- 01Rock chips: 7.93g/t gold, 64.2g/t silver.
- 02Veins span >1.4km; continuity unconfirmed.
- 03Target A RC drilling planned this quarter; Target C anomaly identified.
Resource Minerals International (ASX: RMI) has extended high-grade gold and silver mineralisation at its Wadi Salamah project in Saudi Arabia, sharpening plans for a maiden reverse circulation drilling program at Target A this quarter.
Follow-up rock-chip sampling returned grades as high as 7.93 grams per tonne gold and 64.2g/t silver, with 13 samples yielding at least 1g/t gold.
The results have identified northern and southern groups of mineralised quartz veins with a combined mapped strike length exceeding 1.4 kilometres, although continuity between individual sample locations remains unconfirmed.
A separate broad multi-element anomaly at Target C has raised the possibility of a larger intrusion-related mineralising system, giving the explorer another line of investigation beyond the near-term gold drilling.
Gold Veins Extend Southward
At Target A, six samples from the northern veins returned between 2.90g/t and 7.93g/t gold across approximately 110 metres of strike, accompanied by silver grades reaching 64.2g/t.
Further south, five samples over an approximately 350m north-south interval assayed between 1.27g/t and 6.56g/t gold, adding to evidence that the mineralised veins extend beyond last year’s sampling footprint.
Another rock chip returned 7.50g/t gold and 15.3g/t silver around 0.9km south-southeast of the northern zone, while an isolated 1.94g/t gold sample farther southwest warrants follow-up.
The quartz veins generally dip shallowly east and range from 50 centimetres to 3m in width, with individual mapped strikes reaching 700m.
Because the rock chips were selected from visible outcrops rather than sampled systematically across vein widths, the grades are point results and cannot establish average grades or continuous mineralisation.
Target C Intrusion Clues
The northern Target C area has yielded a 1.8km by 1.2km soil anomaly containing 27 samples with multiple elevated metals, including copper, molybdenum, tungsten and bismuth.
Quartz veins close to a granitic contact returned up to 1,665 parts per million copper and 90ppm molybdenum, supporting further investigation of the geochemical response.
"The new sampling delivers two positive outcomes,” executive chair Asimwe Kabunga said.
“Firstly, at Wadi Salamah South, it confirms the high-grade gold and silver we first reported last year, and further south it shows that mineralised veins extend well beyond the area we originally sampled.”
“Secondly, the soil program gives us a district-scale geochemical dataset that, together with the magnetic survey data, will help refine drill targets with a program now being finalised.”
Follow-Up Drilling
Work across the 98.7km² Wadi Salamah licence has included 1,621 soil samples and 90 rock-chip samples, following a 1,010km ground magnetic survey that helped guide the latest exploration.
RMI is planning RC drilling across Target A this quarter, while closer-spaced soil sampling and mapping are intended to clarify the more isolated gold response at Target B and the extent of Target C.
Additional laboratory analysis is proposed for anomalous soils at Target C, where the initial soil assay method provides a partial digestion rather than a definitive measure of total metal content.
The combined program will test whether the surface gold grades persist below ground and whether the wider geochemical and magnetic patterns can be developed into more precise exploration targets.
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