Tungsten Discovery at Western Queen Confirmed

Rumble Resources Limited (ASX: RTR) (“Rumble” or “the Company”) is pleased to announce the return of significant high-grade tungsten assays from selected pulp samples of Reverse Circulation (RC) drilling completed by the Company in 2021. The assays confirm a potentially significant tungsten discovery that is spatially associated with the known gold resources at the Western Queen Gold Project.

Highlights

• Tungsten assays received from selected drill pulp samples from seven holes drilled in 2021 have confirmed a potentially significant high-grade tungsten discovery at Western Queen
• Significant assay intersections include:
  • 12m @ 0.56% WO₃ and 0.46g/t Au from 69m (WQRC032)
    • including 2m @ 2.48% WO₃ and 0.12g/t Au from 70m
  • 3m @ 0.69% WO₃ from 90m and 2m @ 1.55% WO₃ from 159m (WQRC101)
  • 12m @ 0.34% WO₃ and 3.22g/t Au from 202m (WQRC178)
    • including 7m @ 0.49% WO₃ and 4.71g/t Au from 206m
  • 2m @ 0.75% WO₃ and 0.48g/t Au from 81m (WQRC019)
• The pulp assays complement the exceptionally high-grade intersection in recently reported drill hole WQDD013¹:
  • 4.05m @ 4.58% WO₃, 0.72 g/t Au from 174.85m; including
  • 2.05m @ 8.71% WO₃, 1.38 g/t Au from 176.85m; and
  • 0.65m @ 18.35% WO₃, 2.97 g/t Au from 176.85m
• These new assays are largely coincident with a continuous tungsten anomaly outlined over a 2km area defined from drillhole XRF data and parallel the Western Queen Shear and known high-grade gold mineralisation
• The width and grade tenor of significant tungsten assays received at Western Queen to date suggest that Western Queen could host a significant tungsten resource
• Review of the Company’s pXRF analytical data has shown some 87 reverse circulation (RC) and diamond drill (DD) holes completed by Rumble reported 500ppm W
• The Company now plans to further analyse historical drilling including RC drill pulps and a substantial diamond core library held in storage for tungsten, which will likely constitute the bulk of the data required to classify an initial resource estimate, if one can be determined
• Tungsten is a critical and strategic metal given its relative scarcity, supply risk, defence applications and limited substitution options

Peter Harold, Managing Director and CEO commented“the discovery of tungsten at Western Queen has demonstrated the huge optionality that we have in our extensive tenement portfolio. The assay results from the 2021 drill pulp samples have confirmed that we have made a significant tungsten discovery at Western Queen. This is brilliant work by our exploration team and we look forward to receiving further assays from the substantial amount of existing drill core and pulps. Best case scenario, positive results from this future analysis could allow us to calculate a resource without any additional drilling.

Whilst the tungsten is a great new discovery, we already have substantial gold resources at Western Queen on a granted Mining Leases within trucking distance of a number of mills. Our primary focus is therefore to monetise these resources in the near…