Red Rock Resources has awarded a drilling contract to Base Drilling and Mining Services for a reverse circulation (RC) drill program at the Mikei Gold Project in Kenya.

According to the UK-based natural resource exploration and development company, the RC drill program will be for a minimum of 2,000m in the central part of the Kenyan gold project within the KKM prospect area.

The signing of the contract follows the release of a revised mineral resource estimate (MRE) in February 2021, covering the five prospects which make up the Mikei Gold Project, and the conclusion of the comprehensive drill planning exercise in March.

According to Red Rock Resources, the goal of the RC drill program is to boost the confidence and classification of future mineral resource estimates at the gold project in Kenya by infill drilling, and by targeted step-out drilling for potentially increasing the size of the mineral resource.

Red Rock Resources said that the initial program could be increased, and is planned to result in further drilling of other parts of the Mikei Gold Project covered by the revised mineral resource estimate.

Andrew Bell – Red Rock Resources Chairman said: “We have renovated the Mikei Camp and built an experienced technical team including some former employees who worked on the area with us before 2014.

“Base Drilling was selected as our drill contractor after a competitive tender process, and we look forward to working with this experienced company.

“We expect this infill and step out drill programme to give us some promising results, as well as testing the deeper mineralised zone. It is focussed on the KKM prospect where the 2021 MRE was most conservative in its adjustment downward of the 2012 MRE, and where there is most potential benefit from establishing the continuity and extent of the conceptual pit shell.”

  Andrew Bell, Base Drilling and Mining Services, Kenya, Mikei Gold Project, Red Rock Resources