towards the OPZ where we have good exposure and control,” Royal Road CEO Tim Coughlin said in a statement.
“Exposure along the HTZ is limited due to shallow soil and colluvial cover which may explain the absence of historical workings in the area.”
The CEO added that the company hopes the shallow-dipping shear zone and cleavage-parallel mineralization observed in the small-scale open pits at the OPZ will extend southeast along the hilltop to the HTZ.
“We are anxious to drill-test this theory and also to test the strike extent and true thickness of vein-breccia bodies at the foot of the hill in the CBZ and EBZ areas,” he said.