Rocher files manganese resource evaluation report
2007-06-26 13:21 ET - News Release
Mr. Larry Reaugh reports:
ROCHER DEBOULE MINERALS CORP.: NI 43-101 MANGANESE MINERAL RESOURCE EVALUATION REPORT FILED
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(June 26, 2007) - Rocher Deboule Minerals Corp. (NEX:RD.H)(PINK SHEETS:RDBHF) is pleased to report the NI 43-101 Mineral Resource Evaluation Report prepared by N. Tribe & Associates Ltd. (NT& A) of Kelowna, BC has been filed on Sedar at www.sedar.com. The property is accessible by 28 miles of road from Wikieup, Arizona and is approximately 6 miles from the Bill Williams River and hydro-power is located 6 miles from the property on Signal Road. The Artillery Peak manganese deposit was mined for the U.S. government strategic stockpile during and after the Second World War up until the stockpiling ceased in 1955.
The manganese deposits of the Artillery Mountain basin are of the strata bound sedimentary type. The manganese mineralization consists of manganite, psilomelane and wad with minor pyrolusite.
In 1964 D.A. Elkins, undertook a study for the U.S. Department of the Interior to design a beneficiation process for the Artillery Mountain manganese ores. Two possible methods are effective in providing concentrate from these ores (Elkins report is included as Appendix VII of the NI 43-101 report).
Mineral Resource Estimate
At the present time, there are no exploration drill holes on the manganese beds on the Chapin West Showings. Surface sampling has established the presence of the manganese in economic grades and although Rocher Deboule Resource Corp. has not generated the engineering parameters for mining this mineral deposit there is little doubt that the volume and grade will be of economic interest. The historical resource for the Artillery Mountain manganese deposits is estimated at 175,000,000 tonnes averaging 3.5 - 4% Mn as reported in Manganese Deposits of Western Arizona 1958 Information Circular #7843 by (L.L. Farmham and L.A. Stewart). Approximately half of the deposits are on the Rocher Deboule Minerals Corp. claims.
- Where historical estimates are referred to, the Company has no classification of the resource or reserve, and the Company has not obtained enough of the original data and has not done the work necessary to verify the classification of a resource or reserve, the Company is not treating the estimates as a NI 43-101 defined resource or reserve verified by a Qualified Person, and the historical estimate should not be relied upon.
The NT & A report recommends a Two Phase Exploration Program as follows:
Phase I additional staking, geological mapping and
sampling and baseline studies $ 90,000.00
Phase II drilling of 8 1000 foot holes and engineering
report $324,000.00
Norm Tribe, P. Eng. prepared this report on behalf of NT & A for Rocher Deboule Resources Corp. and is a qualified |
