Rockland Drill Results Show Widespread Disseminated Gold
Mineralization, Schefferville Gold Property,
Qu�bec
Vancouver,
British Columbia, January 11, 2011 - Rockland Minerals Corp. (TSX.V: RL)
(the "Company") is pleased to announce that all assays have been received from
its Fall 2010 diamond drill program at the Schefferville
Gold Project, Qu�bec. These results are highly encouraging and
point to the presence of widespread gold mineralization on the property
that could possibly be amenable to bulk tonnage exploitation from the
surface. Rockland recently completed a 1,525 meter, 12 hole diamond drill program during the fall of 2010,
and Western Troy carried out an 800 metre, 8
hole diamond drilling program during the summer of 2009. Data from
both drilling campaigns has been integrated into a master database which
now can be downloaded from the Rockland website (www.rocklandminerals.ca). The integrated database was developed to show
the broad gold mineralization discovered from both initial programs.
The drilling
took place on the Ars�ne block. This was
one of the most prospective areas discovered in the mid-1980's
through sophisticated lake-bottom geochemical surveys in support of
mineral exploration and development done by the Qu�bec government.
Gold mineralization in this area had lain hidden until the mid-80's because its finely disseminated nature did
not favour development of placer gold nuggets
at the surface. Rockland is earning a 55% interest in 10 claim
blocks optioned from Western Troy Capital Resources Inc. which, in many
places, are contiguous and intermingled with Rockland's original gold
claims, optioned from E.D. Black, where Rockland is earning a 100%
interest.
The holes are
scattered over a zone that stretches more than 2 kilometres
north-south. The results are tabulated below in two groups -- Group
1-- Highest Gold Assay Values, and Group 2 -- Longest Gold Intercepts:
Table 1--Highest Gold Values--Rockland/Western Troy--2009-2010*
Hole
|
starting from
|
intercept length
|
Au
|
Number
|
(metres)
|
(metres)
|
g/t
|
|
|
|
|
WT09-04
|
53.85 m
|
2.03 metres
|
10.21 g/t Au
|
RL10-17
|
57.30 m
|
1.10 metres
|
9.92 g/t Au
|
RL10-17
|
11.45 m
|
1.20 metres
|
6.63 g/t Au
|
WT09-04
|
57.91 m
|
2.02 metres
|
5.93 g/t Au
|
WT09-02
|
25.40 m
|
1.01 metres
|
2.43 g/t Au
|
RL10-13
|
146.50 m
|
4.80 metres
|
1.03 g/t Au
|
RL10-16
|
113.50 m
|
1.00 metres
|
1.09 g/t Au
|
WT09-03
|
5.79 m
|
1.92 metres
|
1.21 g/t Au
|
Table 2--Longest Anomalous Gold Intercepts--Rockland/Western Troy--2009-2010*
Hole
|
starting from
|
intercept length
|
Au
|
Number
|
(metres)
|
(metres)
|
g/t
|
|
|
|
|
WT09-04
|
40.39 m
|
19.50 metres
|
2.23 g/t Au
|
RL10-17
|
11.45 m
|
8.25 metres
|
1.24 g/t Au
|
RL10-17
|
49.70 m
|
12.55 metres
|
1.05 g/t Au
|
WT09-02
|
22.35 m
|
3.04 metres
|
0.957 g/t Au
|
RL10-13
|
145.30 m
|
9.50 metres
|
0.611 g/t Au
|
RL10-18
|
9.40 m
|
4.38 metres
|
0.285 g/t Au
|
WT09-05
|
44.20 m
|
21.81 metres
|
0.227 g/t Au
|
RL10-18
|
35.43 m
|
6.50 metres
|
0.223 g/t Au
|
RL10-10
|
101.48 m
|
16.02 metres
|
0.202 g/t Au
|
WT09-06
|
30.47 m
|
10.10 metres
|
0.153 g/t Au
|
WT09-03
|
4.57 m
|
6.58 metres
|
0.145 g/t Au
|
RL10-14
|
33.55 m
|
17.30 metres
|
0.136 g/t Au
|
WT09-04
|
25.38 m
|
9.09 metres
|
0.117 g/t Au
|
WT09-06
|
44.70 m
|
21.26 metres
|
0.094 g/t Au
|
* Note: this is an area of complex structural geology.
In all cases, sample
lengths shown here are
core lengths only, and not necessarily true lengths.
Two files can
be downloaded from the Rockland website (http://www.rocklandminerals.ca/Project_Schefferville_Gold_Property.php) showing graphical illustrations of the truly
disseminated nature of the gold within these broad intercepts.
Rockland believes that these broad envelopes of consistently anomalous
gold values found in the recent drilling campaigns (Table 2) are pointing
to the presence of a bulk mineable, disseminated gold deposit on the Ars�ne block. Supporting this conclusion are
the "sweet spots" of higher grade gold mineralization within
these anomalous gold zones (Table 1). Rockland believes that
continued exploration will expand these zones of higher grade, and that
many of the low-grade envelopes discovered in the drilling are within
typical cutoff grades being used worldwide for open pit gold
deposits.
George F.
Sanders, P.Geo, a director of the Company, and
the Qualified Person under National Instrument 43-101 responsible for the
technical content of this news release, states: "Our drilling assays
confirm the truly disseminated nature of this gold mineralization, and
its near-surface bulk tonnage mining potential. It is very
important to emphasize that there are absolutely no quartz veins anywhere
on the Schefferville Gold Project. We will now
embark on a detailed structural analysis of a very specific area using
the data already collected, and we will develop new drill targets in a
very short time frame to chase these broad gold envelopes, and find the
higher gold grades that we now know to exist."
Rav Mlait, President and CEO, states: "We are
excited about the gold results from our first phase drilling on the Schefferville Gold property. Our 2010 surface
sampling program discovered wide-spread gold on several additional zones
which also require follow up. We will now turn our attention to
generating drill targets for the next phase of our exploration program in
2011. Rockland will be very active on both of our Quebec projects in
2011."
We seek Safe
Harbor.
On behalf of
the Board of Directors
"Rav Mlait"
President and
CEO
Rockland Minerals Corp.
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