Rome Resources Plc (AIM:RMR, FRA:33R) has sharpened drill targeting at its Mont Agoma prospect in the Democratic Republic of Congo after a new geological interpretation outlined fresh, high-priority zones for both tin and copper beyond the current footprint.
The AIM-listed explorer said specialist consultancy Chemostrat reworked its geological and assay database and identified a marker horizon above “Zone 3” that better predicts where mineralisation sits, splitting the sequence into five zones.
Chief executive Paul Barrett said the work “represents a significant step forward in our understanding of Mont Agoma”, and also pointed to "exciting new areas prospective for both tin and copper".
"While our current drilling remains focused on the highly successful Kalayi programme, Mont Agoma is increasingly demonstrating the characteristics of a large polymetallic copper-tin-zinc system with significant exploration upside," Barrett said.
"The identification of new target zones reinforces its longer-term growth opportunity."
Rome said the refined model highlights a largely undrilled corridor of elevated tin prospectivity extending to the south-east of the existing deposit, alongside a copper-prospective zone to the north-west that it also described as undrilled.