Resource Minerals International (ASX:RMI) is planning to start reverse circulation drilling at its Wadi Salamah Project in Saudi Arabia this quarter, after new surface sampling returned ‘high-grade’ gold.
The company collected 1,621 soil samples and 90 rock chip samples across the 98.7km2 project in central Saudi Arabia. The work followed an April 2026 ground magnetic survey that defined three priority zones.
At Target A, rock chips returned up to 7.93 grams per tonne gold (Au) with 64.2g/t silver (Ag), and 13 samples graded at or above 1g/t Au. The company identified two zones of gold-silver quartz veins with a combined strike length of more than 1.4km.
RMI notes rock chip sampling is selective and does not represent average vein grade.
The low arsenic relative to copper and molybdenum points to a magmatic-hydrothermal source. RMI says this could link Target A with the intrusion-related anomaly at Target C.
Target C hosts a 1.8km by 1.2km zone of 27 soil samples with at least two elevated readings of copper, molybdenum, tungsten, and bismuth. Quartz veins near a granitic contact returned up to 1,665 parts per million (ppm) copper and 90ppm molybdenum.
RMI says Target C most resembles a granite-related copper-molybdenum-bismuth system, supporting the earlier magnetic results.
Executive Chairman Asimwe Kabunga says the work confirms the ‘high-grade’ gold and silver reported last year and shows mineralisation extends beyond the original sampling area.
“Further south, it shows that mineralised veins extend well beyond the area we originally sampled,” Kabunga states.
“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.”
Planned work includes infill soil sampling and mapping over Targets B and C, and re-assaying anomalous soil samples to refine the Target C anomaly.
Resource Minerals International is an Australian explorer advancing copper-gold and nickel assets in Tanzania and lithium projects in Finland, alongside an emerging precious and base metals footprint in Saudi Arabia.
Write to JC Villarba at Mining.com.au
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