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Red Rock Resources plc 28 December 2005 Red Rock Resources plc Acquisition of properties prospective for uranium mineralisation in Malawi Dated: 28 December 2005 Red Rock Resources plc ('Red Rock' or the 'Company') the mineral exploration and development company focussed on advancing iron ore, uranium and manganese projects in Western Australia and in Tasmania announced today it has purchased two mineral properties prospective for uranium, located in the East African country of Malawi. These properties comprise Exclusive Prospecting Licences ('EPL') for the Chintheche property and the Machinga property, comprising approximately 458.6 square kilometres. The consideration of £23,300 will be satisfied in full by the issue of 800,000 new ordinary shares in the Company ('New Shares') at 2.6p per share and 2,500,000 ordinary shares of 0.1p in Zeus Energy Ltd ('Zeus'), a subsidiary of Red Rock, at par. It is the Company's intention to transfer all its uranium assets to Zeus with the eventual intention of applying for the issued share capital of Zeus to be admitted to the AIM Market of the London Stock Exchange (' AIM'). The Company has made application for the New Shares to be admitted to trading on the AIM from 4 January 2006. Uranium in Malawi There has been a significant increase in exploration activities, and in the application for EPLs in Malawi, led by the activities of Paladin NL of Australia (a subsidiary of Paladin Resources NL), focused on the Kayelekera uranium deposit which was discovered and worked on by the U.K's Central Electricity Generating Board in the early 1980's. The Chintheche EPL The Chintheche property of 135.6 square kilometres covers the Chintheche radioactive zone as defined by the 'Interpretation of Airborne Geophysical Survey Results' by Paterson, Grant & Watson for the United Nations Development Programme Report in October 1987 (the 'UNDP report'), from a survey completed by Hunting Geology and Geophysics of Toronto, Canada, flown in 1986, as part of a United Nation sponsored program. The Chintheche radioactive zone is located south of the town of Nkhata Bay on the west shore of Lake Malawi. The EPL application covers the village of Chintheche and is acquired based on the recommendation from the UNDP report which indicated the following: 'The north-south trending Chintheche anomalous zone is underlain by interpreted quartzites, quartz schist and amphibolites north of Chintheche, and hornblende-biotite gneiss to the south. The regional mapping indicates a number of interpreted faults underlying the Timberi clays and gravels; the north to north-north-east structure parallels the highly anomalous radiometric anomaly (U+KTH+).' Red Rock will complete an extensive review of all previous data, followed by a Phase 1 exploration program consisting of ground magnetics and spectrometer surveys, geological mapping, geochemical surveys and prospecting, directed at an initial drill program to test anomalous targets. The Machinga EPL The Machinga property covers some 323 square kilometres just north of the old capital city of Zomba in south central Malawi. The UNDP report indicated two areas for investigation for uranium exploration; the Chinduzi Radioactive Zone, and the Machinga Radioactive Zone. Both of these target areas are covered by the Machinga Property. The Machinga Radioactive Zone is located south of the town of Liwonde and north of Zomba, in south-central Malawi. The EPL application covers the village of Machinga (formerly Kasupe). The UNDP report describes the Machinga radioactive zone as: 'highly anomalous radiometric responses in the Machinga Target area are associated with pegmatites, granititic dikes and veins, intruding the Zomba-Chaone-Malasa syenite complex and surrounding basement gneisses. Previous work was successful in detecting sub-economic grades of niobium and thorium and lesser amounts of uranium. Based on the results of the present processing and interpretation, we believe that the search radius for radioactive and rare minerals should be extended within the target area.' The Chinduzi Radioactive Zone is located at the south-eastern edge of the Chinduzi nepheline syenite. The UNDP report indicates: 'The area immediately underlying the strong uranium anomaly (U+ on the ternary spectrometer map) has mapped exposures of pegmatite dikes along the contact between the nepheline-syenite to the north and the interpreted charnockitic gneiss to the south. This geological-spectrometric correlation is similar to the Machinga TH-U prospect to the east and therefore been selected as a new economic target for uranium, thorium and rare earth mineralization'. Red Rock plans a review of all previous data and an initial sampling program of known niobium, thorium and uranium occurrences, followed by a Phase 1 exploration program consisting of ground magnetics, electromagnetic, and spectrometer surveys, geological mapping, geochemical surveys and prospecting, directed at an initial drill program to test anomalous targets. Reasons for the acquisition and the consideration Red Rock has purchased these prospective uranium properties from Kleinebar Resources Ltd. ('Kleinebar'), a Canadian consulting company, as part of a focus on uranium in Malawi and other parts of Africa. The directors consider the properties to be attractive uranium properties identified and interpreted as priority targets by high quality geophysical work. Under the agreement with Kleinebar, the total consideration of £23,300 was satisfied by the issue of 800,000 New Shares of 0.1p at 2.6p per share and the issue of 2,500,000 new ordinary shares of 0.1p in Zeus, a subsidiary of Red Rock, at par, Up to C$15,000 of receipted expenditure incurred by Kleinebar in relation to the properties will be reimbursed. Two further significant areas have been applied for, 165 sq km at Ilomba Hill and 154.6 sq km at Tambani, which have not been granted owing to the presence of overlapping exploration licenses for other minerals. At the Ilomba Hill uranium niobium deposit in the northwest of the country exploration by Goldfields of South Africa and others identified five radiometric zones considered to be due to uranium on which some trenching was carried out. The resource estimate would need to be revalidated to comply with modern codes. At Tambani in the south west of the country local exploration in the 1950s uncovered a number of small uranium and thorium occurrences. The targets include a possible small high grade uranium deposit. Deferred consideration In the event of grant of the EPL's covering Ilomba Hill and Tambani a further 800,000 new ordinary shares in the Company will be issued at 2.6p per share, as well as a further 2,500,000 new ordinary shares in Zeus at par to Kleinebar, and up to a further C$15,000 of receipted expenditure incurred by Kleinebar in relation to the properties will be reimbursable. The technical information in the announcement above has been reviewed by Mr Robert Weicker, P.Geo., who has an Honors Degree in Earth Science from the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada, and is a Professional Geoscientist of the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of British Columbia. Mr Weicker has over 25 years experience in the mineral exploration and mining industry. Mr. Weicker, a former Chief Geologist at the Williams mine, the largest gold mine in Canada, is a director of several junior Canadian companies, and familiar with the regulatory and exchange requirements of the TSX-Venture and TSE. Mr Weicker has completed and/or co-authored pre-feasibility studies, feasibility studies, assessment reports, valuation reports, 43-101 reports (both domestic and internationally) and technical reports and reviews for submittal to the TSX-Venture and AIM exchanges. Since 1999, Mr. Weicker has developed his own consulting company, Kleinebar, the vendor of the properties, with a focus on Asia, Mongolia and Nevada. Mr. Weicker will assist with the Red Rock exploration activities and resource acquisition. Mr Weicker consents to the inclusion in this announcement of the matters based on his information in the form and context in which it appears above. Enquiries: Andrew Bell 07766 474849 Red Rock Resources plc Chairman John Simpson 020 7512 0191 ARM Corporate Finance Ltd Nominated Adviser Ron Marshman / John Greenhalgh 020 7628 5518 City of London PR Limited Public Relations This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange
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