Brian Grant, P.Geo joins Rockland as Senior Advisor

Brian Grant, P.Geo has joined Rockland’s senior advisory team. Mr. Grant is the former President of Goldbrook Ventures Inc., a public company recently acquired by Jilin Jien Nickel Industry Co. Ltd. Goldbrook's Cu-Ni-PGM deposits lie in the southern Raglan Belt of Québec's Ungava region, and are geologically very similar to Rockland's Blue Lake Cu-Ni-PGM deposits.  Prior to this time, in the 1970's, Mr. Grant played a significant role as a member of the Falconbridge Nickel Mines Ltd. team which discovered and developed the Cu-Ni-PGM deposits of the northern Raglan Belt.  These are producing mines today.

This is a great addition to the Rockland team for sure!

Blue Lake Cu-Ni-PGM to be drilled in July

The Blue Lake, Cu-Ni-PGM historic resource located in the southern Labrador Trough, Quebec will be drilled in early July. Rockland's selected engineering firm, Caracle Creek Consulting, have been making good progress in compiling key data from over 550 holes drilled on the Cu-Ni-PGM showings at Blue Lake property since 1950s. The Blue Lake sulfide deposits are nickeliferous pyrrhotite ores, with a copper content twice that of nickel.  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.  Rockland's objective is to bring this mineralization into engineering compliance with National Instrument 43-101 in the shortest time possible.

A little bit of History:

The Blue Lake sulfides were discovered in 1942 by Hollinger North Shore Exploration Ltd, part of Iron Ore Company of Canada, and the first holes were drilled in the 1950's.  Hollinger drilled 39 holes in 1967 and 37 holes in 1968, and established the first resource for the property.  La Fosse Platinum Ltd. purchased Hollinger in 1985, and drilled an additional 400 holes.  This drilling nearly doubled the original Hollinger resource. The 1989 resource quoted above was based on hand generated block models completed before National Instrument 43-101.  The final work completed in 1989 was a 350 meter adit into the Blue Lake #1 lens to extract a 22-ton bulk metallurgical sample.  No work was done at Blue Lake since that time, until Rockland acquired an option on the project in November 2011.

The underground working at Blue Lake #1 gave new insight into the nature of the mineralization.  An internal report from 1989 states: "The average grade from channel sampling in the Blue Lake decline is about 20% higher than the Cu + Ni grade calculated from drill core analysis.  The decline also disclosed a layer of soft chloritic, material 2"-18" thick, at the base of the massive sulphide.  This material averages 0.12 g/t Pt and 6.02 g/t Pd (compared to 0.13 g/t Pt and 1.02 g/t Pd in the massive sulfide).  This layer was not suspected before the decline was driven, as it was not recovered in the core from most of the drill holes."
This report also stated: "Most of the tonnage that has been drill-indicated to date is within 500-feet of the surface.  It is reasonable to suggest that the reserves of massive sulphide in the Blue Lake area above the depth of 1,000-feet could reach 10 million tons.  The base metal content of the deposits discovered in the future will probably be in the grade range of the presently known deposits.  ...The most effective way to explore for massive sulphide is to drill fences of holes in the area where the sulphur-rich peridotite is close to the surface and shallow dipping."

George F. Sanders, P.Geo, states: "We're reading the comments and recommendations of the La Fosse geologists from two decades ago, and we're finding the next phases of drilling, underground sampling, and metallurgical testing to be already laid out for us.  The current metals cycle of high prices will support a robust development program at Blue Lake."

IOC : Huge Expansion in Mining Activity in the Labrador Trough Expected

Iron Ore Company of Canada (IOC) says that a new wave of expansion is taking shape in the Quebec-Labrador Trough iron-ore mining region based on the industry’s belief that global steelmaking demand will double within the next 15 to 20 years. IOC is a pioneer of the Quebec-Labrador iron-mining industry is the one of the original companies that worked on Rockland's Schefferville gold property in the Labrador Trough area. Read the entire Montreal Gazette story here.

Schefferville News - First iron ore train in 30 years leaves Schefferville

The following is a story from Mining.com. Labrador Iron Mines (LIM-TSX) is working near Rockland Minerals (RL-V) in the Labrador Trough. This story exemplifies the tremendous mining infrastructure that has been developed and re-activated near Rockland's 2 exploration properties in NE Quebec.

