Rome Resources: Airborne Survey to Unlock Bisie Tin District's Hidden Potential

Why It Matters

The survey could unlock additional high‑grade tin zones, boosting Rome Resources’ resource base and influencing its valuation ahead of a summer drilling campaign.

Key Takeaways

• Rome Resources conducts airborne EM and magnetic survey over Bisie tin district.
• Survey targets granite contact and shear zones to locate new tin targets.
• Results will guide license relinquishment decisions and future drilling plans.
• Upcoming Kali assay results will update tin resource estimate for investors.
• Summer drilling planned pending geophysics and assay outcomes to confirm upside.

Summary

Rome Resources is undertaking an airborne electromagnetic and magnetic survey across the Bisie tin district in the Democratic Republic of Congo, one of the world’s most prolific tin districts. The survey covers roughly 25% of the targeted area within Rome’s Kali licence, with the remainder surrounding the granite core.

The primary goal is to delineate the granite‑tin contact and map shear‑zone corridors that channel mineralisation. Because dense forest obscures ground‑based mapping, the airborne data will reveal structural controls and highlight new drill targets, while also informing which peripheral blocks may need to be relinquished under licence terms.

CEO Paul Barrett noted that tin oxide (citerite) is not directly detectable by EM, so the survey focuses on structural proxies. He added that fresh Kali assay results are expected imminently, which will feed into an updated resource model, and that successful geophysical anomalies will be followed by soil geochemistry before summer drilling.

For investors, the combined assay update and geophysical insights represent the next catalyst, potentially expanding the known tin resource and shaping the company’s development roadmap, including decisions on copper‑tin monetisation and licence optimisation.

Original Description

Rome Resources Plc (AIM:RMR, FRA:33R) CEO Paul Barrett tells Proactive's Stephen Gunnion that the company's participation in an airborne geophysical survey over the greater Bisie tin district in the DRC will help define the structural geology across the company's licences — something dense forest cover has made difficult to map on the ground.

The survey uses electromagnetic and magnetic technology to identify granite contacts and shear zones that may control mineralisation, with around 25% of the total survey area covering Rome's ground.

The immediate priority, though, is the Kalayi resource estimate. As Barrett puts it: "The Kalayi tin resource is the priority at the moment to really put a number on that for investors going forward and for our next plan in terms of the commercialisation of the projects." Drilling later in the year will depend on what both the assays and the survey reveal.

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