Rockland gets drill permits for July Drilling at Blue Lake

RL got its drill permits for the Blue Lake Cu-Ni-Pt-Pd property, Labrador Trough, Quebec. The Company has mobilized fuel and supplies to its base camp in preparation for drilling commencing in early July.

The Blue Lake sulfide deposits are nickeliferous pyrrhotite ores, with a copper content twice that of nickel, containing significant platinum and palladium. The historical tonnage, established in 1989, was 4.03 Mt at 0.85% Cu, 0.52% Ni and 0.84 g/t platinum and palladium. The Blue Lake historical deposits are located within a Québec Special Mining lease BEP-93, one of five Special Mining leases optioned to Rockland from La Fosse Platinum Group. In addition to the Blue Lake property, Rockland controls, the Retty Lake, Jimmick, Chance Lake, Glance Lake, Fredrickson and Lac Aulneau properties, all in the southern Labrador Trough. The Blue Lake area is ideally located as a positive mining destination, approximately 60 km from the town of Schefferville, Quebec which has its own airport and railhead. Rockland is systematically exploring this region and its goal is to discover mineralization, confirm and expand tonnage on its property holdings.

Rockland News: Retty Lake Cu-Ni-PGM Core Sampling Completed, Quebec

Rockland Minerals Corp. (TSX VENTURE:RL) (the "Company") is pleased to announce that core samples from the 1,500 meter Retty Lake Cu-Ni-PGE drilling program have been submitted to a commercial laboratory for precious metals fire assay and multi-element geochemical analysis. The core was carefully saw-cut, and a half-split was retained at the IOS Services Géoscientifiques facility in Chicoutimi, QC for detailed logging and petrographic studies. The precious metals fire assay procedure to be used for palladium and platinum will be a more robust one assay-ton (50g charge) to insure the most reliable and repeatable results.

Gold fire assay results and multi-element geochemical results are also awaited from Rockland's Schefferville Gold Project, where 367 surface rock chip samples were collected from the new Rusty Acres area during an early summer 2011 field program guided by a detailed 50 meter-spaced heli-mag survey flown in May 2011.

George Sanders, P.Geo, a director of the Company, and qualified Person under NI 43-101 responsible for the technical content of this News Release states: "We all share the anticipation of the Retty Lake drilling results. The drill core was flown from Retty Lake to the nearby town of Schefferville when the drill was de-mobed, but remained in the queue to be transported via rail to the port of Sept-Îles for quite awhile. The intense iron ore development in the Schefferville area is exciting, and better infrastructure favours advancement of Rockland's two exploration projects located very close to Schefferville. There will be bottlenecks here and there as the service sector matures, but the first look at the rock samples from both projects is very encouraging."

Raglan to Labrador Trough Presentation

Presentation by Rockland Minerals comparing the southern Raglan mineral belt and the rocks in the Labrador Trough, where Rockland has its Retty Lake Cu-Ni-PGM project (presentation here.) The Raglan Mine is a large nickel mining complex in the Nunavik region of northern Quebec, Canada.  It is owned and operated by Toronto, Ontario based Xstrata Nickel (formerly Falconbridge Ltd.), a division of Swiss-based Xstrata plc.

Rockland Minerals Provides Retty Lake Cu-Ni-PGM Project Update

April 19, 2011, Vancouver, BC, Canada – Rockland Minerals Corp. (The “Company” or “Rockland”), (TSX.V: RL) is pleased to provide an update on its ongoing preparation for drilling at its Retty Lake Cu-Ni-Pt-Pd Property, northwest of Schefferville, Québec. Rockland has completed its fuel purchase order of Diesel and Jet-A for the 2011 program. Rockland recently announced that it had signed a drill contract with Cartwright Drilling of Goose Bay, Labrador to drill a minimum of 1,500 meters, of core holes at the Retty Lake for late May. The fuel barrels will now be flown to the Retty Lake area from Schefferville. Rockland has selected Air Saguenay of Jonquière, QC , for its fixed wing air capability and sourcing of the fuel.  Rockland is working with its turn-key service provider, IOS Services Geoscientifiques Inc. (“IOS”) of Chicoutimi, Québec, to finalize the Retty Lake project logistics.

The Retty Lake property is on-trend with four known adjacent copper-nickel-platinum group metals (PGM) lenses known as the “Blue Lake Deposits” originally outlined by Hollinger North Shore Exploration in the 1950's. The Blue Lake Cu-Ni-Pt-Pd deposits were formed at or near the basal zone of a ultramafic peridotite sill, where it was intruded sulfur-rich metasediments.  This favourable horizon runs through the Rockland property in a northwest trajectory and Rockland is looking to discover additional lenses on the Retty Lake property. 

George F. Sanders, P.Geo, a director of the Company, and the Qualified Person under National Instrument 43-101 responsible for the technical content of this news release.