Nov 17 2010
Rockcliff Resources Inc. (RCR: TSXV) has announced that it has staked an additional 23 mining claims adjacent to its Black Gold Property located 30 km NW of Kirkland Lake, Ontario.
The Black Gold Property now totals approximately 20 sq km and hosts high grade surface gold outcrops containing visible gold and measuring 60m X 10m wide. Rockcliff has also initiated an exploration program consisting of line cutting, magnetometer and induced polarization surveys centered over the surface gold outcrops. The program is designed to assist in defining a winter drill program anticipated to begin in early 2011. The target at Black Gold will focus on the property's open pit gold potential.
On October 27, 2010 Rockcliff announced that it is earning a 100% interest in the Black Gold Property. It also identified high grade and widespread gold values in grab samples from surface outcrops, trenches and pits. Gold samples ranging from 0.60g/t gold to 51.19g/t gold was identified and visible gold was observed in outcrop.
The gold bearing system at Black Gold is associated with an altered pyritized quartz stockwork hosted within altered pyritized, sheared mafic volcanic rocks. Both the quartz stockwork and the host mafic volcanic rocks carry significant gold values and are viewed as a high priority area for open pit potential.
Ken Lapierre, P.Geo., President & CEO of Rockcliff Resources Inc., a Qualified Person under the definition of National Instrument 43-101, is responsible for the technical information in this press release and has reviewed all information in this news release. He is responsible for verification and quality assurance of Rockcliff's exploration data and analytical results. Samples of half core are packaged and shipped directly from Rockcliff's field office to TSL Laboratories (TSL), Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. TSL is a Canadian assay laboratory and is accredited under ISO/IEC 17025. Each bagged core sample is dried, crushed to 70% passing 10 mesh and a 250g pulp is pulverized to 95% passing 150 mesh for assaying. A 0.5g cut is taken from each pulp for base metal analyses and leached in a multi acid (total) digestion and then analyzed for copper, lead, zinc and silver by atomic absorption. Gold concentrations are determined by fire assay using a 30g charge followed by an atomic absorption finish. Samples greater than upper detection limit (3000 ppb) are reanalyzed using fire assay gravimetric using a 1 AT charge. Rockcliff inserted certified blanks and standards in the sample stream to ensure lab integrity.
Source: Rockcliff Resources Inc.