# Lion Rock Completes Phase 1 Drill Program at Volney Project, South Dakota

Canonical Atlas analysis: https://atlas-staging.minestarters.com/news/lion-rock-completes-phase-1-drill-program-at-volney-project-south-dakota--0bf96007-5937-4fb0-a8f8-ddc010fae0e7

Original source: https://money.tmx.com/en/quote/ROAR/news/7922365588059547/lion-rock-completes-phase-1-drill-program-at-volney-project-south-dakota

Publisher: tmx

Original announcement: 2026-01-22T12:20:00.000Z

Analysis by Minestarters Atlas

Atlas analysis published: Unknown date

Atlas analysis updated: Unknown date

- Company: Lion Rock Resources Inc.

- Ticker: ROAR

- Exchange: TSX

- Region: South Dakota

- Primary commodity: Gold

- Secondary commodities: Lithium, Tin, Tantalum

- Document categories: Drill results

- Extracted: 2026-08-26 06:46:21 UTC

Narrative sentiment: 0.30 · Bullish

## Minestarters Atlas summary

Lion Rock Resources has completed Phase 1 of its exploration drill program at the Volney Project in South Dakota, totaling 3,600 metres across 15 holes. The program successfully intersected spodumene-bearing pegmatites and sulphide-bearing shear zones, with assay results expected in the coming weeks.

Reasoning: The company completed its first modern drill program at the Volney Project, identifying spodumene and mineralized shear zones, but actual assay results are still pending.

- Positive factor: completion of inaugural drill program

- Positive factor: identification of spodumene-bearing pegmatites

- Positive factor: multi-commodity potential \(gold, lithium, tin, tantalum\)

- Negative factor: assays pending

- Negative factor: no specific grades reported for new drill holes

Facts used in scoring: 2

## Classification and evidence

**QA/QC Disclosed**

Polarity: positive

Definition: Release includes QA/QC disclosure — certified lab, QP sign-off, or stated methods \(blanks, standards, duplicates\).

Why it applies: Samples were shipped to SGS in Denver, Colorado for analysis and a Qualified Person \(Carl Ginn, P.Geo.\) reviewed the content.

Evidence · text

> samples shipped to SGS in Denver, Colorado for analysis

**Infill Drilling**

Polarity: neutral

Definition: Confirmatory drilling to raise resource confidence, not new discovery.

Why it applies: The program is described as the first modern drill testing along the Volney trend, making it exploration rather than infill.

Evidence · text

> This program represents the first modern drill testing along the Volney trend.

## Extracted facts

Stored fact records: 2. Some facts used in scoring do not have a stored record.

## Drill Results (2)

### Fact 1

[Link to this fact](https://atlas-staging.minestarters.com/news/lion-rock-completes-phase-1-drill-program-at-volney-project-south-dakota--0bf96007-5937-4fb0-a8f8-ddc010fae0e7#fact-drill-facts-0)

gold

Historical result

Needs review: historical\_restatement

#### Identity

- Commodity: gold
- Ticker: ROAR

#### Geometry

- Grade: 14
- Grade Unit: g/t

#### Classification

- Sample Type: surface

#### Review

- Needs Review: Yes
- Review Reason: historical\_restatement
- Interp. Status: scored
- Historical: Yes
- Historical Source Date: 2025-05-28T00:00:00.000Z

#### Dates

- Event date: 2026-01-22T00:00:00.000Z

Reasoning: Historical surface grab sample showing high gold grade.

- Positive factor: high grade surface sample

### Fact 2

[Link to this fact](https://atlas-staging.minestarters.com/news/lion-rock-completes-phase-1-drill-program-at-volney-project-south-dakota--0bf96007-5937-4fb0-a8f8-ddc010fae0e7#fact-drill-facts-1)

lithium

Historical result

Needs review: historical\_restatement

#### Identity

- Commodity: lithium
- Ticker: ROAR

#### Geometry

- Grade: 3.6
- Grade Unit: % Li 2 O

#### Classification

- Sample Type: surface

#### Review

- Needs Review: Yes
- Review Reason: historical\_restatement
- Interp. Status: scored
- Historical: Yes
- Historical Source Date: 2025-05-13T00:00:00.000Z

#### Dates

- Event date: 2026-01-22T00:00:00.000Z

Reasoning: Historical surface sampling showing significant lithium oxide grade.

- Positive factor: high grade lithium surface sample

## How Atlas produces this analysis

Minestarters Atlas uses automated extraction to summarize mining announcements, identify reported measurements, and classify supporting evidence. Sentiment reflects the extracted narrative and classification rules; it is an interpretation, not a reported measurement. Evidence quotes and context are provided where available. Missing data, low-confidence results, and review flags indicate limitations. Check the original publisher announcement before relying on an interpretation.