The Jabal Sahabiyah tender area consists of three contiguous Exploration Licenses and was awarded to Royal Road Arabia (a joint-venture company held 50-50% between Royal Road Minerals and MIDU Ltd) at the Future Minerals Forum, January 2024. The licenses cover approximately 284 square kilometers and are located in the Asir Province of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, within the geologically prospective Nabitah-Tathlith belt.
Jabal Sahabiyah is a district of drill-ready zinc-gold (± copper, silver) skarn bodies and gold-bearing quartz veins located around and related to a central intrusive core.
The Jabal Sahabiyah Exploration tender consisting of three contiguous Exploration Licenses was awarded to Royal Road Arabia in a competitive Licensing Round in January of 2024. The license areas are approximately 284 square kilometers in areal extent and located in Asir Province of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia within the prospective Nabitah-Tathlith belt.
Mineralization at Jabal Sahabiyah is hosted in poly-deformed amphibolite-facies rocks located around a central intrusive “core”. Mineralization is zinc-gold (± copper, silver) skarn and vein-gold in style. Several gossans were scout-drilled by Riofinex (a subsidiary of Rio Tinto Zinc) in the late 1970’s and vein-gold occurrences were scout-drilled by Ma’aden in 2007.
Royal Road Arabia has conducted, detailed mapping, surface geochemistry and drone-borne magnetics surveys across Jabal Sahabiyah and has prioritised three of the
skarn-style prospects, Hanash South, Jabal Muwayqirah and Hanash North for further drilling. Furthermore, mapping and geophysics has identified some target areas concealed under dry river beds and sand for shallow RAB-style drilling in the first half of 2025. Importantly, Riofinex did not systematically analyse for gold, and historic silver and in some cases base metal analyses are repeatedly lower than the results Royal Road Arabia has received from surface sampling (Highest gold 9.3 g/t and highest silver 423ppm from Jabal Muwayqirah).
The Hanash South prospect area is of particular interest as Riofinex intersected up to 90 meters (downhole thickness) of blind sulphide material along a 2.3 kilometer strike length. Royal Road will redrill old Riofinex drill holes to test for gold and silver content.
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