Labrador Iron Mines has made significant strides towards the start-up of production at its Schefferville Area direct shipping iron ore project in western Labrador, near the town of Schefferville Quebec. On June 29, 2011 the first loaded iron ore train departed Silver Yards for the Port of Sept-Iles travelling over the TSH and QNS&L railways. This historic event is the first commercial iron ore train from the Schefferville area in almost 30 years. Production Commenced at James Mine and Silver Yards Plant...

Railroad
In February 2011, the Company signed a memorandum of understanding (“MOU”) with Tshiuetin Rail Transportation Inc. (“TSH”) for the transportation of iron ore over the Menihek Division with an agreed tariff rate for calendar year 2011...

Port
LIM has signed a MOU with the Sept-Iles Port Authority for the use of the Pointe aux Basques terminal for handling and ship loading of LIM’s iron ore for the 2011 season and potentially beyond. LIM has also signed an agreement with a port terminal operator for the unloading, stacking and ship loading of iron ore at Pointe aux Basques. LIM will have exclusive use of the Pointe aux Basques terminal for iron ore shipments...

For the complete story to go Mining.com.

Pictures: Retty Lake Cu-Ni-PGE Drill Core and Write up

Must see new pictures of Rockland's Retty Lake Cu-Ni-PGE drill core and a technical write-up comparing the rocks to the Ungava southern mineral belt. See pictures at http://bit.ly/mjfwQr . Assay results are in process.

Rockland Completes Earn-In on Schefferville Gold Property

On June 15th, Rockland Minerals Corp. (TSX VENTURE:RL) announced that it has vested its 55% interest in the Schefferville Gold Property, under the September 29^th, 2010 Option and Joint Venture Agreement with Western Troy Capital Resources Inc. (TSX VENTURE:WRY). Under the option agreement, Rockland acquired its 55% interest in the Property by completing $800,000 in exploration work, including a 1,525 meter drilling program last Sept-Oct and a detailed Heli-Mag survey in May. Rockland has also made cash payments totaling $60,000 and has issued 600,000 common shares to complete the earn-in.

The option agreement covers 199 claims staked over known gold showings originally discovered in the mid-1980's by Québec government geologists. They cover the highly prospective Arséne-Baleine Rouge and Rusty Acres areas and many claims contiguous and intermingled with Rockland's Ashuanipi gold claims, optioned from E.D. Black, where Rockland is earning a 100% interest.

During the fall of 2010, Rockland completed a 1,525 meter diamond drilling program on the Schefferville Gold Property. Highlights from the drill program included 8.25 metres of 1.24 grams per tonne gold (including 1.20 m of 6.63 g/t au) and 12.55 metres of 1.04 grams per tonne gold (including 1.10 m of 9.02 g/t au). These results, along with Western Troy's 2009 drilling, (in particular hole WT09-04 which encountered 5.56 grams per tonne gold over a core length of 7.11 metres in the Baleine Rouge Central zone), confirm the presence of broad zones of near-surface disseminated gold mineralization. All Schefferville Gold Project information can be reviewed at www.rocklandminerals.ca.

In early 2011, Rockland began the work of compiling past exploration data on the property to help project and follow the broad zones of anomalous gold values defined in the fall 2010 drilling, and find more of the high grade gold occurrences known to occur within these disseminated gold zones. In May, Rockland launched a detailed, low-altitude, helicopter-borne magnetic survey over the Arséne and Rusty Acres zones flown by Novatem Inc of Mont-Saint-Hilaire QC. Results of the heli-mag survey will be released as soon as the data has been interpreted, and the Company will announce its next phase of exploration soon.

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, states: "Drilling by Rockland has demonstrated the presence of multiple, broad gold zones extending from the Arséne to the Baleine Rouge drilling areas - a N-S distance of more than 1.2 kilometers - containing a number of higher-grade 'sweet spots'. The focus will be on the gold zones in the Arséne-Baleine Rouge area, and on the numerous plus-1-gram surface gold anomalies the Rusty Acres area which have never been drilled." 

Rav Mlait, President of Rockland states, "Completing our earn-in has helped us consolidate the numerous gold occurrences in Schefferville gold area. Rockland will continue building on the very encouraging gold drill results to date."

Schefferville news - LIM Signs Impact Benefits Agreement With Innu Matimekush-Lac John

Rockland (RL-TSXV) neighbor, Labrador Iron Mines Holdings Ltd. has signed a landmark impact benefits agreement with the Nation Innu Matimekush-Lac John (MLJ) of Schefferville, Que., with regard to LIM's Schefferville area direct shipping iron ore mining projects in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, and in the province of Quebec.

