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!

Rockland adds Dr. James Mungall to team

On Feb 1, 2012 Rockland announced that Dr. James Mungall, P.Geo has been added a senior consultant.  Dr. Mungall occupies the Norman Keevil Chair of Ore Genesis at the University of Toronto and has published extensively on the magmatic sulfide deposits of the Sudbury and Raglan camps.  Jim is a practical field geologist who spends extensive time in the field with active junior mining exploration companies such as Rockland, and his experience in Québec's southern Raglan belt is directly applicable to promoting and expanding the known Cu-Ni-PGM historic resource base at Blue Lake.  Jim's widely sought-after expertise, and his broad experience, will guide the exploration for additional Cu-Ni-PGM resource discoveries in the camp.  Rockland controls many of the historic Hollinger North Shore Ltd. discoveries, including the: Glance, Chance, Alneau, Frederickson and Jimmick, all among the best mineral showings in the Labrador Trough.

Dr. Mungall was named Norman Keevil Chair of Ore Genesis at the University of Toronto in 2007.  He conducts research and offers consulting services in the field of magmatic ore deposits with an emphasis on Ni-Cu-PGE sulfide deposits and chromitite.  He has published extensively on the magmatic sulfide deposits of the Sudbury and Raglan camps and has edited four books or special journal issues on Ni-Cu-Co-PGE deposits.  Dr. Mungall served for a year as Chief Geologist of Noront Resources Ltd during the early stages of discovery and resource definition at their Eagle's Nest Ni-Cu-PGE, Thunderbird V-Ti-Fe, and Blackbird chromitite deposits.

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 Drilling at Retty Lake Cu-Ni-PGE, Quebec

For Immediate Release. Vancouver, British Columbia, June 22, 2011: Rockland Minerals Corp. (TSX Venture: RL) (the “Company”) has completed its 1,500 meter diamond drilling program on the Retty Lake Cu-Ni-Pt-Pd Property located near Schefferville, Quebec.  A total of 10 holes were drilled to explore for zones of disseminated and massive sulfide within the targeted middle peridotite sill in the NW Retty Lake area.  The core is being shipped off site to a core processing facility to be saw cut and sampled. 

Photographs of Retty Lake drill core textures and a brief geological write-up have been posted on Rockland's website at www.rocklandminerals.ca.

Initial logging of the core has revealed widespread disseminated sulfide mineralization with visible chalcopyrite (copper mineral) within the lower portion of the middle peridotite sill.  In several instances, favourable "net-texture" sulfides were observed to be crystallized within cumulate-texture peridotite.  Two drill holes found an unexpected rock type in place of the middle peridotite horizon.  Instead of the ultramafic peridotite, there was a melanocratic gabbro, which indicates assimilation of the wall rock by the peridotite intrusion.  This typically happens adjacent to feeder dykes, and suggests they may be nearby, although they have never been described at Retty Lake.  Mineralization was also drilled in the upper sill, in addition to the widespread disseminated mineralization found in the middle sill.  This confirms the presence of "stacked" mineralization at Retty Lake. 

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: “We see highly encouraging disseminated sulfide textures in hand samples of the drill core from the Retty Lake Project, and we're only in the beginning stages of unlocking the copper-nickel-platinum-palladium potential of this district.  Because this is the first drill core to come from this area since the 1950's, we plan on doing a careful, thorough job of sawing, splitting and sampling the core."

Photographs of Retty Lake drill core textures and a brief geological write-up have been posted on Rockland's website at www.rocklandminerals.ca.

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.

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.