# Ridgestone Announces Completion of Drill Program

Canonical Atlas analysis: https://atlas-staging.minestarters.com/news/ridgestone-announces-completion-of-drill-program--cf47437f-e4e5-4408-8aa9-2c2a0352f4b4

Original source: https://money.tmx.com/en/quote/RMI/news/8894285587067507/ridgestone-announces-completion-of-drill-program

Publisher: tmx

Original announcement: 2020-06-23T13:02:30.000Z

Analysis by Minestarters Atlas

Atlas analysis published: Unknown date

Atlas analysis updated: Unknown date

- Company: Ridgestone Mining Inc.

- Ticker: RMI

- Exchange: TSX

- Region: Sonora, Mexico

- Primary commodity: Gold

- Secondary commodities: Copper

- Document categories: Drill results

- Extracted: 2026-08-26 07:06:18 UTC

Narrative sentiment: 0.20 · Bullish

## Minestarters Atlas summary

Ridgestone Mining has completed a 1,674-metre maiden diamond drill program consisting of 11 holes at the New Year Zone of the Rebeico Gold-Copper project in Mexico. While visual mineralization was observed in the core, assay results are pending and expected in the coming weeks.

Reasoning: The announcement confirms the completion of a maiden drilling program and visual mineralization, but lacks actual assay grades/intercepts, making it a procedural update rather than a results update.

- Positive factor: completion of maiden drill program

- Positive factor: visual evidence of mineralization observed in core

- Positive factor: program expansion from 1,500m to 1,674m

- Negative factor: no assay results reported in this release

Facts used in scoring: 0

## 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: The release mentions the use of blanks and certified reference material samples for QA/QC purposes.

Evidence · text

> Blanks and certified reference material samples were inserted into the sample stream for Quality Assurance / Quality Control \("QA/QC"\) purposes

**QP/CP Signed**

Polarity: positive

Story-specific tag

Definition: Qualified Person \(QP\) or Competent Person \(CP\) named and signed off — a member of a recognized professional association \(e.g., AusIMM, SME, AIG, P.Geo\) with relevant experience.

Why it applies: Steven I. Weiss, PhD, CPG is named as the independent qualified person who reviewed and approved the technical information.

Evidence · text

> Mr. Steven I. Weiss, PhD, CPG is the independent qualified person as defined by National Instrument 43-101 and has reviewed and approved the technical information

## Extracted facts

Stored fact records: 0. Some facts used in scoring do not have a stored record.

No stored fact records are available for this extraction.

## 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.