The historic life-of-mine agreement, which was approved by resolution of the band council of Matimekush-Lac John, signed by the chief and band council, and endorsed by community referendum, recognizes that LIM and MLJ wish to work together to establish a long-term, co-operative, respectful and mutually beneficial positive relationship, based on confidence, trust and certainty.

Under the IBA, LIM has agreed to the equitable participation of the Innu Matimekush-Lac John in its Schefferville area projects through employment, training, contract opportunities and financial benefits, including some community infrastructure projects, and has agreed to take certain social and environmental protection measures to mitigate the impact of the projects on MLJ families and traditional activities.
MLJ, by entering into this agreement, has given its consent to the company's iron ore projects proceeding in accordance with the agreement, and has agreed to provide LIM continuing and unobstructed access to, and quiet enjoyment of the iron ore projects and its properties.

The complete news release can be found here.

Rockland Drills "Net-Texture" Sulfides in Ultramafic Rocks at Retty Lake Cu-Ni-PGE, Québec

For Immediate Release. Vancouver, British Columbia, May 31, 2011: Rockland Minerals Corp. (TSX Venture: RL) (the “Company”) has intersected several zones of disseminated sulfides within the targeted middle peridotite sill being drilled on the Retty Lake Cu-Ni-Pt-Pd Property.  In diamond drill hole number 849-05, drilled near the "Lac Retty Ouest" showing, Rockland geologists have observed very encouraging "net-textured" disseminated pyrrhotite and visible chalcopyrite (copper mineral) within a 14-meter basal zone of cumulate-texture ultramafic peridotite.  Rockland is currently half way through a planned 1,500 meter program, which commenced on May 15th, 2011.  After all drilling is complete, assaying of the mineralized core will begin.

Hole 849-03 encountered 60 meters of disseminated pyrrhotite with visible chalcopyrite -- in coarse cumulate- textured peridotite -- at the Lost Lake showing.  All of the drilling so far has intersected zones of layered massive sulfide and cross-cutting sulfide, within black shales.   These metamorphosed sediments at Retty Lake are intruded by mafic gabbros and ultramafic peridotites, in a setting very similar to the southern Raglan Cu-Ni-PGE mineralized belt in Québec's Ungava region to the north.
Upon completion of the drill program Rockland plans to transport the Retty core to the IOS Services Geoscientifiques Inc.  processing facility where Rockland's geotechs will split and select mineralized segments for assaying. Assay results will be made available as completed.

George F. Sanders, P.Geo, a director of the Company, and Qualified Person under National Instrument 43-101 responsible for the technical content of this news release, states: "Our Retty Lake drilling program is progressing very well.  The 'net textured' disseminated sulfides within the lower portion of the middle peridotite sill are guides to discovery of more massive sulfide lenses, similar to the adjacent Blue Lake Cu-Ni-PGE cluster.  We have chosen to transport the drill core offsite for more precise logging, sawing and sampling.  This is the first drilling in this area since the 1960's, and Rockland intends to process it thoroughly, to unlock the Cu-Ni-PGE potential of these deposits.  Sample shipments and assaying will be expedited, and results will be released a soon as possible."

The Retty Lake property is on-trend with four adjacent copper-nickel-platinum group metal (PGM) lenses known as the “Blue Lake Deposits” -- originally outlined by Hollinger North Shore Exploration (Iron Ore Company of Canada) in the 1950's. Evidently, the Blue Lake Cu-Ni-Pt-Pd deposits were formed at or near the basal zone of the ("Middle") ultramafic peridotite, where the sill intrudes sulfur-rich metasediments.  This favourable stratabound horizon runs for some ten kilometers or more, throughout the Rockland property, in a northwest-southeast trajectory. Rockland is looking forward to discovery of additional base metal - precious deposits within its Retty Lake property.  Rockland is earning a 100% interest in the property from E.D. Black, Geologist.

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.

Rockland Drill Results Show Widespread Disseminated Gold Mineralization, Schefferville Gold Property, Québec

Vancouver, British Columbia, January 11, 2011 - Rockland Minerals Corp. (TSX.V: RL) (the “Company”) is pleased to announce that all assays have been received from its Fall 2010 diamond drill program at the Schefferville Gold Project, Québec.  These results are highly encouraging and point to the presence of widespread gold mineralization on the property that could possibly be amenable to bulk tonnage exploitation from the surface.  Rockland recently completed a 1,525 meter, 12 hole diamond drill program during the fall of 2010, and Western Troy carried out an 800 metre, 8 hole diamond drilling program during the summer of 2009.  Data from both drilling campaigns has been integrated into a master database which now can be downloaded from the Rockland website (www.rocklandminerals.ca). The integrated database was developed to show the broad gold mineralization discovered from both initial programs.


