Rome Resources - world class grades from Kalayi

Rome Resources has released assay results from its Kalayi project in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and the numbers are striking. CEO Paul Barrett told the Vox Markets Podcast that the average grade of samples above a 0.5% cutoff is running between 2% and 2.5% tin. That is not just good—it is "world class." Barrett noted that very few operating mines anywhere produce at the 2% grade level, and the company's neighbor, Alphamin, runs the highest-grade tin mine on the planet. The results come from holes 19 through 34, covering the full drilling campaign to date, and the assays took extra time because samples above 0.5% required over-limit retesting—a delay that itself signals high grades.

Wide intercepts and a deepening system

The widths of the intercepts are also notable. Barrett said that as drilling goes deeper, the company is generally encountering wider mineralized zones. He cautioned that a 20-meter intercept is not uniformly high-grade—it contains both rich and lean sections—but the overall pattern is encouraging. The question now is whether going even deeper will yield more tin within those widths. The company does not yet know, but the trend is positive.

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