The drilling took place on the Arséne block.  This was one of the most prospective areas discovered in the mid-1980's through sophisticated lake-bottom geochemical surveys in support of mineral exploration and development done by the Québec government.  Gold mineralization in this area had lain hidden until the mid-80’s because its finely disseminated nature did not favour development of placer gold nuggets at the surface.  Rockland is earning a 55% interest in 10 claim blocks optioned from Western Troy Capital Resources Inc. which, in many places, are contiguous and intermingled with Rockland’s original gold claims, optioned from E.D. Black, where Rockland is earning a 100% interest.

The holes are scattered over a zone that stretches more than 2 kilometres north-south.  The results are tabulated below in two groups -- Group 1-- Highest Gold Assay Values, and Group 2 -- Longest Gold Intercepts:

Table 1--Highest Gold Values Rockland/Western Troy--2009-2010*	Table 2--Longest Anomalous Gold Intercepts Rockland/Western Troy--2009-2010*
Hole starting from intercept length Au Number (metres) (metres) g/t WT09-04 53.85 m 2.03 metres 10.21 g/t Au RL10-17 57.30 m 1.10 metres 9.92 g/t Au RL10-17 11.45 m 1.20 metres 6.63 g/t Au WT09-04 57.91 m 2.02 metres 5.93 g/t Au WT09-02 25.40 m 1.01 metres 2.43 g/t Au RL10-13 146.50 m 4.80 metres 1.03 g/t Au RL10-16 113.50 m 1.00 metres 1.09 g/t Au WT09-03 5.79 m 1.92 metres 1.21 g/t Au	Hole starting from intercept length Au Number (metres) (metres) g/t WT09-04 40.39 m 19.50 metres 2.23 g/t Au RL10-17 11.45 m 8.25 metres 1.24 g/t Au RL10-17 49.70 m 12.55 metres 1.05 g/t Au WT09-02 22.35 m 3.04 metres 0.957 g/t Au RL10-13 145.30 m 9.50 metres 0.611 g/t Au RL10-18 9.40 m 4.38 metres 0.285 g/t Au WT09-05 44.20 m 21.81 metres 0.227 g/t Au RL10-18 35.43 m 6.50 metres 0.223 g/t Au RL10-10 101.48 m 16.02 metres 0.202 g/t Au WT09-06 30.47 m 10.10 metres 0.153 g/t Au WT09-03 4.57 m 6.58 metres 0.145 g/t Au RL10-14 33.55 m 17.30 metres 0.136 g/t Au WT09-04 25.38 m 9.09 metres 0.117 g/t Au WT09-06 44.70 m 21.26 metres 0.094 g/t Au

* Note: this is an area of complex structural geology.  In all cases, sample
lengths shown here are core lengths only, and not necessarily true lengths.

Two files can be downloaded from the Rockland website (http://www.rocklandminerals.ca/Project_Schefferville_Gold_Property.php) showing graphical illustrations of the truly disseminated nature of the gold within these broad intercepts.  Rockland believes that these broad envelopes of consistently anomalous gold values found in the recent drilling campaigns (Table 2) are pointing to the presence of a bulk mineable, disseminated gold deposit on the Arséne block.  Supporting this conclusion are the "sweet spots" of higher grade gold mineralization within these anomalous gold zones (Table 1).  Rockland believes that continued exploration will expand these zones of higher grade, and that many of the low-grade envelopes discovered in the drilling are within typical cutoff grades being used worldwide for open pit gold deposits. 

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, states: "Our drilling assays confirm the truly disseminated nature of this gold mineralization, and its near-surface bulk tonnage mining potential.   It is very important to emphasize that there are absolutely no quartz veins anywhere on the Schefferville Gold Project. We will now embark on a detailed structural analysis of a very specific area using the data already collected, and we will develop new drill targets in a very short time frame to chase these broad gold envelopes, and find the higher gold grades that we now know to exist."

Rav Mlait, President and CEO, states: "We are excited about the gold results from our first phase drilling on the Schefferville Gold property. Our 2010 surface sampling program discovered wide-spread gold on several additional zones which also require follow up. We will now turn our attention to generating drill targets for the next phase of our exploration program in 2011. Rockland will be very active on both of our Quebec projects in 2011."